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 Devil's Barter for a Soul
Author:Silas Blackwood
To save her daughter from death's grip, Elara Vance made a deal with a devil. Now, the price is coming due. Bound by a soul-pact, she is commanded to commit monstrous acts, starting with the kidnapping of two innocent teenagers. Torn between her daughter's borrowed life and her own shattering soul, Elara must navigate a hidden world of ancient magic and infernal politics to find a loophole before her patron claims everything she holds dear, or the world itself erases her for breaking its secrecy.
The Echo in the Floorboards
Author:Silas Croft
Leo needed a cheap place to live, but the basement suite came with a soundtrack: the relentless pacing of the old man upstairs. Then came the scratching, and a dry whisper begging to be let back in. But after the old man is found dead, his body twisted into an impossible shape, the noises don't stop. They get louder. And now, a note on the sealed door says it all: 'I remember the way through the walls.' The thing upstairs is still there, and it's looking for a new door.
The Digital Guillotine
Author:Silas Thorne
Ethan Cole, a cybersecurity genius, built a perfect life with his perfect wife, Isabella. But perfection is a fragile illusion. When suspicion of betrayal takes root, he unleashes his formidable skills not to find the truth, but to craft the perfect revenge. He won't just expose her secrets; he will build a digital guillotine to sever her from the world she loves, broadcasting her downfall for everyone to see. A story of love, betrayal, and a vengeance so total it consumes everything in its path.
The Comedian and the Crow
Author:Harper Johnson
Dan MacLean tells ghost stories for a living; he just never expected them to be real. When a relentless Fae predator starts hunting him through the cobblestone streets of Edinburgh, Dan's only allies are a centuries-old trickster with a terrible fashion sense and a mysterious woman with storm-dark eyes. She’s gorgeous, terrifying, and happens to be Death herself. Now, armed with little more than sarcasm, Dan must unravel a conspiracy that threatens to tear the veil between worlds, all while trying not to fall for the one being he can never escape.
The Elephant's Memory
Author:Dawn Powell
When Elara discovered her perfect boyfriend, Thomas, was a remorseless bully who destroyed a boy's life for fun, she didn't just leave. On his birthday, she orchestrated a meticulous revenge, giving him a taste of the cruel humiliation he once inflicted. But her act of justice leaves her haunted by the ghost of his victim, a boy named Arthur. Her quest to find him and heal a wound from the past will unravel a web of old money, dark secrets, and the chance for a love forged not in perfection, but in shared scars.
The Empty Seat
Author:Bonnie Garza
After a minor car accident, Samantha's daughter, Sophia, is no longer the sweet, joyful child she once was. She's become cold, quiet, and unnervingly strange. As Samantha tries to nurse her daughter back to health, the world around her insists on a different, more terrifying reality: that Sophia died two years ago. Now, Samantha must fight for her sanity against a truth she can't accept and protect a child that no one else can see, a child whose hunger is growing and whose presence is becoming colder by the day.
The Thing in Charlie's Skin
Author:Elias Veil
My best friend Charlie went to Germany for the summer. The thing that came back is wearing his face, sleeping in his bed, and charming my parents. But I see the truth in its dead eyes and its unnatural hunger. I see the peeling skin and the impossible strength. It’s not Charlie anymore, and I’m afraid I’m the only one who knows. Now, it wants to speak to my parents alone, and I fear I’m next on its list.
The Echo Witch of Veridia
Author:Vera Stone
In the mist-shrouded city of Veridia, where echoes of the past bleed into the present, Elara inherits a peculiar detective agency and a power she doesn't understand. She is a Chronomancer, able to read the history left on objects and places. Her first case: a family terrorized by their new home, Crimsonwood Manor. But the manor isn't just haunted—it's a crumbling prison for a timeless entity. As she delves into the mansion's violent memories, she discovers its secrets are intrinsically linked to her own forgotten lineage, and the entity within is waking up.
Unveiled Defiance
Author:Seraphina Thorne
Dr. Layla Al-Fahim was her father's prized pearl, until the day she became a woman. He tried to cage her in tradition and shame, a gilded prison built from his fears. Now, he's a frail patriarch clinging to power, and she's a brilliant surgeon who refuses to bend. In the sterile halls of a hospital that mirrors their cold family dynasty, a lifetime of silent rebellion is about to erupt. Her revenge won't be quiet; it will be a revolution that shatters his empire and reclaims the future he tried to steal.
The Ash Wizard's Contract
Author:Wulf Ashwood
A powerful but broken wizard, drowning his grief in cheap booze and reckless magic. When the legendary Mordred offers him a final chance—join a secret order to police the decaying realm of Avalon—he's dragged into a conspiracy as ancient as Camelot itself. A rising darkness feeds on his personal tragedy, and to save the future, he must confront the ghosts he's spent years running from. But in Avalon, legends are forged in fire, and some souls are meant to burn.
The Black-Eyed Glitch
Author:Janet Gardner
One moment, Alex was with his friends in front of a construction site. The next, the site is a 50-year-old ruin and his friends are gone, replaced by memories that don't belong to him. Now, he sees them everywhere—silent figures with soulless, black eyes, watching from the periphery of his fractured reality. A shadowy entity haunts his steps, not as a predator, but as a warden of the seams between worlds. To save his true family, Alex must navigate a world of placeholders and glitches, risking his own sanity to pull them back from the static.
The Day It Blinked
Author:Anya Glare
When a second, blood-red sun appears in the sky, humanity is given a single, terrifying command: do not look. But its gaze is everywhere—on every screen, in every reflection, burning into the minds of all who see it. For Leo, trapped in his apartment, the true horror begins when the screams outside stop and the woman he loves starts bleeding from her eyes, a serene smile on her face. She has seen the new god, and now, she wants him to see it too. The light doesn't just drive you mad; it remakes you into something new.