Horror Stories
Explore our collection of 305 amazing stories tagged with horror. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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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.
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.
The 5 PM Rule
Author:Yvonne Castillo
For Lena, the job at the Orphic Library was a dream: eight hours of paid silence. But the dream has rules. Clock in at 9 AM. Clock out at 5 PM. Not a second early, not a second late. When a ghostly woman from 1986 appears with a frantic warning and the library's charming owner reveals a predatory obsession with the clock, Lena realizes she hasn't been hired—she's been trapped. The books are screaming clues, the shelves rearrange themselves into a maze, and every tick of the clock brings her closer to becoming a permanent part of the collection.
The Chhayagarh Line
Author:Renee Wheeler
To escape his haunted village, Arjun breaks a generations-old taboo and boards a train with his father. But this is no ordinary train. It is a living, breathing predator of steel and flesh, and the price of a ticket is far more than money. Trapped in a carriage that digests its passengers, Arjun discovers the horrifying pact that binds his village to the monstrous engine, a deal that is about to expire. The ride has just begun, and the final destination is damnation.
The Echo of the Crimson Bloom
Author:Walter George
To save his dying mentor, a novice Lorekeeper must find a legendary story's lost 'Vocal Incantation'—a magical recording that vanished decades ago. His desperate plea on a clandestine network attracts not help, but a cryptic warning from his bitter rival. Together, they uncover a conspiracy revealing the story wasn't lost, but shattered to imprison a memory-devouring god. Reassembling it might save one life, but could unleash an entity that feeds on stories, threatening to silence the world forever.
The Rosewater Heresy
Author:Elias Thorne
For generations, my family has served our village, guiding them with visions granted by sacred rosewater. We perform the Shearing, a holy agony that brings us closer to the Devouring Truth. I have always believed. But tonight, my sister slit our father's throat and called our gospel a lie, our visions a curse of inherited madness. Now the villagers, crazed by our teachings, are pounding on the door, and my sister offers a choice: break the cycle or be consumed by the 'truth' we created.
The Rune-Scribe of Slakterquay: The Case of the Wandering House
Author:Elias Thorne
When a Victorian mansion appears overnight in a quiet suburb, the city calls it a miracle. But for Aggie McPherson, a private eye who sees the city’s spectral skeletons, it’s a Class-4 Dimensional Incursion. Trapped inside the living, breathing architecture, she's hunted by corrupted memories and a rival mage who wants the house's power for himself. To solve this case, Aggie must unravel the secrets of a long-dead chronomancer and decide whether to save the soul trapped at the house's heart… or risk unleashing the parasite it holds prisoner upon the world.
Celestial Echo: The Warhound's Gambit
Author:Astra Thorne
In a city fractured by a secret war, Vaelryn is a weapon. Gifted with the Voice of Heavens, a celestial power that bends minds, he fights for the resistance. But every command he speaks chips away at his soul and tears at the fabric of reality. Hunted by a corporate empire that sees him as a resource and distrusted by the allies who fear his power, he must uncover the truth of his heritage before his own divine gift unmakes the world he's fighting to save.
The Final Cut
Author:Annie Fowler
Struggling filmmaker Leo Vance lands a dream job at the enigmatic Aperture Studios, a place that promises to turn his pain into art. But the studio's methods are brutal, their sets are unnervingly real, and the cameras never stop rolling. He soon discovers the studio isn't just making movies—it's a cult that worships a monstrous god of cinema, Obscura. To create the perfect film, they require the ultimate sacrifice. Now, Leo is cast as the lead in their final masterpiece, and the only way to survive is to give the performance of a lifetime, blurring the line between his grief and their gruesome script until he no longer knows where the acting ends and his own destruction begins.