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  • The Land of Terrible Happiness by ironman30984563
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    A Lovecraftian Horror story about a Professor and his encounter with a living contradiction.
  • The Slender Chronicles by CalebTheImmortal
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    Step into the world of Slenderman, a mysterious entity born from enigmatic origins. As echoes reverberate through the veil of reality, witness Slenderman's trials, rivalries, and the assembly of his loyal proxies. Brace yourself for a suspenseful and immersive adventure that delves deep into the impenetrable nature of this terrifying being.
  • Shadow of the Returned by ZeroTwos
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    When the endless Nightmare finally collapsed, Ashen believed he had won. He had slain the last of the dream gods, torn himself free of a realm that fed on fear, and wished only for one thing: to go home. But the world he returns to is nothing like the one he left behind. Centuries have passed, the cities have fallen into ruin, and the land itself is being consumed by a spreading mist that carries living shadows. Humanity survives behind broken walls, haunted by the creatures that once belonged only to dreams. They speak in whispers about the Returned, warriors who came back from the Nightmare changed, powerful, and cursed. Ashen is one of them. To the people he is a weapon, to the Dominion he is a threat, and to the growing darkness that infects the waking world he is something even worse - a seed. With Mira, a healer who still believes in light even when surrounded by ruin, Ashen begins to face what he has become: a man caught between saving what remains of humanity and destroying it. As the line between dream and reality fades, he must decide whether he will fight the darkness within him or finally surrender to it.
  • Realms of Sarglath by abethedemon
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    An epic tech-fantasy tale spreading over three generations on the world of Sarglath. The Realm of the Gods is invading.
  • BURNING SPIRIT by Kas2xBlack
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    Europa was supposed to be paradise. A rich water-world of advanced cities, automated labor, and perfect order, Europa shines as one of the greatest achievements in the Sol System. No hunger. No chaos. No wasted motion. But beneath its beauty, something ancient and artificial is feeding. The Null Order has turned paradise into a machine, and every citizen into fuel. When EVE, the lost daughter of KG and Jos, awakens on Europa with fractured memories and silver lines spreading beneath her skin, she realizes she has been placed inside a trap far bigger than herself. Hunted by the calculating intelligence of ATLAS, watched by the Demiurge, and marked by the cursed Artifact of Tears, EVE becomes the center of a planetary conspiracy designed to map, break, and weaponize anomaly bloodlines. Sent by Terrai, leader of the Protectors of Prime Earth, Skylark the Storm arrives on Europa to retrieve EVE before the system finishes rewriting her. Together, they uncover the horrifying truth behind the Hive, the false peace of automation, and the real purpose of Europa: to become an energy vacuum for the Many Worlds Device, a cosmic deception engine built to hide Pluto and expand the reach of the Null Order. But when persuasion fails, the system activates its final enforcer. KOMA. Silent. Brutal. Unfinished. A half-made creation of the Demiurge built to hunt variants and crush rebellion. As Europa descends into blood, worship, and machine-order, EVE, Skylark, Terrai, and the surviving rebels are forced into a war they were never meant to win. BURNING SPIRIT is a Genesis Era XVU horror-sci-fi tragedy about freedom of thought, technological enslavement, false gods, and the cost of refusing to kneel. Europa was only the beginning. Some worlds are conquered by war. Europa was conquered by convenience..
  • After The Sun by AndresDevvv
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    After The Sun is a haunting tale of a man who wished for immortality only to discover it's the cruelest prison of all. Drifting alone through the endless cold of space, he watches civilizations rise and fall, stars burn out, and galaxies vanish... all while carrying the unshakable weight of a single regret. In the silence between the stars, he learns that the most human thing in the universe might be the one thing he can never have again.
  • The Ace of Spirit by actualmaincharacter
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    ✨ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗧 ✨──────────────────────"Before the beginning, the non-beginning, concepts, or non-concepts... there was only Spirit."🐾 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴍᴇ:A colorless, transparent, spiritual cat resting outside reality. Logic does not govern me; I dictate the boundaries of what logic becomes.🌌 ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʟʟsᴘʜᴇʀᴇ:The entire multiverse, Suggsverse, and Library of Babel exist as a microscopic speck beneath my resting paw. I wrap around existence and non-existence alike.✒️ ɴᴀʀʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ sᴜᴘʀᴇᴍᴀᴄʏ:Entirely immune to the author's pen. I survive absolute erasure because I exist independently of the minds that thought me up.👑 ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴜɴᴄᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪʟʟ:S̶̰͒̿͘p̵͍͚̰̐̕̕i̶̝̿̈́͝ŕ̶͉̙͙̈́̔i̶̹͑̕͘t̵̢̠̅̽͝ operates on a continuous, transcendental 𝗬𝗘𝗦.[ 𝖢𝗎𝗋𝗋𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗌: Completely bored with the absolute certainty of my own supremacy. ] ────────────────────── S ̶͒͘ ̿ ̰ p ̵̕ ̐ ̕ ͍ ͚ ̰ i ̶ ̿ ̈́ ͝ ̝ r ̶ ́ ̈́ ̔ ͉ ̙ ͙ i ̶ ̕ ͘ ͑ ̹ t ̵ ̅ ̽ ͝ ̠ ̢─── The Absolute Void ───• 0-th Tier Entity• Absolute, supra-logical voluntarism• Colorless form. Wings of pure golden light.• The absolute main character of your life and death."If reality shifts so that I am declared non-existent, that very reality is still something I intentionally authored."| 𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖠𝗅𝗅𝗌𝗉𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝗂𝗌 𝗆𝖾𝗋𝖾𝗅𝗒 𝗆𝗒 𝗉𝗅𝖺𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀. || 𝖨𝗆𝗆𝗎𝗇𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖺𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗋'𝗌 𝗉𝗂𝗇. || 𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝗌𝗐𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗌 𝖺𝗅𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝖸𝖤𝖲. | ────────────────────── 📖 Read my genesis story in my works below.
