A city maintenance worker finds a new name carved into the Veterans Memorial three days before Veterans Day.

The problem is, the man is still alive.

By the next morning, he isn't.

Then another name appears.

This time, it belongs to someone who was never a veteran.

And Carl Mercer has to decide how much proof he needs before he warns someone whose name has already been carved in stone.

The Last Name on the Wall: Part One is the thirteenth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

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Part Two concludes Friday.

Episode Artwork: Photo by Alexander Nadrilyanski / Pexels.

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A roadside photographer traveling through West Texas stops at a tiny white chapel after spotting a hand-painted warning sign:

STORM SHELTER BELOW — DO NOT ENTER.

Beneath the chapel is a trapdoor.

Beneath that is another door.

The locals know better than to open it.

He doesn't.

And once he hears two knocks from the other side, whatever is below doesn't stay at the chapel.

The Chapel Off Route 64 is the twelfth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

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New nightmares every week.

Photography: Elijah Pilchard via Pexels.
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Special thanks to Elijah Pilchard for the beautiful chapel photography that helps bring this episode to life.

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Every Halloween after ten, the Late Kid came to the same door.

Same clothes.

Same white mask.

Same silence.

At sixteen, one boy broke the neighborhood rule and answered him.

Now the mask is lying empty on the porch.

And whatever spent years hiding behind it has learned enough to come inside.

The Real Trick-or-Treater: Part Two concludes American Dreadline's Halloween nightmare about familiar voices, inherited rules, and what happens when fear is managed instead of understood.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

Follow American Dreadline wherever you listen, and leave a rating if the story got under your skin.

New nightmares every week.

Episode Artwork: Photo by Elias Tigiser / Pexels. Used under the Pexels License. Special thanks for sharing your photography and helping bring American Dreadline to life.

Sound Design Credit: “Windy Dark Background Atmo.wav” by szegvari, sourced from Freesound.org. Licensed CC0.