Mystery Stories
Explore our collection of 267 amazing stories tagged with mystery. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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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.
Chasm Runner: The Aetheric Interface
Author:Mattie Prescott
In the neon-drenched underbelly of Veridia City, a sarcastic master thief named Haven lives by one rule: trust no one. But when a heist goes wrong and she witnesses a grotesque, reality-glitching demon attack, her world shatters. She discovers she possesses a unique 'Aetheric Interface'—the power to see and manipulate the code of magic itself. This ability throws her into the path of Asterias, a cold and dangerously handsome agent from the secret order that polices these demonic incursions. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they must unravel a conspiracy tied to her father's mysterious death, a conspiracy that will drag them through high-tech heists and demonic cults, blurring the line between justice and revenge.
Whispers on Paradise Key
Author:Jeff Austin
To recover from a mysterious illness, an overworked assistant is sent to her billionaire boss's private island. But the tropical paradise holds a dark secret: strange noises from a non-existent attic, a reclusive novelist, and the handsome, guarded pilot who warns her that not everything is as it seems. Trapped between her powerful boss and the pilot who makes her feel alive, she must uncover the island's ghostly secret before a looming hurricane reveals a truth more terrifying than any spirit.
The Thaumaturge's Gambit
Author:Elias Thorne
A cynical 21st-century detective is murdered, only to awaken in the body of a nobleman investigator in an alternate Victorian-era world. In this Anglo-French Empire, magic is a rigid science controlled by the Church, and his new partner is a powerful, by-the-book sorcerer. Tasked with solving impossible locked-room murders, he must use his modern forensic knowledge to reinterpret the very laws of thaumaturgy. As he untangles conspiracies that threaten to drag the empire into war, he finds himself in a deadly game of wits against a beautiful, ruthless sorceress from a rival empire, where one wrong move could shatter both his cover and his new reality.
The Architect of Echoes
Author:James Daniels
I'm a programmer, a man of logic. I built an app to fake ghosts, a masterpiece of digital deception. My mistake wasn't in the code; it was in my arrogance. I thought I was simulating whispers in the static, but I was building a bridge. I created a recursive loop that amplified a signal from beyond, giving it form, a voice, and a hunger. It took my best friend. Now, it wears his memories and whispers my name in the dark. I built its cage, and now I'm trapped inside with it.