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Stories in Horror that you'll love, handpicked by our team.

Sins of the Architect. Top Story - June 2026.
Words can never come close to describing the unfathomable darkness surrounding you... If you don’t get out of this place alive who will care for the dogs? You wonder about that but in a state of stupefied haste, you go through the wrong door. There is no turning back. You glance behind you but see no evidence of a door even being there.
By Lamar Wiggins4 months ago in Horror
What Came with the Mist. Top Story - June 2026. Content Warning.
Fog rolled through the hallways of the Wisteria’s School for the Gifted, shrouding the already dim corridors with a blanket of ashen haze. That wasn’t what had shivers racing up Hester’s spine, though. It was the whispers that laced themselves through the mist.
By Meghan Thew4 months ago in Horror
Bowling Bowls and Candles and Pepper Spray, Oh My. Honorable Mention in Out of the Dream Challenge. Top Story - June 2026.
"No, and like---" Sara gasps through her laughs, though she's obviously simultaneously terrified. "---when we get there what if the door is, like, locked and there's a note that says Stay awayyyy in blood."
By Raine Neal4 months ago in Horror
Fortunato's Doom . Top Story - June 2026.
To enact the perfect revenge. Thus was Montresor’s aim. (His name, incidentally, translates as “Treasure Mountain.” Make of that whatever you will.) One imagines Fortunato, a small, perhaps dwarfish knave dressed in the motley of a court jester, with a pointed cap of bells, looking as if he stepped from a 52-card deck of Aviator Cards, making his way through the streets at dusk during the carnival—drunk, coughing, hacking in his poor health. He is flushed; his feverish face is boiling with daubs of white and red. It is a picturesque grotesque, a sweaty, drooling wonder. And eyeing him, like a vulture in the crowd, circling him as if he were inexorable doom, his boon companion Montresor, who had borne Fortunato’s “thousand injuries” (we can only imagine and conjecture about them) but who bolted upon the perceived insult—and then plotted revenge, one best served cold, and with impunity. “Ah, my friend, I have acquired a pipe of Amontillado. But I have my doubts…”
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Horror
A Father’s Waking Nightmare. Honorable Mention in Out of the Dream Challenge. Top Story - June 2026. Content Warning.
I remember the sound. The loud slam of my front door being kicked in by an intruder. I reached for anything close by to defend myself. That’s when I realized I couldn’t move.
By Jesse Lee4 months ago in Horror
Backrooms (2026) Review: A Nightmare Built From Dread and Liminal Spaces. Top Story - June 2026.
★★★★☆ (4/5) Backrooms (2026) Directed by Kane Parsons Written by Kane Parsons Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve
By Sean Patrick4 months ago in Horror
I BARELY BREATHED. Top Story - June 2026.
I BARELY BREATHED my breath made too much noise ** My husband and I bought the little ranch house in the late 1960s. With three bedrooms, a decent sized living room, a kitchen that could fit one person, and a small dining room, I thought it was perfect, especially since it had a large, fenced in yard. Yes, it was perfect – a perfect place where my little boys and their dog, Soldier could play.
By Margaret Brennan4 months ago in Horror
Reyna Strikes Out. Top Story - May 2026.
Author note of caution: This is a horror story and might be upsetting to some readers. “Strike! Look at that turkey! Eric wins the tournament by one pin with that strike in the tenth frame!” The loudspeaker carried the voice throughout the bowling center.
By Andrea Corwin 4 months ago in Horror
No Shelter. Top Story - May 2026.
When I was just young my mother told me about the scariest thing in the world. And I had yet to encounter it in all my life. But I had always had shelter. I was the lucky breed.
By Raine Fielder4 months ago in Horror
Benkill . Runner-Up in Stay a While Challenge. Top Story - May 2026. Content Warning.
Ah hid jist finished disemboweling oor dinner when I heard the others pull up ootside oor perfect wee getaway. Malcolm and Helena, two halves of oor trio, were mah auldest and dearest pals. I ran tae the door and opened it, geeing them a wave afore headin back tae mah carcass. I grabbed mah Japanese steel cleaver and got tae work separating the head frae the body. I'd scalp the baldy bastid later and then scoop oot the brain for using tae flavour the soup.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Horror
This Little Piggy. Winner in Stay a While Challenge. Top Story - May 2026.
Tony read from a Wikipedia page on his phone. "Pig Beach is an island populated by feral, swimming pigs." "Sí señor," their bartender said. "They're friendly, too. Tourists go there to swim with the pigs. Just be careful if you're sailing by yourselves. There are hundreds of islands out here. Easy to get lost."
By Tyler Clark5 months ago in Horror
Mission Ridge, South Dakota. Top Story - May 2026. Content Warning.
Annabelle was feeding the chickens when a pop of red caught her eye. A strand of yarn, resting on the dirt floor. She reached down to pick it up and it yanked away from her. Annabelle giggled. She reached for it a second time and it was tugged again, pulled through the wire mesh of the coop.
By Bride of Sound5 months ago in Horror