Cosmic Horror Stories
Browse cosmic horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.

Part 5 - Unregistered Guests
A strange door, a motionless man, and something lurking in the motel's maintenance corridor make for another unforgettable night shift.

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.

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.