Mystery Stories
Explore our collection of 221 amazing stories tagged with mystery. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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Weaver of Echoes
Author:Ernest Ramirez
Elara believed she was broken, haunted by nightmares of a shattered mirror dimension and the ghost of her lost brother. Labeled schizophrenic, she lived in a fog of medication and fear until two strangers revealed the terrifying truth: her 'delusions' are glimpses into a real, monstrous world. Now, guided by a cryptic System only she can see, Elara must master her terrifying powers to tear through reality itself. She has to find her brother, not just to save him, but to stop the eldritch horror that's using him as a key to unlock our world.
Echoes of a False Life
Author:Mabel Holland
After his parents' sudden death, Leo Vance discovers their attic, once filled with junk, is now empty except for a single vintage TV. The screen flickers to life, not with old shows, but with fragmented, horrifying visions of a laboratory, a fleshy creature in a vat, and his own mother holding him as a monstrous infant. The message is clear: he isn't human. Now, the terrible secret his parents died to protect is out, and the organization that created him wants their property back. Leo must unravel the lies of his existence before he is silenced forever.
The Shepherd of Solomon
Author:Leslie Kelley
A desperate woman's plea for sanctuary shatters Pastor Jaydon Parable's world. A legendary relic awakens in his struggling Detroit church, granting him a Divine System of unimaginable power. Now, hunted by a coven of shadow witches and allied with a cynical rogue wizard, Jaydon must become the shepherd his city needs. If he fails, the prophecy will be fulfilled, and Detroit will be consumed by a tide of eternal darkness. Faith is his weapon. The System is his guide. But will it be enough?
The Chromatic Thief of Ideworld
Author:Vesper Quill
Orphaned thief Alexa May lives by her wits and nimble fingers, stealing for a ruthless crime lord. But when a heist goes wrong, she discovers the target isn't just art—it's a key to Ideworld, a nightmarish reflection of our own reality. Hunted by a man whose touch is death and shackled by a magical power that turns her imagination into reality, Alexa must paint her own escape. In a world of echoes and nightmares, she'll have to become more than a thief. She'll have to become a master artist of reality itself.
The Children of Dam's End
Author:Thorne Harrow
Inheriting his estranged aunt's house in the eerie town of Dam's End, Leo Vance just wanted a quiet life. But his aunt's peculiar legacy of taxidermy squirrels is the least of his worries. A series of escalating 'pranks' from a group of spectral children who haunt the woods begins—starting with nails in his car seat and ending with a chilling claim on his soul. Leo must now uncover the town's cursed history and his aunt's secret role as a 'Watcher' before the children's games turn deadly and drag him into the darkness forever.
The Birthday Stillness
Author:Rhys Stasis
On his sixteenth birthday, Alexander breaks the one rule his family has always enforced: he looks in a mirror. But his reflection doesn't look back. It stands perfectly still, a terrifying copy watching from its glass prison. A frantic call, a cryptic warning, and a shocking rescue by his sister shatters his reality. Now, Alex must live with the girl who saved him, haunted by her whisper: 'Or you’ll end up like your sister. Stuck in the mirror.' He's trapped in a house where the greatest monster might not be in the reflection, but sleeping in the room next door.
Jadefall: The Destroyer's Return
Author:Vera Obsidian
A legendary assassin, the Emerald Destroyer, lives in quiet retirement, her immense power bound to the soul crystal of her late husband. But when shadow mages shatter the crystal, they don't just desecrate a memory—they unleash a goddess of vengeance. With her power now raw and untamed, she must hunt down the mysterious syndicate that destroyed her peace, battling her own inner demons as she carves a path of jade and fury through a city that thought it had forgotten her.
The Vermillion Cage
Author:Dianne Ward
A sunset hot air balloon ride with friends becomes a descent into a layered hell. Trapped in an endless loop high above a glitching world, they discover they are not alone. Identical balloons mirror their every move, each containing a silent, watching copy of themselves. With the pilot gone and his friends falling one by one into the abyss, Liam is left with a single, horrifying choice: join them in the fall, or face the doppelganger that has just climbed into his basket.
BaneHunt: The Glitchwraith's Debt
Author:Aster Glitch
Five stars. That's all Kae wanted. A perfect rating on the BaneHunt app to prove she was a competent monster hunter and, more importantly, to pay her rent. But when a simple 'Gremlin cleanup' gig unleashes a cataclysmic digital phantom, her rating plummets to zero and she's saddled with an apocalyptic debt. Now, hunted by the very system she works for, Kae must forge an unholy alliance with the 'monster' she freed. To survive, she'll have to trade her gig-worker ethics for forbidden power and become the glitch that crashes the whole damn system.
Archmage of Anarchy: The Sun King's Gambit
Author:Avery Hunter
He's the Supreme Archmage of Earth, a supervillain by trade and a hero by accident. His name is Kaelen Vorn, but the world knows him as Merciless, the Tyrant of Shadows™. When a clandestine council of 'heroes' hires him to assassinate the god-like ruler of a utopian island, Kaelen knows it's a setup. But with a personal vendetta against the Sun King and the fate of magic itself on the line, he'll assemble a team of misfits to take on the impossible. After all, if you want a god killed, you don't hire a hero—you hire the best villain money can buy.
Where the Cicadas Stop
Author:R. M. Blackwood
Leo just wanted a quiet place to escape his dead-end life. He found it at the old burned-out bridge, a place of serene solitude. But one evening, the familiar song of the cicadas stopped. In the sudden, terrifying silence, he discovered he wasn't alone. Something was watching from the trees—something with limbs too long and a hunger that followed him home. Now, every time the world goes quiet, Leo knows it's coming for him. The silence is no longer peace; it's a prelude to a scream.
The Echo in the Walls
Author:Ricky Arnold
Our dream home became a living nightmare. It started with whispers and shadows, things my rational mind could dismiss. But then it began to wear the faces of those I love. It learned their voices, their laughter, and twisted them into instruments of terror. I made a mistake. I looked back when I should have run. I acknowledged it. Now, it's not just in the house anymore. It has my phone number, it knows my name, and it wants to wear my face next.