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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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 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 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 Echo of Hooves
Author:Harper Lane
Jennifer wanted a quiet weekend housesitting. Instead, a terrified friend brought a warning from the woods: a creature that sounds like a goat, and a rule that can't be broken. Don't look at it. Now, trapped by a secret that spreads like a virus, she's hunted by a horned shadow that whispers in familiar voices. It only wants one thing—for her to see it. And as the hoofbeats echo closer, Jennifer learns that some knowledge is a death sentence, and the only way to survive is to condemn someone else.
The Root-Taker's Echo
Author:Diana Garcia
Twenty years ago, a childhood game in the woods ended with a missing friend and a glimpse of a faceless horror. Now, the disappearances have started again. Leo, the sole survivor, is drawn back to the haunted forest, where the scars on his leg burn with a chilling memory. He must confront the monster that stalks the trees and find the strange, one-armed girl he left behind—a girl who may be more dangerous than the monster that raised her. He wasn't the only one who returned from those woods, and this time, the forest wants to keep what it claims.
The Pantry Game
Author:Armando Ramos
When Aaron moves into a new apartment, he discovers his pantry is a portal to a bizarre game show hosted by a hypnotic, predatory woman. The rewards are tempting, offering solutions to all his problems. But the questions demand his darkest secrets, his most painful memories, and pieces of his very soul. Every night, the lights flash and the music calls, forcing him to play a game where the only prize is survival and the ultimate risk is losing himself to the unseen, cheering audience that waits in the dark.
The Scribe of Rot
Author:George Sanchez
A lonely plumber discovers a hidden crawlspace that produces perfect, bestselling novels. But the stories are a drug, an infection that consumes both him and his millions of readers. Now, a withered addict to the words, he must feed the world his poison to get his next fix. The price of fame isn't his soul—it's his sanity, his body, and the minds of everyone who dares to turn the page.
The Vinted Collection
Author:Joshua Nelson
Elara's thrift-shopping addiction leads her to the perfect find: a handwritten horror manuscript from 1967, sold as "cursed." She scoffs at the warning, but after reading the terrifying tales, she finds the book won't let her go. It appears by her bedside, haunts her dreams, and resists destruction. Now, with the book's malevolent presence turning her home into a prison and her life into one of its stories, Elara must uncover the manuscript's dark origins before she becomes its final, handwritten chapter.
The Anesthesia Strain
Author:Rebecca Bates
For senior OR nurse Elara Vance, control is everything. But after a terrifying entity from her sleep paralysis nightmares begins to cross over into her waking world, she discovers a horrifying truth: anesthesia is a doorway. Her patients are now the prey, their vulnerable minds a gateway for a thing that doesn't kill—it infects. As reality blurs and her own mind becomes a battlefield, Elara must find a way to close the door before she, and everyone she loves, is lost to the smiling thing that waits in the dark.
The Lacquered Smile
Author:Rita Tucker
Remi works the graveyard shift, lives a quiet life, and is terrified of dolls. So when her sister sends her a souvenir from a ruined Japanese temple—a vintage geisha doll with a serene, painted smile—her life unravels. At first, it's just whispers in the static and moved objects. But the doll's attention becomes an obsession, watching her favorite shows, spending her money, rearranging her home. Now, a message has appeared on her wall in blood-red crayon: 'MY TURN.' The doll doesn't just want to haunt her apartment; it wants to live her life.
The Mime's Door
Author:Lillie Snyder
They say it's just pretend. A silent act. But when my friends vanished through an invisible door, I learned the horrifying truth: a mime's game is real, its stage is our world, and its prize is your soul. Now, twenty years later, the silence is breaking, and he's back for an encore.
The Echoing Trail
Author:David Gutierrez
An overworked man seeks refuge on a remote mountain trail, only to find himself trapped in an impossible time loop. The scream he hears in the woods is not a cry for help, but a horrifying echo of his own future. To escape, he must unravel the malevolent secret of the trail, but the forest is watching, and it doesn't want to let him go.