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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What Happened at Storyland
Author:Evelyn Thorne
For Elara, the dream is always the same: flying over a forgotten fairytale park, a place of rot and decay where silent figures hold a candlelight vigil. When she discovers the park was real, and its closure is a sixty-year-old mystery shrouded in silence, she realizes her dreams are not just dreams. They are memories of a childhood she can't remember. And the monster that was buried at Storyland Park is waking up, calling her back to unearth a truth more horrifying than she could ever imagine.
The Memory Eater of Mountain Rim
Author:Corbin Slate
In a town where nothing changes, a mysterious movie called 'A Good Film' offers the ultimate escape—by erasing itself from your memory. Everyone thinks it's a harmless gimmick, a quirky magic trick. But when seventeen-year-old Percy refuses to forget, he peels back the silver screen to find a ravenous horror feeding on his town's placid ignorance. By choosing to remember, he becomes the sole target of the thing that crawled out of the film, and the smiling, unblinking man who wants to ensure he enjoys the final show.
The Unfinished Man
Author:Lori Henry
Struggling art student Alex finds his mundane life upended when a terrifying painting he viewed online mysteriously arrives at his door. What begins as a suspected prank morphs into a nightmare as the faceless figure in the canvas begins to change, subtly adopting his features. As the painting's sentience grows, Alex is dragged into a desperate battle against a doppelgänger that wants to trade its canvas prison for his flesh, forcing him to question where the portrait ends and he begins.
The Scent of Rot and Coffee
Author:Vicki Bell
When Leo moves into his dream apartment, he thinks he's found a new beginning. But a strange, freshly painted wall and the lingering scent of coffee hide a gruesome secret. Aided by his mysterious neighbor, Kiwi, he uncovers a horrific murder. But the victims aren't resting. They're still inside the walls, and they want out.
Always 3,417
Author:Ralph Kim
In a town where nothing ever changes, Eli discovers a horrifying truth at 3:17 AM: reality itself is a lie. Houses vanish, friends are replaced, and a hungry fog whispers his name. An ancient entity keeps the town's population at exactly 3,417, and now it knows Eli can see the seams of its world. He must unravel the town's curse before he becomes the next replacement, or worse, a willing part of the nightmare. For in Hollow's End, you don't die. You're just rewritten.
The Passenger's Price
Author:Mia Green
A man haunted by his brother's disappearance is forced to play a cursed urban legend known as the 'Endless Hitchhiker Game.' He thought he was just appeasing his adventurous girlfriend, but the passenger they pick up on a desolate highway knows their deepest fears. The prize for this game isn't wealth or glory—it's a debt paid in sanity and soul, and the road to the end is paved with the ghosts of everyone you've ever failed.
The Echoes of Ashworth Park
Author:Joel Vasquez
Six friends sought a night of illicit fun in an abandoned WWII munitions park. But when a storm drove them into a forgotten bunker, they weren't alone. Awoken by the screech of metal and the soft patter of wet, bare feet in the pitch-black darkness above, they learn some secrets are buried for a reason. Now, what they disturbed is following them home, leaving muddy footprints on their doorsteps and whispers in the static of their phones. They have to go back. They have to know what walks barefoot in Ashworth Park.
Siren of the Wires
Author:June Ryan
When a reclusive deep-web diver uncovers a digital ghost story, he receives a mysterious invitation: 'The night is black without you.' To accept, he must pay a price in blood, carving a cryptic symbol into his own flesh. This ritual opens a portal not to a website, but to a terrifying dimension—a perpetual twilight festival where a siren made of light and code promises ultimate escape. But this digital paradise is a hunting ground, and the cost of admission is your soul.
The Sanguine Chorus
Author:Blaise Grimm
A bloody number is counting down on Alex's hand. Each day, it changes, and a monstrous power grows within him. He's escaped a clandestine lab, leaving a trail of death, his only thought to find the woman he loves, Cassandra. But the whispers in his blood have their own agenda, urging him toward a gruesome reunion. To save her, he must embrace the monster he's becoming, before the countdown hits zero and unleashes the Sanguine Chorus upon the world.
The Echo of My Face
Author:Rhys Thorne
After a bitter divorce, Alex Mercer is left with nothing but an empty apartment and weekend visits from his daughter, Lily. He starts a YouTube channel to combat the crushing loneliness, filming himself building a drone. But when Lily returns from a visit terrified, describing a monstrous version of him that wanders the apartment at night, Alex's world begins to fracture. The true horror begins when a single comment on his video asks: 'Who’s that standing behind you?' Alex is about to discover he's not as alone as he thought, and his roommate wears his face.
The Jester's Path
Author:Stacy Lawson
When her car dies after a late shift, waitress Lisa Miller takes a familiar shortcut through the woods. But she’s not alone. A chilling laugh echoes between the trees, and a shadowy figure gives chase. Safe in her home, the nightmare has just begun. The thing from the forest is at her door, calling itself her lover, and it wants to come inside. She thought it was a stranger, but the truth is far more terrifying: it's a monster she created, twisted by an obsession she never saw coming, and wearing a smile she'll never forget.
The Hogeye Tapes
Author:Edna Mills
A combat veteran's therapy journal was supposed to heal his PTSD. Instead, it unearthed a memory more terrifying than war: an abandoned trailer in a forgotten Texas town where a family was slaughtered. As Jordan Daniels writes about the dare he took as a child, the horrors of the 'Esther House' bleed into his present. The phantom knocks he heard beneath the floorboards have returned, echoing in his quiet apartment. Now, he must return to Hogeye to confront the thing that has been waiting for him for twenty years—the thing that took his friend and now wants to finish the story.