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 Spectral Detective: Case of the Whispering Shadow
Author:Vesper Thorne
In the rain-slicked streets of Slakterquay, where shadows cling longer than they should, private investigator Aggie McPherson takes cases the police can't handle. Her new client's problem? Her boss was brutally murdered… yet he showed up to work the next day without a scratch. To solve a murder with no victim, Aggie must dive into the city's hidden world of Fae courts and soulless echoes, where the price of the truth might be her own humanity. She's the only one who can see the ghosts of the city, but this time, she might be hunting something that was never alive to begin with.
The Umbral Heretic
Author:Louise Hayes
Once a pawn for the shadows, Alex is now their hunter. Branded a heretic for stealing forbidden umbral magic, he stalks the gaslit alleys of London, a shapeshifter fighting a secret war against the very council that created him. But with every monster slain, the darkness within him grows, threatening to consume the city he's sworn to protect. He fights for redemption, but what if the evil he hunts is the only thing holding back a far greater abyss?
The Checkout Queen's Gambit
Author:Erik Roberts
Elara lives a double life: a broke university student with a mysterious illness, stacking shelves to make ends meet. But when her venomous supervisor unleashes a vicious online attack, she reveals a hidden side no one saw coming. They thought she was a fragile pawn, but they're about to learn she's a queen who owns the entire board. This isn't just about getting an enemy fired; it's about total, soul-crushing annihilation.
Wallflower
Author:Silas Kellar
When a lonely college student starts live-streaming to escape his isolation, he gains a single, silent viewer. But as strange occurrences plague his new apartment, he realizes his devoted fan isn't just watching his screen. They're watching from inside the walls, and they've been waiting for him. A chilling tale of modern voyeurism and ancient horror, where the desperate need for connection invites a predator that should have remained unseen.
The Freshman Photo
Author:Doris Fowler
He was a rising star until a ruthless executive sabotaged his career to save his own skin. Humiliated and cast aside, he vowed to wait. Years later, armed with a secret from his enemy's Ivy League past—a bizarre, nude freshman photograph—he's been asked to host the man's retirement party. In the world of corporate backstabbing, revenge is a dish best served publicly, and he's about to unveil the main course.
Echo of a Drowned God
Author:Caspian Graves
In a desert town built on a man-made lake, people are drowning miles from water. Liam, a freshly recruited apprentice to the Reaper, is thrown into his first case. His mentor is an ancient entity who once dismantled a god to save this very land. But the killings have started again, and this time, it's not the old god they're hunting. It’s a parasitic echo, a creature born of modern fear that wears a god’s face, and it's hungrier than the original ever was. Liam must unravel a divine mystery before the desert oasis becomes a graveyard.
The Reaping Hour
Author:Adrian Chambers
When Kaelen Vance took a job to escape his dead-end life, he didn't expect his boss to be Death himself. Now, as a Liminal Agent, he's permanently on the clock, investigating impossible deaths that defy mortal logic. His first case: a couple who drowned in their own living room, their clothes bone dry. Armed with a cynical wit and a supernatural Sigil he barely understands, Kael must navigate a hidden world of vengeful spirits and cosmic rules where a single mistake could get him reaped.
The Terminal Rulebook
Author:Elias Thorne
When the lights in the airport die, Liam Carter is plunged into a nightmare reality governed by a set of impossible rules. Surrounded by passengers twisted into smiling monsters and hunted by silent, faceless staff, his only guide is a cryptic list that appears on every screen. But the rules are lying. To survive this endless terminal where every flight is a trap, he must decipher the deadly game before he becomes another permanent resident with a broken smile.
The Soul Broker's Loophole
Author:Emma Gonzales
Kaelen Thorne is Hell's most efficient Acquisitions Agent, bound by an unbreakable contract to collect damned souls. But for every soul on his list, he seeks a way out, a forgotten clause in the infernal fine print to set them free. Each soul he saves pushes him closer to redemption, but also deeper into the crosshairs of his infernal masters. When his next target is linked to the one person who sees the man behind the monster, Kaelen must risk eternal damnation to expose a conspiracy that reaches the very throne of Hell.
The Midnight Menu at Smiley's
Author:Joe Romero
To pay for college, Leo Clarke took the midnight shift at Smiley's, a 24-hour fast-food joint. He expected greasy floors and drunken customers. He didn't expect the rules. Rule #1: Serve everyone, no exceptions. Not the man whose legs are too long, not the child with eyes of coal, and not the static that orders through the void. A stained employee handbook is his only guide to surviving the eldritch horrors that crave a combo meal. But every night, a shadowy figure named Bill waits for him to make a mistake. Because at Smiley's, the penalty for bad service is your soul.
The High Desert Reaper's Temp Job
Author:Quinn Ledger
When laid-off warehouse worker Eddie Ramirez takes a temp job to pay the bills, he doesn't expect his new boss to be the Grim Reaper. His assignment: catalog the increasingly bizarre deaths in California's High Desert. The perks? He can't permanently die, respawning at a Circle K after each fatal incident. The catch? He's forbidden from intervening. But as ancient evils crawl from the sun-scorched earth and cosmic horrors start eyeing his hometown, Eddie decides some rules are meant to be broken, even if it means generating a hell of a lot of paperwork for the afterlife's most overworked middle manager.
Curse of the Reaper's Blood
Author:Sterling Thorne
He is the son of the world's most terrifying monster, cursed with a bloodlust he can barely control. She is a holy hunter sworn to eradicate his kind. After escaping the magical prison that held him for a decade, Kaelen meets Elara, the one woman who could be his salvation—or his executioner. When a greater evil rises, they are forced into an unholy alliance. To save the world, the hunter must trust the monster, and the monster must trust himself not to fall for his killer.