Horror Stories
Explore our collection of 170 amazing horror stories. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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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.
What the River Takes
Author:Morgan Thorne
Four friends embark on a camping trip, seeking an escape from their city lives. But the serene river by their campsite holds a chilling secret. One by one, they are drawn to its banks by an irresistible, whispering compulsion, only to vanish. Alex is the last one left, his mind fraying as he pieces together the horrifying truth. The river is hungry, and it wears the faces of his friends. He can hear it calling his name, and he knows it's getting harder and harder to resist the urge to look into the water.
The Queen of Bones
Author:Asher Stone
A childhood game in a forbidden cave ends in tragedy when Kai's cousin vanishes. The adults blame the mountain; the elders whisper of ancient things that steal children. Fifteen years later, another child is gone, and Kai must return to the reservation to confront the guilt that haunts him and the terrifying truth behind the game they played—a truth that now calls him the new king for its Queen of Bones.
Nexus Noir: The Necrotic Bloom
Author:Silas Thorne
In a city run by magic and strangled by bureaucracy, disgraced investigator Kaelen 'Ran' Voranov is dragged back into the shadows. Hired for a simple missing persons case, his unique ability to see magical residue reveals a dark truth: a necromantic plague is spreading through the city's arcane infrastructure, and the dead are starting to walk. With no badge and the ghosts of his past haunting him, Ran is the only one who sees the rot in the system is becoming horrifyingly literal. He must race against his former colleagues and a fanatical cult to stop the 'Necrotic Bloom' before Nexus City drowns in its own corrupted magic.
The Road That Eats
Author:Silas Blackwood
Three urban explorers chase the high of a lifetime, stumbling upon a phantom road that only appears under a cloak of fog and darkness. At its end lies a parking lot of impossible size, a silent graveyard for cars and secrets. But this discovery isn't a random glitch in reality; it's a trap. Now marked by the road, they are hunted by its sinister gatekeeper, a man who harvests the wreckage. To survive, they must unravel the terrifying rules of a place that isn't on any map—a place that's hungry for new arrivals.