Corruption Horror Stories
Browse corruption horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.
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 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.
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.
My girlfriend never lets me eat anything she didn’t cook
She only wants to take care of him, but her cooking comes with a terrifying price.
The Seasonal Child
A little girl learns that some children can only be loved on a subscription.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.