Psychological Horror Short

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...

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 ...

The Spaces Between is a haunting collection of twenty chilling tales that explore the quiet terror of in-between places — the corridors we hurry through, the waiting rooms we sit in, the platforms where nothing arrives. An empty underground station where the last train never comes. A house that shifts each time you leave the room. An airport terminal where no planes take off — and no one can leave. A motorway service station frozen at 3:17 a.m. In these liminal spaces — neither here nor there, neither past nor present — something is waiting. Blending psychological horror with ...

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 ...

Some roads are longer on the inside than the outside. You know this road. You have driven it: the motorway at two in the morning, the country lane that loops back on itself, the junction you do not remember passing. You have driven it and arrived safely, telling yourself the strangeness was tiredness, or the radio, or the particular quality of light that fog produces over flat ground in October. You have been mostly right. The Path in the Fog is a collection of twenty original horror stories set on the roads of Britain—and on the roads beneath the roads, the ones that only become visible ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Last House in Town is a collection of twenty original horror stories united by a single, deeply unsettling premise: the house is not haunted by the dead, but by the living. From a traveller who arrives at a deserted town and finds the last lit window waiting for him, to a woman who discovers a new window in her hallway showing a shadow that learns to smile before she does – these are stories about isolation, belonging, and the terrible intimacy of a place that knows you better than you know yourself. A cartographer maps his city as it disappears around him, block by block, moving ...

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 ...

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...

Where the Shadows Feed: Short Tales of Horror - Volume I Are you brave enough to confront the darkness that lurks within? Joe Ippolito invites you on a chilling descent into the macabre with Where the Shadows Feed, a collection of short horror stories that will haunt your dreams. More than just jump scares, these tales delve into the psychological landscapes of fear, exploring the lingering echoes of trauma, the corrosive power of guilt, and the terrifying realization that we are not always in control of our own destinies. From the depths of the Amazonian jungle, where a research expedition...

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, ...

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.

Springblood What if the myth is real? Graywater was supposed to be a quiet town. A fresh start. But when the spring thaw comes, so do the stories—old whispers of figures in the woods with white eyes and long arms, of offerings left at the treeline to keep something ancient satisfied. Mara Marsh doesn’t believe in folklore. Not until people start vanishing. Not until she and her daughter see the things for themselves. Now Graywater is unraveling. A town under siege. And the deeper Mara digs, the clearer it becomes: this isn’t just a myth. It’s a ritual. One written in blood, buried ...

Step beyond the veil of sleep into a kaleidoscope of terror, wonder, and surreal mystery. In Lucid Dreams, author Mark Lime delivers a vivid anthology of mind-bending, spine-chilling short stories that blend science fiction, horror, and the eerie logic of dreams. Each story takes you deeper into a different dimension—where logic unravels, time twists, and reality fractures. Brimming with atmosphere and surrealism, these stories linger like fragments of a forgotten dream. Haunting, violent, and strangely beautiful—Lucid Dreams is for fans of the uncanny and the unknowable. Dare to fall ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lifelike dummy. A strange dinner party. A soul that won’t stay dead. When struggling actor/waiter Luke Barrett is assigned to serve a bizarre memorial dinner, he doesn’t expect the guest of honor to be a creepy carpool dummy—or for the night to follow him home. But soon, Luke begins blacking out. Seeing things. Becoming someone else. As his reality unravels, he realizes the dummy isn’t just a lifeless prop. It’s watching. Waiting. And it wants in. From bestselling author William Massa comes a chilling short story of possession and occult terrors. A quick read that can be read or...

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 ...