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A psychological horror mystery Lisa Manoban 27, urban architect turned recluse. Quiet, analytical, lives with a strange sensitivity to patterns. Jennie Kim 29, investigative journalist with a past linked to a now-erased village. She has memories others insist never happened. Starring Lisa Manoban & Jennie Kim Some houses are built on land. Others are built on secrets. And one... was never built at all. Jennie Kim remembers a village that doesn't exist. She remembers the wooden gate, the smell of burnt sugar, and the woman with no eyes who stood behind her in every photo. But no map shows Haerang. No one else remembers the fire. No records, no ruins nothing but ash and a name whispered in her sleep. When she returns to find the truth, she brings with her the only person she trusts: Lisa Manoban-an architect with a haunted past of her own. But Haerang is no ordinary place. It shifts. It feeds. And some memories were buried for a reason.

KHOON: THE MYSTERY It all started with blood. Rooh came to Uttar Pradesh for a wedding he never wanted to attend - five days, one camera, and a promise to himself that he'd stay invisible. Then a girl who isn't on any guest list grabs his wrist in a crowded kitchen, and nothing about this house stays ordinary again. A ninety-five-year-old great-grandmother who's spent her whole life running from something she's never named - and a family celebrating a wedding just feet away from a secret old enough to have buried people before him. Rooh doesn't believe in ghosts. He's about to fall for one anyway. A horror-romance where every step closer to her is a step further from safe. Instagram @seedwithincosmic For updates suggestions reviews

One fateful night, Gumball vanishes without a trace. No Messages. Just Gone. After hopeless searches, the town of Elmore moves on quickly... But Darwin can't. Now he must take the lead in finding who took his brother; he teams up with Anais, Penny, and Carrie to uncover the truth behind his brother's disappearance and bring him home. But when the truth is unmasked, the Wattersons and their friends are forced into a fight bigger than any episode they were ever meant to survive...

She woke up marked, alone, and declared dead. The others didn't survive the experiment. Now she walks the halls of a forgotten facility, the only living proof something went horribly wrong.

You were authorized to read this. You were not authorized to stop. SCP-004 is not an object, entity, or location. It is a process-one that remains stable only while someone is actively reviewing it. Personnel assigned to SCP-004 are required to maintain continuous procedural compliance. Missed review cycles correlate with containment failures across the facility. No direct connection has ever been proven. What begins as a routine administrative task slowly becomes something else entirely. If you are still reading, containment is holding. If you stop... ...someone else will notice. Reader discretion advised. This work is based on the SCP Foundation and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. All SCP-related concepts, terminology, and references originate from the SCP Wiki (www.scpwiki.com). This story is an original work written by me and is shared under the same license.

I don't take the late-night bus. I never stay out past six. Not anymore. And I don't look out my bedroom window towards the streets. Some would say that's a bit irrational of me, but I have my reasons. I have too many experiences to count.

🕯️ A Whisperbound Story - Book 1 Some houses are built with bricks. Others are built with memory. When Mira Singh inherits an old colonial home in a town she's never heard of, she assumes it's a fluke. Just a relic from a distant, disconnected branch of her family. But the moment she arrives in Bellmare, things begin to slip. The house shifts at night. Rooms breathe. Smoke curls from a cold fireplace. And dreams? They follow her into daylight. As Mira uncovers photographs she doesn't remember taking and hears whispers in the walls that know her name, one truth becomes terrifyingly clear: This house doesn't want her to live in it. It wants her to remember. For fans of atmospheric horror, haunted legacies, and stories that twist memory and identity into something you can't escape. Part of the Whisperbound horror anthology. 🖋️ Written by: DarkWhispers29

There is a door in her dreams that won't lock. When it fails, she becomes the barrier. A voice whispers from nowhere and everywhere, insisting it knows her, insisting it has always been there. When she wakes, the urgency fades - but the doors remain. And she starts to wonder how many she's been holding shut her entire life.

📖 The Mark Beneath (A Revelation Horror - Cora's Perspective) They said not to look at the sky. I didn't listen. Now the world is ruled by a voice with no face, and a mark that breathes beneath the skin. Those who take it smile. Those who don't starve, vanish, or worse-start to hear it. Cora's just trying to survive. But in a world where silence watches, prayer burns, and even mirrors lie... what does survival really mean? A slow-burn apocalypse told from fractured eyes-where each voice might be the last to speak truth, or the first to echo the Beast.

🪞 Short Story Description - The Mirror at Midnight When Amelia Rivers inherits her grandmother's old manor, she discovers a mirror that doesn't just reflect-it remembers. Each midnight, the glass shows her things that shouldn't exist: a reflection that moves on its own, whispers that echo her name, and a face smiling back too late. With the help of a stranger tied to the mirror's dark past, Amelia must uncover the truth before the reflection takes her place forever. A chilling Gothic mystery where memory, grief, and madness blur into one haunting question: What if your reflection wanted your life?

Madison and Jake thought the strange man across the street was just... odd. Private. Quiet. But when screams echo from his house and the police do nothing, curiosity leads them into a nightmare they never imagined. Locked inside a house full of traps, secrets, and a man who never speaks but never stops watching, they'll have to fight for their lives in a place where no one's coming to save them. A suspense-filled, emotional horror thriller inspired by the eerie atmosphere of Hello Neighbor-but far more real, raw, and terrifying.

