Blood Horror Stories
Browse blood horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
Part 4 - Lost And Found
A missing motel room, a suitcase that keeps filling itself, and a disturbing discovery on the security cameras.
Part 3 - New Name Same Shift
A strange guest, a relentless possum, and a bloody message turn another motel shift into something far worse.
He Didn't Stay In The Photos
A final visit to Grandma's attic reveals the truth about the boy who has haunted the family photographs for generations.
It's Lonely Here
He wakes to a perfect summer day, only to discover that paradise has left him completely alone.
The Time-Out Room
A childhood punishment reveals a darkness that was never meant to be disturbed.
Hidden Rooms
A recurring dream of hidden rooms becomes a nightmare when forgotten memories begin to surface.
I Clean Crime Scenes, Decrepit Houses, and Evicted Residences and Every House Is a Surprise
Every filthy house hides something different, but some jobs leave more than a mess behind.
I'm Stuck in a Simulation Please Send Help
A miracle treatment promises to cure her troubled mind, but every awakening pulls her deeper into a terrifying cycle.
Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.
No One Is Taking Me Seriously
A seemingly harmless bug bite begins behaving in ways no doctor can explain.
The mask killed you not I
A mysterious mask follows a grieving couple wherever they try to escape it.
The system made me a killer
Trapped between unbearable insomnia and medication-induced blackouts, one man begins to fear what he becomes when he finally falls asleep.
Carved
A mysterious artist promises to transform Nyssa into the beautiful person she has always wanted to be, but beauty comes with a price.
Hide and Seek
A deadly game of hide and seek gives Terra one final chance to escape the monsters that have haunted her life.
I Always Thought the End of the World Would Be Loud, I Was Wrong
As the world falls silent, two sisters must escape the undead and carry on without the parents who sacrificed themselves for them.
I made a friend with the girl in the shed, and she shares the same freckle I have
A lonely girl finds a sister in the darkness of her grandmother's shed, but the girl waiting there may have known her family for much longer than she realizes.
I Used to Work as a Mortician and There Is Something Funeral Homes Don’t Tell You
A former mortician reveals the secret behind what happens to some bodies on the third day after death.
If you find a hacienda in the middle of nowhere, leave before sunset
A hidden hacienda offers paradise by day, but its true caretakers emerge when the sun begins to set.
Never Stop for a Stranger in the Desert
A stranded traveler breaks a warning she grew up hearing and discovers something is very wrong with the stranger waiting in the desert.
Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?
He went into the abandoned abattoir on a dare. He came back hungry.
My Aunt Collected People's Last Moments, and Now I Think She's Haunting Me
My aunt left behind tapes of dying strangers. Now something from those recordings may have followed me home.
Fully Charged
When the factory lights go out, the workers discover something inside them that was never meant to glow.
My bedridden husband can't move, so why did I just find a shattered phone on his floor? PLEASE HELP
A woman caring for her paralyzed husband begins to suspect that something is terribly wrong when his shattered phone appears on the floor and he starts acting strangely.
Did You Know Bones Can Sing?
A routine medical screening uncovers a rare condition that causes one man's bones to emit strange radio signals. When researchers tune in, they hear something that was never meant to…
I will draw you with a thousand words
A photographer's interactive gallery installation begins printing impossible messages, leading to an encounter with something trapped inside a masterpiece.
Welcome Home Lazarus
A first-time homeowner's exhausting workweek is interrupted when the house's former owner breaks in, pursued by armed men searching for something hidden behind the bedroom wall.
My father walked out on me twenty years ago. Tonight I found out why.
After twenty years of silence, a man finally meets the father who abandoned him, only to uncover an impossible family secret.
There is a reason why you shouldn't burn witches
The last surviving witch recounts the terrible secret her coven has protected for decades and why the townspeople's hatred will doom them all.
After today, I'll never be celebrating Fathers Day again.
A family prepares a Father's Day breakfast, but hidden fears and dark traditions reveal a celebration no child should endure.
Every kid in my class is sleeping except me.
A student discovers the terrifying truth behind a mandatory sleep curfew and the hidden war happening beyond their dreams.
Every kid I've picked up has superpowers except HER.
A teen rescuer searching for gifted children discovers the newest passenger may hide a dangerous secret of her own.
Family Dinner
A seemingly ordinary family dinner turns unsettling as a husband tries to reconnect with his loved ones after a tragic event.
I was raised to BATTLE other children for entertainment.
A fugitive child bred for violent combat is captured again, forcing him into a horrifying world where children are treated as prizes.
I'm gay, and I'm going into cardiac arrest.
A young athlete's heart emergency leads to an unexpected connection, but a hospital procedure reveals a horrifying hidden truth.
My future soulmate is trying to kill me.
A classroom shooting takes a terrifying turn when the gunman claims to know the students' futures, and one of them is his soulmate.
My therapist keeps asking me if I've lost my filter.
A woman seeks help for her boyfriend’s disturbing behavior, only to discover a terrifying truth about what changed him.
My torture victim refuses to die
A seasoned killer encounters a victim unlike anyone before, as a night of violence turns into an impossible psychological battle.
My wife forgot she has amnesia
A man caring for his wife after a tragic accident notices disturbing signs that her memory loss may hide a darker truth.
I think my wife is hiding something in our freezer
A young father comes home to an unsettling silence and discovers his wife's behavior has taken a horrifying turn that defies explanation.
I wish my daughter hadn’t survived the accident
A devastating crash should have taken everything, but a miraculous recovery leaves one grieving father questioning what really came home.
Lily’s Coloring Book
A gifted young artist fills every page with remarkable talent, until her father discovers a sketchbook that was never meant to be found.
According to native legend the mountain is the petrified body of an evil god due to its human-like shape, but the plans to quarry into its 'face' proceeded as planned.
They laughed at the legend until the mountain started bleeding.
Despite doing my best to keep my 5 year old son away from anything he could hurt himself with, to my horror I found him digging around his bleeding ear with a pair of tweezers.
It started with tweezers. It ended with a nightmare.
'I don't care what the labels say, I've always used roman candles like this.'
They ignored the warning label. The third shot proved why it existed.
I thought my boyfriend was cheating on me. But it was SO much worse.
She thought her boyfriend was hiding an affair. She was right about the secret... just catastrophically wrong about what it was.
I wish my girlfriend had been cheating on me
I spent months convincing myself my girlfriend was cheating on me. I would've given anything for that to have been the truth.
The Emergency Alert Told Us Not to Look Outside
At 2:13 AM, every phone in town received the same warning: keep your curtains closed and ignore anyone asking to be let in.