Written for Jade Ring Jinglemas 2021

I don't have character preferences, really, but I'd really like to see someone try their hand at a Hearth's Warming horror story in the style vein of my own 'Grogar' and 'Apple Valley.'

Gwen the griffon and her husband Gary the hippogriff are walking with their son to leave Griffonstone before an blizzard hits the city. But something else is in the city still….

(Set slightly in the future of Equestria and Griffonstone.)

This unique piece of evidence is to be viewed under direct Royal Order by the Royal Court and its constituents on the appointed date of 10-31-1511. This evidence, hereafter referred to as "Tape 11", will be the foremost evidence put forward in convicting Alexander Beauregard, human male and citizen of Equestria, for: Crimes Against Equinity, Kidnapping and Endangerment, Subversion, and Multiple Homicide. Charges are to be weighed against Mister Beauregard and the evidence provided, and a final decision will be made sometime either during or after the appointed Royal Court date of 10-31-1511.

Any inquiries may be directed to the offices of the Royal Equestrian Secret Service or Princess Celestia herself. Inquiries will not be responded to without a Class-12 Royal Permission form, and "Tape 11" will not be released to the general public for any reason now or in the future.

Signed, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Twilight, the Royal Equestrian Secret Service with Class-12 Identification.

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Sweetie Belle had always been scared of thunderstorms. But not as this scared when she finds something under her bed. But she is shocked to find out it wasn't what she had expected it to be.

There is a small town that lies in a serene countryside, populated by an average collection of ponies and ruled by a minor piece of royalty in a castle. It is a rather ordinary town, it's inhabitants happy and simplistic, but they are all about to fall into a horrible position. One that none could imagine but one that is very real, and exists everywhere. They will soon have to face this, and it could well lead them to destruction.

Short story for The Barcast's 'Halloween in April' horror contest.

A small town Pegasus finds herself in unfortunate circumstances. Emotional ramifications force her to make decisions which could lead to a life of frivolity or one plagued by failure and despair.

Moonlight is a blank flanked pegasus that travels across Equestria in search of something that would give her life meaning and purpose. On one of her stops across the country, she arrives in a town bordering a forest known as the Dead Woods. The Dead Woods are known by the townsponies as a place devoid of all life, save for the trees, due to never seeing an animal exit the woods and nary a peep escaping its borders. Moonlight hears of this and figures there might be a great treasure hidden in there, just waiting to be claimed, and proceeds to head into the woods in search of that treasure. But after wandering through the woods for hours things begin to turn south, and the treck back to the entrance to the woods begins.

This story was written for Little Tigress as a thanks/compensation for doing art for one of my stories.

Thanks to my editor Typoglyphic and my friend Azure Drache for looking over the story and helping me polish it up.

7/5/20 - WOW. 8 long years. Did you guys know that the ACTUAL BEN Drowned ARG has returned for it's final arc, as of March this year? Yes! Here is the Discord, in which you can participate in the game directly! https://discord.gg/GfmBnP4

It is May 25th, 2012.

Two years following the events of the haunted 'Majora' cartridge, newly minted brony, Jadusable prepares himself for his junior college graduation. Returning home from a drunken night of partying, he soon finds himself having issues with his old Nintendo 64, yet again. Following a few... technical difficulties, Jad finds himself in quite the strange land. Equestria? No. This place isn't real, it's only a cartoon.

Or is it truly? Soon, Jadusable finds that all is not well, and this place? It certainly isn't how the cartoon portrayed it. Follow Jadusable's first-hand account in this mystical land as he discovers this new darkness that slowly taints it...

And comes face to face with a mortal enemy in the process, all the while, asking one simple question. "How do I get home?"

This question may never be answered, but Jad will soon come to find a wicked scheme that threatens far more than Equestria and the real world...

(Takes place in real time, between seasons 2 and 3.)

The hundreds of trees of Sweet Apple Acres silently hold many secrets. The deaths of Big McIntosh's parents and the origins of his cutie mark are only two. For generations the trees have kept their watch over the Apple family and the sleepy town of Ponyville. And now one secret, long thought dead, is about to return and make the ponies of Ponyville wonder what really is in: the Blood of Apples.

Sequel to Mac's Tale

Original editing by Corwin Freiss and thanks to SusieBeeca and BradtheBronyfor the help with the revisions and later chapters.

Have you ever wondered what horrors could lurk far from the habitable corners of modern cities and quiet towns? Even after a millennium since the arrival of the three tribes in Equestria, there are places virtually unknown to the ponykind. And it is there, among the wonders and mysteries of bygone times, that the spawns of darkness are waiting for their prey.

Originally written in Russian as Голодные тени by SMT5015.
The author doesn't know English well and gave his explicit permission to translate and post the story. The translation is an independent work of fiction, and does not constitute theft, self-appropriation of authorship, or disrespect for the work of the original writer.
Edited and preread by Typoglyphic, Nethlarion, ChudoJogurt, Spectre-srs, discranola, Listener.

Soarin is a hunter of Deviants, strange creatures that defy logic and common sense. Crippled with immense debts he has no hopes of paying off and an entity inside him that keeps misbehaving every chance it gets, he takes a chance on a random ticket to the Midnight Train. 

Everything gets worse from there.

Edited by EileenSaysHi

Inspired by Project Moon and the game Limbus Company.