Obsession Horror Stories
Browse obsession horror stories from the Horror Story Archive.

My Aunt Recorded People's Last Moments, and I Have No Idea Why
Her tapes captured something that should never have spoken again.

The flea market sells strange things at night.
A strange mirror offers a doorway into a dark ocean... and something enormous is waiting below.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The police finally found my missing wife
After five years of searching, a missing wife is finally found, but the truth behind the disappearance reveals a disturbing secret.

I found my own exhibit at a serial killer museum
A true crime enthusiast visits a museum devoted to infamous murderers, only to discover one exhibit feels disturbingly personal.

Lily’s Coloring Book
A gifted young artist fills every page with remarkable talent, until her father discovers a sketchbook that was never meant to be found.

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.

'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.

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.

I wish my girlfriend had been cheating on me
I spent months convincing myself my girlfriend was cheating on me. I would've given anything for that to have been the truth.

There’s a Face in My Ceiling
Every night, it gets a little closer.