Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 240 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Echo in the Floorboards
Author:Silas Croft
Leo needed a cheap place to live, but the basement suite came with a soundtrack: the relentless pacing of the old man upstairs. Then came the scratching, and a dry whisper begging to be let back in. But after the old man is found dead, his body twisted into an impossible shape, the noises don't stop. They get louder. And now, a note on the sealed door says it all: 'I remember the way through the walls.' The thing upstairs is still there, and it's looking for a new door.
The Empty Seat
Author:Bonnie Garza
After a minor car accident, Samantha's daughter, Sophia, is no longer the sweet, joyful child she once was. She's become cold, quiet, and unnervingly strange. As Samantha tries to nurse her daughter back to health, the world around her insists on a different, more terrifying reality: that Sophia died two years ago. Now, Samantha must fight for her sanity against a truth she can't accept and protect a child that no one else can see, a child whose hunger is growing and whose presence is becoming colder by the day.
The Thing in Charlie's Skin
Author:Elias Veil
My best friend Charlie went to Germany for the summer. The thing that came back is wearing his face, sleeping in his bed, and charming my parents. But I see the truth in its dead eyes and its unnatural hunger. I see the peeling skin and the impossible strength. It’s not Charlie anymore, and I’m afraid I’m the only one who knows. Now, it wants to speak to my parents alone, and I fear I’m next on its list.
The Black-Eyed Glitch
Author:Janet Gardner
One moment, Alex was with his friends in front of a construction site. The next, the site is a 50-year-old ruin and his friends are gone, replaced by memories that don't belong to him. Now, he sees them everywhere—silent figures with soulless, black eyes, watching from the periphery of his fractured reality. A shadowy entity haunts his steps, not as a predator, but as a warden of the seams between worlds. To save his true family, Alex must navigate a world of placeholders and glitches, risking his own sanity to pull them back from the static.
The Salvation Collector
Author:Rosemary Holt
I thought losing my job, my home, and my future was rock bottom. I was wrong. Under a grimy city bridge, a man in a half-pristine, half-tattered suit offered salvation to the forgotten souls around me. For the low price of their worldly possessions, he gave them a ticket to another place. I watched them take the deal. I watched their smiles twist into silent screams as they vanished into nothingness. He looked at me, the last one left, and said I wasn't ready. Now, I'm haunted by their faces, and I have to find out what 'ready' means before he comes back for me.
The Valensi Protocol
Author:Julian Vance
Detective Sean Byrne thought he’d seen every kind of monster the city could birth, until a killer's signature spans a hundred years. His only suspect is a ghost, an impossibly old predator hiding in plain sight. To hunt this new breed of monster, Byrne must ally with a creature of the night, a brilliant biochemist who reveals the chilling truth: vampires are not myth, but a biological reality. In a world governed by a protocol of blood and science, Byrne must walk the line between hunter and prey, before he becomes the next experiment.
The 5 PM Rule
Author:Yvonne Castillo
For Lena, the job at the Orphic Library was a dream: eight hours of paid silence. But the dream has rules. Clock in at 9 AM. Clock out at 5 PM. Not a second early, not a second late. When a ghostly woman from 1986 appears with a frantic warning and the library's charming owner reveals a predatory obsession with the clock, Lena realizes she hasn't been hired—she's been trapped. The books are screaming clues, the shelves rearrange themselves into a maze, and every tick of the clock brings her closer to becoming a permanent part of the collection.
Tenebrous Hound of London
Author:Zoey Mckinney
Half-demon detective Sabre Harper stalks the gaslit alleys of a supernatural London, cursed with a power to witness death through a single touch. When a string of impossible murders threatens to shatter the veil between worlds, he must hunt a killer that's neither human nor demon. Forced into a tense alliance with a celestial enforcer who despises his very existence, Sabre must confront the city’s darkest secrets and the hellfire raging within his own soul before London is consumed by darkness.
Echoes of the Thirsting Sand
Author:Flint Calder
A cynical drifter returns to his high desert hometown to find his conspiracy-theorist father missing. He soon discovers the whispered legends are real. An ancient desert god is dying, a tech-billionaire's cult seeks to devour its power, and he is the only one who can hear the whispers on the wind. To uncover the truth, he must become the desert's champion, wielding the power of sand and sun against an enemy that blends dark rituals with cold technology. The desert is watching, and it has chosen its avatar.
The Alchemist's Cursed Heart
Author:Corvus Sinclair
He was a saint-in-training, bound by vows to suppress the monstrous power that coursed through his veins. She was the sorceress sworn by blood to execute him for the sins of his ancestor. When his grandfather's forbidden journal of 'Emotional Alchemy' lures him to the magical underbelly of New Orleans, he discovers his family's madness is a power that can rewrite reality. To survive the coven that wants him dead, he must embrace the darkness he fears, even if it means surrendering to the one woman trained to be his executioner.
The Echo of the Crimson Bloom
Author:Walter George
To save his dying mentor, a novice Lorekeeper must find a legendary story's lost 'Vocal Incantation'—a magical recording that vanished decades ago. His desperate plea on a clandestine network attracts not help, but a cryptic warning from his bitter rival. Together, they uncover a conspiracy revealing the story wasn't lost, but shattered to imprison a memory-devouring god. Reassembling it might save one life, but could unleash an entity that feeds on stories, threatening to silence the world forever.
The Final Cut
Author:Annie Fowler
Struggling filmmaker Leo Vance lands a dream job at the enigmatic Aperture Studios, a place that promises to turn his pain into art. But the studio's methods are brutal, their sets are unnervingly real, and the cameras never stop rolling. He soon discovers the studio isn't just making movies—it's a cult that worships a monstrous god of cinema, Obscura. To create the perfect film, they require the ultimate sacrifice. Now, Leo is cast as the lead in their final masterpiece, and the only way to survive is to give the performance of a lifetime, blurring the line between his grief and their gruesome script until he no longer knows where the acting ends and his own destruction begins.