Survival-horror Stories

You seem so sad for a girl so in love. BRYAN HODUKAVICH ✷ Cover by me 2026 © Nellcrains

☆ 𝓘𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓘'𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓫𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓘𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓘'𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓪 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓲𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪 𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓵𝓮 𝓘𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓘'𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓫𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾. ☆ September 30, 1998. A bloody party to remember. An awful virus known as the T-Virus has spread through the town of Raccoon City, producing creatures unknown to the normal eye. Decimation was misery's company; everyone tried to survive the horrors with their life in tact. However, there was one girl who was birthed from dead butterflies. One girl who knew how to survive. One girl who was trained to fight the silent war that would hang the world by a noose. One girl who knew how to rock 'n roll with lethal grace. That girl stumbles upon a rookie cop. His heart too big for the universe. She doesn't understand him or his colourful fallacies, but his strive for justice mesmerized her. Their worlds clash, coalesce and blossom as they survive the zombified, corrupted world with a bond that transcends the ties that bind. ~Leon Kennedy x Platonic!Fem OC~

A weekend away was supposed to be simple. Mira and her closest friends have spent years planning trips like this one: a beautiful house in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by dense forest and a wide stretch of water. No neighbors. No distractions. Just three days together before real life begins again. Just a short break. But something is wrong with the house. When one of them disappears, the weekend takes a turn none of them could have imagined. Doors appear and disappear. Eyes are watching them in the forest. There's something in the water. Every attempt to escape only leaves them with more questions. Can they make it back home?

The Last Dawn - In the spring of 2025, the world wakes to a nightmare. A mysterious virus known as The Crimson Fever spreads with terrifying speed, turning ordinary people into mindless predators driven by bloodlust. Cities collapse, governments fail, and society crumbles almost overnight. Amid the chaos, a small group of survivors-ordinary people with extraordinary courage-must navigate a new world where danger lurks behind every corner. Every decision is a matter of life or death, and every Dawn may be their last. As the infection spreads and humanity teeters on the edge of extinction, the survivors face not only the horrors of the infected but also the darkness in themselves and in those they once trusted. Loyalties are tested, alliances are forged and broken, and the line between human and monster blurs. The Last Dawn is a gripping tale of survival, fear, and hope-a story of how ordinary people fight to endure in a world that has fallen apart, where the only certainty is that nothing will ever be the same again.

When the CMS Terra Nova tears through a warped rift in space-time, it crashes into the forested outskirts of Vale, leaving behind a jagged scar of dead steel and broken tech. For Isaac Clarke and John Carver, it was supposed to be the end of the nightmare. Instead, they find themselves stranded on Remnant-a world of glowing aura, magical Dust, and ravenous creatures of darkness known as Grimm. But the crash brought something else through the void. Deep inside the sealed wreckage, survivors of The Circle have awakened. High-ranking zealots of a broken faith, they interpret the new world as a divine sign, beginning twisted rituals of self-modification and spreading a quiet, psychological contagion through Vale's vulnerable streets. They aren't just monsters hunting in the woods; they are humans choosing to become something horrifyingly unnatural in pursuit of Convergence. Forced into a fragile alliance with Beacon Academy, Isaac and Carver must team up with Team RWBY to hunt down a threat that targets the mind as much as the body. Ruby's unyielding optimism, Weiss's precision, Blake's shadow-tracking, and Yang's protective fury will be tested against an enemy born of fanaticism and despair. The horizon is wide, the dark travels fast, and the signal refuses to die. Can hardened veterans of dead space and young heroes of light hold the line together, or will the circle claim them all?

When the dead begin to rise in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Smith family has one rule: stay together. Ethen and Emily will do anything to protect their children, but surviving the apocalypse becomes even harder when they realize the people around them can be just as dangerous as the dead. Six siblings. Other families. Strangers who become allies-and enemies who will stop at nothing to survive. And in the middle of it all is Kayla, their ten-year-old daughter who is mentally around five and much smaller than other kids her age. She still carries her beloved panda, loves drawing and playing pretend, and doesn't fully understand the terrifying world unfolding around her. To everyone else, she may seem vulnerable. To her family, she's someone worth fighting for. As West Palm Beach falls apart, families will make promises, friendships will be tested, enemies will be made, and sacrifices will have to be made. Because when the world turns against you, you hold on to the people beside you. They don't know how long they'll survive. But they know they'll survive together. What do you carry when everything else is gone?

