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  • Apartment 239 by elfordalley
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    Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]
  • The girl with shadows by HZriz29
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    Some secrets are meant to stay hidden but her waits in the shadows. Isabella Preston blamed herself entire life for being the omen of ruin she brough to her family. But what she doesn't know is that she is the key, but unlocking the truth may cost her more than she ever imagined.
  • Before you choose ┃ ONC2026 by lanlieli
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    Her return was supposed to be simple. Go inside, clear the house then file the rapport. Happy ending, she gets her career back. Except she gets greeted differently. And the longer she stays the harder it becomes to tell whether she is investigating the house or someone is investigating her. Based on prompt 82 "You are in love with someone living and someone long dead. Neither one is willing to let you go."
  • Bad Neighbours by AScribeAG
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    When seventeen-year-old Naya Porter moves from Boston to rural Georgia to live with her dad and aunt, she expects to be bored out of her mind. But there's something in the woods behind her aunt's house that has other plans for her. Something old and hateful that's trapped behind a twelve-foot-high brick wall that her family has guarded for generations. With the accompaniment of four new acquaintances from school, ranging from emerging crush to low-key nemesis, Naya must lead a deadly expedition through a breach in the wall where she'll encounter a nightmare-scape mash-up of horrifyingly real haunted houses. **New chapters drop weekly on Fridays!**
  • The Flores Home by KrisTriesWriting
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    Aster "Monotropa" Flores was gifted with the ability to see and talk to ghosts. From an early age, she became accustomed to the spirits that roam the earth and her dedication to understand them became a peculiarity for her friends and a curse to her parents. Beginning her new life, and building a family, she moves into a two-story home in the forest outskirts of Nerteri. Aster's home is unlike any other she's been at; her house is filled with ghosts and spirits like no other. With many spirits, all with different personalities and activity levels, Aster will have to learn how many roam in her home and how to live side by side with them. Her family has expanded, and she'll welcome every spirit with open arms, no matter how dangerous they might be.
  • THE SECRET OF THE ICE CASTLE by SeriesDude
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    #1 in MYSTERY and HAUNTED. 1930s-style Dana Girls fanfiction - an eerie twin-towered castle of white stone on an ice-bound island on a frozen winter lake, a nearby English manor house haunted by a flute playing ghost who roams the halls at night accompanied by a wolf, and a mysterious kidnapped girl from the past all come together in one of the most thrilling Dana Girls cases ever! THE DANA GIRLS were a 1900s sister-series to NANCY DREW and THE HARDY BOYS from the same publishers and writers from the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a FANFICTION MYSTERY, written in the same style as the original Danas from the 1930s, and set in that era. There were 30 Dana Girls mystery stories written and published by the creators of the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books in the 1930s - 1970s. This book is representative of the early volumes in the series. The Dana Girls have also appeared in some of the recent Nancy Drew graphic novels.
  • The Echo of the Lullaby by toxicdesire
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    Some songs were never meant to be sung alone. After her mother's sudden death, seventeen-year-old Elara Morgan moves with her fractured family to a crumbling Victorian farmhouse in the isolated town of Raven's Peak. A fresh start, her father calls it. A chance to heal. But the house has other plans. It starts with a child's lullaby whispered through empty rooms. A rocking chair that moves on its own. A little girl's voice calling from the dark. Thirty years ago, five-year-old Lily Henderson vanished from this property. They found her at the bottom of the well, still wearing her nightgown, still humming the song her mother taught her. Now Lily wants someone to play with. Forever. As the haunting escalates and the family realizes they cannot leave, Elara discovers a terrible truth: Lily isn't just a ghost. She's grief made flesh-thirty years of loneliness, rage, and desperate longing, all focused on one thing: making someone stay. And the Morgans are running out of time to escape the echo of her lullaby.
  • The Spare Room by Twisted_Whispers007
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    The doorbell doesn't ring at midnight at the end of a lonely lane. But when it does, and you find a long-lost cousin soaked to the bone on your porch, you let her in. That's what Maya does when her cousin Anya appears with a desperate plea for shelter. But Anya remembers things she shouldn't-like an old armchair Maya just bought. And in the guest room, furniture moves on its own, and lost objects from Maya's past begin to reappear, arranged like offerings. As the strange occurrences escalate, Maya's husband, David, dismisses her fears, insisting there is no spare room at all... only a closet. With her grip on reality slipping, Maya discovers a hidden journal that unveils a terrifying truth. The house is hiding a secret, and so is her own mind. In a race against her own sanity, Maya must uncover the answer to one chilling question: Is she being haunted by a ghost, or by a memory she has buried for twenty years? A psychological thriller with a twist that will make you question everything. 👇 What would you do if your own home stopped making sense? Read The Spare Room now!
