Psychological Horror Short

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maren's grandmother left her two things: a house full of mirrors and a horror she can't escape. When sixteen-year-old Maren moves into her dead grandmother's estate, she thinks the hardest part will be watching her mother fade away from depression. But the house has thirty-two mirrors, and they're not just reflecting anymore. Her reflection moves when she doesn't. Writes messages. Talks to things that aren't there. And something is hunting from the other side of the glass. The journals hidden in her grandmother's desk reveal a terrible truth: in 1952, desperate to escape an abusive marriage...

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...

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 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 ...

Some roads only go one way.Ray Dalton has been driving the same stretch of Texas highway for thirty years. He knows the rhythm of the tires, the taste of stale coffee, and the exact mile marker where his life changed forever.It was April 14, 1994. A rainy night. A crumpled car. A seven-year-old boy named Michael who died before the ambulance arrived. Ray has spent three decades telling himself he did everything he could.But tonight, the radio is playing songs that don’t exist. The towns on the map have long since burned down. And when Ray looks in his rearview mirror, the back seat ...

A visceral collection of modern nightmares about transformation, hunger, and the things that wear our faces. Horror Mode blends body horror, urban legends, and creeping cosmic dread into sharp, cinematic stories that stare too long at what’s underneath the skin... and what’s waiting behind the mirror. Four standalone stories. Four distinct flavors of dread. This collection moves from intimate unease to full-body terror, each tale tightening the screws in its own way: sharp, cinematic, and designed to linger. Read them in one white-knuckled sprint or savor them one by one; either way, ...

The Shadow Behind You is a collection of twenty psychological horror stories about the thing you almost noticed. Not the monster that announces itself, not the shock that resolves into explanation — but the quieter, stranger presence that installs itself in the margins of an ordinary life and stays there. The footsteps that match your pace exactly and vanish when you turn around. The reflection that moves a half-second after you do. The wardrobe that breathes in the dark while you sleep three feet away. The voice that says your name from whichever room you happen to have your back to. ...

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, ...

Some houses do not haunt. They remember. Behind every creak in the floorboards, every shadow at the edge of a doorway, every light that should not be on — a house is keeping its record. Twenty families. Twenty addresses. Twenty encounters with the thing that old buildings become when they have held enough of human life within their walls for long enough. In Whispers in the Walls, Adrian Cave delivers twenty standalone horror stories set entirely in haunted houses — each one a sealed world of dread, each one building to a revelation that lingers long after the last page. A couple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.