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  • Disturbing Nigerian Stories by debrahwrites
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    Not all horrors are imagined. Some live next door. These are short standalone stories inspired by whispered fears, urban legends, and things we pretend do not happen.
  • Kraven-3: The Path of The Blood by KingKartikeya_1125
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    The Blockbuster franchise returns. After surviving Visro's brutal revenge that claimed his parents and uncle, Kraven finally has a name for the monster hunting him. But before justice can prevail, a letter arrives from beyond the grave-Claire, the woman he loved before Aria, and whom he thought got a salvation, is alive. Held captive in the cursed Caroline Islands, her blood-stained handkerchief and a mysterious map demand one thing: the blood of his child to unlock the path to her rescue. Now Kraven must cross oceans with infant daughter Kiara, unaware that Visro and his wife Vismira follow close behind-not to save Claire, but to claim an ancient treasure guarded by forces older than humanity. Four guardians await: Pinaka the ancient whale, Leo the ice lion, Boron the polar bear, and Volcanion-the fearsome dragon-serpent whose suffering has turned islands into frozen hell and a burning furnace alike. Each trial tests not Kraven's strength, but his soul. But the islands hide a thousand-year secret. In the 9th century, Emperor Koko sacrificed himself within Mount Ohana, betrayed by a monk named Yasuzu whose hatred birthed a curse that has waited centuries for one thing: the blood of Koko's reincarnation. And Kraven carries that blood in his veins. is Claire truly alive? Why didn't she get her salvation yet? Did Visro ever get his Vengeance? What role does Aria have? Who is Vismira? What is the secret Treasure of The Carolines? And above everything, Who is the Original Villain, waiting for centuries and what is his curse? What is the Legacy of Kraven? --- One man. Four guardians. A thousand-year curse. And a sacrifice that will echo through eternity. The Caroline Curse awaits. And yet, The End....... is Still Far Away..............!!!
  • She never left by madhuwritess
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    Carrie Vale has always been quiet. Mia Laurent has always been the opposite-loud, easy, the kind of person everyone notices. They don't make sense to anyone else. But they make sense to each other. At least, they used to. Lately, things feel... different. People look at Carrie like she's said something wrong. Moments don't line up the way they should. And memories come back in pieces that don't quite fit. The more she tries to understand, the more everything slips further out of place. Until one thought refuses to leave her alone- Maybe nothing is wrong. Maybe she's just remembering it wrong. Or maybe... she's remembering it in the wrong order.
  • sorry, i lied to u myself by kpoploverforever2005
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    She remembers a life full of pain. Every night, sadness follows her to the rooftop-until she meets him. A stranger who wants to help her understand her mind. She s lost but he wanted to find her and her memories..... One of them is wrong. anything can be wrong but once the truth can be proven.... u can t accept lies no more Sorry I lied to you... myself.
  • UMBRA NETWORK: NO WITNESSES by TheHumsOfRae
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    Prison did not break Cassian. It refined him. Six months inside concrete walls. Three months after a silent death. Two messages marked as gifts. Nothing in his case was accidental. The chaos. The silence. The erased investigations. The sudden freedom. Every event was engineered. When Cassian walked out of prison, he believed he had survived manipulation. He was wrong. Because survival was the test. And someone was watching. Now, outside the system, he receives something far more dangerous than a weapon. An invitation. Not to join an army. Not to join a company. Not to join the law. But to enter Black Ledger. Black Ledger is not visible to the public. It does not exist in legal databases. It does not have an address. It is a hidden digital marketplace where clients post contracts that must never surface in daylight. Disappearances. Corporate sabotage. Silent eliminations. Information erasure. Influence manipulation. Jobs that cannot be traced back to anyone - because Black Ledger erases both the buyer and the executor. No names. No faces. Only encrypted identities. The system does not ask if the job is legal. It asks if it is efficient. Cassian learns the truth: His prison time was not punishment. It was screening. Black Ledger does not recruit randomly. It observes controlled environments. It studies restraint under pressure. It identifies individuals who can operate without emotional exposure. And Cassian passed. But joining Black Ledger means something darker than committing crimes. It means becoming part of a hidden economy that moves events behind governments, corporations, and institutions - shaping outcomes the public will never understand. Inside Black Ledger, power is not loud. It is invisible. And once a person accepts the invitation... There is no way to leave without becoming a target. Cassian thought prison was the cage. He is about to discover that freedom can be a contract - and some are signed in blood.
