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 Memory Eater's Game
Author:Teresa Lopez
Trapped in a dead-end life, Aaron discovers a door in his pantry leading to a twisted game show. The prize: anything he desires. The cost: his most guarded memories. But as he trades his past for a better future, he realizes the game's host is a predator, the audience is starving, and the rewards are tainted with a creeping horror. Soon, he'll have nothing left to give but his soul.
The Upside-Down Grin
Author:Elias Thorne
I used to joke with the ghosts I thought were watching me. Then one night, one of them showed itself—an upside-down girl with bloodshot eyes grinning from under my bed. My mother warned me that belief can make things real. Now, I'm trapped in a nightmare of my own making, hunted by a creature that feeds on my fear. To survive, I have to un-believe it, but how do you kill a thought that's already looking right at you?
The Echo Chamber
Author:Julian Blackwood
Elias Vance lives a life of sterile precision, a fortress against memories he can't recall. But his fortress is cracking. Whispers of 'Zero' bleed from the walls, and cryptic photos appear, showing a hallway he's never seen. As reality dissolves, he's dragged into a breathing labyrinth of infinite doors, each a portal to a buried fragment of his past. He soon discovers he is not just a prisoner in this mental asylum; he is its architect. And its first patient, a shadowy warden, is determined to make him remember every last scream.
The Sorrow Eater
Author:Marek Thorne
When a suicidal man's cry for oblivion is answered by a thing lurking in the woods, he discovers there are fates far worse than death. A creature born of shadow and despair hears his wish and offers a trade: his body for its existence. Now, he must fight a war within his own mind against the predator that wants to wear his skin, or become another silent statistic in a town that feeds on misery.
The Un-Becoming
Author:Terrance Morales
The sky didn't fall. It peeled open, bleeding a colorless color that unmade reality. As the world dissolves into beautiful, maddening patterns, astrophysicist Elias Thorne must save his younger sister from the creeping cosmic horror. But the entity invading their world isn't an enemy—it's a new form of existence. To fight it is to fight reality itself, and Elias can feel his own mind, his very soul, beginning to fray and find peace in the ruin.
Echoes in the Holler
Author:Tyrone Andrews
A family's idyllic summer retreat to a remote Appalachian cabin descends into a nightmare of impossible geography and terrifying encounters. When the woods begin to warp reality itself, they discover the true horror isn't just the creatures that stalk the trees, but the ones that can wear the faces of those they love. They thought they were escaping the city, but they only escaped the familiar. What the mountain wants, the mountain keeps.
The Operator's Call
Author:Meghan Harper
A man haunted by guilt discovers a series of phantom payphones appearing throughout his city. Each time one is answered, the caller is driven to a horrific, public suicide. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, he devises a plan to hear the deadly message without falling prey to its curse. But the voice on the other end isn't a monster—it's something far more personal and insidious, a whisper of regret that promises an eternity of silence. He sought an answer, but all he found was a slow, agonizing dial tone to his own demise.
My Shadow's Smile
Author:Roland Allen
A boy is haunted by a smiling, childlike shadow that only he can see. To fight back, he discovers a horrifying ritual in his dreams: by mutilating himself in the dream world, he can inflict real pain on the creature. But every victory brings him closer to a terrifying truth, and the shadow's final, widest smile promises a fate worse than death. He thought he was hurting his tormentor, but he was only feeding it, piece by piece.
The Sugar Scourge
Author:Glynn Thorne
Two exterminators, one cryptic warning: 'Don't eat the ants.' But for Marc, a dare is a dare. Now, a parasitic hive is gestating inside him, its sickly-sweet scent a harbinger of a gruesome transformation. His best friend, Leo, can only watch in horror as Marc's body becomes a living nest. As the swarm grows, Leo realizes the hunger is contagious, and the craving for that forbidden sweetness has taken root in his own soul. He must uncover the truth behind the swarm before he becomes its next host.
The Closing Time Anomaly
Author:Quinn Evergate
For Leo, the midnight grind at a 24-hour coffee shop was supposed to be a mind-numbing escape. But at 8:57 PM, the first of them arrives. The man who tastes death in his coffee. The woman who whispers to the walls. They are the heralds of the 9:03 Anomaly—a moment when the shop glitches out of reality. They give him a brass key to a door that shouldn't exist, warning him that the shop is about to turn inside out. Now, Leo isn't just serving coffee; he's the last line of defense against whatever is knocking from the other side.
The Drowned Echo
Author:Jason Grant
After his estranged grandfather’s funeral, Alex Mercer receives a single inheritance: a crude brass ring that feels unnaturally cold. Trying it on unleashes a terrifying, water-based entity that haunted his grandfather to his grave. Now, stalked by a relentless supernatural presence and a mysterious organization that monitors the cursed, Alex is bound to the ring. He must unravel its deep-sea origins before he's pulled under by the same dark tide that claimed his family, discovering that some things, once salvaged, should have been left in the dark.
The Night Janitor
Author:Asher Locke
Leo sought solitude on the night shift, but found a terror that clung to the silence. In an old factory where the walls hold memories of pain, a locked door is not a barrier—it's an invitation. A simple break-in becomes a desperate game of survival against a presence that has been waiting for someone to play with. When the police leave and the sun rises, Leo learns the horrifying truth: some locks are meant to keep things in, and he just found the key.