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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An Obituary of Omission
Author:Glen Stewart
When her father died, Elara Vance was left with one last promise: don't let her mother win. For years, Eleanor Vance hid her cruelty behind the mask of a devoted wife, exploiting her husband's illness for her own gain. Now, with a single, calculated act of revenge—an obituary that erases her mother from existence—Elara is ready to detonate the carefully constructed lies that have defined their lives. In a small town where reputation is everything, she will ruin the woman who ruined her family, even if it means becoming the villain in everyone's story.
The Marrow Orchard
Author:Catherine Fernandez
In the search for a missing girl, they found a forest not of wood, but of bone. The trees were smooth, warm, and pulsed with a faint, human heartbeat. Now, something that walks among the searchers is harvesting them, one by one, planting a new and terrifying orchard. The forest is growing, and it's hungry. And the worst part? The one responsible might be the very man trying to stop it, a man whose own body is starting to feel terrifyingly alien.
The Christmas Memo
Author:Angel Byrd
Leo Vance is a brilliant, working-class junior lawyer at a prestigious firm, but his career is being systematically destroyed by his incompetent, silver-spoon boss, Sterling Prescott. When Sterling steals his work one last time, Leo decides to stop playing fair. Using his hidden tech skills and his boss's own arrogance against him, he forges a single document—a Christmas present designed to implode Sterling's career in the most spectacular way possible. It’s a high-stakes gambit of corporate warfare, where intellect is the only weapon that matters, and revenge is a dish best served on firm letterhead.
The Toll to Sleepy Falls
Author:Jeffery Brewer
Forced into community service at a remote summer camp, Ash discovers the camp's friendly facade hides a town bound by a terrifying secret. The rules aren't for safety; they're for survival against entities that hunt in the dark. With her friends disappearing one by one, she must unravel the horrifying truth of Sleepy Falls before the camp claims her too. But in a place where stories kill, escaping might cost more than her life—it might cost her soul.
The Scribe of Whispering Pines
Author:Ella Mason
When Alex finds a leather-bound book on a secluded hiking trail, he believes it's a prank. But its cryptic rules are not a game. Each one he obeys drags him deeper into a supernatural nightmare where his compliance saves him, but condemns someone he loves. Stalked by a figure made of bone and shadow, and haunted by a future version of himself, Alex discovers the book isn't just a list of commands—it's a living curse that rewrites reality, feeds on memory, and is slowly turning him into its new author. He must solve the forest's ancient mystery before the final page is written in his own hand, trapping him in a loop of horror forever.
The House on Hollow Hill
Author:Lester Andrews
Liam and Sarah poured their life savings into a plot of land, the foundation for their dream. But when a corrupt contractor and a negligent bank turn their dream home into a house of horrors, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Bullied, broke, and facing foreclosure, their last hope is a maverick lawyer with a taste for vengeance. In a high-stakes showdown, one simple document will either save them or ruin them forever. They don't just want their house fixed—they want payback.
The Silent Stage
Author:Darrell Richardson
A man's playful game of 'house' with his niece turns into a nightmare when she vanishes after he breaks a simple, chalk-written rule: 'Don't leave the door open.' Four years later, a terrifying Mime appears, revealing the niece is trapped in an invisible world of silent horror. To save her, he must master the surreal rules of this 'Silent Stage,' where imagination is reality and every game is played for keeps.
The Seventh Guest
Author:Connie Perry
Six friends celebrated a new beginning in a dingy apartment. By morning, they were seven. One by one, an unseen entity that followed them home begins to dismantle their lives and their sanity. A voice on a broken track warned them, 'don't let him in,' but it was already too late. Now the haunting isn't in the apartment; it's inside them, and it's hungry. The last survivor must return to where it all began, only to discover that escaping the nightmare might mean becoming a part of it.
The Knight and the Forgettable Girl
Author:Byron Rodriquez
Deemed 'eminently forgettable' by a callous knight, Elara decides to forge a new destiny at the royal court. But her vibrant spirit captures the attention of the one man who scorns her most: the formidable Lord Valerius. When the Queen unexpectedly decrees their marriage, Elara is trapped with the man who publicly dismissed her. Now, she must prove she is anything but forgettable, not just to the court, but to the husband who despises her... or so she thinks.
The Keres Mandate
Author:Rhys Vance
For $4,000 a week, all I had to do was watch empty security cameras on a remote island. But when a feed from a non-existent sublevel flickered to life, showing a dark hallway and a motionless figure waiting in the shadows, I realized I wasn't the observer. I was the bait. Now, the island is my prison, the walls hum with a power that invades my dreams, and I know the true purpose of this job isn't to watch, but to be watched... and then, to be replaced.
The Alpha's Crimson Captive
Author:Cameron Perez
Dr. Aralyn Vance sought a lost tribe, but found a massacre. Dragged into a hidden world by a secret cult, she becomes the captive of its enigmatic, silver-haired Alpha, Kaelen—a man who is more wolf than human. He is her captor, her protector, and her only hope for survival. But their world is vanishing, and the Alpha is bound by duty. Ara must choose: escape to the life she once knew, or surrender to a primal love in a land on the brink of oblivion.
The Billionaire's Midnight Deception
Author:Mitchell Martinez
I was hired to take a billionaire's virginity. A simple, high-paying contract for a call girl like me. But the 'shy virgin' was a lie. He was a predator, a titan of industry with a dark obsession, and he knew who I was the entire time. Now, he wants to own me, and his equally dangerous rival wants to use me as a weapon. Trapped between two powerful men who see me as a prize, I have to play their deadly game. They think they can break me, but they've just ignited a fire they can't control.