Fast Paced Horror Stories
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Part 10 - The Overlap
The motel's impossible measurements were only the beginning. Now, every room seems to be calling from somewhere else.
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.
Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.
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.
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.
The Class Monitor Badge
When the class monitor badge changes owners, so does the person wearing it.
The Halo
Her halo proved she was free of sin, but anyone who touched her would pay the price.
The Ring Mark
A dungeon guard is pulled beneath the bathwater, only to awaken with memories of another life.
My child is being ERASED in fifteen minutes.
A mother receives a terrifying warning that her children are being erased, but what disappears may be more than she ever imagined.
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.
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 breakfast keeps resetting right in front of me.
After her father's death, Brogen's morning takes an impossible turn when breakfast keeps resetting and reality begins to unravel.
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 Sister has Been Tweeting From her Coma
A grieving brother notices impossible messages from his sister’s account after her accident, leading to a terrifying final discovery.
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 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.
'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.
The Girl in the Recovery Ward
My daughter came back from the accident, but something else came back with her.
The Last Tape in Evidence Locker 9
Nobody remembers filming it.
The Man Who Came Back Wrong
After the accident, I survived. But something else came home with me.
My Son Keeps Waving at the Hallway
He says the woman outside his room waves back now.
The Rules for Apartment 14
Nobody stays longer than one night.