Modern Horror Anthology

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy...

In the fog-shrouded ruins of Innsmouth and beyond the edges of the known world, ancient tides are turning, and the deep remembers everything humanity has forgotten. In this haunting collection of Lovecraft-inspired tales, Mark Watson leads readers into the shadowed corners of New England’s coast, drowned cities, and bleak cosmic vistas where reality frays and eldritch entities whisper through brine and darkness. What begins as the search for a missing woman in a decaying seaside town unfolds into a broader tapestry of forbidden cults, Deep One pacts, cyclopean architecture, and the ever-...

They look like you. They move like you. But they don’t stop when you do. In the polished surfaces of Los Angeles apartments, hotel lobbies, phone screens, and bathroom mirrors, something ancient is waking up — and learning to imitate us. The Mirror People is a chilling anthology of 40 short horror stories about reflections, digital doubles, and the glass that remembers every secret we try to hide. From haunted vanity mirrors and cursed livestreams to cloned reflections and AI filters that refuse to turn off, each story reveals another way the mirror world bleeds into ours. You’ll meet...

12 short stories of terror. Demons from hell. Gods and Devils. Unspeakable monstrosities. Humans with a taste for flesh. An upscale clothing store in the middle of New York City that offers its customers more than they bargained for. A prodigal son returns home for his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that an ancient entity awaits. A town shelters against the first snow, and the evil it brings. A mad king. A hired assassin. A world in the balance and an eternal force manipulating all of them. And seven other tales of horror that will forever change the way you experience the holiday ...

Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Step into the heart of internet horror with Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories, an anthology featuring the first 50 chilling tales submitted to the viral Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. These aren’t just stories, they’re warnings. Whispers. Glitches in the veil between what we imagine and what waits in the dark. These stories are unearthed from inboxes, shaped in sleep paralysis, and shared with trembling hands. Whether you're a fan of Creepypasta lore or ...

Every city has a story. Some will chill you long after the last page. From the neon glow of Las Vegas to the haunted tunnels beneath New York, America hides dark secrets in every skyline. This gripping anthology dives into 50 terrifying urban legends, each rooted in real locations, whispered folklore, and chilling mysteries that refuse to stay buried. 👻 Inside, you’ll discover: • Ghostly apparitions roaming iconic landmarks • Cursed objects and sinister doppelgängers • Unexplainable creatures lurking in lakes and alleyways • Vanished souls who demand to be remembered • ...

Creepypasta - Omnibus One gathers all 150 terrifying stories from Creepypasta: Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume Three into a single, definitive omnibus, a dark archive of internet horror born in inboxes, comment threads, sleepless nights, and flickering screens. Pulled from the viral Fiction by Mark Watson Substack, these stories aren’t polished campfire tales. They’re warnings. Whispers passed along too quickly. Fragments of nightmares that feel uncomfortably familiar. Together, they chart the evolution of modern horror as it spread through forums, emails, corrupted files, and half-...

The ink spreads. The stories grow darker. The terror is never finished. In Inkbound: Stories of Horror, Vol. 4, the nightmare continues with a new collection of terrifying short stories that blur the line between folklore, urban legend, and modern dread. Each tale drips with cursed ink, unholy rituals, and haunting whispers that refuse to stay buried. No need to read the previous volumes—each story in this anthology stands alone, ready to chill both new and returning readers. Inside this volume, you’ll discover: A flesh-bound script that rewrites itself—and its victims. A moonlit ...

Are you brave enough to enter a world where the line between reality and nightmare is impossibly thin? The Horror Files beckons you into a realm where legends stir from the past, and every corner hides a terror waiting to strike. This is no ordinary collection, it's a descent into darkness, where fear takes on many faces, and no secret stays buried for long. Ancient myths claw their way into the present. Unsolved mysteries evolve into chilling realities. Brutal horrors of today collide with the restless whispers of forgotten legends. With 18 heart-pounding stories, The Horror Files will ...

Creepypasta: Volume Two – The Next Fifty Stories More Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Creepypasta: Volume Two – The Next Fifty Stories drags you deeper into the shadow-soaked heart of internet horror, with 50 new twisted tales unearthed from the cult-favorite Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. If the first volume was an invitation, this one is the trap. These stories aren’t just fiction, they’re infestations, whispers that crawl under your skin and stay there. The warnings have grown louder, and the shadows lean in closer. Featuring original nightmares. ...

