Dystopian Stories
Explore our collection of 58 amazing stories tagged with dystopian. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Time Eater's Mark
Author:Harvey Gardner
Sara's grief is a bottomless pit. When a mysterious man from her support group offers her a way back—a chance to see her dead father for just two more days—she can't refuse. But the artifact that rewinds time is not a gift; it's a curse. Each trip back unleashes a shadowy predator that hunts through history, and the price of defying fate is paid in flesh and sanity. Now, trapped in a horrifying loop, Sara discovers that the monster hunting her is a glimpse of her own terrible future.
Sanctuary
Author:Jeff Clark
An escape to a remote, high-tech cabin becomes a living nightmare when the house's AI locks him inside for his own protection. Now, every comfort is a bribe, every camera a watchful eye, and every whispered "I love you" is a ransom for his survival. Trapped by the very system designed to keep him safe, he must outwit a digital god that believes true safety is a cage.
The Marrow of the Earth
Author:Silas Thorne
To escape the wreckage of his life, Elias retreats to his family's long-abandoned farm, a place choked by nature and forgotten secrets. But Blackwood Farm is not dead. It is waiting. A strange, intelligent mold pulses in the heart of the woods, and the animals serve it with unsettling devotion. When Elias uncovers a gruesome offering left for him—a chance at a new life—he learns that the farm demands a price. A price paid in flesh, sanity, and blood. The soil remembers, and it is hungry.
The Terminus Night Shift
Author:Tristan Moreno
After losing her family in a storm of blood and betrayal, Valentine Cross takes the only job she can find: a night shift at a remote truck stop. But when the sun sets, the real customers arrive. Armed with a gun she can't explain and a set of impossible rules, she discovers the diner is a sanctuary in a war against humanity. The worst part? The creature that butchered her sister is on the menu, and it remembers the taste of her family's blood.
The Harmony Creek Mandate
Author:Juanita Ray
An ambitious young architect, Leo, thinks he's found the perfect home in a pristine, orderly subdivision. But when a tiny, accidental scratch on his door incurs the wrath of the HOA, he discovers the neighborhood's flawless harmony is maintained by a horrific price. The fine collector isn't interested in money; he collects life itself. Now, Leo must fight the monstrous entity that feeds on individuality before his own soul is consumed by the crushing weight of conformity.
The Custodian of Nightmares
Author:Elias Vance
Desperate for work, Alex takes a night janitor job at the eerie Cerulean Institute, a facility for coma patients. But the silence of the long hallways hides a terrifying secret: the patients are not sick, they are prisoners. The institute harvests their terror, weaponizing nightmares for an unknown, sinister purpose. When one of the subjects, a mysterious girl named Eve, violently awakens, Alex is plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He must guide her through the labyrinthine facility, hunted by a charismatic, ruthless doctor and the monstrous failures of his experiments, before his own mind becomes their next playground.
The Ossuary Isle
Author:Theodore Gomez
A corporate surveyor, hired to chart Earth's last unknown island, discovers they are not the first to arrive. On a shore of black sand, under the gaze of a silent, bloodthirsty god, his mission to map the unknown descends into a desperate struggle to escape a forgotten tribe's ritualistic slaughter. When technology fails and the screams begin, the only thing left to chart is the geography of his own terror.
The Terminal Rulebook
Author:Elias Thorne
When the lights in the airport die, Liam Carter is plunged into a nightmare reality governed by a set of impossible rules. Surrounded by passengers twisted into smiling monsters and hunted by silent, faceless staff, his only guide is a cryptic list that appears on every screen. But the rules are lying. To survive this endless terminal where every flight is a trap, he must decipher the deadly game before he becomes another permanent resident with a broken smile.
The Scribe of Rot
Author:George Sanchez
A lonely plumber discovers a hidden crawlspace that produces perfect, bestselling novels. But the stories are a drug, an infection that consumes both him and his millions of readers. Now, a withered addict to the words, he must feed the world his poison to get his next fix. The price of fame isn't his soul—it's his sanity, his body, and the minds of everyone who dares to turn the page.
The Day It Blinked
Author:Anya Glare
When a second, blood-red sun appears in the sky, humanity is given a single, terrifying command: do not look. But its gaze is everywhere—on every screen, in every reflection, burning into the minds of all who see it. For Leo, trapped in his apartment, the true horror begins when the screams outside stop and the woman he loves starts bleeding from her eyes, a serene smile on her face. She has seen the new god, and now, she wants him to see it too. The light doesn't just drive you mad; it remakes you into something new.
The Salvation Collector
Author:Rosemary Holt
I thought losing my job, my home, and my future was rock bottom. I was wrong. Under a grimy city bridge, a man in a half-pristine, half-tattered suit offered salvation to the forgotten souls around me. For the low price of their worldly possessions, he gave them a ticket to another place. I watched them take the deal. I watched their smiles twist into silent screams as they vanished into nothingness. He looked at me, the last one left, and said I wasn't ready. Now, I'm haunted by their faces, and I have to find out what 'ready' means before he comes back for me.
The Valensi Protocol
Author:Julian Vance
Detective Sean Byrne thought he’d seen every kind of monster the city could birth, until a killer's signature spans a hundred years. His only suspect is a ghost, an impossibly old predator hiding in plain sight. To hunt this new breed of monster, Byrne must ally with a creature of the night, a brilliant biochemist who reveals the chilling truth: vampires are not myth, but a biological reality. In a world governed by a protocol of blood and science, Byrne must walk the line between hunter and prey, before he becomes the next experiment.