Short Horror Stories

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In 27 Days (Watty Award Winner 2012)

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a r...

Nano Bytes - A Collection of Short SciFi Stories

This is a collection of short stories written by Wattpadders who love their Science Fiction as much as we do. It aims to celebrate the diversity of the genre both in sub-genre, length and style, so whether you like Steampunk or Hard SciFi, Space Opera or Dystopian, fanfiction or a drabble, we know you'll find somethin...

Earthrise: 2176 [Published - Sample Only]

What if we were the first in our part of the galaxy to discover the secret of faster than light travel? What if this discovery was 10,000 years before it was supposed to be? Our neighbors had been watching for centuries and were surprised with our early arrival into the Web of Worlds... The Year is 2166: To the peop...

Oliver Twist (1837)

The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...

Mission Orion: The Travel through Time

[HIGHEST RANK: #1 IN SCIENCE FICTION] The world is ravaged by a nuclear war. Borders were redrawn, powers had shifted. But the worst was yet to come. The sun was soon becoming a supernova, wiping out the planets. There was no other option left but to leave Earth, once and for all. But humans find themselves face to f...

Expiration Date (Books 1 and 2)

Now a digital pilot for SYFY The Society knows when we're going to die. They imprint it on our arms at birth. I was supposed to die yesterday. I'm the girl who's Expired. Winner of the 2020 Readers Choice Awards Cover by @Forcade

How My Brain Ended Up Inside This Box

"When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me...

Science fiction and fantasy stories editors are tired of

Tevun-Krus #28 - Theological SF

This month, the @Ooorah regulars take on Theological Science Fiction!

Tevun-Krus #21 - Comic SF

This month it's the turn of Comic Science Fiction to get the @Ooorah crew treatment! Come on in and have a look at the fantastic short stories, reviews and articles, and why not take part in our monthly caption contest, eh?

Greats of Science Fiction

This collection of writer profiles aims to showcase the history and lives behind some of the greatest Science Fiction writers the genre has seen. From the early 'greats' and 'masters' of the Science Fiction world to some of the 'genre shakers' who have revolutionised how SF is viewed; from Dystopian to Steampunk, via...

How to Write Science Fiction

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov This piece is intended as a bit of a Help guide, a point of reference and hopefully something people will enjoy, as ultimately all of you will have different experiences reading...

Strange Yarns

WATTY 2016 WINNER of the HQ Love Award! Strange Yarns is a ball of tangled tales. Twisted, knotted, and intertwined. Like Tales of the Crypt, the Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. Strange Yarns is not just a collection of ghastly tales, these are yarns, and yarns are sewed together. Follow the yarns and see the gra...

It's Probably Haunted

{(Wattpad Featured Story)} It's kind of you to pick me up like this. Most people wouldn't take the time to do this sort of thing anymore. I sometimes feel like the world is getting smaller and smaller the more connected things become. That reminds me of a time in my life that nothing seemed to make sense and every ste...

Puppet Boy

"My beautiful Puppet Boy and my beautiful Puppet Girl." A teenage boy and girl find themselves trapped in the lair of a crazy man obsessed with human puppetry. __________________ #1 in horror - 12/6/15 [featured - 12/30/15] IMPORTANT NOTICE - if you're reading this story on a site that is not www.wattpad.com then you...

THE ACCIDENTAL EXORCIST

For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Blatty, Ted Dekker, and Frank Peretti When forensic psychiatrist Abigail Lee meets a baby-killing mother who has been declared criminally insane and acquitted, she discovers something lurking beneath the surface. Something far deeper and more insidious than mere psychopathy...

The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toron...

The Aliveagainers

Haunted by memories, a thief reluctantly leads a group of survivors to escape a city filled with horrors. But the journey isn't easy. Desperate strangers pose a very real threat, while one of the group seems to be changing into something... or someone else. And no matter where they go there is the feeling that somethi...

Knee Deep (Short Story)

In this horror short, a father and son must come to terms with their tumultuous history, devastating family loss, and a past that will not stay buried. Memories are slippery, violent things and lying to one's self can be deadly.

DEAD IN BED By Bailey Simms: The Complete First Book

You've never, ever read a book like this. When a sexually-transmitted plague breaks out in Ashley Young's small town, leaving its victims with a bizarrely amplified libido, everything about her life changes. DEAD IN BED is partly a suspense thriller with a strikingly unique story, partly a page-turning mystery about a...

The People v. Jonathan Ludarac (Abridged)

This document is the property of The United States Department of Justice. Any dissemination of this document without proper permission from the aforementioned government agency is punishable up to the amount of $500,000 and ten years of federal imprisonment. This collection of documents was assembled at the request of...

Firestorm: Descent

A world ravaged by war; humanity on the brink. A stranger comes from another time. Is he the saviour mankind has been waiting for... or something far darker? When an accident with an experimental Time Machine plunges David Tweed into another dimension, at first he thinks he got lucky. He's alive, and the world in whic...

Abnormal Beyond

Here is a place of both psychological and supernatural Horrors. It's a place of uncanny resemblance to our own world, but the small gaps inside defy reality. In this short story collection, you'll get to take a deep, dark glimpse in those horrifying gaps and immerse yourself in the atmosphere. Among such stories are: ...

The Memory Giver (#Wattys2014)

When Turtle Dawson’s 14 year-old brother returns after being dead for two years, he brings with him fond memories of the old days, and a chance at redemption for the entire family. But there's something different about A.D., something dark and sinister, and if Turtle continues to do as A.D. tells him, he could wind up...

The Dark ✔

[Previously FEATURED] Retail workers have the least chance of being haunted, hurt, or killed. At least, that's what three cashiers assume. When Temple, Marilyn, and Martine meet little Sienna, they find out how wrong they are about job security. Sienna triggers the appearance of the Dark, an elusive Shadow that neve...

Madness At Noon {COMPLETED}

Noon is your average, everyday psychopath who fell in love with her hero. She knows when he tries to kill her, it's just his special way of saying how much he cares. She knows every time he throws her in the insane asylum, it's just his overprotective side wanting to keep her close. She knows when he stabbed her in th...

ACROSS THE BLACK PLAINS

An alien invasion in the Old Midwest forces a retired 'spellslinger' to pick up his guns and fight to save his family.

Project Aspire

A team of astronauts crash land on a primitive alien planet, millions of lightyears from earth. Hunted by savage megafauna and native tribes, they must band together to survive. What they discover there will change everything they know about what it means to be human. This book is being written collaboratively by four...