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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Sovereign's Shadow
Author:Alberto West
By day, Halie House serves coffee. By night, she hunts dragons. As the Sovereign's most lethal assassin, her life is a blade's edge of secrecy and death. But when a mission goes catastrophically wrong, she's benched and forced to work with Xavier Wolf—the man who shattered her heart and her career. Now, under the guise of a fake romance, they must infiltrate the glittering, dangerous world of dragon high society. As they navigate a web of ancient conspiracies and undeniable passion, Halie discovers the deadliest monster might not be the one she's hunting, but the lies she's been told by the very people she serves.
The Yellow King's Jest
Author:Marie Austin
Four broke students take a high-paying gig to film themselves telling strange jokes in an abandoned town. But the jokes aren't funny—they're keys. Each punchline unlocks a new layer of madness, revealing a stage where reality itself is the gag. When one of them becomes the final punchline and vanishes into an impossible house, the survivors learn their mysterious employer wasn't filming a movie. She was casting a cosmic horror, and the show is far from over.
The Fear Eater's System
Author:Marvin Jensen
An ordinary college student, Kael, is granted a mystical System that turns fear into power when Halley's Comet awakens his latent abilities. Abducted into Aethelgard, a hidden magical academy, he must survive a brutal curriculum where nightmares are weapons and failure means death. His unique fear of failure becomes his greatest asset, but also his most dangerous vulnerability. Watched by a beautiful, ruthless instructor, Kael must climb the ranks and unravel the academy's dark secrets before the cosmic horrors they're training to fight consume them all.
The Echo-Seer's Gambit
Author:Lydia Thorne
In the grimy Whispering Market, Elara sells fleeting echoes of the past for a few copper coins, her psychic gift a curse that keeps her in poverty. But when the enigmatic Lord Vance, a man forged from shadows and steel, drags her into the glittering, treacherous world of the nobility to solve his brother's murder, her world shatters. He sees her as a tool, she sees him as a cage. But the truth they seek is a conspiracy that could burn their city to ashes, and the dangerous echoes connecting them could be their salvation… or their doom.
The Glitch in His Empire
Author:Kenzi Hughes
When a privileged town bully costs him everything, tech prodigy Leo gets his hands on the bully's brand-new smartphone. What starts as a simple prank escalates into a full-blown digital war. With his friends, Leo uncovers a web of corruption protecting the bully and his powerful father. They have the skills to tear the entire empire down from the inside, but one wrong move could land them in jail—or worse. This isn't just about getting even; it's about a total system reboot.
Echoes in Ochre
Author:Rhys Corvan
Elara, a freelance graphic designer, finds her life unraveling when mysterious paintings begin arriving at her doorstep. Each canvas captures a moment from her life with impossible detail—sometimes, moments that haven't even happened yet. When a chilling analysis reveals the ancient paint is mixed with human blood, she realizes she's not just being stalked by a person. She's being watched by something that existed before history, an artist whose medium is reality itself, and whose final masterpiece might be her.
The River's Hunger
Author:Carole Pearson
An innocent night by the river turns into a desperate fight for survival when 18-year-old Arjun and his friends witness a terrifying figure emerge from the water. It doesn't want to kill them, not yet. It wants to feed. An ancient hunger has latched onto Arjun, manifesting as an irresistible craving for fried food. His mother’s cryptic warnings about hungry ghosts are his only guide. But as his friends are picked off one by one and the creature’s influence grows, Arjun must uncover the river's dark history before he is consumed by a hunger that will swallow his soul whole.
Echoes of the Umbra
Author:Nyx Thorne
Alex was just a face in the London crowd until a fatal mistake awakened a terrifying power within them. Now, they can weave shadows into weapons and wear darkness like a second skin. Haunted by guilt, Alex hunts the Umbral Conclave, a secret society ruling the city's magical underworld from the shadows. But their leader, the enigmatic Magus Valerius, knows Alex's true nature and the source of their power. Alone and outmatched, Alex must master their chaotic abilities to expose a conspiracy that feeds on the city's fear of the dark.
The Eater's Cleaner
Author:Rhys Eldritch
To save her family's bioremediation business, Elara makes a deal with a dangerously charismatic crime figure. But the messes she's cleaning aren't just mob hits—they're the leftovers of a primordial, flesh-consuming entity. With each gruesome scene, Elara awakens a terrifying new power: the ability to see the final, violent moments of the dead. When the creature takes her sister, Elara must master her horrifying new gift to hunt the monster that lurks beneath the city's streets, even if it means becoming a monster herself.
The Night Shift Bloodsucker
Author:Maureen Davidson
Kaelen Vance, a cynical, minimum-wage vampire, just wants to survive the night shift in a world that's already seen it all. But when a terrified, newly-turned fledgling is dumped in his gas station bathroom, he's dragged back into the deadly politics of the vampire elite that exiled him. Hunted by ancient holy knights and shadowy cabals, he must unlock a forbidden and feared blood magic to protect his new ward and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to drown the city in blood. Sometimes, the only thing worse than the grave is the graveyard shift.
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 Bloomwood Legacy
Author:Vera Grimwood
Broke and desperate, Elara Vance inherits her estranged family's remote farm—a verdant, self-sustaining paradise. But this Eden has a will of its own. The unnervingly intelligent animals are its wardens, the lush vegetation its veins, and the soil itself breathes with a primal, ancient hunger. Elara is not the owner; she is the next offering. The farm provides, but it also demands. As she uncovers the terrifying secrets of the Bloomwood Legacy, she realizes escape is not an option. The land has chosen her, and it will not be denied.