Inspector Story

In 1976, every home movie developed by Wally Splice contained the same extra man.
At first, he stood across the street. After the next cut, he was on the porch. Then he was inside the house.
When Norine Rumm's husband disappears from his own birthday film, she uncovers the rule behind Wally's movements: he cannot move while the camera is recording. He only moves in the darkness between shots.
Norine enters his shop carrying an eleven-minute reel and refuses to stop filming. But every reel eventually ends.
This fictional analog-horror story explores cursed film, disappearing memories, and the terrifying possibility that the most dangerous part of a recording is the moment the picture turns black.

Lars Mil looked like the greatest footballer Norway had ever produced—but across 86 matches, every shot missed exactly 13 inches to the right.
The misses were deliberate.
When Lars was nine, his first successful goal caused his younger brother Milo to disappear. The ball returned carrying four carved words: "One in, one out." Lars realized that scoring again could bring Milo home, but only by sending someone else in his place.
For 12 years, Lars protected every goalkeeper by pretending to be a failure. Then his coach secretly moved the goal.
This fictional supernatural sports-horror story follows a cursed footballer, an impossible championship, and the terrible price of bringing someone back.

Chuck Tender was the towering butcher behind Last Chance Meats, a tiny shop in Maro Creek, Ohio, where every customer got photographed before being asked the same question: rare, medium, or well done.
Then those customers stopped coming back.
When a traveling salesman named Glenn Crumb vanished, his wife found something horrifying in Chuck's front window — a white package labeled with Glenn's name, and something inside it was still breathing. What police found next was worse: rows of living people wrapped upright in butcher paper, a freezer full of Polaroids, and evidence that Chuck Tender's crimes may have stretched far beyond ordinary time.
This fictional surreal horror episode explores ritual, dehumanization, impossible spaces, and the terrifying idea that some predators do not hunt in the dark — they simply wait behind the counter and ask the same polite question every time.

Chip Toothacre was one of the most charming men in his small Georgia town. Women trusted him, neighbors admired him, and his habit of collecting locks of hair was dismissed as romantic.
Then women began disappearing.
Even after another man was arrested, the disappearances continued. It was not until Sue Rummage followed Chip home that the truth began to surface: a hidden cellar, jars containing hundreds of human teeth, and a garden holding the remains of women the town had spent years searching for.
But before police could arrest him, Chip vanished.
This fictional Southern Gothic horror story explores charm as camouflage, obsession disguised as affection, and the terrifying possibility that the real monster may be the person everyone trusts.

In this fictional horror story, Vera Bain was the most admired beauty queen in Fair Hope, Alabama — stunning, charming, and seemingly impossible to suspect.
But during the nine years she held her crown, 14 women in her immediate circle disappeared.
No one connected the pattern until 1976, when Detective May Day began cross-referencing the missing persons reports and noticed that every disappearance happened shortly after a woman got too close to Vera's inner circle. What he found when he entered Vera's property changed everything.
This is the story of beauty, obsession, jealousy, and a woman who claimed she simply did not like competition.