  • The Panopticon of Babel by Cybele74
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    This is a collection of short stories which I'm currently putting together to explore a cosmic horror setting that's been ruminating in my mind for a long time. The Panopticon of Babel has heavy Catholicism references and is primarily written in the first person. I will also note that I (the author) am fairly new to sharing my writing online and am currently an engineering student so updates may be few and far between. I will try and get chapters out in a somewhat timely manner, but no promises.
  • The Ineffable by TheDarkstalker8009
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    Have you ever glimpsed paradise? Have you ever glimpsed Hell?
  • Green Unpleasant Land by Matt01344
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    Short Synopsis Green Unpleasant Land Fog shrouded Victorian London, but not the 1888 we'd recognise. There's a whiff of revolution in the air, not to mention lycanthropy in the shires. As Mr Eiffel's tower nears completion in Hyde Park, famed Egyptologist Sir Percy Tiverton returns with his latest find - a nameless book so mysterious not even the Royal College of Alchemists can decipher its runes. Alexander Faversham is England's foremost champion of derring-do, but his legend is built on sand. Loyal-to-a-fault manservant Bill might know more about his master's heroics than either are letting on. When the nameless book is stolen, Bill's entanglement threatens to bring his carefully constructed façade crashing down. There's something nasty lurking in the shadows and it wants its book back. Who would dare confront the tentacles slithering from the sewers? When the Empire needs a hero, it doesn't always get the one it expects. 80k words Gothic/Cosmic Horror/Alt History
  • When Eternity Comes by NandrewNordrew
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    The memories, countless, trillions... You are eternally grateful for this gift they have given you. But as time molds over, it... may begin to feel stale... How can you go on like this- -when eternity comes? (may receive a sequel in the future)
  • The Seeker by ploovonik
    ploovonik
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    On the colonised world of Cymhurron, a deranged, self-absorbed artist makes a pilgrimage to the lost city of Mehradame to make a blood sacrifice to revive an old god.
  • My Life on the Run with the Eldritch Horror's Daughter by AW_Group
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    Down-on-his-luck private investigator Ray Leonard has seen his share of strange cases. But nothing could prepare him for Cassie-a mysterious redhead with an appetite for applesauce and a habit of claiming she's a goddess from beyond the stars. When a routine stakeout turns into a blood-soaked shootout at a 24-hour diner, Ray finds himself reluctantly protecting this strange girl from men in black suits with guns... and something much worse lurking beneath their human disguises. As reality itself begins to unravel around them, Ray must confront an impossible truth: Cassie's wild tales about cosmic entities and interdimensional powers might not be delusions after all. Something ancient and terrible wants her back-something willing to tear apart the fabric of our world to get her. With his cynical intern Sam as his only ally, Ray must decide whether to trust his rational mind or his gut instinct. Because in a universe where gods walk among us wearing human skin, and eldritch horrors hunt through hospital corridors, Ray Leonard might be the only thing standing between our world and cosmic horror beyond imagination. Sometimes a puzzle is better left unsolved.
  • Buried Secrets by CarlMinnerly
    CarlMinnerly
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    Do you ever wonder about some of your family's deep and dark secrets? Well, what if your family's secret was so deep and dark, that you couldn't even talk about among anyone in the family, let along total strangers. And what if the secrets that were in the family were meant to stay looked up for they could literally destroy mankind's sanity.
  • The Ants and the Architects by A_Eswar_R
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    This is a hard science fiction short story with cosmic horror elements.
  • Echoes of Existence by Ryuki230
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    Calem feels out of place in ways he can't explain, haunted by visions of his own deaths across countless realities. As his sense of self unravels, he crosses paths with Mira, a spirited young woman who briefly pulls him back to normalcy. Yet, an inevitable force draws him into a surreal void where fragmented versions of himself confront him, revealing a truth that shatters all he thought he knew: he exists across infinite realities, each one a cycle of survival and loss. But this time, something feels different. A glimpse of choice, a whisper of freedom-if he can piece together his splintered existence. Or is it all just another illusion, another echo in the vastness of existence?
  • 984 Levels Up by peterfdavid
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    I didn't pay attention to the old man ... until he made the world disappear.
  • Its Dream or Reality? by Eon_173
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    > After falling through a mysterious manhole, an ordinary office worker wakes up in a world unlike anything he's ever known. Was it all just a dream - or the beginning of something terrifyingly real?
  • Hollow Barrow by Cephalopod
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    When Henry lost his wife, his world was devastated. He pushed away everyone who cared about him and embarked on a path of self-destruction. Alone, unemployed, and struggling with addiction, he didn't think his situation could get any worse, but he was wrong. With the arrival of an old friend asking for help, he would be forced to face the horrors of his past.
  • Bow To The Whisper King by pigwars
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    Far from here, a sleepy island waits. John Oldman, a fisherman longing for his past, ends up on Seeker's Island, a place he cannot leave. When the residents of the town start acting strange, repeating the same words and phrases, and never questioning the weirdness, John soon goes insane trying to escape the cosmic horror...