Luna has a secret.

A secret that she's kept close to her heart ever since her return from the moon, a secret she's hidden for so long that she's no longer even sure if it's real. At least until it returns to haunt her, and she has no choice but to confide in Celestia and hope her sister trusts that she hasn't gone mad.

It's time to tell Celestia about the circles.

Fluttershy can’t awaken from her nightmare, if it even is a nightmare. Nopony knows predators and prey better than her, but she'd never truly felt like prey before. She only has to make it until morning.

An entry in A Thousand Words Contest II

Reading by Wendigo Studios

For Maud Pie, family is the most important. She'll do anything to protect her sisters... Like she couldn't protect herself.

Inspired by a song "Crow Jane" by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

This story is a sequel to The Perilous Romance of Swans

An entire house is consumed by darkness and devoured by the stuff of nightmares. A foal is trapped within this house, which is now a nest of terrors.

Princess Luna arrives to deal with the nightmares leaking into the waking world and close the rift.

But this is no ordinary darkness.

This story is a sequel to Eyes Open

Teleportation. It is the best possible way to travel... As long as you don't think about it too much.

After Twilight saved herself, herself saved her, and she might be missing a horn, but she's been moving on.

...or has she?

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So I recently came across the Blinkverse and fell in love with it. It's dark and rife with fridge horror, but without choving it down your throat. So because I couldn't get my interest in it to go away. I decided to throw my hat in, and either do an introspective piece or an alternate take. I'll let you figure out which one I leaned more towards.

I'm admitedly not the best at proof reading my own work beyond spell-checking. so please forgive the errors you find with grammar, pacing, and general hampering my lack of writing skill provides. XD

This is a sequel to Eyes Open, Written by Foal's Errand (whom I asked permission to post) which is itself a sequel to Blinking by Lumberjack, which is ITSELF a sequel to the origin story Blink, written by Ocalhoun. Doing a bit of simple math, that places me at Tier 4

(please forgive me not linking anything, my fimfiction comment bar has been fucky for a while now)

The Blot: an unearthly darkness, hostile towards all forms of life. This deadly enigma has swallowed up Ponyville, turning the once-thriving town into a pitch-black wasteland. In this new world, food and water are scarce, and the most precious resource of all is light.

Now, two survivors, Tinker Toy and his son, Gearhead, huddle in their home-turned shelter, hiding from the darkness. Without any contact with the rest of the world, father and son must work together to survive the waking nightmare they once called home.

Special thanks my pre-readers Rye Bread, jeray2000, sevenofeleven, and Mcstuffins!

The shadows. They speak to you, promising all you desire. You need only listen...

Reading by CreepyPastaSalad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYlr87eDZRI

Cover Art By InuHoshi-to-DarkPen: https://inuhoshi-to-darkpen.deviantart.com/art/Pony-of-Shadows-713963070

Starlight and Trixie, as part of their duties as staff of the School of Friendship, traveled outside Equestria for a recruitment drive. However, their trip to Mount Aris was waylaid by a problem with the railway. Still wanting to make good time, Starlight decided they should hoof it through the wilderness south of Equestria.

Just south of the MacIntosh Hills, the two find a vast forest before them. With every step inside, the canopy above grows thicker and thicker. They may never see the sun again.

This story was written for the Barcast's Halloween in April Horror contest.

Thanks to The Seer for some feedback/prereading.

Now with a reading by Cloud 9, starring Magpiepony and Celaena Winters.

Sisters being peaceable with horrors unspeakable.

(A collection of surreal and creepy little comedies about the Princesses. Collab with Pearple Prose).

As this is an anthology series, it will update periodically. The stories are largely unrelated, but within the same continuity.

Chinese translation by MLM.

Pre-read by King of Madness, TheBritishPony, and ST4RSK1MM3R

Edited by James Fire

Cover art by HPBudgecraft.

A foals imagination is an amazing thing. They can mistake the simplest of things for monsters or other scary things. So, when Twilight Sparkle comes rushing to Princess Cadance saying there's a monster in her bedroom, it's only natural that they figure out a way to defeat it.

Written as a thirty minute writing exercise.