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The Archive of the Unread

Martin Fischer

Welcome to The Archive of the Unread, a collection of short stories that drift through the fog between memory and myth. These are tales that were lost, overlooked, or perhaps never meant to be read in the first place. Each story is quiet.

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The Thing in the Drying House

Content warning: child disappearance, violence, threat, folk-horror imagery.

The first child vanished before the geese were shut in.

His name was Ilie. He was six years old, had a split thumbnail and sang softly to himself when he thought...

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No One Counted It

They called it a legend later, only because no one in town wanted to keep saying it had happened.

No one could agree how many bells had rung that night. Seven, some said. Twelve. Enough to wake the dead, said Frau Deininger, who had been a...

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The Piano Door

Content note: Sensitive themes are listed after the story.

The house stood at the edge of the village, where the last gardens gave way to open fields.

It was not a haunted house. Not a black shell with blind windows, not the kind of place...

a month ago
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The Road Below the Weir

Content note: Sensitive themes are listed after the story.

Later people said they had driven to the river that night because they were young and stupid and in love.

That was not true.

They drove because they could no longer breathe at ho...

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The River Under the Snow

In the villages along the upper Tama River, old people once spoke of things seen in snowstorms, though nobody could later agree whether they belonged to the mountains, the dead or the weather itself.

Maren first noticed something was wrong...

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  • Martin Fischer

    I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.

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