Small Town Stories
Explore our collection of 126 amazing stories tagged with small town. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Listener of Andalusia
Author:Silas Thorne
A gifted guitarist fakes homelessness for easy cash, his melodies charming a small Alabama town. But his lucrative lie awakens an ancient, unseen entity that feeds on deceit. The town's forgotten people are its keepers, and they don't appreciate outsiders playing their master's song. When he's cornered in their sacred space, he learns his deception has a price, and it will follow him long after he leaves town, echoing in every song he ever plays.
The Tarps of Whisper Creek
Author:Marion Sanchez
In a forgotten desert town, the children are given one rule: never enter the fields. When Leo takes his little sister through the forbidden expanse to escape a local threat, she vanishes into thin air. He runs home for help, only to be met with his mother's chillingly calm question: 'Where is she?' Leo quickly learns his sister's disappearance was no accident. It was a sacrifice. Now, he must unravel the town's horrific pact with the entity that dwells in the fields, before it comes to claim him next.
The Drowning Echo
Author:Willow Strand
A lifeguard's routine day turns into a nightmare when a spectral woman at the pool leaves him with a horrifying curse: he coughs up her long, black hair. Now, he's trapped in a race against time to uncover the pool's dark history before he drowns in her vengeful sorrow, far from any water. Every shadow holds her form, every drop of water whispers her name, and the thirst for both life and death is becoming one and the same.
The Caretaker of Blackwood Elementary
Author:Elias Croft
A man is forced to confront the horrifying truth of his childhood when his best friend's body is discovered four years after he vanished from an abandoned school. The boy he left behind wasn't just murdered—he was kept. Now, plagued by a guilt that has festered for years, he must return to the place where his nightmares began and face the inhuman evil that has been hunting in the woods for generations, before it takes another child.
The Salt-Stained Bloodline
Author:Taylor Hopkins
When Elias Thorne returns to his ancestral home after his father's mysterious death at sea, he dismisses his mother's frantic warnings as grief-fueled madness. But as a monstrous storm engulfs their isolated lighthouse, he discovers the horrifying truth: his family is bound by a blood-oath to guard the coast from ancient, shapeshifting horrors that emerge from the brine. These creatures wear the faces of the dead and whisper with the voices of loved ones, and they will stop at nothing to be invited inside. Elias must now embrace his terrifying legacy before the tide of darkness consumes them all.
The Locker That Forgets
Author:P. L. Thorne
When twelve-year-old Alex moves to a dying town, his only escape is a decrepit gym with a dark secret: a numberless locker. The local legend says it's a gateway to hell, but the truth is far worse. It's a place where things go to be forgotten. First, it's a gym bag. Then a treasured possession. Soon, it's memories. And when Alex's only friend becomes its next target, he must uncover the gym's terrifying history before the locker forgets his friend out of existence entirely.
The Veridian Curse
Author:Zoe Howard
In Veridian Bluffs, a child vanishes every summer solstice. They call it the Selection. My sister Amelia was the last. They say it’s an honor, a communion with nature. But I found her hidden journal, filled with sketches of a maggot god and a town built on a bedrock of lies. Now, the whispers have started in my head, the ticks are gathering at my door, and the town elders are watching me. They think I'm next. I'm not waiting to be Selected. I'm going into the dark to uncover the truth Amelia died for, even if it means facing the mother of all horrors.
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 Last Showbiz
Author:Barnaby Grimm
Leo took a job at the last Showbiz Pizza to reconnect with a piece of his childhood. He loved the old animatronic band, The Rock-afire Explosion. But the childhood icons he remembered are gone, replaced by something starving for attention. Now, locked inside after closing, Leo discovers the show isn't over. The band demands an audience, and they'll create one from the screams and broken bodies of anyone who dares to forget them. He was their biggest fan; now he's their unwilling warden.
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 Funny Story
Author:Rafael Rogers
When his best friend sends him a link to a cryptic website, college student Alex Vance is dragged into a terrifying game orchestrated by a ghost from his past. A mysterious entity is rewriting his memories, haunting his technology, and isolating him from everyone he loves. To survive, he must return to the haunted woods of his childhood and confront the horrific truth behind his brother's death—a truth that is not only still alive, but wants to play again.
The Blinkville Exterminator
Author:Corvin Grimm
In the eerily quiet town of Blinkville, exterminator Jack Carter takes on jobs that go far beyond rats and termites. His latest call is for a simple roach infestation, but he soon finds the lonely homeowner is nurturing a horrifying secret. She believes a giant cockroach is the reincarnation of her dead ex-husband, and it's growing. As delusion turns to body horror, Jack realizes he's not just fighting a pest—he's fighting an ancient entity with a parasitic hold on his client, and the entire house is its nest.