Creepy Short Stories

Embrace the shadows with Vagabond 5: The Winter Issue, your newest compendium of terror, bringing you the most chilling tales from the darkest recesses of the unknown. This winter issue, featuring thirteen harrowing stories, invites you to tread the blizzard-blown paths where whispers dance with the winds, and figures lurk just beyond the frosted glass. Each tale spins a delicate web of dread, suspense, and the outright macabre, drawing the brave and the curious into landscapes from which escape is a flickering, distant hope. Gather your courage, for the icy breath of fear itself caresses ...

"Haunted Stories: A Collection of Scary Horror Tales" is your ticket to a realm of unimaginable terror! Brace yourself for three heart-pounding narratives that will keep you up listening late into the night.

Getting stranded in the middle of nowhere was bad enough. But falling prey to Demonic Dolls was just too much. Mike is driving his girlfriend and her idiot brother home after a concert in Seattle when one of his tires goes flat. But that's only the beginning of their troubles. Frank suddenly goes missing by the side of the road and it's up to Mike and Sarah to head into the woods to find him. But what they find will take them deep into their worst nightmares. Soon they are chased by terrifying creatures bent on devouring them. When Mike gets separated from Sarah, he will have to enter a ...

Black Mare Books presents 12 Twisted Tales from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, and A.B. Richards. In this Santa’s sack of Christmas yarns, you’ll find an array of monsters of all stripes.

A college student discovers an ancient game of chess, with deadly consequences for the loser. And a drunken one-night stand at a frat party traps an unlucky student in a diabolical bargain. Now put down your pencils. The test is over, and this sinister school of the supernatural grades on a very steep curve. Those who don’t make the cut will have to stay after class. Let’s hope you survive the extra-credit assignment….

In the sleepy town shrouded by an unrelenting snowstorm, Victoria Ashburn's fascination with forbidden knowledge unleashes a terrifying force. A snowman, born from the darkness of winter folklore, stalks the streets, claiming lives and souls. As Victoria's nightmares become reality, she must unravel the secrets of the ancient texts and stop the snowman's deadly reign before the entire town is consumed by the abyss of winter.

Join Marcus Caldwell as he steps into the decaying Chateau Amara Hotel, where every creak of the floorboards whispers secrets of sins long buried. As he confronts the enigmatic Midnight Masquerader, you’ll FEEL the chilling tension seep into your bones, leaving you breathless with anticipation!

Slightly Scary Short Stories with humorous, creepy, historical, and thought-provoking tales. An entertaining Halloween book. Featuring new urban legends like "The Coquina Madman", the creepy "Sleepless", and the amusing "What’s in the Attic?".

You can smell that long-dying aroma of Autumn in the air. Kids are talking trick or treat and the leaves are already screaming at you in red and yellow and deep golden rust as they prepare for one final parachute down into the dirt. The tombstones are talking amongst themselves and winter is hiding just around the corner. It is the time of the year when people draw around the wood stove and the campfire and whisper stories of death and omens and ghosts and things that don't even have a name.

Join Sarah as she uncovers a mysterious necklace that holds a sinister secret, one that will tighten its grasp with every lie she tells. Feel your heart race as the line between truth and deception blurs, leaving you breathless with every twist and turn! This is not just a story; it’s an experience that will haunt your thoughts long after the final word fades.

Do you like short horror stories? If your answer is yes...you are welcome. These stories are brief, but I guarantee that you will immerse yourself in the deepest terror that you can know....

A man desperately seeks to validate his life. He finds the perfect vice and meets the perfect girl. He then meets a mysterious stranger who offers dark and cryptic advice. Charles Pierce hasn't been good at anything in his life. As he journeys toward middle age, he has felt like the captain of a rudderless ship. He desperately seeks to fit in, belong, and finally be good at something. He finds just the thing to pour his heart and soul into and prove to society that he is somebody. Dedicating every ounce of his being to marathon running, Charles finds himself in the middle of an intense ...

Bruno is a mild-mannered baker from Italy, now living in the quaint little town of Terrace Heights. Mina, the local cake artiste, is always trying to get him to impregnate her so they can get hitched and raise a large family. Tomas, his new hire at Luna's bakery, has his eyes on the vault in Bruno's man cave. Little does Bruno know that his world is about to be hot-crossed, glazed and jelly-filled.

The problem with the dark is you don’t really know what’s lurking in there. Something hiding? Something menacing? Or just an inky dome for the stars to twinkle on? Writers rarely let us dwell on the latter. No, they would much rather they put our nerves on edge, that our skin would begin to crawl and that the cold sweat of fear propels our pulse and heartbeat to nightmare-inducing trauma. I think they’re ready.

These 11 stories include, amongst others, a terrifying Nordic curse and a country garden inhabited by a deadly ghost. Aiken's other works include 'The Kingdom Under The Sea', 'Mortimer Says Nothing' and 'Past Eight O'Clock'.