Psychological Horror Short

A husband and wife find themselves repeating the same scene over and over as something large looms in the sky above them. An old woman who takes care of her Alzheimer’s inflicted husband is exasperated when she realizes he believes that his mother is at their front door. Her mother-in-law, who has been dead for many years. She wants to show him he’s wrong, however, opening the door to prove it to him is a bad idea

After a devastating heartbreak, McKenzie Bishop swears off love to focus on her career as a branding consultant. But when her parents convince her to try the dating app, A Dime A Dozen, a seemingly harmless connection resurrects buried trauma and ignites dangerous desires. What starts as a reluctant search for companionship quickly spirals into a twisted game of deadly revenge. As McKenzie’s obsession deepens, fears are weaponized, secrets are uncovered, and no match is safe. Yet, someone has been watching her every move and is determined to expose her darkest truths. Can McKenzie ...

Step right up… if you dare. When the lights go out and the crowds disappear, the carnival awakens. The Carnival After Dark: 20 Horror Short Stories of Twisted Entertainment by Adrian Cave invites you beyond the ticket booth and into a world where laughter echoes too long, mirrors reflect more than they should, and every ride demands a price. Inside this collection, you’ll discover: A carousel that steals more than childhood joy A fortune teller whose popcorn predicts gruesome fates A clown whose painted smile becomes permanent A Ferris wheel that descends into something waiting ...

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: SIX MINUTES TO BONE: Two reporters investigating a reclusive scientist’s pest-control research discover his experiments with genetically engineered ants are ...

Terror from the strangest of sources--a simple summer rain. Kate and Daniel, a troubled couple, go to their lover's hideaway in the North Georgia mountains. There, they find not the answer to their troubles, but parasitic creatures who care only about survival. Read this taut story about isolation and unexpected loss of identity. The Rain by author Paul Neuhaus, a scary monster story for adults.

Twenty 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 END OF THE INNOCENCE: Brent's parents played without supervision all day when they were kids, but it seems evil lurks behind every shadow these days. OSGOOD...

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: PICKLES: A suburban man’s escalating feud with a neighbor’s roaming dog spirals into violence, cover-ups, and the slow unraveling of his own carefully ...

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 ...

Dare to enter Harmony House... if you can survive its curse. Nestled in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, Harmony House is a striking estate with an allure that draws people in—only to trap them in a web of terror. Five new owners have crossed its threshold, each unaware of the horrors waiting inside. What starts as a dream home quickly turns into a nightmare as they confront the malevolent spirits that haunt its halls. Each story reveals the twisted history of Harmony House through the eyes of its ill-fated residents. From terrifying apparitions to sinister forces that toy with the mind, ...

Read this with Vincent Price's voice in your head. In the world's forgotten corners of the darkness, where shadows stretch long and whispers never fade, Stories that will make you Sh17 yourself, weave together a chilling collection of ghostly and supernatural tales. Each of the 40 stories explores a different haunted place, where the past refuses to stay buried and fear takes on a life of its own. From eerie carnivals and cursed paintings to malevolent mansions and spectral islands, these stories delve into the unknown, where the boundary between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Within...

The sky tore open—and something looked back. On an ordinary night, the stars begin to shift. Then the sky splits apart like a wound, revealing a vast and incomprehensible presence beyond human understanding. That moment is only the beginning. In The Night the Sky Opened, author Adrian Cave delivers 20 chilling tales of cosmic horror, where reality bends, the universe watches, and humanity is exposed as fragile and insignificant. From eerie transmissions hidden in radio static to living constellations and impossible geometries, each story pulls you deeper into a universe that was never ...

Mia is reluctant to go camping with her boyfriend and sister, who are graduate students working on a dissertation about American folklore. But ultimately, they convince her to help document the trip. The group sets off to Black Creek, a remote destination in the Pacific Northwest where Bigfoot has allegedly been sighted. They think they’re prepared for anything, but their sense of terror grows as they find more and more evidence to suggest the monster really is out there. Eventually, Mia realizes she’ll be lucky just to make it out of the woods alive.

The Big Book of Scary Stories 2 is a massive collection of horror short stories built for readers who want fast, brutal chills with zero filler. Open to any page and you’re dropped straight into a fresh nightmare - the kind that starts with a normal moment (a ferry ride home, a hospital corridor, a quiet street) and then tilts sideways into something wrong. This volume delivers creepy tales, ghost stories, and supernatural horror with a sharp edge of modern dread — the feeling that the world is still the world… but something is watching from just outside the light. You’ll find ...

The office lights flicker. The clock strikes midnight. You're still on shift. In The Night Shift: Twenty Tales of Workplace Horror After Dark, Adrian Cave drags the everyday working world into the shadows, where performance reviews become interrogations, suggestion boxes answer back, and the graveyard shift never really ends. Across twenty chilling short stories, supermarkets, call centres, hospitals, corporate towers, warehouses and hotels become stages for quiet terror. Employees clock in, but don't always clock out. Emails arrive from the future. Payroll includes the dead. Elevators stop...

Some smiles comfort you. Others should never exist. In 30 Horror Stories of Smiles That Last Too Long, ordinary moments twist into something deeply wrong—where a grin lingers just a little too long, where expressions don’t match emotions, and where the human face becomes something unsettling, unnatural, and impossible to ignore. From strangers who never stop smiling… to loved ones whose expressions freeze into something inhuman… to reflections that grin back when you don’t—these stories explore the quiet terror of something pretending to be normal. Each story pulls you into a ...

Ana wakes up in a hospital. Her body is pretty banged up, but knows she will heal. She doesn’t remember everything, but she remembers enough. Two drug dealers raped and beat her, leaving her body on the side of a road to die. She does not inform the police. Why do that? She has other plans. For the two drug dealers, the problem was that Ana was a killer: a serial killer. The hunger—an insatiable need to kill. To see and feel warm blood on her skin. But this time isn’t about the hunger, it’s about cold and brutal revenge! If you like horror and thriller-suspense fiction, you will ...

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 ...

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I m pretty...

Some things are better left unseen. Twenty ordinary people. Twenty moments of forbidden sight. Twenty encounters with the truth that looking is never passive—and that the things we look at have always been looking back. Within these pages, you will find an astronomer who maps a structure in deep space that slowly rotates its gaze towards Earth; a security guard whose CCTV footage shows a shadow following him through the building, drawing closer every night; a woman whose reflection stays behind in a shop window, practising her gestures until it is ready to leave; a lighthouse keeper told ...

The Best From My Vault of 400+ Nightmares Published in Chillers, Horrors, Terrors, Creepers, and Scary Stories 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 CLOWN AT MIDNIGHT: Charles likes to watch horror flicks by candlelight with ...