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Oct 28, 2019 · 1. Two sentence horror story. This brief gem comes from Reddit user AtomFarmer: I finally found my wife the kidney she needed. It took forever to track down everyone she’d donated organs to after...
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- Help Me! "A few years ago my boss went on holiday for a couple of weeks to Spain. Mid-way through the holiday he got a phone call from the police informing him that his sister had [passed away] in a fire in her flat.
- The Voice. “My grandfather told me this story about how one time he was sitting in a chair in front of the house when he heard his wife repeatedly calling him from inside the house.
- Car At The Red Light. “Driving home with a buddy from the high school summer job at the local amusement park. It’s about 3 in the morning, and there is no traffic at all.
- “I Just Need A Haircut” “I was an RA in a dorm for two years in college. A girl who had been having stress issues finally snapped. She was found by someone in a dark stairwell (I was in an older dorm, circa 1887, so there were plenty of nooks and crannies).
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Jul 27, 2021 · 👻 You can read 101 of the scariest (and shortest!) true stories in our new collection, 101 True Scary Stories to Read in Bed Tonight, available here. 👻. Raising a serial killer “We (me, my wife and my 3 yo son) are sitting in the food court at Costco. There is another family with a ~4-5 yo girl sitting behind us.
- "Lacrimosa," by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. La Llorona is a fixture of Mexican folklore. In this story, Silvia Moren0-Garcia—author of the horror novel Mexican Gothic—puts a modern twist on the age-old tale, by casting a homeless woman as the legendary La Llorona.
- "The Left Right Game" Adapted into a podcast in 2020, "The Left Right Game's" first incarnation was as a post on "No Sleep" subreddit, where users submit fictional stories often framed as urban legends.
- "Selfies," by Lavie Tidhar. If you're looking for a small story that packs a big scare, check out this imaginative riff of a fixture of the modern age: the cellphone.
- "Abraham's Boys," by Joe Hill. Joe Hill comes from horror pedigree: His father is the Stephen King. With this short story (and all of his novels), Hill shows his own distinct, but equally chilling, style.
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- “Patient Zero” by Tananarive Due. "Patient Zero" starts off innocently enough, with its narrator — a little boy — confined to his hospital room. Surely, a hospital is a place of healing, not a setting for a sinister story.
- “Click-clack the Rattlebag” by Neil Gaiman. You know that feeling you get when you walk up the stairs alone in an old, dark house? And you know that you shouldn't be afraid of the dark, but you can't help but feel like something is following in your footsteps, lurking just behind you?
- “The Spindly Man” by Stephen Graham Jones. In Stephen Graham Jones’ “The Spindly Man,” a book club’s discussion of a Stephen King story lures an uninvited guest with a bone to pick.
- “His Face All Red” by Emily Carroll. Emily Carroll is the reigning queen of creepy, interactive horror comics, and "His Face All Red" is one of her best.
Men Who Come From the Ground Never See the Sky. On the night I was born, the sky was black and roaring with thunder. Torrential rain crashed down from the heavens. Somewhere, in a field, my half sunken body clawed at the dirt, gasping for breath. All I could think was that I didn't want to die.
