31 words isn't much to tell a tale, but even those few are able to chill your blood. Herein lie super short yet super scary stories, including serials The Night and House, each of only the magical 31 words. Do you know what 31 is? 13 backwards... - #19 in Horror! #1 Stories #1 in Horrorfiction #1 in Chills #1 in Micr...
When Psychology Professor Pamela Barnes discovers her department's star researcher strangled to death in the computer lab, she's determined to find out who did it. Will an accidental recording of the murder allow Pamela to use her expertise in acoustics to identify the killer? A unique cozy mystery--set in the world o...
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...
Featured on: ¤ Stories Undiscovered ¤ YA Mystery ¤ 2024 Amby's Winner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No one is who they seem. No one is to be trusted in this suspense filled mystery novel. The small town of Black Hill is brought to its knees as beloved 17-year-old, May Hart, is brutally murdered. However, the story doesn't end...
After a string of grisly murders are committed against young women, it leads different police departments around Texas to realize that the murdered girls share the same terrifying trait in common. Every girl is was an avid lover of selfies. Strangely, all the murdered girls before passing can also relate by having me...
Rachel Vaughn is being hunted by something... unexplainable. And she can't help but think it has something to do with Luc, the handsome but mysterious guy who lives next door. { Book I of The Psychic Curse } After her boyfriend cheats on her, Rachel Vaughn needs a fresh start. She finds it in a new apartment, and...
Don't let the every day ghoul stiff you out of a proper afterlife. Where do monsters go when they die? Monster Mortuary is a fully illustrated look into the final goodbye of all the creepy-crawly nightmares we're afraid to let out of our closets. From murders to accidents to gooey disease, breakout your best black f...
'I was falling. And he was going to catch me. I just knew he was.' For Megan Walden, life is all about perfection. She's the perfect friend, the perfect wife, the perfect office dogsbody, but what happens when she makes a decision that cracks the glass protecting her perfect little world? During a night-out in the s...
[THE DOLL GARDEN WILL BE REMOVED ON DECEMBER 31ST] *** The Harrington family was what everyone in the picturesque town of Runswick, Rhode Island aspired to be, until their eldest child Jenna, tumbled down a flight of stairs, leaving her with little to no memories, including the distinct screams of women from her fathe...
"Not so long ago, I was alone and lost and then you came along and I was home. thank you for finding me After 10 years of disappearing, when Ember Helberg returns to India to meet his childhood crush, Arorhea Laghari, he discovers that she has completely forgotten him. He is happy though. Now that she won't remember t...
If you're triggered by something sinister, do you seek its meaning, or do you leave it alone? *** Small-town barista and occasional stray animal rescuer Jessamine Spencer never would have guessed that a video about missing paranormal show-host Amy LaRoya would rile her up so badly, to the point of having nightmarish v...
*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...
After one bad night y/n meets somebody at the river. He could be the best thing that happened to her or he could make her life erupt into a living nightmare. Female reader lol I do not own the character "Ghostface" or "Danny Johnson" :) Some warnings for this story: There will be gore, murder and stuff like that so j...
(Rewritten) I've been attending Lake Chastity school since I was ten. I've heard that Mr. Cason, the man who runs the school, brings in children with sketchy pasts. My parents died when I was five, and I'd been shuffled around so many times I'd lost count, until 'the incident' happened. That was when Mr...
(Ghostface X Depressed Female Reader) Premise: A young women has recently moved into a new home that her late grandfather passed onto her. Between her loneliness, anxiety disorder and depression, she finds her one way to cope is by researching and learning about serial killers. Through her facisnation she becomes mai...
In the asylum, no one cares if you scream. Of course, in Connors' domain, no one cares full stop, period. No one except for Sin, that is. Stuck in the asylum, he sees and hears all sorts. Screams, crying, secrets and lies. In this book, you'll be hearing them too! For all you Sinners out there, our friendly neighbourh...
This is a FREE STORY with PAID BONUS content! *** [Book 1 to the Lake Bellinor Duology] It can't be controlled. And it can't be ignored. Those were the two most important things Tyler Loftman came to understand the more he discovered about his strange ability; an ability that allows him to see into a dead person's pas...
When Sarah Solomon took refuge in an old cottage in the woods, she knew it would only be a matter of time before the monsters came a' calling. Cursed with a power she neither wants, nor knows how to harness, Sarah has become a target, but who is her hunter? The army of monsters at her door? Or the lone vampire who h...
//"Cloning and gene mutation is more common than you may think."// The Blackwood family has a lot of secrets. Some of which being too dark to be talked about out loud. Whether it's the fact that Olivia, the oldest, is dating her Art teacher or the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood's relationship isn't as sophisticated...
[Book 2 to the Lake Bellinor Duology] [UNEDITED] After finally learning to accept his ability for what it is, Tyler returns to question the origins of it, starting with the mysterious curly-haired woman in his dreams. However, his plans are soured when his older brother, Christian, asks for his help after three dead b...
What would you think if your classmates believed in witchcraft? What would you feel if your friends wished to bring the dead back to life? What would you do when instead of bringing back a dead boy, those friends succeeded in resurrecting something far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined? Seventeen-year-old...
"I am going to haunt you forever." That's the promise that Breanne makes her killer. He cannot dump her body in the river and simply have his crime washed away. The detectives assigned to her case can't seem to pin anything on him, and her parents are beginning to believe the lies he tells. But Breanne is going to mak...
"You are so afraid that love will destroy you, that you destroy yourself so that you could save yourself from the murderous hands of those that will never touch you anyways" You were gorgeous, but so was your possessive ex-girlfriend who didn't want you to move on to other women. But there you were, moving on to me, c...
Paranelope, a ghost hunter who's been cancelled for faking evidence, must discover the truth behind a local cryptid in order to clear her name. -- Penelope, better known as the ghost hunter PARANELOPE to her millions of followers, has only ever wanted one thing: to find solid, irrefutable proof of the supernatural. Bu...
This is a FREE STORY with one paid bonus chapter! Once the sunlight goes to bed, that's when darkness wakes the dead. When a series of grisly deaths devastate 19th-century New England, sixteen-year-old farm girl Faith must outsmart the Undead to keep herself - and her family - alive. (Longer description inside.) ...
A librarian gets sucked into a web of horror as she investigates a century-old disappearance in the new town she has moved into. *** Yvaine Agan had always led a quiet life and had expected to do the same when she moved to the small town of Andrasville. Little had she expected to encounter a message in a bottle dating...
[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...
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...
"𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋" Delphinium Tesla is anything but the normal girl she pretends she is, especially not with the power of telekinesis behind her fingertips. Haunting her nightmares are memories of the evil organization that trained her to be a...
**Officially published as Clique Bait with HarperTeen!** Payment is usually a part of a basic transaction. You give and then you take. But, at Arlington Preparatory, people take at their leisure. They take their entertainment in the form of humiliation. They get what they want at the expense of their pawns. But they n...