Sometimes I Scare Myself is a horror short-story collection by Jeneva Rose released September 22, 2026. It contains three novellas that take everyday, familiar setups and twist them into deeply unsettling tales.
What Each Story Is About
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Never Kill the Medium — On her 30th birthday, Erica hosts a dinner party where a friend’s gift is a séance. When the ritual spirals out of control and the medium dies, the guests cover it up—without realizing that the unfinished ceremony has allowed a dark presence to intrude.
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The Nightmare House — The Dalton family moves into a “forever home” in Tillington, expecting peace. Newly postpartum, Kristin is plagued by unsettling whispers, concerned neighbors, and a sense that the home has claimed all who lived there before—each house family either dying or vanishing.
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All Curses Are Final — A group of college friends traveling to a remote cabin stop at a roadside store with a sign that warns: “All items cursed. Curse lifted at time of sale.” Things go wrong fast when one of them leaves with an item they didn’t purchase, a storm traps them in the cabin, and paranoia erupts as bodies begin to drop.
These stories use horror tropes—séance rituals gone awry, haunted houses, cursed objects—and pull out their darkest potential. Fear builds from betrayal, isolation, supernatural menace, and the ordinary spaces becoming unsafe.
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