Short Horror

Join Cora Hargrove as she uncovers a hidden attic, revealing a SINISTER PLAYROOM filled with toys that have a life of their own! Feel your heart race as you follow Cora and her daughter Lily, into a realm where laughter turns to chilling whispers, and every doll hides a DARK SECRET! As you listen, you’ll be transported to a place where the line between reality and fantasy blurs, and the dangers of ETERNAL PLAYTIME AWAIT!

"The Power Outage": An eerie story about a lone homeowner who meets the new neighbors on a stormy night when the power on their street goes out, but the neighbors are not what he expects. "Tonight We Hunt the Beast, Lads": Against his better thinking, a medieval monk rides along with a frenzied mob to hunt a dangerous mythical beast. "A Settled Matter": A dark humor take of a would-be normal man who decides to hire a hit man to murder his wife.

A young man wakes in his basement. His face and arms are scratched and cut. His clothes are blood stained and trails of blood flow across the basement floor to his very large freezer. Though he can’t recall what happened to him, he knows something horrible lies waiting in the freezer. The idea of opening the freezer’s lid terrify him, but he also knows his mother will return home at any moment and she may be the scariest thing of all.

Do you love horror stories? The type of stories that you read to your children to warn them about the horrors of the night? Are you a newcomer to the genre, or are you a veteran that has already went through the raunchiest most devastating stories out there already? Well then, this is the perfect midnight “snack” for you.

USA Today best-selling author and master storyteller Dan Alatorre brings you a collection of dark stories. Included in this book are: "The Jemwaju", "Best Monday Ever", and "Dark Questions". Enjoy these eerie, dark short stories from master storyteller and USA Today best-selling author Dan Alatorre, and be sure to leave the lights on!

Joshua and Daniel Duncan love Halloween. The unhealthy snacks, gory horror films, and corny decorations warm their teenage hearts like no other holiday ever could. However, on this Halloween night, someone special is at their front door. Someone they've known their whole lives. There's always room for family.

On the night of a freak September snowstorm, Dr. Ruth Strunk copes with caffeine withdrawals, the sudden coming-of-age of her daughter, Emma, and the horrific manuscript that was mysteriously left in her mailbox. Fatigued and questioning her own sanity, Dr. Ruth comes to a terrifying realization with dire consequences in this short thriller.

Se dice que si alguien tiene una muerte inhumana, su alma no puede olvidar su muerte y vuelve como un fantasma. El fantasma se queda en el lugar donde tuvo lugar su muerte inmoral. Esta historia real presenta un caso de este tipo en el que se realizó una aventura a un antiguo castillo en el que vivían dos fantasmas que habían sufrido abusos sexuales.

After her brother goes missing, a girl decides to go looking for any help she can get. She turns to the deep dark web, but she ends up getting more than she bargained for.

Jenny was born on October 31st. She’s never gone trick-or-treating or celebrated her birthday beyond an initial taste of frosting that always puts her into a deep, drugged slumber - a sleep that protects her from family secrets and the horrible reality that dark holiday could reveal. What will happen when she finds her father’s journal and determines to stay awake on Halloween? Will she survive when the dreadful truth comes out?

Millions of threads so thin as to be invisible, so vaporous as to be ductile, drift through the classroom, emitting a chill and leaving a sense of unease. Hidden deep in their cloaks, the Blue Lights analyze the odors that cling to the individual cells of every child, from the top of each little head to the bottom of their ticklish feet and every dark secret place in between, from their gathering brains to their blood-soaked spleens. One girl feels dizzy; one boy throws up.

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 collection of short horror stories straight from the imagination of Darren Griffin. Each story gives you a glimpse into a different realm of fear. Some will haunt you and some may even make you laugh.

Black Friday is aptly named. The day after Thanksgiving when shoppers are enticed to rise at unholy hours by stores whose merchandise is available at sale prices. This puts the merchants' ledgers sturdily in the black. Humanity ceases to be the dominant species on the planet and becomes a herd animal, trampling hapless salespeople in their efforts to get a good deal. Let me pull back a curtain and present you with a glimpse of a few other reasons this particular Friday might be called "Black".

There are moments in life when we are transported into another world. As the sun sets and darkness creeps from under hedges and parked cars our world changes from one of rational logic to heart pounding emotion. When the rain comes down in sheets and lightning flashes through the dark night, when the house creaks with the movements of things that crawl out of the shadows, we enter a world of fear in which monsters and ghosts seem not only believable but likely.

This is a horrible, true story. One person called it "gruesome". I agree with that statement. It is a story not for the faint of heart. Turn back now, if that is you. What it really is though, is a strong dose of reality. Not of just how frail life is and how quickly and horribly it can end, but also of how cold and inhumane people can be to each other. People in both low and high positions. You have been warned. I have told this story as I have heard it. All names have been changed except my own.

What if Dorothy was a necromancer and the land of Oz wasn't so wonderful? This is dark comedy re-imagining of a beloved classic. It is a horror short, with violence and foul language.

This audiobook is a collection of six short tales of horror by Regina Puckett. Stories included in this collection: "Mine", "Crying through Plastic Eyes", "Will Work for Food", "Pieces", "Paying the Hitchhiker", and "Inheritance".

Ryan Dansfield had known Josea Cunningham since they were freshmen in high school. For four long years, Josea had tormented him for no apparent reason. Much to Ryan's dismay, he realized that he would be attending the same university as his high school bully. Once college started, he couldn't stand the constant academic and athletic praise the idiot seemed to get. But then...something happened. People were heartbroken about the event that had transpired. But not Ryan.

A tribal ritual gone wrong, a time traveler who sets up his own demise, and a man grappling with the death of his wife; three short horror stories to tease your imagination. At the end of the day, we never really know where the paths we choose will lead us.