Horror Story Settings
Explore horror stories by location, from haunted houses and hospitals to forests, schools, roads, and more.
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Airport
1story
Apartment
15stories
Attic
1story
Bar
1story
Barn
1story
Basement
1story
Beach
1story
Cabin
3stories
Car
1story
Cave
1story
Cemetery
4stories
Church
3stories
City
14stories
Crawlspace
1story
Desert
2stories
Farm
3stories
Flea Market
1story
Forest
11stories
Funeral Home
1story
Gallery
1story
Garden
1story
Gas Station
2stories
Hacienda
1story
Hallway
1story
Highway
2stories
Hospital
19stories
Hotel
3stories
House
71stories
Internet
8stories
Kitchen
1story
Laboratory
3stories
Library
1story
Motel
10stories
Mountains
2stories
Neighborhood
12stories
Nursing Home
1story
Ocean
1story
Office
8stories
Online Community
2stories
Orphanage
1story
Other
21stories
Parking Lot
7stories
River
3stories
Road
21stories
School
8stories
Shed
1story
Small Town
6stories
Street
7stories
Suburb
10stories
Town
1story
Truck
1story
Underground
3stories
University
5stories
Wilderness
6stories
Woods
9stories
Airport Horror Stories
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Apartment Horror Stories
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Attic Horror Stories
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Bar Horror Stories
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Barn 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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Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.
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.
Car Horror Stories
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Cave Horror Stories
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Cemetery Horror Stories
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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.
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.
Church Horror Stories
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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.
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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I Traded My Son For A Better One, And I Hate Myself For Not Regretting It
A grieving father is offered a way to finally see his son without seeing the dead wife he can never escape.
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.
Crawlspace Horror Stories
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Desert Horror Stories
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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.
Farm Horror Stories
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It's Lonely Here
He wakes to a perfect summer day, only to discover that paradise has left him completely alone.
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.
Flea Market Horror Stories
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Forest Horror Stories
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The purple hat kept us safe from the trees
A purple hat protects two siblings from the voices calling them into the forest.
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.
Funeral Home Horror Stories
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Gallery Horror Stories
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Garden Horror Stories
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Gas Station Horror Stories
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The flea market sells strange things at night.
A strange mirror offers a doorway into a dark ocean... and something enormous is waiting below.
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.
Hacienda Horror Stories
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Hallway Horror Stories
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Highway Horror Stories
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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.
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.
Hospital Horror Stories
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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 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.
Hotel Horror Stories
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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.
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.
House Horror Stories
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Nana’s banana bread turned my parents inside out
Nana's baked goods always brought warmth and happiness, but this time they left something far more horrifying behind.
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.
Internet Horror Stories
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Part 4 - Lost And Found
A missing motel room, a suitcase that keeps filling itself, and a disturbing discovery on the security cameras.
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.
The story of why I have no bones
A childhood experiment leaves one patient trapped in a body that can no longer support itself.
Library Horror Stories
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Motel Horror Stories
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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.
Part 3 - New Name Same Shift
A strange guest, a relentless possum, and a bloody message turn another motel shift into something far worse.
Mountains Horror Stories
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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.
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.
Neighborhood Horror Stories
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I Wish I Never Read My Relative's Journal
A forgotten family journal reveals something deeply wrong with the relative who wrote it.
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'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.
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.
Online Community Horror Stories
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The Colour Between
Somewhere between grey and black is a colour only the missing can remember.
Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
Orphanage Horror Stories
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Other Horror Stories
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Does Anyone Know Anything About the McKriss Abattoir?
He went into the abandoned abattoir on a dare. He came back hungry.
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.
Parking Lot Horror Stories
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Part 8 - NAPS
Two paranormal investigators arrive at the Wayfarer Motel, but their equipment detects something that shouldn't be there.
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.
River 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.
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.
Road Horror Stories
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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.
Part 1 - Just Another Night Shift
A motel night clerk has seen plenty of strange things, but some guests leave behind mysteries that refuse to make sense.
School Horror Stories
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The Class Monitor Badge
When the class monitor badge changes owners, so does the person wearing it.
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.
Shed Horror Stories
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Small Town Horror Stories
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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.
I Went Looking For the Officer Whose Name Was Redacted
The search for a redacted police officer leads to a photograph that should not exist, and a message that knows exactly where he is.
Street 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.
Nana’s banana bread turned my parents inside out
Nana's baked goods always brought warmth and happiness, but this time they left something far more horrifying behind.
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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Underground Horror Stories
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Part 2 - Out In The Hallway
A missing child, voices in an empty hallway, and footsteps that seem to come from everywhere make another night at the roadside motel anything but ordinary.
The Place No One Returns From
Four friends—Aleah, Allyssa, Alex, and Leo—travel to Eldemoor, a mysterious place where people disappear or return changed. Their journey leads them to Blackthorn, a terrifying mansion filled with dark secrets,…
University 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.
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…
Wilderness Horror Stories
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The Place No One Returns From
Four friends—Aleah, Allyssa, Alex, and Leo—travel to Eldemoor, a mysterious place where people disappear or return changed. Their journey leads them to Blackthorn, a terrifying mansion filled with dark secrets,…
Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.
Woods 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.
Just Don’t Go Camping
A wounded survivor reaches a remote cabin, but the creatures hunting him are far more intelligent than anyone realizes.