  • THE WEDDING HOUSE  by DevinWilson243
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    The Wedding House By Devin Wilson When renowned wedding planner Marianne Voss receives a mysterious invitation offering double her usual rate, she expects extravagance - not obsession. The job takes her to Durell House, a haunting mansion perched on the cliffs above the fog-drenched town of Cliffhaven. The bride, Evelyn Durell, is elegant, enigmatic, and impossible to read. She claims the house itself is waiting for the ceremony. But something about the estate feels alive. Mirrors breathe. Chandeliers pulse like quiet hearts. Music echoes in empty rooms. And the house seems to recognize Marianne. As the days pass, Marianne finds herself drawn deeper into Evelyn's strange world - a place where devotion feels like gravity and every hallway holds the memory of a vow once spoken. Yet the town whispers of promises that were never kept... of a bride who never left... and of a faceless figure that still dances in the mirrors after midnight. The closer Marianne comes to Evelyn, the more the house begins to change - listening, watching, learning the rhythm of her heartbeat. Because some houses remember love. And some houses hunger for it.
  • Nothing But Bones by theghostofarbyrouse
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    This isn't Tiff Sheridan's best day. Not only is it a muggy and humid July, but her rat stole a golf cart, her least-favorite Black Robes Division agent showed up at the police station, and now she absolutely has to go to a tiny town across the Canadian border to track down a necromancer and serial killer named Boris Covington. Plus, Kepler ate poison and she can't stop botching social situations. It's par for the course, but that doesn't mean she likes it. Neither does Elton Castle, a local from Beaverdell, Canada. Reeling from a botched social endeavor of his own and-- relatedly-- pining for his American best friend, Elton is looking for a paranormal distraction from his current romantic woes, a fun way to spend his day off, and an eventual escape from his mother's house. If that involves ghosts, then so be it. He and his trusty right-hand-dog, Dingus, have definitely seen weirder things. With Elton determined to figure out who this freaky American girl Dale Cooper-ing his town really is and what she's up to and Tiff frantically trying to find Boris Covington, defend Elton, and keep her cool in the face of a returning foe, the slow burn of the murderous necromancer's sticky, papayous influence eats the wick toward the wax and begs the question: do they sell pancakes at Canadian diners? Why do you think they wouldn't? Can you survive your own death and still call yourself human? What's inside the most haunted house in Beaverdell?
  • One Night in Rockview High by SnethMeyers
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    A Choose-Your-Own journey into an abandoned high school... and into the realm of the unknown. You and 3 friends break in for some urban exploring, but it's up to you if anyone makes it out. With 114 possible storylines, will you solve a murder or get possessed? Will you travel through time or end institutionalized racism in the housing market? Will you secure evidence of ghosts, or die of old age tonight? Will your story be frightening, emotional, or absurdly improbable and ridiculous? That's not a rhetorical question, the answer is all three, no matter what.
  • 🕯️The Curse of the Hawthorne Family🦋 (EN) by Korbienka66
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    A new house. A new town. A new nightmare. Sixteen-year-old Elysia Raven Hawthorne is anything but ordinary-sarcastic, dark, and fascinated by spiritism. Her family believes that moving to Ravenwood will give them a fresh start. But they don't know the truth. The old Victorian house hides an ancient curse, bound to her own bloodline. And Raven's gift-the ability to see what others cannot-will soon force her to face the truth her family has been running from all along. 🕯️ Joining the November-December 8 Chapter Challenge with my gothic mystery story, The Curse of the Hawthorne Family. #8ChapterChallenge #justwriteit
  • The Atticus Estate by starrocksss155
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    The mansion watches. The shadows whisper. Willow Heather thought she was a guest-but in the Atticus Estate, survival comes at a deadly price
  • Family of Phantoms by MissLovelace1
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    In the depths of the woods stands an old, abandoned house filled with secrets and mysteries from long ago. It has been considered cursed for as long as anyone can remember. Referred to by many as *The House of Phantoms*, countless fantastical stories have been told by the townsfolk regarding its origin and its first residents. But the best way to know the truth is through the stories of the residents themselves. This book tells the stories of the many souls that have resided there...
  • WHISPERS IN THE ATTIC by arka_ika
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    Emma Harper inherits a long-abandoned Victorian mansion from a relative she never knew existed. But the house has a secret-whispers that call your name, shadows that move when you're not looking, and a curse that has claimed the lives of everyone before her. As Emma unravels the dark history of the house, she discovers that some doors, once opened, can never be closed...
