Laura is trapped in an elevator. She has been there for as long as she can remember. The elevator is going down. She doesn't think she's alone. . . --- A short HORROR story from the author of CUPID'S MATCH and DEVILS INC. Previously featured on Wattpad. Find me on Instagram @LaurenPalphreyman

Highest rank: #7 in horror A couple of spine chilling horror stories, some made up by myself, some you can find on the internet. No copyright intended. Over a selection of 80 stories for you to read in the dark preferably, alone.

[Featured] [Highest rank #2 in Horror] [Featured by @TheExorcistFOX] Exclusive to Wattpad! "Whatever you do, don't let them inside." Liam is a new father struggling to adapt to life with a baby. Growing more sleepless and paranoid with each passing night, he wonders if the taps on the windows and mysterious faces at the door are all in his head. He'll find out the terrifying truth when the black-eyed children knock. When the Black-Eyed Children Knock is a superbly suspenseful read. You'll never hear a knock at the door at night in the same way. Also includes five other short horror stories.

Hello lovelies! After a million (!!!) reads, I've taken DarkWeb down. Thank you for all the comments, votes, and reads! UPDATE: DARKWEB IS NOW FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED. A revised, improved, totally portable version of DarkWeb is on sale at Amazon for a couple of bucks if you want your own shiny new copy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CYHXC4Y In the meantime, I'll be around, working on other stories. See you soon, --T **** If you want to check out the beginning of DarkWeb to see if it's the kind of story you might like, I'm leaving the first three chapters up. ****THIS IS ONLY AN EXCERPT/TEASER, NOT THE COMPLETE STORY.**** {WATTPAD FEATURED STORY} {Highest Rank #1 Mystery/Thriller} When the FBI approaches 22 year old Wren Bower to work as an informant, she knows she'll take the job no matter what. The pay: Time off her jailbird brother's sentence. Wren's assignment: Put herself in the path of enigmatic computer programmer Mark Donahue. The FBI suspects Mark's the mastermind of DarkWeb, an untraceable website that deals in drugs, weapons, hit men, and human trafficking. But Mark is more than Wren bargained for. To make matters worse, Mark's arrogant, dangerous, totally hot younger brother, Davis, starts sniffing out inconsistencies in Wren's cover story. Can Wren get the FBI what they want before Mark or Davis discover she's an informant? The only way out is to solve the mystery of DarkWeb. {Featured} Highest Rank -- #1 in Mystery/Thriller

Highest ranking - #1 in horror! Featured in Wattpad hotlist- #1 *under editing* *Royally yours award winner- 1st* Order of the series- 1st- The girl you didn't notice 2nd- I'm still here 3rd- Looking for someone- part 1 4th- looking for someone -part 2 Lisa Simon is an eighteen year old girl who has just moved into a new house with her family. The house actually is a huge bungalow, which the Simon family purchased for quite a reasonable price. No matter how beautiful it looks, it has many secrets hidden inside. And Lisa is the first one to discover that. This is Lisa Simon's bone chilling experience in the Fox River State. ***All rights reserved©***

An excerpt from Margaret Atwood's classic story, The Handmaid's Tale. This is a word of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. First Anchor Books Edition, April 1998 Copyright © 1986 by O. W. Toad, Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1986. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company. Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. www.anchorbooks.com

*Shortlisted for Wattys 2017* Sixteen year old Charlie Shultz almost died ten years ago, when a little boy lured her away with murder on his mind. She escaped, but now her attempted murderer is back. This time, he's different. He's grown up. His face has changed with age; his name is no longer the one that haunts her nightmares. His methods have improved. He's learned new ways to torture, new ways to terrify, and new ways to make the chilling experience last. Poor Charlie won't even see him coming. She won't even realize who he is until he gets a second chance at the One That Got Away.

(Written for the Wattzombie's Zombie 101 Masterclass) Penny hates babysitting. She also hates flesh eating zombies. Somehow, she gets stuck trying to manage both. She doesn't know how to raise a baby or take care of an eleven year-old, but she's got to make due in the harsh land of the living dead. She and her group of survivors have lasted rather well for six months...until one of their own unexpectedly changes sides. With his living memories still floating around in his dead brain, and his keen fresh zombie senses, the group is in double trouble. Gore, terror, and suspension! Don't pass up this zombie horror/thriller.

A teenage girl, Janis, and her older brother, Salem, must do whatever it takes to protect their sick parents during the rising zombie apocalypse. However, keeping their condition a secret and maintaining their appetite just might be too much for Jan to handle...

A homewrecker. A succubus. Those are some of the things they call Hayden before she dies. They are jealous of her beauty. They are envious of her luxurious life. They hate her for stealing their boyfriends. It all leads to her death. A situation turns deadly between Hayden and her former best friend. Other students watch everything unfold on a live feed and nobody does anything to stop it. Whether out of fear or enjoyment, they chose not to lift a finger to dial for help. When Hayden goes to sleep forever, something else awakens. Something corrupted. It's out for blood, and it won't stop until they pay.