(Resident Evil 2 Remake) 21-year-old University graduate and future journalist Lakelyn Davis heads to Raccoon City for a fresh start, a new life outside of everything she once knew. Determined to prove herself, she is willing to work for The Daily Raccoon, the city's most infamous newspaper companies in the region. However, everything slowly changes once she meets Leon S. Kennedy, a young and bright police academy student who is determined to become an officer of the law. Lakelyn and Leon immediately became acquainted, but little does Lakelyn know is that her new friend was someone she was close to from her past, but not only that, Leon is hiding something far more dangerous that no human should know about. Book 1 (This fic is also available on Ao3) *Disclaimer: I do not own any of the R.E characters mentioned in this fic! They all belong to Capcom.*

One year after surviving the nightmares of her past, former FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft tracks an anomalous biological lead straight across the ocean to the frozen, overgrown ruins of Castle Dimitrescu. Official reports claimed the exclusion zone was inert-until Grace comes face-to-face with Bela Dimitrescu, who survived her own execution and has spent years piecing herself back together in the subterranean dark. Captured in the decaying gothic tomb, Grace bargains for her life with scientific expertise, controlled sustenance, and a stubborn refusal to break. But as private military contractors and shadow organizations move in to harvest the castle's remaining bioweapon secrets, the isolation shatters. To protect Grace's young daughter and survive the forces hunting them down, the former agent and the aristocratic vampire must form a dangerous, fragile alliance-one bound by shared trauma, tactical synchronization, and an irresistible slow-burning bond forged in blood and mold.

Some things refuse to die: viruses, the past, old mistakes, and feelings that should never have existed in the first place. Amid a snowstorm and a dying laboratory, Leon Kennedy must discover which of them is the most dangerous. Leon Kennedy/Albert Wesker

The world froze long ago. What remains of humanity survives underground, hidden from a surface buried beneath endless snow and something far worse than the cold. Station Seven has survived for decades on heat from deep beneath the earth. But when its aging system begins to fail, thousands of people are left with only days before the station freezes. Their only hope is an abandoned geothermal shaft beneath the lowest levels. A shaft that was sealed for a reason. Then a transmission comes from below. Do not open Bore Three. Outside, creatures known as Frostbites stalk the frozen ruins alone, hunting with the instincts of wild animals. But as the people of Station Seven search for a way to survive, they begin to discover that the greatest danger may not be waiting outside. It may have been beneath them the entire time.

Three years ago, Shivam walked into Dead Valley, a living hell to save the woman he loved. He came out alive. She didn't. Three years later, Shivam has built a life in San Diego with Roohi, the little girl who now calls him Dad. He has learned to live with the memories, the nightmares and the ring he still refuses to take off. Then, on an ordinary evening, the dead begin to rise again. But this time, something is different. The infection is spreading faster. The infected are changing faster. And someone has been waiting for this. When a trail of blood and secrets leads Shivam across the world to China, he finds himself facing an outbreak far more terrifying than Dead Valley. Because the people behind it didn't just discover the virus. They studied it. They improved it. And somewhere beneath the chaos lies a truth Shivam was never supposed to find. A truth that will force him to confront the past he spent three years trying to survive. Because sometimes the dead don't stay buried. Sometimes... they come back wearing a familiar face.

In the quiet village of her past, Lady Alcina Dimitrescu bought a strange, cold fragment of black stone from the Duke-a artifact promised to have come from "beyond the mountains." But when Marker symbols flare across her vision and reality fractures, the Countess is torn from her castle and thrown into the dark, industrial hell of the year 2511. She awakens aboard the Sprawl, a massive civilian space station built into the shattered remains of Titan, just as a nightmare erupts. As the grotesque bio-mass of the Necromorph outbreak consumes the station, Alcina finds herself stripped of her daughters, her power, and her home. Towering over the panicked humans around her, her presence marks her as either a miracle or a monster to the dying world. Enter Ellie Langford: a sharp-tongued, fiercely pragmatic engineer who refuses to cower before alien monstrosities or three-meter-tall vampiric aristocrats. Forced into an uneasy truce, the giantess and the engineer must rely on each other to survive zero-g breaches, Unitologist zealots, and the deafening psychic hum of Convergence. But as their mechanical and physical survival turns into a slow-burn, intense physical bond, the Marker fragment fused to Alcina's blood begins to react to the Sprawl's core. To survive the station's collapse, both women must confront the trauma of their lost pasts-and decide if they are willing to burn down the future to stay side by side.

A man settles down in Alaska and prepares for the longest polar night yet. The calm of the night is broken when a sharply dressed boy emerges from the forest being chased by an axe wielding psychopath. Can he defend his new home and the child?

