creepy stories long stories pick of the month Wei Bo Wednesday, September 2, 2026 My Daughter Came Back Wearing Red by Wei Bo <i>Something goes hideously wrong at Maplewood Mall, and one very determined mother is willing to go to extremes to keep her daughter safe.</i><br><br>I took my daughter to the mall, and for maybe three seconds - just long enough to fish my card out of my purse - she vanished. <br><br>In those same three seconds, the whole place sealed itself shut and turned into a slaughterhouse. <br><br>People in red started killing everyone… Read more Labels: creepy stories long stories pick of the month Wei Bo 1 comment:
Clayton James creepy stories medium length stories Wednesday, August 5, 2026 The Black Box by Clayton James <i>Rob and Paula are sceptical of their town council's unsettlingly bizarre new waste management system, and distracted by their nightmare neighbours.</i><br><br>Waste Management dropped off our new kitchen trash container at some point that morning, and when I first laid eyes on it, I thought someone had made a mistake. Instead of a sturdy plastic tub with an attached lid and handle, as pictured on Waste M… Read more Labels: Clayton James creepy stories medium length stories 2 comments:
creepy stories Grant Brown medium length stories Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Mister Hands by Grant Brown <i>A psychologist in a mental asylum laments the lack of progress in his most confounding patient, Corny Bird.</i><br><br>The people in this place both confuse and disgust me. Do you know what they call me here? <br><br>Never will there come a day where I do not baffle myself for not spontaneously quitting this establishment. The people here are all insane. For example - yesterday, Corny Bird (I absolutely <i>refuse</i> to be… Read more Labels: creepy stories Grant Brown medium length stories 2 comments:
creepy stories Cris Aboobaker futuristic stories medium length stories Friday, July 24, 2026 Delusion by Cris Aboobaker <i>Sam has been working too much, and suffers an unsettling delusion.</i><br><br>One night, as he worked late in the office, Sam was astonished to see the shadow of lettering embedded in the bony knob of his right elbow. As he bent his arm toward the men's room mirror, he could make out the word. Androm, it said, and as he brought his face closer, he could see the stylized, cursive "A." It looked … Read more Labels: creepy stories Cris Aboobaker futuristic stories medium length stories 12 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Wajad R Basha Wednesday, July 22, 2026 The Wingless Butterfly by Wajad R. Basha <i>Nora is coming up to her 16th birthday, and her demanding mother has got her an extreme gift.</i><br><br>Nora reached out for the juice cup, but before she could grab it, her mother hit her hand. <br><br>"Not now, Nora! We'll be eating soon." <br><br>"But I'm thirsty! The food isn't done yet!" <br><br>Her mother didn't respond, but she took the cup off the counter and looked at her with narrow ey… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Wajad R Basha 6 comments:
creepy stories fantastic stories Hayduke Irish long stories Wednesday, July 15, 2026 There Is No Evil Just Animals Surviving As Long As They Can by Hayduke Irish <i>Medocea has decimated Kiri's tribe, but Kiri survives and dives deeper than anyone before into the watery caves to in an effort to find and kill the creature.</i><br><br><i>Peace.</i><br><br>She spoke without her voice, directly into my mind, indifferent to our cries. She made the stones grow within me. I felt I would rip open; it had happened too fast, and my skin stretched too tight, though I felt nothing, no pain. I… Read more Labels: creepy stories fantastic stories Hayduke Irish long stories 1 comment:
creepy stories futuristic stories long stories Ty Chellew Friday, June 12, 2026 The Perfect Brain by Ty Chellew <i>When a widowed father of two is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is offered a futuristic experimental treatment that seems too good to be true.</i><br><br>"Are you really going to shoot him, Bruce?" <br><br>My wife's voice is a mere whisper, and I barely hear her implore; I can't focus on that right now. I stare down the sight of my Glock at Cal. Or whoever Cal has become - because the man I'… Read more Labels: creepy stories futuristic stories long stories Ty Chellew 9 comments:
creepy stories JJ Hanestad medium length stories Wednesday, April 29, 2026 The Itch by JJ Hanestad <i>A cash-strapped father of two finds a supernatural button that offers him a new kind of life, but at what cost?</i><br><br>I have been writing in this journal on suggestion from my therapist for just over six months now, and I must say that it has worked far better than I imagined it would. My mind is clearer. I have been sleeping better (though I may have the Trazadone to thank for that). I still cry, but l… Read more Labels: creepy stories JJ Hanestad medium length stories 7 comments:
creepy stories Joseph Hirsch short stories Friday, April 24, 2026 Cozy by Joseph Hirsch <i> A detective visits a woman connected to two missing persons cases, and finds something shocking.</i><br><br>My suspect lived at the end of a cul-de-sac in a two-story bungalow surrounded by similar small houses. Two children were out front playing - a boy and a girl - enjoying the summer weather. The boy had a yellow plastic dump truck in his hand, a load of pebble gravel in the berth of the dump body. The … Read more Labels: creepy stories Joseph Hirsch short stories 9 comments:
