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.
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What Happened at Storyland
Author:Evelyn Thorne
For Elara, the dream is always the same: flying over a forgotten fairytale park, a place of rot and decay where silent figures hold a candlelight vigil. When she discovers the park was real, and its closure is a sixty-year-old mystery shrouded in silence, she realizes her dreams are not just dreams. They are memories of a childhood she can't remember. And the monster that was buried at Storyland Park is waking up, calling her back to unearth a truth more horrifying than she could ever imagine.
The Memory Eater of Mountain Rim
Author:Corbin Slate
In a town where nothing changes, a mysterious movie called 'A Good Film' offers the ultimate escape—by erasing itself from your memory. Everyone thinks it's a harmless gimmick, a quirky magic trick. But when seventeen-year-old Percy refuses to forget, he peels back the silver screen to find a ravenous horror feeding on his town's placid ignorance. By choosing to remember, he becomes the sole target of the thing that crawled out of the film, and the smiling, unblinking man who wants to ensure he enjoys the final show.
The Sixth Feed
Author:Derrick Garza
Desperate for cash, Liam takes a high-paying job monitoring inmates in a secret underground facility. The only catch? A list of impossible, reality-bending rules. He soon discovers the prisoners are the least of his worries. The cameras aren't just one-way, the sixth monitor shows a feed of him, and the walls themselves whisper his name. He's not just the guard; he's the next subject in a horrific, endless loop where observation is a cage and escape means being rewritten.
The Unfinished Man
Author:Lori Henry
Struggling art student Alex finds his mundane life upended when a terrifying painting he viewed online mysteriously arrives at his door. What begins as a suspected prank morphs into a nightmare as the faceless figure in the canvas begins to change, subtly adopting his features. As the painting's sentience grows, Alex is dragged into a desperate battle against a doppelgänger that wants to trade its canvas prison for his flesh, forcing him to question where the portrait ends and he begins.
The Scent of Rot and Coffee
Author:Vicki Bell
When Leo moves into his dream apartment, he thinks he's found a new beginning. But a strange, freshly painted wall and the lingering scent of coffee hide a gruesome secret. Aided by his mysterious neighbor, Kiwi, he uncovers a horrific murder. But the victims aren't resting. They're still inside the walls, and they want out.
Always 3,417
Author:Ralph Kim
In a town where nothing ever changes, Eli discovers a horrifying truth at 3:17 AM: reality itself is a lie. Houses vanish, friends are replaced, and a hungry fog whispers his name. An ancient entity keeps the town's population at exactly 3,417, and now it knows Eli can see the seams of its world. He must unravel the town's curse before he becomes the next replacement, or worse, a willing part of the nightmare. For in Hollow's End, you don't die. You're just rewritten.
The Echoes of Ashworth Park
Author:Joel Vasquez
Six friends sought a night of illicit fun in an abandoned WWII munitions park. But when a storm drove them into a forgotten bunker, they weren't alone. Awoken by the screech of metal and the soft patter of wet, bare feet in the pitch-black darkness above, they learn some secrets are buried for a reason. Now, what they disturbed is following them home, leaving muddy footprints on their doorsteps and whispers in the static of their phones. They have to go back. They have to know what walks barefoot in Ashworth Park.
The Echo in the Static
Author:Morgan Vance
Ash thought the worst part of managing a rundown arcade was the sticky floors and screaming kids. He was wrong. An old shadow called Frank stalks the laser tag arena, and a little girl's voice mimics his coworkers to lure him into the dark. But the ghosts of 'The Pit' are just an appetizer. Ash carries his own demon, a consequence of a teenage mistake, and it's using the arcade's dark energy to grow stronger. Now, the haunting is bleeding into the real world, following his friends home and whispering his name in his own voice. He can quit his job, but he can't outrun the echo in the static.
The Keeper of Blackwood Hollow
Author:Grimshaw Locke
For fourteen years, Leo has followed two simple rules as a cemetery night guard: lock the gates, and never, ever speak to the things trapped inside. The thousand-dollar-a-night paycheck is worth the terror. But when a new recruit with a dark past arrives and the entities change their tactics from trickery to brute force, Leo discovers the cemetery isn't just a graveyard—it's a prison. And he's not a guard; he's a warden on the brink of a jailbreak that could unleash hell on earth. The silence he's kept for so long might be the one thing he has to break to survive.
The Host of Risk and Reward
Author:Arthur Fletcher
Lonely and desperate, Aaron stumbles upon a mysterious game show in his pantry that promises lavish prizes. But each reward comes at a horrifying price. Poisoned, manipulated, and supernaturally altered by the charismatic Host, Aaron is trapped in a deadly game where the risks are his sanity and soul. When the show begins to target the only family he has left, Aaron must play not just to survive, but to unmask the eldritch evil behind the relentless smile and the booming applause.
The Atheneum of Flesh
Author:Lucille Wells
Leo, a desperate night guard, takes a job at a museum where the art is disturbingly alive. The sculptures are not stone, but flesh, and they watch him with hungry eyes. The curator's only warning: 'Don't let them look at you for too long.' Now, trapped in shifting corridors and hunted by living nightmares, Leo discovers the museum's final exhibit: a perfect, breathing replica of himself. The collection is growing, and he is the next masterpiece.
The Oily Sea of Waking
Author:Silas Vance
For Elias, dreams were a nightly escape to other worlds. But one dream refuses to end. Trapped on a rickety boat on an endless black ocean, he is ferried by a faceless monster towards a desolate shore he may never leave. Every time he 'wakes up,' he finds more of the dream bleeding into his reality. The oily water stains his skin, the smell of brine haunts his apartment, and the creature's labored breathing echoes in his waking moments. He is no longer dreaming; he is being transported.