Creepy Anthology

Behind quiet main streets, shuttered diners, and towns with only one stoplight, stories are passed down in lowered voices. Everyone knows them. No one agrees on the details. Urban Legends of Small-Town America is a chilling collection of short, atmospheric tales inspired by rural whispers, local secrets, and places where nothing ever seems to happen—until it does. Each chapter explores a different town, legend, or unexplained event: disappearances no one reports anymore, buildings locals refuse to enter, people who are spoken of in the past tense even though they’re still around. These ...

Step into the shadows with The Big Book of Scary Stories by Mike Nesbitt—a chilling collection of over one hundred terrifying tales designed to keep you awake long after the lights go out. From haunted houses and cursed objects to restless spirits and sinister whispers in the dark, each story plunges you into a world where fear lurks around every corner and nightmares are waiting to be unleashed. Inside these pages, you’ll encounter Crimson Manor, where ivy-covered walls hide secrets that claim the souls of the curious. You’ll meet Lucinda the Shadow Doll, a porcelain terror who moves...

They liked your post. They sent a message. By morning, they were gone. Urban Legends of Social Media Encounters explores chilling modern folklore born from timelines, direct messages, live streams, and online profiles that behave in ways they shouldn’t. These stories follow users who interacted with accounts that vanished overnight, received messages from people who no longer existed, or discovered their own photos appearing on profiles they never created. From midnight notifications and disappearing followers to comments that predict real-world events, each chapter blurs the line between...

Welcome to Eternal Rest Funeral Parlor, where death is just the beginning of the story. The grandfather clock strikes midnight. The oil lamps flicker. And Mortimer Graves—yes, that's really his name—invites you into his preparation room for an evening you'll never forget. Or survive. In this chilling collection of fifteen macabre tales, the Graves family's peculiar undertaker proves to be more than just a keeper of the dead. He's a collector of their darkest secrets, and tonight, he's sharing them with you. From a young woman who accepts a ride from a mysterious stranger at an abandoned...

24 Terrifying Tales told in a true story style that will curdle your blood and send shivers down your spine!

Creepypasta: Volume Three – Fifty MORE Stories Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Creepypasta: Volume Three – Fifty MORE Stories is a chilling anthology of 50 twisted tales from the dark corners of the internet, gathered from the cult-favorite "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack. These stories aren’t just fiction, they’re warnings, strange echoes of something lurking just beyond the veil of our imagination. Born from sleep paralysis, shared by trembling hands, and unearthed from forgotten inboxes, they blur the line between real and imagined. Whether you’re ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and...

When most of the world is asleep, someone is still working. A security guard pacing empty hallways. A nurse alone with the beeping machines. A truck driver on a road with no lights. A hotel clerk checking in guests who shouldn’t exist. Urban Legends of the Night Shift is a short-story anthology where each chapter follows a different overnight worker—people who stayed awake long enough to notice when reality slipped. Every story stands alone, inspired by modern urban legends, workplace rumors, and whispered warnings passed between night crews. No monsters announced themselves. No evil ...

"Includes something for every kind of King fan.” —People From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online...

“The pages practically turn themselves” (USA TODAY) in this collection of four “disturbing, fascinating” (The Washington Post) novellas centered around the theme of retribution from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “1922” (also a Netflix original film): A...

YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE LOOKED An Anthology of Short Horror Stories by Max Nolten Curiosity is never harmless. In You Shouldn’t Have Looked, ordinary moments become points of no return. A late-night chat window. A walk through the woods. A quiet house. A familiar voice asking the wrong question. Each story follows people who do something small and human—who look closer, listen longer, stay when they should leave. And pay for it. These stories explore the horror of being noticed: by strangers, by systems, by killers, by things that wear human shapes and speak in careful words. Some victims ...

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 • ...

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.

A collection of twenty-two spine-tingling horror and thriller tales for readers who wouldn’t think twice about strolling through a graveyard after midnight. If you love creepy horror stories collections with quick shocks and twist endings, this two-hour horror short story collection will leave you shaken and satisfied. Inside this psychological horror anthology of supernatural horror short reads, you’ll find: BOGUS: A comic book artist draws a demon so lifelike it scares him to death. JETHRO: A man created from body parts of cadavers tries to survive after the death of his master. BAD ...

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

Seven Stories. One Dark Ride. A collection of spine-tingling horror and thriller tales for readers who wouldn’t think twice about strolling through a graveyard after midnight. If you love creepy horror stories collections with quick shocks and twist endings, this two-hour horror short story collection will leave you shaken and satisfied. Inside this psychological horror anthology of supernatural horror short reads, you’ll find: THE WIDOW: A series of staged murders draws a detective into an investigation where justice, misdirection, and long-buried wrongdoing collide. NEVER A BRIDE: A ...

The Black Beacon Book of Horror features dark and disturbing tales from some of the most original and imaginative authors writing in the genre today. These tales of psychological, supernatural, folk, gothic, and cosmic horror will usher you into the darkest of realms and leave you there to fend for yourself. You'll lose your way in abandoned houses and hospitals, and be trapped on stormy beaches and along foggy country roads. There are haunted dolls, creepy-crawlies, malevolent spirits, creatures of legend, Lovecraftian terrors, and the demons within our own minds. But as varied as the ...

The 30 Nightmares: The CONDOM IN THE COFFIN: A wife finds a condom in the lining of her husband's coffin which triggers suspicions someone at the mortuary is a necrophiliac. THE LOOKER: Kidnappers abduct an unusually beautiful woman to harvest her organs for half a million dollars. THE BEAST OF SPOOKY HOLLOW: A freelance writer goes to his college reunion and decides a legendary beast devouring the locals there may be his ticket to a Pulitzer. THE ALIEN: A man struck by lightning while having an MRI is the only one who can see aliens invading the Big Apple. THE INTRUDER: Mary calls 9-1-1 ...

Push past the curtains of your rational, safe world and explore the unnameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the realm of monsters and shifting shadows, where a single wrong step can plunge you into a terrifying fight for your life

A collection of 28 spine-tingling horror and thriller tales. HOUSE OF SPIDERS: A man moves into a new house and discovers every spider he kills is replaced by two more. MOUNT HER GENTLY: A taxidermist accepts a commission to preserve a man’s daughter as he wants her—forever. BEYOND THE VEIL: When a surgeon collapses during surgery, the hospital discovers his body is a patchwork of organs from missing people. BORROWED BREATH: After briefly dying on the operating table, Marcus returns to life haunted by a vengeful spirit who followed him from the other side.. RED: A village turns to a ...