Horror Stories
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The Empty Grave
Author:Ronnie Harper
Ten years after his father's funeral, a late-night call from the deceased's number shatters Alex's reality. A desperate, static-laced voice whispers a single plea: "You have to bury me." Now, haunted by these ghostly calls and the chilling discovery of an empty casket, Alex is dragged into a terrifying conspiracy that his family tried to bury. He must unravel the truth behind his father's disappearance, confronting a sinister force that won't rest until it claims him too. What he uncovers is far more horrifying than an empty grave.
The Corpse-Dust Legacy
Author:Melvin Long
Elara is a Janitor, a supernatural cleaner tasked with erasing the bloody evidence of Umbra City's hidden predators. Her life is a neat ledger of dissolved corpses and scrubbed memories. But when she discovers a victim unlike any other—a shriveled, weightless husk drained of all life—the ledger is thrown into chaos. This new monster, the Desiccator, leaves a mess even the ghouls won't touch. Now, caught between the wrath of the ancient vampire covenants and the desperation of a new species, Elara must unravel the secret of the corpse-dust before it buries the city in a war of whispers and shadows.
The Rotting Vow
Author:Cassandra Duncan
On his wedding day, Leo lifted his bride's veil and discovered she was a corpse. Forced into an ancient, terrifying ritual by his own mother, he is now bound by a vow to the dead girl, Elowen. As her coldness seeps into his soul and the scent of decay follows his every step, Leo must unravel the horrific secret of Wren Orchard: a pact that feeds on death to grant life. But the bride is hungry, and the vow is eternal. He must find a way to break it before he becomes the next sacrifice.
The Spectral Analyst of Slakterquay
Author:Silas Blackwood
In the rain-slicked city of Slakterquay, where forgotten magic bleeds through the cracks in reality, disgraced detective Aggie Thorne sees the ghosts of the past. Gifted with a mysterious System that translates spectral energy into hard data, she takes on the cases that terrify the rich and baffle the police. Her first case: a malevolent entity in a billionaire's mansion, a haunting tied to the city's blood-soaked foundations. But by solving one mystery, she may unleash a darkness that could consume the entire city.
Blackwood's Tithe
Author:Jasper Briar
Desperate for his dream job, recent graduate Liam Thorne accepts a mysterious offer to become a ranger at the idyllic Blackwood Creek National Park. He's welcomed by unnervingly healthy, elderly colleagues who speak of the park's 'magic' which grants them eternal vitality. But paradise has a price. Liam soon discovers the park is a sentient, hungry entity, and its keepers must provide a periodic, bloody sacrifice. Now, he's been chosen to help hunt the very visitors he swore to protect, trapped in a gilded cage where the trails lead to a gruesome end.
The Devil's Barter for a Soul
Author:Silas Blackwood
To save her daughter from death's grip, Elara Vance made a deal with a devil. Now, the price is coming due. Bound by a soul-pact, she is commanded to commit monstrous acts, starting with the kidnapping of two innocent teenagers. Torn between her daughter's borrowed life and her own shattering soul, Elara must navigate a hidden world of ancient magic and infernal politics to find a loophole before her patron claims everything she holds dear, or the world itself erases her for breaking its secrecy.
The Echo in the Floorboards
Author:Silas Croft
Leo needed a cheap place to live, but the basement suite came with a soundtrack: the relentless pacing of the old man upstairs. Then came the scratching, and a dry whisper begging to be let back in. But after the old man is found dead, his body twisted into an impossible shape, the noises don't stop. They get louder. And now, a note on the sealed door says it all: 'I remember the way through the walls.' The thing upstairs is still there, and it's looking for a new door.
The Empty Seat
Author:Bonnie Garza
After a minor car accident, Samantha's daughter, Sophia, is no longer the sweet, joyful child she once was. She's become cold, quiet, and unnervingly strange. As Samantha tries to nurse her daughter back to health, the world around her insists on a different, more terrifying reality: that Sophia died two years ago. Now, Samantha must fight for her sanity against a truth she can't accept and protect a child that no one else can see, a child whose hunger is growing and whose presence is becoming colder by the day.
The Thing in Charlie's Skin
Author:Elias Veil
My best friend Charlie went to Germany for the summer. The thing that came back is wearing his face, sleeping in his bed, and charming my parents. But I see the truth in its dead eyes and its unnatural hunger. I see the peeling skin and the impossible strength. It’s not Charlie anymore, and I’m afraid I’m the only one who knows. Now, it wants to speak to my parents alone, and I fear I’m next on its list.
The Echo Witch of Veridia
Author:Vera Stone
In the mist-shrouded city of Veridia, where echoes of the past bleed into the present, Elara inherits a peculiar detective agency and a power she doesn't understand. She is a Chronomancer, able to read the history left on objects and places. Her first case: a family terrorized by their new home, Crimsonwood Manor. But the manor isn't just haunted—it's a crumbling prison for a timeless entity. As she delves into the mansion's violent memories, she discovers its secrets are intrinsically linked to her own forgotten lineage, and the entity within is waking up.
The Aethelburg Anomaly
Author:Cole Vance
For Officer Kaelen Vance, the world was a predictable grind of bad coffee and worse criminals. But a routine welfare check on a remote farm shatters his reality. Instead of a missing person, he finds a blood-soaked nightmare and a creature of bone and shadow that shrugs off bullets. His first kill in this new world brings not relief, but a shimmering blue screen congratulating him. The System has arrived. Now, monsters crawl from tears in the sky, the city is a warzone, and Kael's only law is the level-up. He’s not a hero, just a cop with a new, impossible power, and his beat is the apocalypse.
The Black-Eyed Glitch
Author:Janet Gardner
One moment, Alex was with his friends in front of a construction site. The next, the site is a 50-year-old ruin and his friends are gone, replaced by memories that don't belong to him. Now, he sees them everywhere—silent figures with soulless, black eyes, watching from the periphery of his fractured reality. A shadowy entity haunts his steps, not as a predator, but as a warden of the seams between worlds. To save his true family, Alex must navigate a world of placeholders and glitches, risking his own sanity to pull them back from the static.