Small Town Stories
Explore our collection of 55 amazing stories tagged with small town. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Rose that Devours
Author:Rhys Thorne
When Elias finds his sister cradling their mother's severed head, he believes it is an act of madness. But a cryptic warning from his dying father and a forced communion with a strange "rose water" reveals a truth far more terrifying. His family does not suffer from insanity; they are the chosen caretakers of a cosmic entity that feeds on blood. They are the Shearwielders, and the harvest has just begun. In a house of secrets and whispers, Elias must confront an inheritance written in blood and bloom.
The Roadside Collection
Author:Harvey Moore
For twelve years, Jack Riley cleaned up the dead from Route 340. It was a simple, gruesome job. But then, the bodies started disappearing before he could get to them. Something unseen, something silent and impossibly fast, was doing his job for him. He ran, burying the secret for years under the Arizona sun. Now, a new disappearance has pulled him back to the haunted Virginia blacktop. He was the road's keeper once, but he's about to discover what happens when the road, and the things that hunt it, decide to collect.
The Queen of Bones
Author:Asher Stone
A childhood game in a forbidden cave ends in tragedy when Kai's cousin vanishes. The adults blame the mountain; the elders whisper of ancient things that steal children. Fifteen years later, another child is gone, and Kai must return to the reservation to confront the guilt that haunts him and the terrifying truth behind the game they played—a truth that now calls him the new king for its Queen of Bones.
The Road That Eats
Author:Silas Blackwood
Three urban explorers chase the high of a lifetime, stumbling upon a phantom road that only appears under a cloak of fog and darkness. At its end lies a parking lot of impossible size, a silent graveyard for cars and secrets. But this discovery isn't a random glitch in reality; it's a trap. Now marked by the road, they are hunted by its sinister gatekeeper, a man who harvests the wreckage. To survive, they must unravel the terrifying rules of a place that isn't on any map—a place that's hungry for new arrivals.
The Solstice Child of Glass Harbor
Author:Silas Thorne
Every year, the town of Glass Harbor sends a child into the whispering pines to be 'perfected' by an ancient entity. They return whole and healthy, but with vacant eyes. This year, Ethan is the Selected. But unlike the others, he doesn't believe the lies. Armed with forbidden secrets and fueled by his sister's mysterious death, he walks into the darkness not as a sacrifice, but as a hunter. He will uncover the town's rotten core, even if it means being consumed by the truth that waits in the deep.
Crying Bay
Author:Jessie Mills
When a biblical storm beaches a mysterious Imperial Japanese submarine on the California coast, rookie Deputy Leo and his veteran Sheriff discover a horror far beyond war. Inside the iron tomb, a bio-weapon of unimaginable terror awaits, guarded by a relentless entity born from plague and fanaticism. Leo’s desperate fight for survival is only the beginning. The nightmare that washed ashore in Crying Bay has not been forgotten, and after eighty years of silence, it has finally come to collect its due.
What the Tide Demands
Author:Caspian Dredge
In a desolate coastal village, Elias is the Shearer, tasked with carving flesh from his people as a holy offering to a god of the sea. But when his newest subject, the eerily calm Claire, stares into his soul during the bloody ritual, he begins to unravel a conspiracy of adultery, murder, and the monstrous entity sleeping beneath the waves. The shearing is not for salvation; it's to feed a hunger that will soon drown them all. Elias must choose between his blood-soaked duty and a truth more terrifying than any blade.
The Scent of Pennies
Author:Timmothy Willis
A childhood sleepover becomes a lifelong nightmare. When an instructor tells a spooky story about a man who vanished from their building, a dare is made. My best friend, Lucas, stepped outside for just a moment. The door was held shut. He screamed that something was out there with him. Then silence. When the door was finally opened, Lucas was gone. All that remained was the chilling, metallic scent of pennies in the air. Now, years later, the scent is back, and I know the thing that took him is coming for me.
The Hunger in the Marrow
Author:Rowan Blackwood
Liam Thorne returns home for his father’s funeral, seeking answers for a life of tragedy. He expects to find closure for his father's suicide and the attempted murder of his brother. Instead, he unearths a sealed stone box, a cryptic videotape, and a horrifying family secret buried for seventeen years. The truth isn't that his mother was murdered. The truth is what she gave birth to. And it's hungry.
Carnival of Echoes
Author:Jeremy Simmmons
In 1986, Leo Vance lost his family to the twisted wonders of Mister Fulcrum's Funhouse. Now, he's back for revenge. But the carnival's horrors are no longer contained. Monsters bleed from a dimension called the Void, and Leo, marked by its power, is the only one who can see them. Armed with a cursed relic and a killer's resolve, he must hunt down Fulcrum as reality itself crumbles into a waking nightmare. But in a world consumed by madness, his greatest enemy might be the darkness growing within him.
The Embers of Penthesil
Author:Kaylee Hicks
When missionary David treats a mysterious woman who walked out of the jungle, he witnesses the impossible: she absorbs fire into her very being. He is soon dragged into a terrifying chase, hunted by inhuman "Valkyries" serving a cosmic Empress. Trapped on a boat with the fugitive Cassara, whose body is a vessel for a terrifying, world-ending power, David's faith is shattered. He must unravel the secrets of her past before her pursuers—or the monster she holds within—consumes them both.
The Collector of Tourmaline Falls
Author:Cassian Vale
In Tourmaline Falls, wealth comes from the earth, but the price is paid in children. Every year, on the first of July, a man in an immaculate suit arrives to collect his due. They call him The Collector. For seventeen-year-old Ben, the ritual was a distant horror until the day it claimed his best friend. Now, with the appointed day looming, he's hearing the tell-tale sign of the chosen: the ghostly sound of dress shoes on hardwood floors. The Collector is coming for him, but Ben won't be another name on a list. He will unravel the town's century-old pact or die trying.