Very Short Horror Stories

Author: Various Authors

Very short horror stories that don't give you time to catch your breath. Each page is a trap, each story a shock. They end before they begin, leaving a deep impression... A single sentence is enough to open a door in the darkness of your mind. Hisham Fahmy's translation takes you to the other side of the mirror, where there is no certainty, no safety... Don't look back. These stories are known as "flash fiction," a type of writing that presents a complete narrative with an event and a theme in the fewest possible sentences. These stories appeared many years ago on the internet, perhaps since its inception, and spread incredibly quickly across a large number of websites and forums, making it difficult to determine their original source, although their authors are usually not well-known writers, but rather ordinary internet users. This encouraged many to write their own stories in the same vein, and to translate them into several languages as well. This book contains a selection of translated very short horror stories, presented with exquisite illustrations by the talented artist Migo, who took it upon himself to present them using various styles of drawing, coloring, and expression, and put in great effort to add visual details that bring them to life. This is an experience I cannot describe how much it delighted me, and I claim that—to my knowledge—it is the first experience of its kind in the Arab world, and we sincerely hope that the reader will enjoy it, both the writing and the illustrations. Hisham Fahmy