A riddle inside a shadow.
English horror riddles, written to be read once and remembered at the wrong time.
Antumbra Tagna is a small archive of English horror riddles. One is added each night: a question, a place to guess, and an answer sealed underneath. There are no jump scares here. The scare is the moment after you understand the answer.
The name
An antumbra is the part of a shadow where the light source is completely hidden — and yet a thin ring of light still gets through. It is the ring you see around a black sun during an annular eclipse. Tagna is an old word for a riddle, a guess, and a prophecy. Put together, the name means the same thing every riddle here is trying to say: the answer is already there, walking around inside the dark.
How to play
- Read the riddle. It is short. That is usually the problem.
- Guess before you open it. Every answer is an ordinary object, a place, or a word you already know.
- Open the answer. There is no score and no leaderboard. If you were wrong, read it again — the riddle will have changed.
What it is not
No gore, no trick answers, no riddles that only work if you are told the answer first. The house is enough. The dark is enough.
Follow
New riddles go up on Facebook. The answer is posted the next morning. If the page has helped you sleep worse, that is the intended result.