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The Midnight Toe A Chilling Encounter with the Unknown. #HorrorStory #GhostStory #Supernatural #Paranormal #ScaryStories #CreepyTales #HauntedRoom #MysteriousEncounters #NightmareFuel #MidnightHorror #HorrorNarration #ClassicHorror #UnsolvedMystery

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#WordWeavers January 16: How long is your shortest work?

I used to regularly write "twitfic" back when Twitter had a 140 character limit in addition to weekly flash fiction. I'm sure I've written six word stories. I couldn't possibly remember the shortest. Except by making a new one here. I can't guarantee it's the shortest I've ever written but it's likely in the running:

It moved.

Ok, here’s my first IT Horror Story of the Saturday night. It's a bit long.

I was at a client, a healthcare facility, to replace some hard drives. They didn’t want to spend money, so we had to keep the current setup running, which was outdated and unreliable.
Now I can say it: they didn’t want to spend because the general manager’s goal was to give work to a company of his friends, who were already providing support on two VMs, and he wanted to hand everything over to them. The IT manager hadn’t yet understood the financial interests of these people and still believed everything was in good faith, that they really didn’t have the funds. We were holding everything together with duct tape, but it was working and stable. I had set up a "cluster" with OpenNebula and GlusterFS for storage (later replaced with MooseFS and then with Ceph), using all available hardware.

We scheduled an intervention and notified everyone to disconnect and shut down the machines by 12:30. By 13, we had completed the backups, aiming to start the intervention by 14 and get the work up and running by 15:30. The goal was to update the systems and check the disks. We shut down all the VMs, had everyone disconnect. It was lunchtime.
We updated the servers, rebooted them. One of the disks started throwing errors. GlusterFS, for some reason I never really investigated (I have my theories, which I’ll share later, but from that day forward, GlusterFS no longer exists for me), decided to overwrite both that disk and its replica with zeros. I hadn’t changed anything.

Panic – there were backups, but on a USB 2 disk (old servers, no USB 3)! I immediately stopped everything. I was almost fainting. The IT manager didn’t understand what had happened, so I explained it to him. He announced to everyone that we would cancel the rest of the intervention, restore from backup, and have the work back up by 15:30 as planned, prioritizing the most critical VMs.

The "competing" company reached out. They had powered on one of their VMs and started "doing their own interventions." Even though they had been warned not to do anything. And they complained "we" had lost some of their data. Of course, the manager and those guys went "carpe diem": they put me under accusation, saying I had undoubtedly made a mistake that led to "lost data." I wrote a technical report explaining what I had seen, noting various SSH logins from those guys during the intervention. The "history" had been erased. Of course, not by me.

They continued to harass me for a while. The last thing they asked was for me to go to a meeting "to explain in person." They tried to schedule it the day before my wedding. And they knew it.

They threatened to ask me for an unspecified (high) financial compensation for 'the lost data.' What lost data? The ones that, allegedly, the other company would have entered in the meantime.

Final result: no problem for me (I hadn’t done anything wrong), the backups were fine, they only calmed down when I proved (logs in hand) that I wasn’t the only one connected to that machine, and my witnesses (two colleagues and the IT manager) had seen all my actions, confirming I hadn’t done anything wrong.

In the end: I realized they would do it again and I left the client – even the IT manager decided to resign and change jobs. The general manager managed to install, at astronomical figures, the company he wanted to place. After two months, they got their hands on the system and broke it. They asked me for assistance, which I refused. At any price.

After a few years, I found out that the general manager ended up in jail for corruption, bribes, and for favoring his friend companies in many sectors.

That day, I celebrated.

Happy Halloween, everyone.

I read 'The Evil Clergyman' by HP Lovecraft.

https://youtu.be/VTs-RKeXTHI

#horror #reading #hplovecraft #mustafakulle #halloween #storyreading #audiobook #audiobooks #horrorstory
#fiction

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗣𝗼𝗻𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘀 -

Burgess's novel is at once the same theme as the better-known film & also wholly different, immersing readers in a way (& adding an entirely new dimension to its premise) that the film can't.

https://buff.ly/3YK4vn8

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻" 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 -

Barker's original short story that produced the 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘯 movie, a tightly-written plunge into the nature of mythos and the politics of academia and class.

https://buff.ly/4frj8kr

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗣𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 -

One of King's most grief-stricken works, its center horror nearly surpassing its close.

https://buff.ly/4hktPHv

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆'𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗿𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 -

Levin's novel ushers in a low-key minimalist style to equate the modern world and its absence of moral compass.

https://buff.ly/4fgvKLX

I read 'The Evil Clergyman' by HP Lovecraft.

https://youtu.be/VTs-RKeXTHI

Happy Halloween, everyone.

#horror #reading #hplovecraft #mustafakulle #halloween #storyreading #audiobook #audiobooks #horrorstory
#fiction

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 -

Dreamlike interior dialogue which supplied its own sublimated horror, but in contrast to the horror without?

https://buff.ly/4fnw7nv

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 -

Beautiful, sweeping, small town American horror centered around our fear of mortality and personal unease.

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #somethingwickedthiswaycomes #raybradbury #carnivals

https://buff.ly/3AhSKL3

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿" 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -

A slow burn whodunnit of cosmic horror, with the secret horror always just out of reach . . . .

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #theedgeofrunningwater #williamsloane #cosmichorror #whodunnit #whodunnithorror

https://buff.ly/48ja2Eh

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗵" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗔. 𝗔. 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗻𝗲 -

Wait, why are you reviewing this story for your Halloween Books to Film series? Oh, no. You're not going to . . . .

https://buff.ly/3A0PqEd

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲" 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗛. 𝗣. 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 -

Fun self-conscious story of a young Lovecraft responding to his critics, yet still pulling the punches on what his horrors actually look like!

https://buff.ly/4faz2jP

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘄" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -

James's novel is no ordinary horror tale, terrifying readers with what is happening beneath the Governess's written words.

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #henryjames #theturnofthescrew #victorianliterature #britishliterature #britishhorror

https://buff.ly/4eVUEjM

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗢𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -

Wilde's marvelous philosophical horror is as much a mirror for culture as it is the titular hedonist.

https://buff.ly/3UixADp