Horror Story Settings
Explore horror stories by location, from haunted houses and hospitals to forests, schools, roads, and more.
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Apartment
9stories
Bar
1story
Basement
1story
Beach
1story
Cabin
1story
Car
1story
Cave
1story
Cemetery
2stories
Church
2stories
City
10stories
Crawlspace
1story
Flea Market
1story
Forest
5stories
Gallery
1story
Gas Station
1story
Highway
1story
Hospital
13stories
Hotel
2stories
House
50stories
Internet
5stories
Kitchen
1story
Laboratory
2stories
Library
1story
Mountains
1story
Neighborhood
7stories
Nursing Home
1story
Ocean
1story
Office
2stories
Online Community
2stories
Other
12stories
Parking Lot
1story
River
1story
Road
11stories
School
5stories
Small Town
4stories
Street
3stories
Suburb
8stories
Town
1story
Truck
1story
University
5stories
Wilderness
1story
Woods
7stories
Apartment Horror Stories
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Someone hung the toilet paper in my bathroom the wrong way. I live alone.
I spent weeks searching for the person sneaking into my apartment. I never imagined the real break-in was happening inside my own mind.
The Rules for Apartment 14
Nobody stays longer than one night.
Bar Horror Stories
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Basement Horror Stories
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Beach Horror Stories
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Cabin Horror Stories
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Car Horror Stories
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Cave Horror Stories
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Cemetery Horror Stories
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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.
My Best Friend Keeps Pranking Me, Even Though He's Dead
For fifteen years, my best friend and I secretly passed the same broken plastic fork back and forth. His funeral should've been the last time I ever saw it.
Church Horror Stories
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The last thing that grief takes
Each night the tree grew taller. Each morning, my wife became a little more like a stranger.
The Last Prophet
The world searched for answers when people started dying. The truth was hidden in the hands of the one man who caused it.
City Horror Stories
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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.
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.
Crawlspace Horror Stories
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Flea Market Horror Stories
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Forest Horror Stories
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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.
Expecting to only see animals I set up a ring camera pointing into the woods behind my house.
I pointed my Ring camera at the woods. It wasn't recording animals.
Gallery Horror Stories
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Gas Station Horror Stories
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Highway Horror Stories
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Hospital Horror Stories
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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 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.
Hotel Horror Stories
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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.
My Wife Only Looks at Me in Mirrors
I spent months proving I was no longer the man who hurt her. Then my reflection raised its hand before I did.
House Horror Stories
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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.
Mom, please rest in peace
A grieving child struggles to move on as comforting reminders of a lost mother become something far more unsettling.
Internet Horror Stories
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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.
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.
Kitchen Horror Stories
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Laboratory Horror Stories
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The Last Prophet
The world searched for answers when people started dying. The truth was hidden in the hands of the one man who caused it.
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.
Library Horror Stories
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Mountains Horror Stories
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Neighborhood Horror Stories
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The Colour Between
Somewhere between grey and black is a colour only the missing can remember.
The Box I Can't Bring Myself to Open
As long as the bedroom door stays closed, hope is still alive. That's the lie I've built my entire life around.
Nursing Home Horror Stories
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Ocean Horror Stories
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Office Horror Stories
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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.
Someone hung the toilet paper in my bathroom the wrong way. I live alone.
I spent weeks searching for the person sneaking into my apartment. I never imagined the real break-in was happening inside my own mind.
Online Community Horror Stories
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Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
The Colour Between
Somewhere between grey and black is a colour only the missing can remember.
Other Horror Stories
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'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.
'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.
Parking Lot Horror Stories
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River Horror Stories
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Road Horror Stories
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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.
My husband is against me putting my cat down.
A woman struggles with a heartbreaking decision about her sick cat, but a shocking truth changes everything she thought she knew.
School Horror Stories
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Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
My wife admitted something on her deathbed. Now I’m glad she died.
I thought my wife's final confession would help me grieve. Instead, it destroyed every happy memory we'd ever shared.
Small Town Horror Stories
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My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.
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.
Street Horror Stories
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The Colour Between
Somewhere between grey and black is a colour only the missing can remember.
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.
Suburb Horror Stories
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My girlfriend keeps forgetting she broke up with me
A man tries to move on after a painful breakup, but his ex keeps returning as though their relationship never actually ended.
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.
Town Horror Stories
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Truck Horror Stories
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University Horror Stories
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My wife admitted something on her deathbed. Now I’m glad she died.
I thought my wife's final confession would help me grieve. Instead, it destroyed every happy memory we'd ever shared.
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.
Wilderness Horror Stories
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Woods Horror Stories
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The Thing That Learned Our Routine
It didn’t break into the house. It waited until we let it in.
My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.