Short Stories

Short Stories

“The Darkness is straight-up Southern Gothic perfection. It’s The Green Mile meets Pet Sematary meets True Detective, told through the eyes of an old man who’s both haunted and human. Shelly somehow makes trauma, folklore, and possession feel like the same organism — breathing under the skin of every word.”

🎧 Some memories never die. Some are buried alive. When an aging farmer finally reveals the story he’s kept hidden for decades, his best friend learns the horrifying truth: the evil that killed Carl’s brother never left—it just changed shape.

The Darkness is a slow-burning Southern Gothic short story about grief, guilt, and a curse that feeds on human suffering. Set in rural Kentucky, this tale drips with nostalgia and dread—a haunting blend of psychological horror, folklore, and generational trauma. As Carl’s confession unfolds, the line between man and monster dissolves, and an ancient evil rises again from the creek where it all began.

The land remembers. The water watches. And the darkness never forgives.


🎧A quiet hike. A beloved dog. A forest older than memory.

Arlo and his soulful companion Stogie wander into a place where the trees whisper and something ancient watches and feeds. When Arlo finally sees it – a towering, antlered presence with the forest in its hollow eyes – everything changes.

Frequency is a dark, lyrical folk-horror tale about resonance, emotion, and the one thing that can drown out the oldest, hungriest fear.


🎧 Lissy Harris is riding high after earning a promotion to the eleventh floor of her publishing company — until a single moment changes everything.

When the world as she knows it falls away, Lissy gains a terrifying gift: the ability to see reality as it truly is.

Colors shift. Lies dissolve. Truth cannot be hidden.

Armed with her new perception, Lissy discovers that someone’s life hangs in the balance — and she may be the only one who can intervene.

If you enjoy psychological thrillers, eerie perception-shift stories, and character-driven dark fiction, this one will stick with you long after it ends.


🎧 Every night, the same dream: a bus swerves off a towering bridge and plunges into the dark water below.

Every night, she wakes with the screams still echoing in her head.

But when the dream refuses to end, she finds herself trapped inside its spiraling loop — a place where time freezes, choices repeat, and escape feels impossible.

What waits at the heart of this nightmare: madness, memory… or something far more real?


🎧 When the sky opens, everything changes.

Rebecca Jane watches in horror as a fleet of metallic objects descends over her small hometown, unleashing chaos and destruction. Childhood nightmares resurface as she drags her friend Sam through the crumbling streets, racing for the safety of her family home. But as tragedy strikes and her world falls apart, Rebecca must face her deepest fears — and an enemy unlike anything she’s ever imagined.

If you love alien invasion thrillers, survival horror, and eerie sci-fi stories, this one will keep you on the edge of your seat.


🎧1998 is a gripping 90s-set horror story about adolescence, trauma, and survival.

Jessie Reynolds just wants to make it through another day of high school, finding brief solace in music and her best friend Annemarie — until the screaming starts.

When a strange, violent force attacks her school, Jessie and Annemarie barricade themselves in the locker room as chaos erupts outside. What seems like a freak event might be part of a global biological attack — and no one is coming to save them.

As fear mounts and the line between safety and danger blurs, Jessie must find the strength to survive the night — and protect the only person she has left.

If you love 90s nostalgia, school horror, and intense survival stories, this one will stay with you long after it ends.


🎧Lady is a thrilling psychological horror story that will get under your skin.

Paralyzed and helpless, she can hear the world just outside her reach. Help is so close — but the darkness beside her whispers, “You’re mine soon…”

Will she find the strength to fight back, or will the shadows claim her for good?

If you enjoy tense, atmospheric horror and dark, suspenseful short stories, this one will keep you holding your breath.


🎧Imagine being trapped in the middle of a forest you know well — one you should be able to walk through in minutes — but this time, there’s no way out.

In Tall Pines, the forest closes in as the hours stretch on. Something is watching. Something is waiting.

And you are not alone.

If you love haunted woods, psychological horror, and eerie survival stories, this one will give you chills.


🎧Larry Kemper had a temper.

Bitter, cruel, and unapologetic, Larry spent his life burning bridges and leaving pain in his wake. But death has a way of catching up with even the most stubborn of men.

When a mysterious presence drags Larry back through the key moments of his life — the arguments, the betrayals, the people he hurt — he’s forced to watch the wreckage he caused.

If you love dark psychological horror, ghostly reckonings, and stories about twisted justice, this one will stay with you.


🎧Wake is a mind-bending psychological thriller about reality, memory, and identity.

Jeanette Pedersen’s ordinary life fractures when she wakes to find everything wrong — her reflection, her dog, her very sense of self.

Each time she thinks she’s awake, she finds herself in a new version of reality, forced to question her own sanity. As Jeanette digs deeper, the truth becomes more terrifying: someone — or something — is rewriting her life, over and over.

If you love Black Mirror-style sci-fi, reality-bending thrillers, and eerie psychological stories, this one’s for you.



🎧This was my very first video — sound quality and all — but it remains one of my most popular stories.

In The Cottage, Charlotte Gurdy takes a spontaneous road trip to escape small-town monotony — but a flat tire leads her to a lonely gas station and a hidden cottage that shouldn’t exist.

Inside, she meets Rose, an unsettling old woman with a strange companion named Chester — and a chilling secret. The cottage holds the trapped souls of lost children, and Charlotte must unravel the dark truth before she becomes the next victim.

This eerie, atmospheric tale blends mystery, folklore, and survival horror. If you love creepy cottages, cursed objects, and stories where the heroine must outwit the darkness to escape, this one’s for you.