  • The Haunted Mansion by itzgaurihere
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    3 bache normally roz sch jaane ke liye same raaste se jate the jaha haveli aati hai kbhi 10th mei yeh log jis haveli ki itni tareef krte the ab 11th mei woh haveli shaant kese hai orr ab yeh khandr ho chuki hai..... ab kyaaa inn logo ki life mei maza shuru hogaa?? orr hoga toh kyaa ab yeh log bachenge ya fasenge..... kyuki ek naya safar inn teeno ka wait kr rha hai....dekhte kya hota hai... characters descriptions Yukti - a brave girl with full intuitions and god gifted Aditya - a loyal friend but a caring and supported friend Rohan - a friend who scared from ghost but a calm boy
  • Whispers Of The Cursed House   by Irienee
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    Whispers of the Cursed House is a chilling 30-episode psychological horror series that follows Ira, a tenth-grade girl who, along with her two best friends Jaxen and Axel, becomes trapped inside a haunted house for one full month. When a mysterious voice offers Ira the chance to bring two people with her, she unknowingly seals their fate-locking all three inside a house that feeds on memories, fears, and secrets. Each day in the house unfolds a new trial, deeper into twisted versions of their past, their guilt, and echoes of a girl named Lian, whose presence haunts every corner. With reality bending and the house growing more sentient, the trio must confront not just supernatural terrors, but hidden truths about themselves-and Ira's mysterious link to the house's original curse. As they race against time, surviving becomes more than escape-it becomes about breaking a generational cycle of silence and sorrow. A suspense-filled journey of friendship, sacrifice, and healing, Whispers of the Cursed House is a haunting tale where the scariest thing isn't what lurks in the dark... ...it's what's buried inside you.
  • Malnad Mysteries 2 - The Real Life  Short Spooky Stories by HariharPai
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    In the eerie depths of the Western Ghats, Rahul's journey unravels into a realm of spine-tingling mystery. Whispering winds and the ethereal scent of jasmine accompany his every step, while a fleeting encounter with a spectral presence sends shivers down his spine. Haunted by unexplained occurrences, Rahul's sanity teeters on the edge as he desperately seeks answers. With each passing moment, the line between reality and the supernatural blurs, leaving readers breathless with anticipation. Will Rahul succumb to the unknown forces lurking in the shadows, or will he uncover the chilling truth that threatens to consume him?
  • Puerta Al Infierno (K.T/ K.J) by Sabsabxz
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    Money... It's the sole reason I decided to become a maid in this eerie, creepy old mansion. My family's financial struggles drove me to this choice, and I hoped everything would turn out fine. Sadly, I couldn't have been more mistaken. Upon arriving here, I came to a profound realization - the value of time and the importance of cherishing every moment. In this unpredictable world, we never know when our time will be up. The mansion's atmosphere is haunting, and the sense of danger lingers in the air. One can never be certain if someone might unexpectedly attack from behind with a menacing, sharp knife or mercilessly strike with a bat filled with nails until one is left coughing up blood. The mansion is ominously named "Puerta Al Infierno," translating to "Door To Hell," Once you step inside, there's no way out for you.
  • The Last Door of Harrowfield by Sam358
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    "The house wasn't built to be a home. It was built to be a bridge." Leo Thorne is a forensic preservationist-a man who reads the secrets hidden in the bones of old buildings. But Harrowfield Manor doesn't just have secrets; it has a pulse. Built in 1888 by a mad industrialist whose entire family vanished into thin air during a single dinner party, the manor has sat silent for over a century. That is, until Leo arrives. Tasked with a structural assessment, Leo quickly realizes that Harrowfield's geometry doesn't obey the laws of physics. Hallways lengthen when his back is turned, and doors lead to rooms that shouldn't exist. Following a trail of coded journals, Leo discovers the terrifying truth: the house is a "harmonic resonator," a massive machine designed to thin the veil between our world and The Under-a dimension of blinding crystalline beauty and sentient, predatory resonance. When Leo finally unlocks the "Last Door," he doesn't just open a portal; he shatters the lock on reality. He emerges to find the world he knew-the cars, the people, the noise-has been wiped clean, leaving him the sole inhabitant of a silent Earth. Now, trapped between a ghost world and an alien nightmare, Leo must decide: Does he find a way to bring humanity back, or does he step through the door and become something else entirely? Why Read This? Cosmic Horror meets Gothic Mystery: Perfect for fans of The Haunting of Hill House and Interstellar. Mind-Bending Stakes: A psychological journey where the setting is the primary antagonist. The Ultimate Cliffhanger: A story that challenges the boundary between scientific curiosity and total madness.