Short Scary Stories

~A book of all my favorite short scary stories. Enjoy~

Until Proven Innocent

Following the birth of her first child, Cordelia Waters suffered from a severe postpartum psychosis. When six months later, her baby goes missing, Cordelia becomes the prime suspect.

Sanford Crow

2022 Watty Winner || At the age of ten, Sanford Crow discovers the worst secret of all--his father is a serial killer. It was the year 1969. Sanford's dream was to grow up to be a detective. Putting his intuitions to the test, he conducts an investigation into his father. The discovery he makes brings his whole world...

Why Did You Do It?

Jared Shay and Angela Nicolson were the best of friends when they were younger. Their parents were best friends and paired them up together the moment Angela was born. Even thought the two of them were polar opposites~ Jared is a handsome popular strapping young man while Angie is a frizzy haired crooked teeth visitor...

The Dyers Are Deadly

A curse runs in the Dyer family: whoever touches them dies. Only the person meant for them doesn't.

Traces of Delilah

[Cover made by @Vanoeuxx] After moving to Connecticut to room with her best friend for the summer, Chastity Blake doesn't know what to think of the charm bracelet she finds, caught under the floorboards in her new bedroom; with the initials D.K. engraved into it. But ignoring the bracelet's origins isn't an option whe...

The Mystery Letters

Hannah lost her twin sister Hailey when she was 12 in an accident, or so they believed. The case had been closed, everyone seemed to move on except for Hannah. So what will she do when she starts receiving letters ten years later from an unknown person, who reveals himself to be her sister's killer? How will she...

Murky Waters (2022 Wattys' Shortlist)

[2022 Wattys shortlisted story] A missing family. A twenty year old murder. An old ghost story. And a private detective from London. But what do they all have in common? It's the job of DCI Neo Denzel to figure it all out. In the quiet town of Marton, Shropshire, a place where nothing really happens, a car sits aband...