Thriller Stories
Explore our collection of 219 amazing stories tagged with thriller. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Anesthesia Strain
Author:Rebecca Bates
For senior OR nurse Elara Vance, control is everything. But after a terrifying entity from her sleep paralysis nightmares begins to cross over into her waking world, she discovers a horrifying truth: anesthesia is a doorway. Her patients are now the prey, their vulnerable minds a gateway for a thing that doesn't kill—it infects. As reality blurs and her own mind becomes a battlefield, Elara must find a way to close the door before she, and everyone she loves, is lost to the smiling thing that waits in the dark.
The Lacquered Smile
Author:Rita Tucker
Remi works the graveyard shift, lives a quiet life, and is terrified of dolls. So when her sister sends her a souvenir from a ruined Japanese temple—a vintage geisha doll with a serene, painted smile—her life unravels. At first, it's just whispers in the static and moved objects. But the doll's attention becomes an obsession, watching her favorite shows, spending her money, rearranging her home. Now, a message has appeared on her wall in blood-red crayon: 'MY TURN.' The doll doesn't just want to haunt her apartment; it wants to live her life.
The Mime's Door
Author:Lillie Snyder
They say it's just pretend. A silent act. But when my friends vanished through an invisible door, I learned the horrifying truth: a mime's game is real, its stage is our world, and its prize is your soul. Now, twenty years later, the silence is breaking, and he's back for an encore.
The Echoing Trail
Author:David Gutierrez
An overworked man seeks refuge on a remote mountain trail, only to find himself trapped in an impossible time loop. The scream he hears in the woods is not a cry for help, but a horrifying echo of his own future. To escape, he must unravel the malevolent secret of the trail, but the forest is watching, and it doesn't want to let him go.
The Aperture
Author:Wanda Hopkins
Desperate for cash, college student Leo Vance accepts a mysterious job paying an impossible $500 an hour. The task is simple: sit in a white room and watch an antique mirror. But the thing looking back from the glass isn't his reflection. It's a predator wearing his face, learning his secrets, and waiting for the perfect moment to switch places. Trapped in a sterile nightmare, Leo must unravel the mirror's secrets before he loses himself to the man in the glass.
The Mannequin on the Boardwalk
Author:Cassandra Bailey
My dream job at a seaside haunted house becomes a living nightmare. A bizarre street performer, a twisted mimic of Michael Jackson, sets his sights on me. What starts as an unnerving prank escalates into a terrifying obsession, as this man reveals a power to distort reality, time, and even his own body. He whispers things my mind can hear but his lips never speak. He wants more than a scare—he wants in. And for some reason, he won't stop talking about my eyes.
Echoes in the Static
Author:Lillian Graham
A park ranger seeking solitude in a remote wilderness finds himself stalked by an unseen entity that communicates through his walkie-talkie. What begins as strange noises and cryptic warnings soon becomes a desperate fight for sanity and survival against creatures that hunt through sound waves. When the forest starts echoing his own deepest fears back at him, he must uncover the dark secret of the land before he becomes just another voice lost in the static.
The Empty Grave
Author:Ronnie Harper
Ten years after his father's funeral, a late-night call from the deceased's number shatters Alex's reality. A desperate, static-laced voice whispers a single plea: "You have to bury me." Now, haunted by these ghostly calls and the chilling discovery of an empty casket, Alex is dragged into a terrifying conspiracy that his family tried to bury. He must unravel the truth behind his father's disappearance, confronting a sinister force that won't rest until it claims him too. What he uncovers is far more horrifying than an empty grave.
The Rotting Vow
Author:Cassandra Duncan
On his wedding day, Leo lifted his bride's veil and discovered she was a corpse. Forced into an ancient, terrifying ritual by his own mother, he is now bound by a vow to the dead girl, Elowen. As her coldness seeps into his soul and the scent of decay follows his every step, Leo must unravel the horrific secret of Wren Orchard: a pact that feeds on death to grant life. But the bride is hungry, and the vow is eternal. He must find a way to break it before he becomes the next sacrifice.
Blackwood's Tithe
Author:Jasper Briar
Desperate for his dream job, recent graduate Liam Thorne accepts a mysterious offer to become a ranger at the idyllic Blackwood Creek National Park. He's welcomed by unnervingly healthy, elderly colleagues who speak of the park's 'magic' which grants them eternal vitality. But paradise has a price. Liam soon discovers the park is a sentient, hungry entity, and its keepers must provide a periodic, bloody sacrifice. Now, he's been chosen to help hunt the very visitors he swore to protect, trapped in a gilded cage where the trails lead to a gruesome end.
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.