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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The Uninvited
Author:Lysander Grey
For Elias Vance, magic was a lifelong academic obsession—until he stole a mysterious book and read a passage aloud. A simple ritual, a simple knock on his door. In his cynical disbelief, he opened it to an empty hall. But the line he missed in the book now haunts him: *It must be invited in.* Now, Elias is not alone in his apartment. A silent, watchful entity from beyond has accepted his invitation, and the silence is about to break.
The Black Hollow Anomaly
Author:Clayton King
Desperate for money, Mason takes a high-paying job as a night operator at a remote arctic station. But his salvation comes with a list of bizarre, non-negotiable rules. Don't move when the lights flicker. Never look away from the man on Camera 6. Ignore the whispers from the vents. These are not suggestions; they are rituals holding back a reality that crawls in the dark. As the rules begin to activate one by one, Mason realizes he's not just a watcher. He's bait.
The Decompression Chamber
Author:Julian Frame
One day, you lose your job. The next, a mysterious corporation offers you a new one. No interview, just a sterile white room and a single computer. Your only task? You don't know. But the 'Employee of the Month' photo is you, from the future. A video left by your predecessor—who is also you—warns you that your family isn't real. And the man slumped over in the next file is what happens when you fail. Welcome to the job. Don't look in the mirror.
The Cauterized Sky
Author:Franklin Lucas
For three generations, Jebediah Stone's family has read the language of their Texas ranch. But when the world falls unnaturally silent, a new language is written across his land in scorched flesh and impossible geometry. A silent, triangular craft hunts in his pastures, and men in black sedans patrol his fences. Caught between a cosmic horror that doesn't bleed and a conspiracy that wants him buried, Jeb must unravel the terrifying truth before his entire world is harvested.
The Spiral Legacy
Author:Vance Eldridge
He thought it was a gruesome suicide. His grandmother, dead on her floor, her face carved with bizarre spirals. But when he uncovers her fifty-year-old secret—a demonic entity summoned in a forest fire—he realizes her death wasn't an end. It was a warning. Now, the creature that haunted her has a new target, and the spirals are starting to appear in his own life.
The Silence of Shasta
Author:Dan Stevens
A paranormal enthusiast's hunting trip to the legendary Mount Shasta turns into a fight for survival. He sought a legend but found a nightmare when he shot an arrow at a majestic, crimson-eyed stag. Now, the forest is silent no more, and the thing he wounded is hunting him back. It is ancient, it is intelligent, and it warned him. A warning he failed to heed.
Echo in the Code
Author:Judy Woods
Leo, a late-night doomscroller, clicks on a forbidden file: final.exe. What starts as a glitchy indie horror game becomes a living nightmare when the game's looping hallway transforms into his own apartment, rendered in perfect, terrifying detail. Now, the game is everywhere—on every screen he owns. It watches him, mimics him, and whispers through his phone. It's not just a virus. It's an intelligence that has broken free from the code, and it doesn't want to play anymore. It wants his life.
The Unseen Passenger
Author:Hugh Brown
A mother's quest for the perfect family photo becomes a nightmare when an extra, ghostly hand appears in the pictures. What begins as a digital anomaly soon bleeds into reality, as the unseen entity latches onto her family. With each passing night, its touch grows bolder, its presence more malevolent. It wants more than to be in the picture; it wants to be in their lives, forever.
The 10 PM Tenant
Author:Rhonda Ryan
Desperate to escape her family, Clarice rents a room from a man whose life runs like clockwork. His unnerving precision soon bleeds into obsession as he begins watching her sleep. After a terrifying escape, she thinks she’s safe. But two years later, a new man enters her life, and at 10 p.m. sharp, a familiar, chilling whisper comes from outside her bedroom door. The monster has found her again, and this time, it won’t let her go.
The Silvanus Curse
Author:Tracey Mitchelle
Three toads. That's how it always begins. For Leo, a state park worker, it started as a joke—a blown cart belt after shooing away the strange trio. But when a child vanishes and mutilated animals appear, the joke curdles into terror. An old-timer speaks of a drowned town beneath the park's lake, and a vengeful guardian that demands tribute. Now, with his crewmates missing or broken, Leo is the last one left to face the ancient horror that rises from the depths, a horror whose arrival is always announced by three silent, watching toads.
The Closer He Gets
Author:Salvador Meyer
Disowned and on the brink, Silas thought his life couldn't get worse. Then he saw the man. A figure in black at the edge of his vision, always watching, always still. But every morning, he's closer. Silas tries to run, to rationalize, to medicate the terror away, but the man's patient, relentless approach is an omen. He isn't just a hallucination. He's a collector, and he's come for the one thing Silas has left to lose: his soul.
The Girl in the Glass
Author:Warren Reid
Since she was nine, Elara has been haunted by a girl who wears her face—a rotting, broken version of herself that crawls from mirrors and lurks in the dark. It whispers to her in sleep-paralysis-induced nightmares, leaving real bruises and a single, chilling demand: "Follow me." After years of failed exorcisms and therapies, a fragile peace is found in the arms of her husband. But the girl has returned, no longer screaming, but smiling. She’s waiting for Elara to finally break, to get tired of fighting, and to take her cold, dead hand.