Horror Story Genres
Explore horror stories by genre, from psychological nightmares and paranormal encounters to body horror and the supernatural.
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Body Horror
10stories
Cosmic
4stories
Creature Horror
11stories
Creepypasta
3stories
Folk Horror
3stories
Found Footage
2stories
Gothic
1story
Occult
4stories
Paranormal
28stories
Psychological
50stories
Science Fiction
5stories
Slasher
1story
Supernatural
22stories
Survival
2stories
Technological
5stories
True Horror
3stories
Urban Legend
1story
Zombie
1story
Body Horror Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
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 answer back.
There Is Something Inside of Me, Keeping Me in My Apartment
Every night, something else seems to take control of his life... and he has no idea what happens while he's gone.
Cosmic Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
The flea market sells strange things at night.
A strange mirror offers a doorway into a dark ocean... and something enormous is waiting below.
I Read a Page From a Book That Brought On Mental Anguish, and Now I Want Nothing More Than to Finish Reading It
After reading a single page from an impossible book, a college student becomes haunted by shifting entities and an obsession to recover the manuscript that destroyed his professor.
Creature Horror Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
The God In The Corner
A high school teacher dismisses a student's strange stories until a desperate wish forces her to confront the shadow waiting in the corner.
The Last Tape in Evidence Locker 9
Nobody remembers filming it.
Creepypasta Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
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.
Folk Horror Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
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.
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.
Found Footage Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
The Last Tape in Evidence Locker 9
Nobody remembers filming it.
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.
Gothic Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
Occult Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
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.
I walked around campus with a bowl of Blow Pops saying, 'hey would you sell your soul for some candy?'
I only needed a few souls. Campus gave me hundreds.
Paranormal Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
My boyfriend talks to someone who isn't there. One day something spoke back.
A woman grows concerned when her boyfriend constantly whispers to someone unseen until she hears a second voice answer.
My Son Keeps Waving at the Hallway
He says the woman outside his room waves back now.
Psychological Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
'It doesn't matter what I'm convicted of after this, you all will use my finding', the researcher sneered from the podium at his appalled audience.
His experiment worked. That's what terrified everyone.
I Read a Page From a Book That Brought On Mental Anguish, and Now I Want Nothing More Than to Finish Reading It
After reading a single page from an impossible book, a college student becomes haunted by shifting entities and an obsession to recover the manuscript that destroyed his professor.
Science Fiction Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
You'll Never Believe Who My Sleep Paralysis Demon Is
Recurring sleep paralysis becomes terrifyingly real as a man's girlfriend behaves impossibly during each episode, leading him to uncover an experiment that should never have involved them.
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.
Slasher Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
Supernatural Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.
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.
Survival Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
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.
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.
Technological Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
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.
My Alexa has Been Giving me Horrible Life Advice
A smart speaker starts developing a personality, but its increasingly bizarre advice soon turns into something far more unsettling.
True Horror Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
Fully Charged
When the factory lights go out, the workers discover something inside them that was never meant to glow.
My son HATES me, and I have no idea why.
A mother receives a mysterious gift from her distant son and discovers a horrifying secret hidden inside.
Urban Legend Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
Zombie Horror Stories
A few stories from this collection.
