Mystery Stories
Explore our collection of 454 amazing stories tagged with mystery. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Song That Stole Summer
Author:Melody Blackwood
In the sweltering summer of 1988, a flash of impossible lightning rips open the sky above Havenwood, Idaho. For four teenagers, it's a moment that changes everything, granting them the ability to see the horrifying truth beneath their town's idyllic surface. A hypnotic, otherworldly song begins to play from every radio, lulling the adults into a strange trance, their eyes glowing with an alien light. As their families and neighbors are slowly replaced by creatures of nightmare, the four friends must harness their new powers to fight the insidious magic that is stealing their world, note by note.
The Usual Slice
Author:Hunter Armstrong
Leo was just hungry. A late-night order from a forgotten pizza place on Uber Eats seemed harmless. But the delivery wasn't just a pizza; it was a memory he didn't know he had, a taste of a childhood tragedy. Now, the app won't let him go, the ghost of the chef won't stop delivering, and an insatiable, horrifying hunger is growing inside him. Sal just wants him to have 'The Usual,' and he's starting to think he might not be able to resist.
The Unwilling Rift-Walker
Author:Theodore Arnold
Kaelen was a nobody, an Unawakened outcast in a world of magic. But when a terrifying power awakens within him—the fabled ability to tear through reality itself—his life shatters. His first uncontrolled jump drags him into a realm of nightmares. Now, hunted by those who fear him and forced into a royal academy of elites who despise him, Kaelen must master the void that echoes in his soul. A mysterious System is his only guide, but as rifts to darker worlds begin to fray, he discovers his curse might be the world’s only salvation.
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.
Echoes of the Grave Tide
Author:Sergio Phillips
Murdered and forgotten, Lyra claws her way back from the Underworld with a seven-day deadline to find her killer. But her sleepy hometown is now a neon-lit hub of supernatural secrets, her friends are strangers guarding dark truths, and a relentless hunter is determined to send her back to her grave. Armed with the power to see emotional echoes of the past, she must unravel a two-decade-old conspiracy before her borrowed time runs out and her soul is forfeit forever.
The Root's Echo
Author:Vera Peters
Three years ago, Liam Carter ran from a dark Appalachian forest, leaving his best friend to a torch-wielding cult. He thought he escaped. But the whispers followed him, and now, a cryptic message on a piece of bark confirms his deepest fear: the Children of the Root have not forgotten him. Marked by an ancient entity and haunted by guilt, Liam must return to the place that broke him to uncover the horrifying truth, or be dragged back into the darkness forever.
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 Hallway at 3:12
Author:Elias Thorne
At 3:12 a.m., my apartment building changes. The hallway stretches into an impossible, endless corridor—a place that shouldn't exist, patrolled by a faceless thing that glides through the silence. I escaped once, but now, a strange door has appeared outside my own. And every single night, it inches one step closer.
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.
Eater of Echoes
Author:Enrique Hart
In the rain-slicked city of Slakterquay, where the veil between worlds is dangerously thin, Kael Vance is the only one who can hear the whispers of the dead. As an Echo Eater, he consumes the final moments of the departed for a price. When an entire office floor of people drops dead without a mark, Kael is dragged into a conspiracy of spectral predators and ancient horrors. To solve the case, he must devour the echoes of a massacre, risking his own sanity to hunt a shadow that feeds on life itself.
The Chronomancer's Pact
Author:Kaelen Meridian
Adair Finch, the world's most powerful warlock, can rewind time. But when an ancient pact forces him to protect the unborn child of a Time Titan, his ultimate power becomes a beacon for a rival god who can track his every temporal shift. Now, hunted by every monster in the shadows and a cosmic entity who sees his every move, Finch must become a divine bodyguard, knowing that every second he rewinds brings his greatest enemy one step closer.
The Town That Eats Memories
Author:Silas Croft
For David, it was a simple family history project. He found a map to Croft Pines, a town that doesn't exist. He and his girlfriend went looking for an abandoned ghost town. But the town wasn't empty. It was waiting. An ancient hunger slumbers beneath the soil, and they woke it up. Now, it's not just the town that's disappearing—it's David's entire world. Reality is unraveling, one memory at a time, and the hunger that took his girlfriend is now following him home.