Brandon Gage is out of time. Once a promising journalist, now a punchline, he's one story away from being fired, and one breath away from giving up entirely. After losing his wife, his daughter, and his credibility, he's handed one final assignment: Investigate Maves Haven. A remote town shrouded in silence, where the sun sets on whispers, not witnesses. No police reports. No answers. Just... rumors. But the deeper Brandon digs, the less those rumors sound like fiction. - Locals warn him without words - A gas station clerk offers cryptic warnings - Church bells ring when there's no service - And something moves in the dark when no one's looking Beneath the surface, Brandon uncovers a buried history of rituals, regret, and missing souls - all tied to a man named Solomon Grieve, the town's revered spiritual leader... Who may be hiding a truth far more horrifying than legend? As the town closes in, Brandon faces impossible questions: Who can he trust? Why does he keep seeing his wife and daughter? Why does the town feel alive? And the biggest question of all: Is he here to solve the case... or become a part of it? Because Maves Haven doesn't just feed on fear. It feeds on regret. And if Brandon isn't careful, it will consume him, just like all the others.

> Alyssa is just another overworked nanny in Houston-changing diapers, dealing with tantrums, and trying to make rent one babysitting gig at a time. But everything changes when she gets a call from a wealthy family with a strange request: spend a week watching their kids in an ancient Gothic mansion miles outside the city. The house is massive. Beautiful. Creepy. And haunted. Inspired by The Haunting of Hill House, this slow-burning horror story follows Alyssa as her normal life spirals into the paranormal. What begins as a lucrative babysitting job turns into something far more terrifying-because not all children are innocent, and not all mysteries are as simple as they seem... And this is just the beginning.

When the Winters family moves into a suspiciously cheap house, they chalk it up to luck-and a desperate need for a fresh start. Their old home was crumbling, after all. But for five-year-old Sadie, their new house feels... Odd. She starts seeing things. Hearing whispers. And blaming strange happenings on things no one else can see. Her parents think it's just her imagination-or maybe one of her usual tricks. After all, Sadie does have a reputation for getting into trouble. But when her younger sister Kate-only three and still potty training-starts talking to someone who isn't there, and her odd older brother Sam begins acting even stranger... the family realizes something may be terribly, truly wrong with their new home. Sometimes, kids see what adults refuse to believe - Silent Truths

When Mara Bloom moves into a quiet apartment to escape the chaos of her mother's death, she hopes the silence will heal her. Instead, it begins to speak back. At first, it's small things-a flicker in the corner of her eye, her name whispered from an empty room, a shape in the mirror that lingers half a second too long. But the presence grows bolder, heavier, hungrier. A darkness seeps from the walls, one that knows her secrets, her grief, her guilt-and it wants to devour them all. As days blur into nights, Mara begins to lose her grip on what's real. Her friends drift away. Her memories twist. The shadow that follows her begins to look familiar. Because it doesn't just haunt her-it is her. Now Mara must confront the horrifying truth: the thing consuming her life might be the part of herself she's spent years trying to bury. And if she can't face it, it will take everything she loves-and leave nothing but the hollow behind. "It's not following you," the darkness whispers. "It's waiting for you to stop running."

Genre: Horror | Psychological Thriller | Folklore | Supernatural When Asha returns to her childhood home in coastal Tanzania, she brings with her memories, grief-and something else that followed in the rain. It starts with whispers. A knock without knocking. Her daughter speaking in a voice too perfect to be real. The villagers call it Kivuli-a shadow spirit that mimics your loved ones, wears their faces, and waits to be welcomed inside. As the lines between love and fear begin to blur, Asha must unearth the forgotten rituals of her grandmother before the thing that looks like family takes her child... and then her. Because Kivuli doesn't come to frighten you. It comes to replace you. A slow-burn psychological horror rooted in East African folklore-where memory is dangerous, love is the doorway, and shadows remember.

When Jayla moves back home, she notices her mother's smile is... wrong. Too wide. Too still. And in the mirror, her face isn't the same at all. Everyone says she's imagining things, but the house feels different-doors shift, shadows follow, and her mother talks to someone who isn't there. Jayla came home to help her mother. Now she's not sure she'll make it out.

In which a young woman travels abroad, sending letters to her wife nightly, and encounters a mysterious town where the shadows are... all too lively... Author's Note: Set in the victorian era, without concrete historical accuracy! I do generally follow the time, but lesbians are hard to write in 1866.

Forgotten Lights (Psychological Horror) Once a child star, now a forgotten face, Liana struggles to rebuild her life in the cold streets of Seoul. But when mirrors start to whisper and shadows move on their own, she realizes the past isn't finished with her. Alongside Kinn, a kind-hearted stranger, Liana uncovers the dark history of a burned-down studio and a broken promise to a girl who never truly died. Now, trapped between guilt and terror, Liana must face the horrors she left behind - or be consumed by them forever.

Brian believed that if he kept his head down, did things right, and stayed patient, life would eventually make room for him. Then the airport fell apart. Set alongside the events of Resident Evil: Degeneration, this short horror chronicle follows an ordinary man navigating chaos he doesn't understand-through protests, infection, containment, and loss-without heroics, without answers, and without rescue. This is a story about being one step too late. About believing help is coming. And about how the world ends for people who never thought it would notice them at all. --- I will be posting this story on Royal Road ---