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✔️ GOT GUTS? | How To Escape A Psycho Serial Killer by Ellen_Reese
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Kidnap, torture, kill, repeat. That's how this serial killer rolls. So, what does it take for one boy to escape his horrifying captivity? It takes guts! Best friends, Kevin and Josh, are trying to juggle college classes while finding a way to launch a chemistry startup, but their lives turn into a living hell when Kevin's bad luck drives him to the doorstep of a serial killer. While Josh desperately searches for Kevin, the psycho killer is enjoying torturing his young victim in every possible way. However, there is one thing that the killer doesn't know; he picked the wrong victim to mess with. ⚠️TRIGGER WARNINGS⚠️ Disturbing contents! Strong language. Mental health issues. Media and descriptions of kidnapping, sexual harassment, blood, gore, torture, abuse, needles, violence, and death. 🏆ACHIEVEMENTS🏆 🌟 Won the FICTION AWARDS 2019 for BEST HORROR BOOK ON WATTPAD 🌟 3RD PLACE WINNER of the WATTYS 2020 BOOTCAMP MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 🌟BEST OF MYSTERY/THRILLER on WATTPAD OFFICIAL MYSTERY PROFILE 🌟FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S FRIGHT, MYSTERY, PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL, & BADASSREADS OFFICIAL PROFILES 🌟#1 in HORROR on May 15, 2018 🌟#16 in MYSTERY/THRILLER on Feb 28, 2018 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ STARTED: Jan 17, 2018 CHAPTERS WC: Around 2500 words COMPLETED: Jan 5, 2019 Revised chapters are marked with ✎ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Cover by @VictoriaSlater457 If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad (that's W a t t p a d) you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original safe form, please go to: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Ellen_Reese Thank you!
Goats from Lambs by PaulKingston
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Headless bodies start appearing in the streets, so cunning Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner have to stop the killer to prevent the apocalypse ***** After bodies start appearing in the middle of the streets, hollowed and headless, Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner, Travis Virgil, are given the case. However, once they dig deeper, meeting the emotionally broken Victor Eccelstone, and realize how heavily the church is involved, Rashida has to acknowledge that this case might be bigger than she had ever imagined. These crimes aren't the act of one man - they're the beginning of the end of the world [[Winner of the 2017 Wattys Storysmith Award]] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
Day After Day by masonfitzzy
masonfitzzy
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Each day she wakes up in a different body, not knowing who she is, and each night that body dies. She is the Reaper Syndrome, and she's desperate to know why. ***** She doesn't know what's happening. Each day she wakes up in a new body, not knowing who she is. She has to pretend to be the person, and at the end of the day her new body dies. The media have a name for these deaths: the Reaper Syndrome. No one believes it's a person jumping from body to body, until Joe. He's a conspiracy theorist, but she can make him listen. He trusts her, and he can also see the mysterious man, Samael, that's following her. Why is this happening to her? Who can she trust? Every day it takes her to end the Reaper Syndrome, another person dies. She doesn't want the last victim to be her. *2021 Wattys Shortlisted*
Photobombed || Based on True Events by rosiewrites_
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Everyone has their hidden talents, and some people's are less hidden than others. Alison's talents is photography and art, but as introverted as she is she's never had the wits to share it to the world. That is, until she catches Leo watching her paint. Leo is her opposite, outgoing and popular. Leo helps her open up her talent to the world, and builds a relationship with Alison that's more with friendship. Their love takes a twist when one of the snobby, popular twins at her small high school gets brutally murdered, and a strange entity haunts the photographs she take for the school yearbook. More and more brutal murders and disappearances occur, and the entity being photographed is getting more and more frequent. Can their love stay strong through all of this, and will they come out of the horrors alive?
The Stephen King Book Club by GregCarrico
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Flash fiction about a reader who meets his favorite authors at a book signing and goes to great lengths to impress them. Big thanks to @TharronSkylor for the new cover art!!!
Sin (Wattys Winner) by ShaunAllan
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On the flip of a coin, people die around Sin. Escaped from a lunatic asylum and haunted by his dead sister, he must find out why, and discover who is trying to use his power to destroy everything and everyone. ***** Dead, dead, dead. Say it enough times and it becomes just another word. What would you do? Could you kill a killer? Does the death of one appease the deaths of a hundred? What about that hundred against a thousand? What if you had no choice? Meet Sin. No, not that sort of sin, but Sin, crazy as a loon (you ask Sister Moon), and proud of it. Sin locks himself away in an asylum and, every so often, badboy he's believed to be, gets violent. That's only so they'll give him those nice drugs, though. The ones that help him forget. It's a pity they don't work. Sin, you see, has a serious problem. Well, it's not so much his problem, as ours - yours, mine and everyone else's. People die around Sin. He doesn't like it and there's nothing he can do about it. But someone else knows, and Sin has to stop them... and himself... Flip and catch... -- WATTY WINNER!! Includes a special BONUS CHAPTER commissioned for Amazon Prime's Panic, and bonus chapters set in Sin's asylum! Featured on the following amazing lists! *The @fright profile for Top Horror Stories selected by movie The Ring!* *The Top Psychological Horror reading list for The Boy movie!* *The Terrifying Thrillers reading list for The Purge: Election Year!* *The Sinister Stories reading list for movie Sinister II!* *The Best of Thriller reading list for the Unfriended film!* #4 in MysteryThriller #6 in Horror #6 in Mystery #2 in Psychological #1 in Chiller #1 in Psychological Horror on Amazon!
The Call Center by JeffMScott
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Belko Inc. is infamous for its large turnaround rates. Jay Schooler will learn the secret to being successful and winning all the bonuses, like the gold watches all the top sellers wear. What is really lurking in the dark shadows of the call center?
Lucy Belle's Diary by Sarchet1603
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Highest ranking in horror-- #1 Lucy Belle was just an ordinary 7-year-old girl living in the 1950's. She had a loving family, good grades, and lots of friends. That is until she met the mysterious ghost, Susan. This story is a series of Lucy Belle's diary entries, explaining her life in a short and sweet way. Enjoy!
The girl you didn't Notice   by _Sass_Queen_
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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©***