Cooper Daniels is alive. And really, after everything he survived in highschool, that should be enough. But college isn't the fresh start he was hoping for. Plagued by night terrors and the weight of his many, careful lies, Cooper still hasn't figured out how to outrun his past -- or the memory of Calla Parker, the gi...
DOUBLE WATTY AWARD WINNER - mystery/thriller AND biggest twist! After her mother's death, Blaire Bloxham moves in with an aunt she never knew she had, and discovers the dark history of her new town. Armed with a mysterious book and a podcast with an enchanting narrator, Blaire's determined to crack the key to Anchor L...
[Formerly Featured/Historical Horror] Masquerading as a gentlemanly bachelor living in Victorian England, Joseph Redding is a fraud amongst the living. After splitting from his partner in unspeakable, underground crimes, he must now pay the price for disturbing the dead. When a ghastly spectre reveals itself to him on...
[COMPLETED] Two women. One name. Too many secrets to count. Married to her high school sweetheart, Calista Hargrove thought she had the perfect life. She never imagined she'd be the victim of an attempted murder. When she wakes up in a hospital bed mistaken as the wealthy Calista Dover, she quickly realizes her old l...
[COMPLETED] Dr. Alexis Reyna's perfect life begins to unravel as her stalker's obsession turns deadly. Can she rely on her new boyfriend to help her or is she falling in love with a killer? *PLEASE NOTE: This book is unedited and a first draft. *
The countdown to Halloween is on, and it's time to get spooky! Read No Evil is a great collection of original short stories put together for you by our Wattpad Originals writers. We'll be releasing new stories daily all the way until Halloween. Grab the potion of your choice (a cauldron sized coffee perhaps?), set th...
Rifton Girls' High School is the most elite all-girls school in the city. With a strict scholarship-only admission, a grand school campus and plentiful funding from its wealthy alumni, it is no doubt that the already-talented young ladies within its halls will develop further into future leaders. Unfortunately for so...
An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Pau...
Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. Satchmo soon finds himself in...
Before Spencer Crest left, he called you ‘doc’. He was your favourite patient, and in return, you were his favourite psychiatrist. You understood him in a way nobody else could. You didn’t know where he came from, who his parents were, or how he knew you, but you never turned him away when he came knocking on your off...
Do you know Jack? The Ripper? Saucy Jack? Leather Apron? The most infamous serial killer in history has long been fodder for the imagination of authors and artists alike, but his true identity remains an enigma to this day. Take a fresh look at the notorious Murderer of Whitechapel through the eyes and quills of Wattp...
It's at the start of the annual Purge that Max receives a desperate call from a family member that can't be ignored and has to risk absolutely everything in order to save them. But the Purge doesn't just bring fear, it also brings revelation. And the truth about who your real enemy is might just be the thing Max needs...
Prepare to be afraid, very afraid with this collection of super-short and super-scary stories from users on Wattpad.
The Sharing Nightmares Anthology is an Halloween themed anthology with stories from some of Wattpad's finest 'thrill weavers' Here, you'd find stories from 20 prolific authors with enough chills and spooky to keep you on edge all Hallo-month long. Not the brightness of your phone, or the light from your lamp is enough...
Cooper Daniels survived his last brush with death by the grace of God and a teenage psychopath named Calla Parker. And so far, his senior year is off to a great start. His grades are up. His girlfriend is happy. But no matter how hard he tries to turn over a new leaf, the events of sophomore year keep coming back to h...
One night. One call. One dead. Lilly gets a call from Delcan telling her to save him. The only problem is Delcan has been dead for two weeks now. // splendid cover by @patrickdester
☆☆ Watty Award Winner 2020 ☆☆ Cooper Daniels lives next door to a psychopath. He just can't prove it...yet. When the most popular girl in high school is murdered at a Halloween party, Cooper's suspicions become a reality. He knows exactly who did it. But how is he supposed to prove his charming neighbor is a killer? M...
*Featured Story* Readers of dark tales, are you in the mood for holiday cheer? Enter DEAD WINTER and get your fill. But mind your step! In this frozen world, victory belongs to the villains. DEAD WINTER: A CRYPTIC Anthology is a collection of 25 chilling tales penned by Wattpad's finest authors. Stories will be publis...
This is the original, unedited version of Light as a Feather, Book #1. This book was the inspiration for the Hulu Original Series. The revised version is now available in bookstores throughout the USA & Canada from Simon Pulse. McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she'...
They say a picture can tell a thousand words...but what if it's sending you a message from the dead? Aspiring horror writer Gwen Coleman and her workaholic husband, Noah, have finally found their dream home and quickly move in with their young daughter Harmony and infant son, Caleb. What begins as an unexplained shado...
BOOK ONE OF THE WICKERNHAM TRILOGY - WATTYS AWARD WINNER - - #1 IN SCIENCE FICTION - After a close brush with death, Jarod ends up in a hospital, traumatized but alive. He thinks he is lucky to get off with minor injuries, but he soon realizes that something is wrong when he starts behaving abnormally. Eventu...
No one really knows what they are or where they came from. No one knows how they ended up like that- WHY they're like that. The only thing people really know is that they're vicious, blood thirsty, and always hungry. For flesh. For us. If you encounter them and you're lucky enough to survive, you'll eventually wish yo...
[COMPLETED] (BOOK I IN THE DREAM SERIES) Dani Deleon has a problem. With a single touch, she can see people's nightmares. When she starts to see the nightmares of a sadistic serial killer known as The Maestro...everyone around her becomes a possible suspect. With the help of Detective Jax Michaels, will Dani be abl...
Cecilia Drake is obsessed with eyes. She loves the colors of them. She loves the sight of them. She loves the feel of them. What started out as revenge has turned into a game for Cece. She is the most wanted serial killer in the United States and yet she's only 15. Her victims have nothing in common. Exce...
Going through my pictures, I went to the one that I had just taken, and the phone slowly slipped out of my grasp. What had escaped my notice before is that the couch I had taken the picture on was against a window, which showed the backyard of the house. But in this picture, it wasn't an empty backyard. No, behind...
The East Ward of Harbrook Hill is a home for the criminally insane, but only the most deranged dwell on the fifth floor. Take Walter Hosler, this morning's new arrival. He hasn't spoken in a year. Not since the cops found him hiding in the basement of his house, his wife lying dead upstairs. The part of her that was l...
THANK YOU, Wattpad, for the HQ Love Watty Award! Concept: A mysterious young woman flees from her troubled past only to discover it is impossible to escape THE SECRET that haunts her. *PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally inspired by the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy". ...
"You have been sentenced to life in prison. Your ship will leave tomorrow for the island. Gather your things." When you've been decided a criminal, you're a criminal. There are no ifs, ands, or buts; whether you did the crime or not. Courts and juries are no longer used. If the authorities think you've done it, ther...
Are we really alone when we dream? From her apartment in downtown Vancouver, Jordan can see everything. But one evening, she observes a man in the apartment across the street and becomes convinced he is watching her. That night, she experiences a bizarre wakeful-dream in which a dark shadow figure enters her room and...
There's nothing you're forced to trust more than your own mind. You're dependent on it, it stores the memories that make up your world. But what if it could be stolen from you? Aspen's world is growing, from the boundaries of her country farm to the edges of the city. Her first year of university. It's supposed to...