PULLED IN
A short horror story exploring the collision between childhood memory and the impossible. While digitizing his mother's old VHS tapes, a father discovers footage from his eighth birthday party—the day his younger brother disappeared.
A 15–20 minute horror read.
Matthew Nordman | Short Horror Fiction | 2026
EARLY PRAISE
“That setup alone had me completely hooked. What follows is nostalgic, eerie, and deeply unsettling.”
“Matthew Nordman has a talent in making you long to save his characters from turmoil, even when you've only got a few thousand words to introduce them and end their story. I really hope he continues writing short stories — or a full book one day, his talent for horror is ripe and oozing with potential.”
— Mya Walsh, Goodreads reviewer
“I would love to see a longer version, or simply whatever he writes next.”
— Lala H., Goodreads reviewer
— Hannah Holt, Goodreads reviewer
About Matthew Nordman
Matthew Nordman writes horror exploring millennial nostalgia and fears surrounding family, parenthood, memory, and the impossible. His fiction often begins with familiar places, objects, and memories before allowing something deeply wrong to emerge from them. His debut horror story, Pulled In, is available now.
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