A broke nineteen-year-old takes a babysitting job on Willow Lane that pays far too well to turn down.

The kid is quiet. The house is beautiful. And the parents have only one unusual rule:

Don't go into the basement.

If you hear anything down there, ignore it.

Then something beneath the floor knocks three times.

And the babysitter makes the mistake of answering.

The Babysitting Job on Willow Lane is the tenth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

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A little girl tells her father there’s something under her bed.

He tells her what tired parents have been telling frightened kids forever:

It’s nothing.

Then his wife and daughter leave for the weekend.

And something in the quiet house starts moving.

Under the Bed is the ninth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

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New nightmares every week.

Episode Artwork: Photo by Tiago Ventura / Pexels

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A seventh grader has been feeding something behind a locked door at Bellweather Middle School.

Now the lunches aren’t enough.

The door opens.

The boy is taken.

And the cafeteria manager goes in after him.

Seconds: Part Two is the eighth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

This episode concludes the two-part story that began in Seconds: Part One.

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New nightmares every Friday.

Sound Design Credit: “Windy Dark Background Atmo.wav” by szegvari, sourced from Freesound.org. Licensed CC0.