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Stories in Horror that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
Disappear
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. I didn’t know why, and I didn’t question it. Not at first anyway. There was this tugging feeling that I had every time I looked at the oak slab under the stairs, its polished brass knob tempting me. It was easy enough to ignore, but then came the rattling, as if someone was desperately trying to get out. It was startling every time, but it eventually subsided to a light knocking. Fear turned into curiosity as the craving to know what laid behind it grew and grew.
By Gunnar Andersonabout a year ago in Horror
Journey Through the Door
There was only one rule: don't open the door. I have seen that door since I was a child. It haunts my dreams, but my grandmother warned me of the danger it presented. I never understood what she meant since she never elaborated on the dangers. My thought was she had gone through it at some point and knew firsthand. My feminine intuition told me to forget the door, but my stubbornness drove me to the threshold. I stared at the wooden surface, trying to sense what was beyond. I grabbed the handle and opened the door a crack and peeked through it. Seeing the same clearing I stood in I opened the door further and stepped inside. Everything seemed normal and I wondered why my grandmother warned me of the door.
By Colt Hendersonabout a year ago in Horror
Revenge
There was only one rule: don’t open the door on Halloween night. Stay inside. Don’t go out. Family lore, handed down. But when George bugged Maria about going to his friend’s party, she gave in with a tiny thrill. Superstitions were for her grandmother’s generation, not for her.
By Alison McBainabout a year ago in Horror
Specimen
"We have to find a way out of here, NOW!" "Shh, keep your voice down. We don't know what we're dealing with." Grogginess clouds my confused mind as I urge Jeanie to stay calm and huddled together, cautiously moving forward. Neither of us know how we ended up in the bowels of a subterranean cave. Somehow, I know we are underwater. Maybe it's the echoing drips casting an eerie sound pattern throughout the long, porous and dimly lit tunnels. Or maybe it's the horrible scent of dead, decaying fish accosting my nose with each breath, coating the back of my throat in a salty slime. It's disgusting! I swear we are underwater, though. Similar to the vague memory I have involving Jeanie and I being abducted by an unseen assailant... or assailants. I don’t know.
By Lamar Wigginsabout a year ago in Horror
Not Every Door. Runner-up in Spooky Micro Challenge.
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. Tali had participated in dozens of studies to supplement her paltry waitress’s income. But this one was excruciating; hours in a white-walled room with nothing but a door she was not allowed to open.
By Emily Fineabout a year ago in Horror
The Art of Sacrifice
The commission had been irresistible, a studio furnished with rare pigments, including mummy brown—the infamous paint ground from ancient bones. The patron knew of Harper’s fascination with the occult. He gestured her in, leaving a single cryptic instruction: “Don’t open the door, not until it's complete.”
By H.M.Wardenabout a year ago in Horror
The Sound of Laughter
There was only one rule: Don’t open the door. Randy was never one for following rules. From the time he was a child, he did things his way. He never thought about consequences or the personal wellbeing or property of others; he just laughed it off. Every time he got suspended; he laughed. When he got in trouble at home, he laughed. His parents were only too happy to kiss him goodbye when he moved out on his 18th birthday.
By Cathy holmesabout a year ago in Horror
The Swallowed One and the Goblin Tree. Content Warning.
There was only one rule: "Don't open the door." Or so read the warning above the little bronze door at the foot of a fire blackened oak. It was written in a script so perverse that when moonlight set it aglow, even the Gods averted their eyes and the damned shivered and kept clear.
By Call Me Les5 months ago in Horror
