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It Waits for Me
He noticed it first in the way people looked at him. Not with fear or suspicion, but with something more primal. Animals were the first to sense it—dogs that used…
Read NowIt Never Ends
This all started one very normal night. No clouds in sight and stars as far as the eye could see. Some of my friends and I enjoy being scared, so…
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Jamie Lee Curtis and the Night They Filmed Halloween On Our Street
Sometimes when you’re a kid, you dream shit that you don’t tell your parents. And it’s not because what you dreamt was so bad, but because you have no words…
Read NowDesert Dream
The human brain is an odd thing. Your memories, mostly from your childhood, are vague and ambiguous. Is what you remember even real? Could it be that you’ve manufactured your…
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A Lonely Machine
Roger glanced around the desert once more. Nothing but the cloudless sky and the sand scattering in the wind, with a few cacti dotted around the landscape. With nothing else…
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Please help me. I’m scared, and I don’t know what to do
I don't know else how to say this other than I just saw a titanic skeleton in the woods of Lassen National Park. I understand this place is usually reserved…
Read NowI’ve been locked inside this warehouse for 42 hours and everyone is missing
1 I don’t know if anyone will end up reading this. Fuck I don't even know if theres anyone left outside this damn building. The last time I looked out…
Read NowIn The Mirror
Normally you sleep soundly, but the thunderstorm raging outside is stirring you from your sleep. You begin to doze, then another crash jolts you awake. The cycle lasts most of…
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The Painting in the Mirror
My hands shake as I write this. I’ve long given up any hope of anyone ever believing me, or offering me any form of meaningful help. All I can do…
Read NowA Dangerous Man
He came into town on a cold, dry wind Kicking up dust and blowing sand The sun dimmed for a moment that day The howling wind seemed to say “He…
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Mr. Livingston
Dear Mr. Livingston, I understand that you are a man of business, often solely occupied in the matters that bring such a lively income to our estate. My good sir,…
Read NowLittle Glass Box
The pungent, acrid smell permeated the old home that was now mine; I knew that the smell would fade with time, and that I would become accustomed to it as…
Read NowGifts On My Porch
Hello everyone. I came here to write this because I genuinely don’t know who else I can tell. My name is David. I’m a man in my mid-thirties who’s recently…
Read NowKosciusko, Texas
There are some places in Texas I advise you to go to: San Antonio. Austin. Poteet. Dallas. La Vernia. Just to name a few if you want to experience real…
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My One Night Stand Left Something Inside Me
Hi guys. My name is Violet, I’m twenty-three, and I’m scared. I don’t understand what’s happening to me, and I really hope somebody can help. It was Friday afternoon. I…
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The Squeeze
The fear has been with me for as long as I can remember. I don’t know if I was born scared, or whether the fear first came to me during…
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Digger of the Dead
Many people ask me why I would ever choose the field of grave digging as my chosen career. Why choose such a depressing and creepy job when I could be…
Read NowRussian Sleep Experiment Explained
When it comes to conspiracy theories, stories related to Russia always seem to attract extra attention. Sometimes people talk about secret laboratories. Other times, it’s about hidden Soviet missions or…
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The Idiot Mile
That’s what we called it. The idiot mile. We used to think it sounded cool, but the adults talked about it and hyped it up so much that we just…
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Superpowers.avi
This is, by reputation, a website for fictional horror stories that might make you look over your shoulder or turn the lights back on a few times, but I wanted…
Read NowThe Silence of the North Woods
The first thing I remember of my arrival in Ahtunowhiho, the small Native American village in the northern reaches of Minnesota, was the smell. The familiar aroma of soaked dirt…
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