City Horror Stories
Browse city horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public Safety Notice
A harmless emergency alert becomes something far worse when people discover their bodies aren't entirely under their control.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.