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Horror fiction that delivers on its promise to scare, startle, frighten and unsettle. These stories are fake, but the shivers down your spine won't be.

Hello?
I laid in bed waiting for sleep to consume me. Just when my eyes grew heavy and I found myself caught between reality and the dream world, I heard a phone ring.
By Jasmine Aguilar3 years ago in Horror
The curse – Part 2.. Content Warning.
I'll link here the first part in case you missed it: ~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~ "Let me help you get up" – I grab Paul's only hand and we stand up.
By Anna 3 years ago in Horror
A Siren's Midnight Call. Content Warning.
A siren’s midnight call "The house in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window."
By Sarah J. Bethany3 years ago in Horror
The Solder Mystery
It’s Christmas Eve in 1945, George Solder and his wife Jenny are at their Cozy home in faille West Virginia, celebrating the holiday with nine of their 10 kids. Their oldest daughter makes the night even more special bringing extra gifts for her younger siblings, ‘good night kids’ said the couple as they head to bed around 10:00 but had a second thought to let the kids stay up late to enjoy their new toys, little did they know that very moment is the last time their whole family will be together at half midnight. The phone rings waking Jenny and rushes downstairs to answer it, an unfamiliar female voice is on the other end and a creepy laughter emerges in the background. Jenny responds, ‘Please you dialed the wrong number’ and quickly hangs up, on her way back to bed she closes the curtains, locks the door and turns out the lights. She glances at her oldest daughter who is peacefully sleeping on the living room couch so Jenny thinks to herself that the kids must be upstairs in bed. It’s 1:30 am in the morning and Jenny wakes up once more but this time a thick smoke creeps into her room, Jenny and her husband rush out of the room only to find flames everywhere despite being completely shocked by the tragic scene, the couple and four of their kids managed to escape but the other five kids are trapped inside the house.
By Kobby Gyamfi 3 years ago in Horror
Light Switch
My brain constantly terrorizes me, holding me hostage to my own imagination. The images it shows me teeter between make believe and reality. Even when I take a breath and tell myself it’s fake, my body and my nerves react. Sometimes I jump, sometimes I hide, sometimes I scream or call for my partner. The odd thing is, I know they are fake. I always know what is real and what is fake, but it doesn’t change the fact that I see and feel the horrific images from my brain.
By Anjolene Bozeman 3 years ago in Horror
Backyard Skulls. Top Story - March 2024. Content Warning.
February 2007 His blade slices through the fleshy parts with ease. It’s graceful, disgusting but graceful. How he holds that carved handle with equal parts purpose and delicacy, as if he’s painting a rummage sale art piece to hang over a fireplace.
By Christy Munson3 years ago in Horror
Reality Exposed About The Mysterious Object
December first, 2022. Fredonia, Wisconsin. It's not long before 11 p.m. what's more, subsequent to working a drawn out day, Ken B. is out for a walk. So I was strolling outside, it's actual dim. We don't have streetlamps or any such thing nearby. Out of nowhere, something runs above Ken in the night sky. So he takes out his wireless and catches this. A gathering of four lights immediately streaked across the sky. They showed up from behind me, went across the sky, you could see somewhat glimmer of light just before they vanish. Then five additional lights moving somewhat more leisurely make a similar frightening movement. It was somewhat of a frightening encounter. I'd mess with you in the event that I said it wasn't. The next night, Chris Nowak is 40 miles south in Greenfield, Wisconsin, where he keeps these baffling lights overhead.
By Ahmad Riaz3 years ago in Horror
The Garage
It doesn’t matter if it’s day or night; something about that quiet, stiff-aired box haunts me. The heavy door, the flickering lights, the way you can hear a hum of electricity that circles and surrounds you with no explanation.
By Anjolene Bozeman 3 years ago in Horror
The Crawling Dark
At first, we thought they were spiders. The basement was cold and dark. It was almost a week after we moved in. We bothered to venture down the wooden staircase that we discovered on our first night in the house.
By Bhangs Corporation3 years ago in Horror
John Carpenter's The Thing: Mystery Finally Solved
John Carpenter’s The Thing remains one of the most highly respected in its genre, all thanks to the director’s perfect execution when making it. Carpenter constructed his masterpiece to have ideal pacing as the plot unfolded, feature a cast to rival any other of the time, and pioneered moviemaking techniques that became industry standard. Then, to top things off, Carpenter included a psychological element that made his sci-fi thriller worth watching again and again.
By Allie Z.3 years ago in Horror
Blood Queen: Rise of Darkness
In the place that is known for Eldoria, where wizardry streamed like waterways and power moved like the breeze, there existed a story ancient, murmured in the shadows and dreaded by a lot of people. It was the tale of the Blood Sovereign, a being of tremendous dimness and unquenchable hunger for power.
By Hina Tahir423 years ago in Horror
A Close Encounter
A teenage girl comes home from school. Her parents were at work and her siblings had soccer practice. She was alone in her house and she figured it would be cool. She goes up to her bedroom and sees a note on her bed. She picks it up and it reads There is someone in the house.
By Shamshath Begam3 years ago in Horror