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 Solstice Child of Glass Harbor
Author:Silas Thorne
Every year, the town of Glass Harbor sends a child into the whispering pines to be 'perfected' by an ancient entity. They return whole and healthy, but with vacant eyes. This year, Ethan is the Selected. But unlike the others, he doesn't believe the lies. Armed with forbidden secrets and fueled by his sister's mysterious death, he walks into the darkness not as a sacrifice, but as a hunter. He will uncover the town's rotten core, even if it means being consumed by the truth that waits in the deep.
The Maplewood Meadows Rebellion
Author:Toni Torres
A working mom's quiet suburban life is upended by a corrupt HOA's blatant scam. When they leave a line of saplings to die on her lawn, they awaken a sleeping giant. Armed with a teacher's research skills, a mother's fury, and a stroller full of pamphlets, she launches a one-woman war to dismantle their fraudulent empire. From late-night accounting to courtroom showdowns, this is the story of how one woman took back her neighborhood, proving that the most powerful force on earth is a pissed-off mom with a spreadsheet.
The Alchemist's Heart of Dunhill
Author:Jacob Clark
In the gaslit city of Dunhill, Cole McDowell, the last heir of a disgraced alchemical line, lives in the shadow of the fanatical Order that executed his parents. On his 21st birthday, he inherits a forbidden legacy: a sentient, alchemical Heart that bonds with his soul, granting him immense power and an instant death sentence. Now hunted by the Order's most ruthless Inquisitor, Cole must dive into the city’s criminal underworld, mastering the very arts that destroyed his family. To survive, he must become the heretic they fear he is.
The Grief Eaters
Author:Brooklyn Obrien
A desperate filmmaker takes a job at a mysterious studio that turns real trauma into art. But when they start filming his darkest memories, he discovers the price of their art isn't just pain—it's the soul itself. He wanted to make something that mattered; now he's just trying to survive being made into something monstrous.
The Empath of Dunedin
Author:Kim Stewart
In the windswept city of Dunedin, a brilliant advertising executive harbors a dangerous secret: she's an empath witch who feels the emotions of everyone around her. She uses her power to craft perfect campaigns, but when a psychic scream of pure terror derails a crucial meeting, she's pulled into a hidden war. A shadowy predator that feeds on human emotion stalks the city's streets, and Elara's unique sensitivity makes her both the perfect hunter and the ultimate prey. Teaming up with a grim, mysterious Warden, she must master her volatile powers before the monster consumes the city's heart—and her own.
The Confession of Angels Chapel
Author:Malachi Stone
Four popular ghost-hunting YouTubers receive a cryptic tip: Angels Chapel. Ignoring ominous warnings, they venture into the wilderness and find a place that defies reality. The chapel doesn't want their lives; it wants their secrets. To survive, they must enter a demonic confessional and reveal the sins they buried long ago. But forgiveness is not freedom. It is a curse that traps you forever in a choir of the damned. They thought they were hunting ghosts, but now, they are the ones being haunted by their own past.
The Charlie Whiskey Contagion
Author:Silas Thorne
Trapped miles beneath the Idaho mountains, four college students stumble into an abandoned Cold War bunker. But they are not alone. A decades-old experiment, a parasitic entity known as "Charlie Whiskey," lies dormant, waiting. When one of them is contaminated, a gruesome transformation begins. Now, hunted by their former friend and stalked by the whispers of another they thought lost, they must unravel the facility's horrifying secrets. In this concrete tomb, infection isn't just a sickness—it's an evolution. And the hive-mind is hungry.
Echoes of the Asphodel Curse
Author:Elias Thorne
For a millennium, the houses of Vesper and Solstice have been bound by a cruel curse: their scions are fated to fall in love, only for their passion to end in cataclysmic tragedy. Kaelen Vesper, haunted by the blood on his hands from the last time the curse claimed a victim, wants only to escape his name. But when he meets the enigmatic Lyra Solstice, the curse ignites with a ferocity he can't deny. Their fated clash shatters reality, dragging them into the Asphodel Warzone—a timeless dimension where past victims fight an eternal war, and a mysterious System offers a single prize: the power to rewrite history.
The Serpent of Dunhill Manor
Author:Alistair Vance
Orphaned and alone, Cole McDowell believes he’s found salvation in his uncle's opulent manor. But the gilded halls of Dunhill hide a chilling secret: a hunger for the last of the McDowell bloodline. Trapped in a web of dark alchemy and forbidden desire, Cole must master his family’s dangerous legacy before he becomes the final sacrifice. His only ally is a beautiful, hostile apprentice who may be his savior or his deadliest mistake. Can he turn his blood into a weapon and claim his inheritance, or will the serpent in his own family devour him whole?
What the Tide Demands
Author:Caspian Dredge
In a desolate coastal village, Elias is the Shearer, tasked with carving flesh from his people as a holy offering to a god of the sea. But when his newest subject, the eerily calm Claire, stares into his soul during the bloody ritual, he begins to unravel a conspiracy of adultery, murder, and the monstrous entity sleeping beneath the waves. The shearing is not for salvation; it's to feed a hunger that will soon drown them all. Elias must choose between his blood-soaked duty and a truth more terrifying than any blade.
Crying Bay
Author:Jessie Mills
When a biblical storm beaches a mysterious Imperial Japanese submarine on the California coast, rookie Deputy Leo and his veteran Sheriff discover a horror far beyond war. Inside the iron tomb, a bio-weapon of unimaginable terror awaits, guarded by a relentless entity born from plague and fanaticism. Leo’s desperate fight for survival is only the beginning. The nightmare that washed ashore in Crying Bay has not been forgotten, and after eighty years of silence, it has finally come to collect its due.
The Scent of Pennies
Author:Timmothy Willis
A childhood sleepover becomes a lifelong nightmare. When an instructor tells a spooky story about a man who vanished from their building, a dare is made. My best friend, Lucas, stepped outside for just a moment. The door was held shut. He screamed that something was out there with him. Then silence. When the door was finally opened, Lucas was gone. All that remained was the chilling, metallic scent of pennies in the air. Now, years later, the scent is back, and I know the thing that took him is coming for me.