Muffled Scream I: Corner of the Eye

Some horrors announce themselves.
Others wait in the corner of your eye.

More than 200 submissions were considered for the first Muffled Scream anthology. Seven unsettling stories were chosen—and one tale proved too creepy to leave behind, earning a place as a bonus.

The result is eight journeys beyond the ordinary.

Follow soldiers into a forest where the road to Bastogne becomes something far worse than enemy territory. Step into a hotel with a disturbing relationship to death. Discover what happens when a human soul can be trapped inside something as fragile as a balloon. Wake to find a hand simply gone—without blood, wound, or explanation. Listen to what waits in dark houses, stare too long into impossible eyes, and enter places where reality stops behaving the way it should.

From supernatural dread and psychological unease to wartime terror, body horror, haunted spaces, and the inexplicable, Muffled Scream I: Corner of the Eye gathers eight voices with one purpose: to make the familiar feel unsafe.

Take Balloon Animals Beyond the Dead and trade it for some Dark Matter. Use your Peepers for The Eye Is the Mirror and hold The Absent Hand while you walk Six Miles to Bastogne to The Last Resort.

Just remember: the thing you almost saw may still be watching.