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Read Short Horror / Scary Stories

Read the best short stories online by short story writers of all ages from around the world,
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Poseidon's Bane By Jason James Parker

A tale of the sea...

GOOSEBUMPS SHORTS By BEN BROWN

A few of my own short Goosebumps stories.

Maggie By Hazel Dow

A man, his wife, and his birds

Americium By Terri Talley Venters

Go Gators!

The Satanic Pizza Deliveryman By Seniha Haksever

Must read till the end!... This horror story will creep you out!

Wide Awake By Kate Bailey

A girl struggles to sleep in her new house.

The Curse of the Moon: A New Telling of By Rich Puckett

I put the story together because I’ve always loved the subject matter

Kind to Spiders By Jason James Parker

A tiny tale...

Alone In The House. By Stephen Pearmine

A woman living on her own in the middle of nowhere, hears a noise in the garden.

To the Unknown and Back By Mahreen

When Henry and his friends search for answers in the haunted Mau Forest, they uncover a terrifying truth—one of them was never truly alive. Some spirits never rest.

DARK NIGHT By Garba Nanloh

Dark, lonely, scary, beast, blood.

Thallium By Terri Talley Venters

"The Happiest Place on Earth?"

Second Hand By Douglas Richards

Tick, tick, tick...

The Overlook By CPlatt

Hotel owner Jeff would treat his polite guests as though they were family, those who were unpolite would be treated very differently indeed.

BERMUDA TRIANGLE NIGHTMARE By BEN BROWN

A sailing vessel enters the treacherous Bermuda Triangle. What terrors await the sailors? What becomes of them? Do they survive?

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