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.
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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 Black-Eyed Glitch
Author:Janet Gardner
One moment, Alex was with his friends in front of a construction site. The next, the site is a 50-year-old ruin and his friends are gone, replaced by memories that don't belong to him. Now, he sees them everywhere—silent figures with soulless, black eyes, watching from the periphery of his fractured reality. A shadowy entity haunts his steps, not as a predator, but as a warden of the seams between worlds. To save his true family, Alex must navigate a world of placeholders and glitches, risking his own sanity to pull them back from the static.
The Salvation Collector
Author:Rosemary Holt
I thought losing my job, my home, and my future was rock bottom. I was wrong. Under a grimy city bridge, a man in a half-pristine, half-tattered suit offered salvation to the forgotten souls around me. For the low price of their worldly possessions, he gave them a ticket to another place. I watched them take the deal. I watched their smiles twist into silent screams as they vanished into nothingness. He looked at me, the last one left, and said I wasn't ready. Now, I'm haunted by their faces, and I have to find out what 'ready' means before he comes back for me.
The 5 PM Rule
Author:Yvonne Castillo
For Lena, the job at the Orphic Library was a dream: eight hours of paid silence. But the dream has rules. Clock in at 9 AM. Clock out at 5 PM. Not a second early, not a second late. When a ghostly woman from 1986 appears with a frantic warning and the library's charming owner reveals a predatory obsession with the clock, Lena realizes she hasn't been hired—she's been trapped. The books are screaming clues, the shelves rearrange themselves into a maze, and every tick of the clock brings her closer to becoming a permanent part of the collection.
The Chhayagarh Line
Author:Renee Wheeler
To escape his haunted village, Arjun breaks a generations-old taboo and boards a train with his father. But this is no ordinary train. It is a living, breathing predator of steel and flesh, and the price of a ticket is far more than money. Trapped in a carriage that digests its passengers, Arjun discovers the horrifying pact that binds his village to the monstrous engine, a deal that is about to expire. The ride has just begun, and the final destination is damnation.
What Liora Keeps
Author:Vesper Thorne
To find his missing sister, Elio must use his volatile psychic ability—a power he can only access when blackout drunk. His desperate search attracts an old shadow from his past: the enigmatic Liora, who offers him answers at a terrible price. Pulled into her world of sensual depravity and occult horror, Elio discovers the truth about his sister is tied to a monstrous secret Liora keeps in her gothic mansion—twin entities that feed on souls. He must master his power before they consume his sister completely, but some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
The Final Cut
Author:Annie Fowler
Struggling filmmaker Leo Vance lands a dream job at the enigmatic Aperture Studios, a place that promises to turn his pain into art. But the studio's methods are brutal, their sets are unnervingly real, and the cameras never stop rolling. He soon discovers the studio isn't just making movies—it's a cult that worships a monstrous god of cinema, Obscura. To create the perfect film, they require the ultimate sacrifice. Now, Leo is cast as the lead in their final masterpiece, and the only way to survive is to give the performance of a lifetime, blurring the line between his grief and their gruesome script until he no longer knows where the acting ends and his own destruction begins.
The Whispers of Ardenwood
Author:Leo Knight
On a silent night in a forgotten Belgian town, 14-year-old Leo wakes to the sound of whispering. Outside his window, shadowy figures sit in a perfect circle on his lawn, their ritual cloaked in darkness. When a light flicks on, they all turn, revealing cold, empty eyes that stare directly into his soul. They were not just passing through; they were waiting. Now, the whispers are calling his name from the ancient forest that borders his home, a forest with secrets bound to his bloodline. Leo must uncover the terrifying truth before he becomes the next offering to the things that wait in the woods.
The Stone that Swallows
Author:Sue Larson
Thirteen years ago, my sister vanished in a cave, swallowed by a Native American folktale my brother believes in. I called it a lie, a cover for a human monster. Now, I've returned home to prove him wrong, to walk back into that darkness and find a rational truth. But the cave remembers us. The stories our grandmother told weren't fairytales; they were warnings. And the things that live in the deep, dark places of the earth are hungry. They've been waiting for us to come back.
The Hunger That Wears My Face
Author:Deann Williamson
Returning to his childhood home to bury his father, Treyton Vance uncovers a horrifying truth. His family didn't die of natural causes—they were offerings. An ancient entity now wears their faces, speaks with their voices, and has set its sights on him. Stalked by a creature born from a dark ritual, Trey must unravel his father's sins to survive the monster that believes there can only be one. He is the final piece of the collection, and the hunger is limitless.
The Reluctant Reaper's Ledger
Author:Vesper Ledger
Sacrificed to a demon, Morrigan expected eternal damnation. Instead, she got a job offer from Death himself. Now, as the Grim Reaper's newest apprentice, she must navigate a world of violent spirits, demonic cults, and soul-devouring monsters. With a snarky attitude and a scythe she barely knows how to use, she must choose between her fading humanity and the immense power of a reaper. But the cult that killed her isn't finished, and they want her soul back.