Urban Fantasy Stories
Explore our collection of 146 amazing stories tagged with urban fantasy. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Root-Taker's Echo
Author:Diana Garcia
Twenty years ago, a childhood game in the woods ended with a missing friend and a glimpse of a faceless horror. Now, the disappearances have started again. Leo, the sole survivor, is drawn back to the haunted forest, where the scars on his leg burn with a chilling memory. He must confront the monster that stalks the trees and find the strange, one-armed girl he left behind—a girl who may be more dangerous than the monster that raised her. He wasn't the only one who returned from those woods, and this time, the forest wants to keep what it claims.
The Pantry Game
Author:Armando Ramos
When Aaron moves into a new apartment, he discovers his pantry is a portal to a bizarre game show hosted by a hypnotic, predatory woman. The rewards are tempting, offering solutions to all his problems. But the questions demand his darkest secrets, his most painful memories, and pieces of his very soul. Every night, the lights flash and the music calls, forcing him to play a game where the only prize is survival and the ultimate risk is losing himself to the unseen, cheering audience that waits in the dark.
The Scribe of Rot
Author:George Sanchez
A lonely plumber discovers a hidden crawlspace that produces perfect, bestselling novels. But the stories are a drug, an infection that consumes both him and his millions of readers. Now, a withered addict to the words, he must feed the world his poison to get his next fix. The price of fame isn't his soul—it's his sanity, his body, and the minds of everyone who dares to turn the page.
The Vinted Collection
Author:Joshua Nelson
Elara's thrift-shopping addiction leads her to the perfect find: a handwritten horror manuscript from 1967, sold as "cursed." She scoffs at the warning, but after reading the terrifying tales, she finds the book won't let her go. It appears by her bedside, haunts her dreams, and resists destruction. Now, with the book's malevolent presence turning her home into a prison and her life into one of its stories, Elara must uncover the manuscript's dark origins before she becomes its final, handwritten chapter.
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 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.