March 2018 • Author Tobias Wade: Short horror stories

Am I dreaming, or am I the dream?

March 31, 2018 by SirTobiasWade

I’ve decided that it must be one or the other. How else could I explain seeing the same person everywhere I went?

Underwater Microphone Picks up Voices

March 24, 2018 by SirTobiasWade

I couldn’t have known they were voices when my hydrophone first recorded the sound. My best guess was a bowhead whale, although the pitch didn’t fluctuate or go nearly as high as the typical bowhead. This sound was sonorous and powerful, a seemingly sourceless echo reverberating through the ocean depths for at least a dozen miles around my ship.

Somebody broke her

March 24, 2018 by SirTobiasWade

You know the kind of girl I’m talking about. She looks like life chewed her up and spit her back out.

6 Things to Do Before You Publish Your Book

September 24, 2018March 22, 2018 by SirTobiasWade

Before you publish checklist: Start these at least 1-2 months before your next book comes out. 1. Email List: …

The Fourth Horseman

March 15, 2018March 13, 2018 by SirTobiasWade

Part one:

There’s a stretch of ground near my hometown that everyone says is cursed. Past the lamppost that only flickers between midnight and 1 AM — past the gutted remains of the house which has burned down four times, never to be rebuilt again — through the lingonberry bushes that are ripe all year; there you’ll find it. A patch of fine powdered dirt hidden in a copse of birch trees. The same rich earth that the rest of the verdant wilderness thrives on, although no grass or flowers or even the hardiest weed can be seen struggling through this blighted space.