Mystery Stories
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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.
The Rot That Binds Us
Author:Silas Blackwood
When Trey Blackburn returns to his decaying hometown for his monstrous father's funeral, he finds the morgue drawer empty. The body is gone. A cryptic warning from a decade-old security tape—"That's not my son! Check the attic!"—sends him searching for a mysterious stone box. He soon discovers his father didn't just die; he evolved. Trey must unravel a dark family legacy tied to the town's rotten core, where the dead don't stay buried and a terrible secret has been festering for generations, waiting for him to come home.
The Third-Floor Tenant
Author:Alice Carpenter
When Leo signs the lease for a suspiciously cheap apartment, the landlord’s only rule is to ignore the "renovations" on the third floor. But the dragging footsteps and chilling breaths outside his door are impossible to ignore. Soon, he discovers he hasn’t just moved into a new home—he’s been chosen by its oldest resident. An entity that doesn't just want to haunt him, it wants to replace him. Now, Leo must uncover the building's dark history before he becomes the next soul to be permanently renovated.
Echo of Ruin
Author:Rhys Corvan
In the neon-drenched, magic-scarred city of Veridia, Kaelen is an Echo, a man who survives by reading the psychic ghosts of past violence. He wants nothing more than to stay hidden from the magi of The Concord who once trained and discarded him. But when a simple missing person case unravels into a conspiracy of stolen souls and monstrous abominations crawling from the shadows, he's forced to unearth the one power he swore to bury: the Heart of Ruin, a sentient relic that feeds on his rage. Now, with a shrewd Fae ally at his side and his former mentor hunting him, Kaelen must embrace his inner monster to stop a war that will consume the city and awaken the sleeping god of nothingness it was built to contain.
Echoes of the Keres
Author:Silas Corvus
I was a cop. Now, I'm a monster's monster, bound to a bloodthirsty goddess of death who lives in my head. In a London teeming with vampires and werewolves hiding behind an ancient truce, I'm the cleaner they call when the rules are broken. They pay me to hunt the things that go bump in the night. But my latest job, a simple 'blood and bone' party bust, has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to shatter the fragile peace and unleash hell on earth. And the voice in my head? She can't wait.
Echoes of a Bruise
Author:Francisco Crawford
He was a king forged in ice, his empire built on ruthless control. But when his bright, unassuming assistant is left bruised and broken, the ice shatters. In the quiet moments of tending to her wounds, a terrifying, possessive rage awakens within him. He'll keep his voice calm and his touch gentle, but in his mind, he's already burying the one who hurt her. He will burn the world to the ground to keep her safe, and she'll be the one to light the match.