Horror Stories
Explore our collection of 125 amazing stories tagged with horror. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Stillness Between the Walls
Author:Elizabeth Davidson
You think you know your home. Every creak of the floorboards, every shadow in the corner. But what if you got lost? Not outside, but in the familiar darkness of your own hallway. For Ethan, a late-night trip to the bathroom becomes a journey into an impossible, endless space that exists just beyond perception. He's not alone in the cold, silent dark. Something is there with him, something that leaves cryptic warnings in blue crayon and knows the secrets of his past. To survive, he must trust the terrifying entity that calls this place home, and unearth a family secret that should have stayed buried.
The Echo Gate
Author:Jane Franklin
When my best friend vanished, he left me only one thing: an antique wooden box. He called it a gate to another world, a promise of ecstasy or damnation. I thought he was losing his mind. Now, a cryptic poem is carved into the wood, and I feel an irresistible pull from within its depths. The box is calling to me, whispering secrets of what happened to him. To find the truth, I have to step through the gate... even if it means I might never come back.
The Echoes of the Abyss
Author:Norman Martinez
For sixteen years, Joey has been haunted by silent faces in his window. But after a family tragedy, they move inside. They speak. They touch. A hooded figure punishes him with burning fists, forcing him to relive his worst memories. Now, released from the psych ward, he thinks he's free. But the whispers have started again, calling his name from the darkness, promising a reunion with the horrors of the abyss. He's not just being haunted; he's being claimed.
The Balcony Echo
Author:Rhys Caden
Every morning, my wife served me green tea, a ritual of love I cherished. Until the day I watched my own hands push her from our balcony across the street. When she walked back through our door, unharmed, I discovered our ritual was a lie, the tea was poison, and our home was a prison. I am trapped in a time loop, forced to relive her betrayal and my monstrous revenge. Now, I'm not just fighting for my sanity—I'm fighting the echo of the man I'm forced to become, over and over again.
The Somnus Protocol
Author:Connie Perez
To escape the ghosts of his past and the grip of addiction, veteran Ethan Hayes enrolls in a revolutionary treatment at the isolated Gerry Gardens. He hopes for a cure, but finds a prison. The staff are all identical, their smiles never reaching their eyes. The therapy involves a machine that doesn't just treat the mind, it opens it. When patients become vessels for a terrifying cosmic entity, Ethan realizes the only cure is escape. But even if he gets out, the thing they put inside him is coming along for the ride.
Verminous
Author:R. M. Nidus
A trip to the vet with a dying mouse was supposed to be a break from Reagan's dreary pet store job. But when the euthanized creature returns as a hissing, goo-spewing monster, her day takes a dark turn. After a desperate battle, they destroy it. They think it's over. But the nightmare is just beginning. Now, a strange itch is crawling under her skin, a new hunger gnaws at her belly, and something is starting to grow... something that wiggles.
The Scribe of Shadows
Author:Bernard Webb
I'm a horror author with a secret: I write in total darkness, a ritual to ward off a crippling paranoia that someone is stealing my words. But my paranoia has become my terrifying reality. I just received a letter from the main character of my unpublished novel. He's alive. He thinks I'm God. And he's trying to break through the page to meet his maker. Now, every word I write ripples into the real world, and I'm losing control of the story... and my sanity.
The Echo in the Lake
Author:Bonnie Riley
To escape his suffocating city life, Liam returns to the remote lake where he spent his happiest childhood days. But the nostalgia is shattered by a chilling presence in the woods—a figure that watches him from the trees. This is no random stalker. It knows his name, it wears his face, and it's a terrifying echo of a nightmare that haunted his father years ago. The lake doesn't just hold memories; it holds a horrifying reflection, and it refuses to let him go.
The Architect of Echoes
Author:James Daniels
I'm a programmer, a man of logic. I built an app to fake ghosts, a masterpiece of digital deception. My mistake wasn't in the code; it was in my arrogance. I thought I was simulating whispers in the static, but I was building a bridge. I created a recursive loop that amplified a signal from beyond, giving it form, a voice, and a hunger. It took my best friend. Now, it wears his memories and whispers my name in the dark. I built its cage, and now I'm trapped inside with it.
The Rot That Binds Us
Author:Silas Blackwood
When Trey Blackburn returns to his decaying hometown for his monstrous father's funeral, he finds the morgue drawer empty. The body is gone. A cryptic warning from a decade-old security tape—"That's not my son! Check the attic!"—sends him searching for a mysterious stone box. He soon discovers his father didn't just die; he evolved. Trey must unravel a dark family legacy tied to the town's rotten core, where the dead don't stay buried and a terrible secret has been festering for generations, waiting for him to come home.
The Third-Floor Tenant
Author:Alice Carpenter
When Leo signs the lease for a suspiciously cheap apartment, the landlord’s only rule is to ignore the "renovations" on the third floor. But the dragging footsteps and chilling breaths outside his door are impossible to ignore. Soon, he discovers he hasn’t just moved into a new home—he’s been chosen by its oldest resident. An entity that doesn't just want to haunt him, it wants to replace him. Now, Leo must uncover the building's dark history before he becomes the next soul to be permanently renovated.
Echo of Ruin
Author:Rhys Corvan
In the neon-drenched, magic-scarred city of Veridia, Kaelen is an Echo, a man who survives by reading the psychic ghosts of past violence. He wants nothing more than to stay hidden from the magi of The Concord who once trained and discarded him. But when a simple missing person case unravels into a conspiracy of stolen souls and monstrous abominations crawling from the shadows, he's forced to unearth the one power he swore to bury: the Heart of Ruin, a sentient relic that feeds on his rage. Now, with a shrewd Fae ally at his side and his former mentor hunting him, Kaelen must embrace his inner monster to stop a war that will consume the city and awaken the sleeping god of nothingness it was built to contain.