When a sudden, inexplicable phenomenon strikes the globe, humanity faces its most agonizing nightmare: to fall asleep is to die instantly. As billions succumb during the initial nights of the crisis, civilization collapses in a matter of days. Exhausted survivors are left stranded in a world of blinding lights, chemical stimulants, and industrial noise, desperate to ward off the unavoidable biological pull of slumber. The biggest question, will you still sleep if your life is the price?

When a young couple moves to a new area, they decide to explore the nearby forest. What begins as a peaceful walk quickly turns strange when the forest seems to change around them. After the couple separates, the husband hears an unexplained voice and discovers a mysterious notebook. The notebook contains the diary of twelve migrants who traveled through the forest in 2018. As they struggle with hunger, fear, and paranoia, they discover an abandoned lumber mill filled with varnish. One by one, members of the group begin to disappear or die under increasingly mysterious circumstances. Their writings reveal that something in the forest is hunting them. Back in the present, the husband follows the notebook's clues and discovers a camera containing the final recording of one of the survivors. The footage reveals the horrifying identity of the creature behind the deaths: the Watcher of Varnish. But the story does not end there. After discovering the Watcher's connection to his own family, the man makes a terrifying decision that reveals the true legacy of the Watcher.

For Claire Redfield, life had been simple - she had her brother, her school, and the Killer Instinct television program. When an accident leaves him in a coma and a heap of hospital bills, Claire out of desperation enters the tournament in order to solve their financial troubles. However, what had once seemed a road of dreams turns to nightmare as she struggles to survive. RE/KI AU

What would you do in a world full of monsters and bizarre creatures? In this Dark Comedy/Romance/ Horror story: Dominic Evergreen is an orphan, He's 19 years old and he goes to Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana on a writing scholarship. He's invisible to most of the students and people, figuratively speaking. He longs for friends. He works for a friendly Pizza parlor owner. He has a crush on a girl named Sunny Morrisen and is bullied by her delusional ex boyfriend Chad. One day he wakes after a food induced nap (Mini food coma) and realizes something is off. He's awoken into a real nightmare world, full of strange creatures and anomalies. Rated 14+ For Violence, Horror, Menace and Potentially Disturbing Material. This is a Dark Comedy/Romance/Horror Thriller.

Durante el caluroso verano de 1999 en la diminuta y aislada localidad de San Juan, Viki y sus amigos Jonathan y Michaeljordan pasan las tardes viendo las mismas películas de aventuras, ciencia ficción y terror en VHS una y otra vez. También acostumbran a jugar con su PSX cubierta de pegatinas mientras un destartalado radiocasete reproduce a todo volumen temazos de Nirvana, Guns n' Roses y Metallica. Parecen unas vacaciones sencillas y predecibles. Pero este verano una serie de extraños sucesos y desapariciones que Viki y sus amigos están resueltos a investigar conducirán al grupo hasta un siniestro complejo militar plagado de dinosaurios. Esta pandilla de pringaos tendrá que enfrentarse al más puro "survival horror" si desean escapar con vida de un oscuro laberinto de acero y hormigón habitado por los más letales depredadores prehistóricos. [Pʀīϻʌʟ 99] es una historia de aventuras y ciencia-ficción soft con un toquecito naïve/retro y multitud de referencias a las películas, videojuegos, música y hasta chucherías de finales del siglo veinte: ¡Stranger Things + dinosaurios en los 90!

The seniors are gone. The school says it was the economy. The teachers won't say anything. They just smile. Jun's sister is a K-pop idol. She's in a coma. Her groupmates are missing. Jun watched the video call on her phone. The members were there. Smiling. Not blinking. Not breathing. The walls are scratching. The music is impossible. And the audition room door just locked behind them. Hollow Chords They're not teaching you to perform. They're teaching you to survive something that's already here.

🧬 Story Description - "Experiment X (Lux)" In a world where bio-weapons define the line between humanity and monstrosity, one creation refuses to be controlled. Lux was never meant to live a normal life. Born and raised inside the secret facilities of the Umbrella Corporation, he was engineered to be the perfect host for a highly intelligent viral entity known only as X's. But unlike every failed experiment before him, Lux didn't lose his mind... He evolved. Bound together by survival, Lux and the virus formed a unique symbiosis-one mind, two entities, both seeking freedom. When Lux escapes, he doesn't just run... he adapts, learns, and becomes something far more dangerous than any weapon Umbrella ever created. As he enters a world infected by parasites, monsters, and human greed, Lux crosses paths with survivors like Leon S. Kennedy and others fighting their own battles. But Lux isn't a hero. And he isn't a villain. He is something else entirely. A living weapon. A perfect organism. A silent nightmare. And as stronger enemies begin to rise... The world will soon learn a terrifying truth: The real monster... isn't the virus. It's the one who controls it.