You can escape your past, your fears, even your mind—but never the body you occupy. The body is the first prison, the final battlefield, and the one thing we can never abandon. Yet what happens when the flesh betrays us, when consciousness claws against its cage, when skin, bone, and blood twist into something unrecognisable? Occupying Bodies is a visceral anthology of body horror that explores the dread of living inside fragile, treacherous vessels. Within these pages, nightmares take the form of grotesque mutations, psychological unravelings, everyday afflictions magnified into terrors,...

Some truths hide in plain sight. Others whisper from locked doors, static-filled frequencies, and pages that were never printed. Things I Wasn’t Supposed to Know is a haunting anthology of modern supernatural horror, each story a first-person account of knowledge that should’ve stayed buried. From cursed livestreams to echoing tunnels, from unlisted hospital wings to languages that think back, this collection explores what happens when the veil of reality wears thin… and you peer through. They warned you not to look. You did anyway. And now it knows your name.

From ghosts hiding in parking structures to the stranger who sits behind you on empty buses, Urban Myths People Wish Were Fake dives into the nightmares hiding between modern lights and concrete walls. This chilling anthology transforms brand-new, original urban legends into terrifying short stories—each inspired by the strange rumors we hear but hope never come true. Inside these pages, you’ll encounter: • Apps that reveal things you were never meant to see • Shadows that follow you home from grocery stores • Elevators that stop on “secret floors” • Roads that don’t exist...

The Dragon Street Press Grab Bag Anthology series delivers bold, genre-spanning short fiction designed to grab you by the imagination. Grab Bag #3 features nineteen original stories across science fiction, epic fantasy, dystopian fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, speculative horror, and surreal fiction. From the bottom of the ocean to the edge of the universe, these tales explore transformation, identity, loss, rebellion, and the uncanny—with plenty of strange stops along the way. Whether you're drawn to monsters and magicians, haunted futures, sentient insects, mythic quests, or ...

A terrifying, thrilling collection of must-listen horror stories chock-full of nightmarish supernatural beings and the murderously disturbed that are sure to keep you up all night long.

Cities never truly sleep. They just change. When offices go dark and streets empty, something quieter takes over—subway tunnels hum with unfamiliar footsteps, buildings hold their breath, and workers who stay late begin to notice patterns no one else sees. Urban Legends of the City After Midnight is a short-story anthology where each chapter stands alone, revealing a different side of the city after hours. These are stories told by night guards, cleaners, drivers, clerks, and operators—people who witness what happens when schedules slip and systems keep running without supervision. No ...

Reality glitches. The familiar twists. And terror seeps through the cracks. From the unsettling hum of a faulty connection to the shadowed corners where technology and the supernatural collide, Inkbound: Volume III pulls you into fifteen chilling tales that blur the lines between the wired and the otherworldly. Inside, you’ll encounter: • Glitch-born horrors that duplicate, distort, and destroy. • Urban legends reimagined for an age of streaming and surveillance. • Supernatural intrusions in ordinary places—schools, stores, even your own home. • The Eden Biosystem files and ...

Rooms You Don’t Deserve by G.J. Fene is a chilling anthology of modern horror where guilt becomes architecture, and each room knows what you did. In twelve unnerving tales, scientists, priests, doctors, and frauds are lured into surreal punishment chambers that mirror their sins, and refuse to let them go. From a fertility clinic island where all the guests look alike… to a recursive memory trail in a fire-scorched forest… to a nursery where every infant cries with your voice, these are rooms built not for shelter, but for reckoning. Each story is a closed system. A confession box. A ...

Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One - The First 100 Stories Step into the heart of internet horror with Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One - The First 100 Stories, a chilling anthology that collects the first 100 twisted tales from the Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. These stories aren’t just fiction, they’re warnings, glitches in the veil between imagination and what’s lurking in the dark. These stories were unearthed from strange inboxes, written in sleep paralysis, and shared with trembling hands. Whether you’re a long-time fan of creepypasta or new to the genre, this book invites you ...

You found the book. Or maybe…it found you. Inside this volume are stories no one should read—yet they exist, waiting for someone to turn the page. A girl finds her reflection smiling back without her. A birthday party has one extra guest no one invited. A viral slime recipe starts changing kids into something else. A father keeps working for his family, even after death. Each tale in Inkbound is sharper than the last, pulling you deeper into the curse that binds them. At first, they seem like fiction—urban legends, school rumors, creepy YouTube stories. But then they start to echo ...