The Winter of '83
A bone-chilling historical horror tale set in the brutal winter of 1883, where a remote village faces an ancient evil awakened by unprecedented cold, blending historical facts with supernatural terror.
The leather-bound journal lay before me, its pages yellow with age, corners crumbling like autumn leaves. I found it while clearing out my grandmother's attic – a forgotten testament to one of the darkest chapters in our small town's history. The handwriting, though faded, remained legible, telling a tale so horrifying that I questioned its authenticity until I cross-referenced the local historical records. What I discovered made my blood run cold.
The winter of 1883 wasn’t just another cold season in New England; it was an aberration, a period when nature itself seemed to turn against humanity. The journal’s author, Dr. Thomas Blackwood served as the town physician in Millbrook, Massachusetts. His accounts of that winter painted a picture far more terrifying than any ghost story I’d ever heard. The temperatures had plummeted to unprecedented levels, freezing the very breath in people’s lungs and turning the landscape into a crystalline nightmare.
But the cold, as Dr. Blackwood would soon discover, was merely the harbinger of…