creepy stories funny stories Joe Giordano medium length stories Wednesday, April 15, 2026 A Second Shot by Joe Giordano <i>A drunk driver kills a man with his car, but the man comes back to life.</i><br><br>Navigating through a mental fog created by a surfeit of bourbon, I tore around a winding Texas wooded road and triggered my worst nightmare. A guy suddenly appeared on a blind curve. Although I swerved, slamming on my brakes, I heard the thud of my bumper smacking into him. <br><br>"Oh, shit." <br><br>My eyes riveted on the rearvi… Read more Labels: creepy stories funny stories Joe Giordano medium length stories 10 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Teresa Koeppel Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Evergreen by Teresa Koeppel <i>A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares about a menacing fiery figure on a mountaintop, and must undergo a dramatic transformation to save herself.</i><br><br>This was never who I expected to be. <br><br>He came to me in my dreams, like a shining Freddy Krueger, radiating light and menace in equal measure. He was overbright, sharply outlined, unreal even by the standards of dreams, and my subconscious recoiled fr… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Teresa Koeppel 4 comments:
creepy stories John Leahy short stories Monday, February 23, 2026 Elegy In The Retort by John Leahy <i>A story inspired by the Lamb funeral home scandal in which numerous bodies were cremated at once in order to boost profits quickly.</i><br><br>We are seven. We were not meant to be burned together. Not like this. Not in this oven. Not in this place. Not stacked like refuse. Not shoved in haste, as if death were a shipment, a quota, a monthly target. And yet, here we are: pressed shoulder to jaw, pelvis to ri… Read more Labels: creepy stories John Leahy short stories 10 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Scott Craven Friday, February 13, 2026 Polarity by Scott Craven <i>A stranger asks to see a suburban dad's luxury car, and he is hard to refuse.</i><br><br>When Carl scissors open the blinds, the Saturday morning sun reveals more than the weather; a man stands at the end of the driveway, motionless. <br><br>"What the..." he mumbles, instinctively narrowing the slats. The man, unlike the usual cast of dog walkers out this early, simply stares. <br><br>Into Carl's garage. <br><br>… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Scott Craven 7 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu Friday, February 6, 2026 The Night of Grimalkin by Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu <i>Nurse Vicki tells the story of Ogochukwu, a woman in rural Nigeria convinced she is being targeted by a mysterious vendetta marked by menacing felines.</i><br><br>Miss Vicki leaned her elbows on the duty table, the smell of disinfectant mingling with the soft cry of newborns behind the curtains. "I've told this story only once," she began, her voice thin, "and the last nurse who heard it r… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu 4 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Meredith Rosier Friday, January 30, 2026 By Night by Meredith Rosier <i>A prima ballerina is gradually usurped by a youth with preternatural ability.</i><br><br>"Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood." <br><br>- Irina Dumitrescu, <i>Swan, Late: The Unexpected Joys of Adult Beginner Ballet</i>.<br>The lights bowed in a soft ind… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Meredith Rosier 9 comments:
creepy stories futuristic stories JJ de Melo medium length stories Monday, January 12, 2026 Tethered by JJ de Melo <i>A Filipino doctor on an interstellar colonisation mission is woken from cryosleep when the captain is found killed in an impossible way.</i><br><br>Tik. Tik. Tik. <br><br>You're hearing it again. <br><br>"Doctor!" <br><br>You can barely see. Your eyes are slow to recover from years closed in cryogenic slumber. Over you stands a dark figure. Blurred. Familiar in the worst way. <br><br>"Doctor! Wake up!" <br><br>Your visio… Read more Labels: creepy stories futuristic stories JJ de Melo medium length stories 4 comments:
Alex Przyborowski creepy stories futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Monday, December 15, 2025 The Languid Saint by Alex Przyborowski <i>Drestyll Aberforth, high priest of a pro-machine religion, plans a dramatic final sermon - but how did he get to this point?</i><br><br>Drestyll Aberforth was a failure, abject and absolute. He was a tool of religious fear and governmental oppression, and these things were his fault. It was not a matter of public opinion, nor even one of private, self-indulgent shame. This was a matter of fact, and one that … Read more Labels: Alex Przyborowski creepy stories futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month 4 comments:
creepy stories Harrison Kim medium length stories Friday, December 12, 2025 Saxon Was My Friend by Harrison Kim <i>A child haunted by a floating head longs for a serpentine companion to scare it away.</i><br><br>My first sighting of the head happened while I lay in my baby buggy. Its face grinning, half open, tongue flat, the insides of its mouth moist and red. Its limpid turquoise eyes stared into mine. I held a white object in my hand and threw it. The mouth grabbed, swallowed, and the face sailed up into the air and w… Read more Labels: creepy stories Harrison Kim medium length stories 6 comments:
Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin creepy stories medium length stories Friday, November 28, 2025 I Can't Tell You That by Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin <i>Tasha's boyfriend works nights on a mysterious experiment, leaving her to deal with her nightmares of embodying violent people on her own.</i><br><br>Plagued. Plagued, she was, by dreams of violence and blood, the scent of prey, the stench of predation. And she, the predator. The lion in the veld that develops an appetite for human flesh. The alien that probes a man's sinew and tastes his heart. The … Read more Labels: Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin creepy stories medium length stories 4 comments:
creepy stories JS Apsley short stories Monday, October 27, 2025 The Glasgow Ghoul by JS Apsley <i>In 1990 Scotland, a murder at a carnival signals the return of the Glasgow Ghoul.</i><br><br>Any kid who grew up in Glasgow always knew the Christmas carnival as "The Shows". Every year, down at the Clydeside, the winter holidays carnival would come to town. For the kids, this was a hot-and-sticky, dangerous sort of freedom. You could go wild with your pals, spend as much money as your folks had be… Read more Labels: creepy stories JS Apsley short stories 9 comments:
