Mystery Stories
Explore our collection of 221 amazing stories tagged with mystery. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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Resonance of Sharam
Author:Anne Reed
In the city of Sharam, magic is power, and power is divided. The noble Aether-weavers of the Spire, the pragmatic Technomancers of the Ironworks, the wild Geomancers of the Maze, and the forbidden mages of the Penumbra all vie for control. Kael is a nobody, a low-level cog in the industrial machine, until a magical catastrophe awakens a power within him: Resonance, the ability to feel and mimic all forms of magic. Now hunted by every faction, Kael must forge an alliance with his enemies to uncover the city's darkest secret before the Aether Blight consumes them all.
The Vault of Vengeance
Author:Ryan Patterson
When brilliant but disgraced lawyer Leo Vance discovers a greedy billionaire landlord, Silas Croft, trying to ruin a hardworking family man over an impossible contract, he hatches a plan. The weapon: a 100-ton bank vault. The battlefield: the law. Croft thinks he’s playing chess, but Leo is playing a different game entirely—one where the landlord's own greed is the bait, the trap, and his ultimate undoing. This is not just about a contract; it's about payback, served cold and heavy as steel.
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.
The Devil's Last Deal
Author:Micheal Reyes
Lucifuge Faust, the exiled prince of Hell's most powerful soul-trading dynasty, just wanted a quiet life. But when his terrified cousin appears with news of a vanished soul and a two-day deadline from the demonic CEO Mammon, his retirement is officially over. Now, hunted by celestial enforcers who want to burn his contracts and infernal assassins who want his head, Lucifuge must dive back into the neon-drenched underworld of Blackstone. He was the best acquisitions specialist in the business, but to survive this weekend, he'll have to become something much more dangerous.
Forty-Five Minutes to Ruin
Author:Quinn Steele
When a predator threatens her best friend, high-powered attorney Elara Vance unleashes a storm of digital vengeance. He thought he was anonymous, hiding behind a screen in another country. He thought he could use a young woman’s trust against her. He didn’t count on Elara. In less than an hour, she uncovers his identity, his job, his secrets. Now, with a single email, she’s about to dismantle his entire life, proving that some lines should never be crossed, especially when her friend’s safety is on the line.
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 Crimson Cipher of Everglow
Author:R.J. Thorne
In the neon-drenched streets of Everglow, where elves scheme in crystalline towers and trolls rule the undercity, half-troll Detective Jade Hawkins is an outcast with a badge. She didn't ask to be a hero, but when a high-ranking official is murdered by impossible magic, leaving behind a cryptic cosmic message, Jade is the only one with the unique senses to decipher it. Now, hunted by a shadowy cult and framed for a crime she's trying to solve, she and her all-too-human partner must unravel a conspiracy that threatens to tear their magically-charged city apart at the seams.
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 Chronomancer's Curse
Author:Alex Daniels
In a city hiding magic in plain sight, Alistair is the reclusive keeper of a peculiar antique shop. His only companions are three powerful Fae—Ignis, Terra, and Umbra—imprisoned within a grand clock that governs the city's temporal stability. He desires only quiet solitude, but when a cursed artifact stops the clock for the first time in a century, Alistair is dragged from his exile. Now, he must confront the shadows of his past and wield the very power he swore to abandon, or watch his city, his prison, and the Fae he protects unravel into chaos.
Warden of the Sanguine City
Author:Silas Thorne
In a city powered by blood and secrets, Aether-Fixer Deon hunts for the disappeared. His search leads him to the Warden, a monstrous enforcer bound by magic and duty. But the beast in chains is not the enemy—he's a prisoner of the same dark system. To save the city's stolen souls, Deon must forge an impossible alliance with the monster he was meant to destroy, risking a bond that could either sever the Warden's chains or shackle them both to an even darker fate.
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.