Thriller Stories
Explore our collection of 500 amazing stories tagged with thriller. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Jester's Path
Author:Stacy Lawson
When her car dies after a late shift, waitress Lisa Miller takes a familiar shortcut through the woods. But she’s not alone. A chilling laugh echoes between the trees, and a shadowy figure gives chase. Safe in her home, the nightmare has just begun. The thing from the forest is at her door, calling itself her lover, and it wants to come inside. She thought it was a stranger, but the truth is far more terrifying: it's a monster she created, twisted by an obsession she never saw coming, and wearing a smile she'll never forget.
The Hogeye Tapes
Author:Edna Mills
A combat veteran's therapy journal was supposed to heal his PTSD. Instead, it unearthed a memory more terrifying than war: an abandoned trailer in a forgotten Texas town where a family was slaughtered. As Jordan Daniels writes about the dare he took as a child, the horrors of the 'Esther House' bleed into his present. The phantom knocks he heard beneath the floorboards have returned, echoing in his quiet apartment. Now, he must return to Hogeye to confront the thing that has been waiting for him for twenty years—the thing that took his friend and now wants to finish the story.
The Echo in the Static
Author:Morgan Vance
Ash thought the worst part of managing a rundown arcade was the sticky floors and screaming kids. He was wrong. An old shadow called Frank stalks the laser tag arena, and a little girl's voice mimics his coworkers to lure him into the dark. But the ghosts of 'The Pit' are just an appetizer. Ash carries his own demon, a consequence of a teenage mistake, and it's using the arcade's dark energy to grow stronger. Now, the haunting is bleeding into the real world, following his friends home and whispering his name in his own voice. He can quit his job, but he can't outrun the echo in the static.
The Whispers of Mason Gulch
Author:Joan Boyd
A lone hiker seeks solitude on a forgotten Colorado trail, but he's not alone. An idyllic morning hike spirals into a desperate flight for survival as the woods come alive with haunting whispers and an unseen presence stalks his every step. He stumbles upon a single, impossible sanctuary in the heart of the nightmare—a place with a dark history that doesn't want to be disturbed. The deeper he goes, the more the forest wants to keep him, and the thing that follows him is growing bolder. It's not just the whispers he should fear; it's the silence that comes after.
The Keeper of Blackwood Hollow
Author:Grimshaw Locke
For fourteen years, Leo has followed two simple rules as a cemetery night guard: lock the gates, and never, ever speak to the things trapped inside. The thousand-dollar-a-night paycheck is worth the terror. But when a new recruit with a dark past arrives and the entities change their tactics from trickery to brute force, Leo discovers the cemetery isn't just a graveyard—it's a prison. And he's not a guard; he's a warden on the brink of a jailbreak that could unleash hell on earth. The silence he's kept for so long might be the one thing he has to break to survive.
The Host of Risk and Reward
Author:Arthur Fletcher
Lonely and desperate, Aaron stumbles upon a mysterious game show in his pantry that promises lavish prizes. But each reward comes at a horrifying price. Poisoned, manipulated, and supernaturally altered by the charismatic Host, Aaron is trapped in a deadly game where the risks are his sanity and soul. When the show begins to target the only family he has left, Aaron must play not just to survive, but to unmask the eldritch evil behind the relentless smile and the booming applause.
The Ashfield Anomaly
Author:Herminia Hansen
Recruited for a high-paying security gig in a secret town, ex-guard Chris Chambers thought he'd hit the jackpot. But Ashfield isn't just an experiment; it's a cage where reality itself is the variable. When the morning headcount reveals an impossible new resident, Chris realizes his job isn't to keep people in—it's to survive whatever is getting in with them. The walls are high, the cameras are always watching, and the most important rule is the one he can't understand: Remember their faces.
The Emerald Facade
Author:Clara Howard
After a reckless one-night stand, Shai finds himself the object of a terrifying obsession. His stalker isn't just a man; it's a thing that wears people like masks. It has his ex's jealousy, his lover's face, and now it's wearing his sister's smile. As it jumps from body to body, getting closer with each new host, Shai realizes he's not just running from a stalker—he's being hunted by a love that will consume everyone he's ever known.
The Atheneum of Flesh
Author:Lucille Wells
Leo, a desperate night guard, takes a job at a museum where the art is disturbingly alive. The sculptures are not stone, but flesh, and they watch him with hungry eyes. The curator's only warning: 'Don't let them look at you for too long.' Now, trapped in shifting corridors and hunted by living nightmares, Leo discovers the museum's final exhibit: a perfect, breathing replica of himself. The collection is growing, and he is the next masterpiece.
The Oily Sea of Waking
Author:Silas Vance
For Elias, dreams were a nightly escape to other worlds. But one dream refuses to end. Trapped on a rickety boat on an endless black ocean, he is ferried by a faceless monster towards a desolate shore he may never leave. Every time he 'wakes up,' he finds more of the dream bleeding into his reality. The oily water stains his skin, the smell of brine haunts his apartment, and the creature's labored breathing echoes in his waking moments. He is no longer dreaming; he is being transported.
The Perfumer's Revenant
Author:Sterling Thorne
A washed-up PI takes a simple stalker case for a rising Hollywood starlet. But when he hears her murdered one night, only to see her smiling on a talk show the next, he's dragged into a world of occult alchemy. He must now race against time to save a woman who is no longer herself, a living doll reborn from death by a monstrous love potion, before her soul shatters and unleashes an unspeakable horror upon the city of angels.
The Uninvited
Author:Lysander Grey
For Elias Vance, magic was a lifelong academic obsession—until he stole a mysterious book and read a passage aloud. A simple ritual, a simple knock on his door. In his cynical disbelief, he opened it to an empty hall. But the line he missed in the book now haunts him: *It must be invited in.* Now, Elias is not alone in his apartment. A silent, watchful entity from beyond has accepted his invitation, and the silence is about to break.