Showing results by publisher "Jeffrey Dale Jeschke" in Anthologies & Short Stories

This is a collection of strange and horrifying short stories.

This is a short, gruesome tale about two low-life individuals who conned their way through life. Unfortunately for them, they found what appeared to be the perfect gig, but it turned into their worst nightmare.

This is a short story about a ruthless, bloodthirsty, raw-brain-eating pigeon possessed by an evil witch doctor. The beast momentarily tormented the city of Chicago, and this is its tale.

The creature returns with an appetite, under a full moon. A gator hunting guide known as Tex brings his expedition right into the heart of the creature's habitat. Bordering that habitat is Frankenstein. This brief short story is not for the timid.

"Once upon a time there was a sad and lonely monster that was created by an evil genious known as Victor Frankenstein...."

Urban legend Bloody Mary gets summoned by the horrifying monster Frankenstein.

Gertrude was a one-eyed 91-year-old woman with a battle ax. She hid it under her butt in her wheelchair. She was a hideous and vicious beast of a killer. When she was forced into a nursing center, she took no prisoners.

When people turned 70 years of age in a remote African village, they were sacrificially fed to the hyenas, but only after a lavish celebration relating to their birthday. There were no retirement communities or nursing homes for these villages in 1605, so all of the elderly, handicapped, or disabled were eventually sacrificed to wildlife. This was considered just part of the circle of life. One elderly man attempted to change his fate, and this is his bloody tale.

This is the story about a 35-year-old man that was initially abducted in Fairbanks, Alaska only to wind up in the middle of a cornfield. After removing an implant from his body, he attempted to relocate to a small town in northern Michigan known as Alpena to escape further interaction with aliens. Unfortunately once the aliens choose someone it is more than difficult to start over somewhere new.

This is a short story about a disturbed teacher who planned to teach her students a bloody lesson, but they had another plan in mind.

This short story is about the dead spirit of a little girl. Maggie was six years old when she died, and she attached herself to another six-year-old little girl by the name of Linda. This is both Maggie and Linda's story.