Horror Stories
Explore our collection of 126 amazing horror stories. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Vermillion Cage
Author:Dianne Ward
A sunset hot air balloon ride with friends becomes a descent into a layered hell. Trapped in an endless loop high above a glitching world, they discover they are not alone. Identical balloons mirror their every move, each containing a silent, watching copy of themselves. With the pilot gone and his friends falling one by one into the abyss, Liam is left with a single, horrifying choice: join them in the fall, or face the doppelganger that has just climbed into his basket.
Archmage of Anarchy: The Sun King's Gambit
Author:Avery Hunter
He's the Supreme Archmage of Earth, a supervillain by trade and a hero by accident. His name is Kaelen Vorn, but the world knows him as Merciless, the Tyrant of Shadows™. When a clandestine council of 'heroes' hires him to assassinate the god-like ruler of a utopian island, Kaelen knows it's a setup. But with a personal vendetta against the Sun King and the fate of magic itself on the line, he'll assemble a team of misfits to take on the impossible. After all, if you want a god killed, you don't hire a hero—you hire the best villain money can buy.
Where the Cicadas Stop
Author:R. M. Blackwood
Leo just wanted a quiet place to escape his dead-end life. He found it at the old burned-out bridge, a place of serene solitude. But one evening, the familiar song of the cicadas stopped. In the sudden, terrifying silence, he discovered he wasn't alone. Something was watching from the trees—something with limbs too long and a hunger that followed him home. Now, every time the world goes quiet, Leo knows it's coming for him. The silence is no longer peace; it's a prelude to a scream.
The Echo in the Walls
Author:Ricky Arnold
Our dream home became a living nightmare. It started with whispers and shadows, things my rational mind could dismiss. But then it began to wear the faces of those I love. It learned their voices, their laughter, and twisted them into instruments of terror. I made a mistake. I looked back when I should have run. I acknowledged it. Now, it's not just in the house anymore. It has my phone number, it knows my name, and it wants to wear my face next.
The Cartoonist's Lament
Author:Troy Anderson
Jack Vektor, a disgraced Arcanum Investigator, is exiled to the shimmering, surreal metropolis of Aethelburg. He thought he'd escaped the ghosts of his past, but when a living, breathing Toon—a creature of pure belief—is found murdered, Jack is dragged back into the game. The suspects are reality-warping celebrities, the murder weapon is a forgotten memory, and the only clue is a cryptic Pez dispenser that hums with divine power. To solve this impossible crime, Jack must confront the very trauma that gave him his powers, a force that threatens to unmake him before the city's weeping mirrors swallow him whole.
She Is My Soulmate, And I Am Her Keeper
Author:Merrick Thorne
Jake finally married Ella, the woman of his dreams since childhood. Their life is perfect, a fairy tale come true. But when a teenage girl flirts with him, Jake discovers the dark truth behind his wife's smile. The freezer in their basement holds a horrific secret, and Jake learns he isn't Ella's first husband... nor is she willing to lose another. Trapped in a perfect home that has become a gilded cage, he must unravel the bloody secrets of her past to avoid becoming her next victim.
The Rose that Devours
Author:Rhys Thorne
When Elias finds his sister cradling their mother's severed head, he believes it is an act of madness. But a cryptic warning from his dying father and a forced communion with a strange "rose water" reveals a truth far more terrifying. His family does not suffer from insanity; they are the chosen caretakers of a cosmic entity that feeds on blood. They are the Shearwielders, and the harvest has just begun. In a house of secrets and whispers, Elias must confront an inheritance written in blood and bloom.
It Knows Your Name
Author:Silas Thorne
For overworked IT specialist Michael, a secluded cabin was supposed to be an escape. But a terrifying, unnaturally tall creature with a carved smile found him. It tapped on his window. It whispered his name. Now, back in the city, safe on the third floor of his apartment, the tapping has returned. Every night. The creature followed him home, proving that no lock, no wall, and no height can keep it out. It knows where he is. And it's patient.
Void-Touched: My Power is Fear
Author:Dustin Davis
One night, a comet gifts Kaelen a strange System that turns his deepest fears into unimaginable power. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden city and brutal death academy, he must learn to master his unique terror—the fear of oblivion itself. In a world where failure means being erased and cosmic horrors lurk in the shadows, Kaelen's chaotic ability to unmake reality is both his only hope for survival and a threat to everyone around him. Can he control the void within before it consumes him whole?
The Asphalt Ocean
Author:Steve Freeman
For years, Leo's dream of an endless bridge was a harmless, recurring nightmare. But when the dream bleeds into reality, leaving him with wet floors and a cryptic toll receipt, he discovers he's not just dreaming—he's been drafted. The bridge is a real place, a purgatory for lost souls, and the toll is more than money. Now, hunted by a twisted version of himself and armed with a strange app on his phone, Leo must navigate the rules of the Asphalt Ocean, where every passenger is a debt and every destination has a horrifying price.
The Roadside Collection
Author:Harvey Moore
For twelve years, Jack Riley cleaned up the dead from Route 340. It was a simple, gruesome job. But then, the bodies started disappearing before he could get to them. Something unseen, something silent and impossibly fast, was doing his job for him. He ran, burying the secret for years under the Arizona sun. Now, a new disappearance has pulled him back to the haunted Virginia blacktop. He was the road's keeper once, but he's about to discover what happens when the road, and the things that hunt it, decide to collect.
Radiant Rot
Author:Silas Thorne
A man of faith and reason, Julian Knight, watches in horror as his best friend twists an academic interest into a deadly sun-worshipping cult. After his friend's ritual suicide, Julian is haunted by his ghost and marked by a supernatural, hand-shaped burn. Now, a malevolent entity that calls itself a god wants Julian to be its next sacrifice. He must fight the encroaching darkness with his own light, before he too is consumed by the blinding, rotting radiance of a god that should not exist.