Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 357 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Caller in the Static
Author:Lloyd Pierce
For Liam, it was just a tacky old phone, a relic from his grandmother's demolished house. An orange plastic eyesore nailed to the kitchen wall, completely unplugged. But then it started ringing. At first, it was a strange family joke. Then Liam answered, and he heard the whispers—faint, childlike murmurs no one else could hear. Now, the calls are becoming more frequent, the whispers more insistent, and the voice on the other end knows his name. The thing that haunted his childhood home has followed him, and it's using this dead line to reach out and drag him back into the darkness.
The Echoing Stall
Author:Silas Murmur
A quick trip to the cinema restroom turns into a descent into madness. Trapped in an infinite labyrinth of sterile white tiles, Alex must survive on what crawls in the dark. But this prison has rules, and its only other occupant is a chilling echo of his own future. To escape, he must become the very monster that trapped him, caught in a cycle of horror where the only way out is to begin again.
The Midnight Line
Author:Herminia Barnett
Night shift subway controller Leo discovers a ghost train that appears every night at 3:13 AM. At first, it's just a glitch. Then he sees it on camera—an empty, decommissioned relic from a bygone era. When a passenger from a 1974 vanishing steps off the train and into a solid wall, Leo realizes he's not just watching a haunting, he's the next stop on its route. The system he controls is turning against him, and the train is coming to collect.
The Glitch in the Terminus
Author:Duane Chapman
A late-night dare turns into a descent into madness when two teenagers play a mysterious online ritual called "The Subway Game." One vanishes, erased from time itself. The other is thrown into a world where reality is a half-finished canvas, painted by a god-like entity of impossible geometry. Now, he's back in his own world, but it's changing, becoming the nightmare he escaped. And the Game isn't finished with him yet.
The Coward's Crucifix
Author:Silas Thorne
For twenty years, Thomas has lived a lie, haunted by the night he abandoned his mentor to a vampire's fangs. He built a family on a foundation of fear and secrets. But the past doesn't stay buried. Now, the monster has found him, stalking his children from the shadows. With nowhere left to run, the coward must finally pick up the stake and crucifix he dropped long ago and confront the ancient evil he unleashed, or watch his world burn.
The Silence of 4:42
Author:Silas Cadence
A broke musician sings a single note for a fortune, only to unleash a daily cosmic horror that shatters reality and kills those he loves. Now, haunted by a deadly echo that reverberates at 4:42 PM every day, he must return to the source of the nightmare to reclaim his sanity, or watch the world fracture around him.
The End of the Line
Author:Carrie Moreno
When Elara dials a suicide hotline, she isn't met with a voice of comfort, but an invitation to a digital hell. A mysterious van, a network that traps broken souls, and a smiling doppelgänger on a screen reveal a nightmare she can't wake up from. Now marked by the system and haunted by a shadowy echo of herself, Elara must fight the monster that feeds on despair—a monster that has decided she is its next permanent resident. The call was a mistake. Answering was a death sentence.
The Midnight Countdown
Author:Elias Shade
Five friends, a campfire, and a ritual found online. It was supposed to be a joke. But when my nightmare of their gruesome deaths starts coming true, one by one, every seven days, I realize we didn't summon a spirit. We awoke a predator. Now I'm the last one left, racing against a ticking clock, haunted by the dream that became my reality. The entity is invisible, unstoppable, and at midnight, it's my turn. But I refuse to die like they did. I will stare into the eyes of my killer, even if I have to tear a hole between worlds to see them.
Her Echo in the Void
Author:Isobel Holland
For five years, Leo has been haunted by the day his first love, Emilia, was stolen by a silent, faceless being under an open sky. The world called it a hoax, but Leo knew the truth. Now, on the fifth anniversary, a new message appears—a poem in her handwriting, a desperate whisper from a dark, unknowable place. His annual pilgrimage of memory has become a frantic rescue mission. He will follow her echo into the void, even if it means confronting the silent things that watch from beyond.
The Silent Trail
Author:Corvus Shade
For two years, my Sunday hike was a sanctuary of perfect, predictable silence. But one day, the trail changed. The trees grew too close, the birds fell quiet, and the woods began to watch with a thousand bark-skinned eyes. I ran from the impossible, looping labyrinth, and thought I had escaped. But I was wrong. The forest followed me home, and now its suffocating silence is everywhere, waiting in every shadow, calling me back to the path where the world ends.
The Sugar-Coated Rot
Author:Jessica Bryant
Molly Tate is drowning in grief. When a mysterious presence begins leaving her gifts—nested boxes, cryptic notes, and sticky, half-eaten candies—she feels seen for the first time in months. But this sweet comfort comes at a terrible price. Her home is transforming into a saccharine prison, and her silent companion's affection is becoming something possessive, hungry, and monstrous. As the world outside fades away, Molly must confront the horrifying truth: some things are worse than being alone.
The Collector's Curse
Author:Elias Thorne
For house flipper Alex, it was just another abandoned home filled with forgotten junk. But hidden inside an antique desk, he found an obsession. A stone beetle, uncannily lifelike, that called to him. Now, it moves when he's not looking. It whispers in his dreams. It has unfolded its bladed legs in his sleeping hand, and it demands more than just a place on his shelf. It wants to burrow deep, to collect a price paid in blood and sanity.