  • Chapter 3: The Birth of Hell by BlueEmpire
    BlueEmpire
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    chapter 3 of the form the rain we rose
  • The Sin He Kept by thevillainsdarling
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    They say the most dangerous stories are the ones nobody finishes. Three journalists touched this case before me. All three walked away. I should have asked why. Aria Ferrante is twenty two years old, sharp mouthed, fearless in the way only people who haven't met real fear yet can be. She's chasing a story nobody will touch - a name so carefully erased from public record that its absence is louder than any headline. Marcelo Valceri. She finds him at a gala in Rome. Or rather - He finds her first. He doesn't chase. He doesn't beg. He doesn't send flowers or whispered threats or notes slipped under doors. He simply decides. And what Marcelo Valceri decides - becomes fact. This is not a love story. This is the story of a girl who walked into the dark with a pen and a recorder and the unshakeable belief that the truth was worth finding. It is the story of what the dark did to her when she got there. It is the story of a man who was built to feel nothing- and the one sin he couldn't put down. She wanted the story. He wanted her. Neither of them got what they wanted. Not really. ⚠️ MATURE CONTENT - 18+ ONLY Dark romance. Contains themes of captivity, obsession, non consensual situations, psychological trauma, violence, and morally complex characters. Read with discretion. This is not a redemption arc. This is something far more complicated than that.
  • Obsession In Silence  by bookishhbunnyy
    bookishhbunnyy
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    He doesn't feel love. He doesn't feel guilt. He doesn't feel anything. To the world, he's calm, cold... untouchable. A mind built on logic, not emotions. A heart that never learned how to beat for someone. Until her. She wasn't supposed to matter. But she stayed. She challenged him. She refused to break. And somewhere between control and chaos... he became obsessed. Because when a man who feels nothing starts to want you- it's not love. It's possession. By :- SS
  • Incandescent Abyss: All the world is mad but I by Fatuus_wp
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    The world is going insane. No one knows why. People whisper about strange dreams. Cities fall into hysteria. Something vast and unknowable has begun to stir beyond reality. Some believe I am humanity's last hope. Others believe I am the reason this madness began. I live with a wife who enjoys dissecting me. My cat watches me with a disturbingly human face. Meanwhile, the world continues to sink. The harder people fight, the deeper they fall into insanity. When that Great Presence turns its gaze, all of mankind will burn their sanity-offering the final radiance of this civilization to the void.
  • Secret of House at End of Street. by ParadoxCaligoe
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    Some houses are old. Some are broken. And some... remember. Fifteen years ago, a child moved into a creaking two-story house at the edge of the woods - a house where doors whispered, shadows lingered, and the nights stretched on forever. What began as sleepless nights and strange noises soon twisted into something far more terrifying: a presence that watched, waited, and smiled. Now, through a collection of haunting memories and chilling encounters, the forgotten secrets of the house begin to resurface. Each story peels back another layer of fear, revealing that the true horror was never just the house itself - but what it was hiding all along. Inspired by real childhood experiences, this semi-fictional anthology blurs the line between memory and nightmare. Because some places never let you leave. Not Really......
  • White Chrysanthemums by eeiimrx
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    The city prides itself on progress. By night, gas lamps flicker against soot-stained stone. By day, factories hum, railways expand, and wealth moves quietly through unseen hands. It is a city that rewards silence-and punishes those who listen too closely. Caleb makes a living noticing what others overlook. From a modest apartment that serves as both office and refuge, he takes on cases no one else wants: deaths ruled accidental, disappearances deemed unimportant, truths buried beneath routine and red tape. He works alongside Franky, his driver and longtime friend-a towering presence with a soft voice-and Larah, a disciplined officer newly assigned to the detective department after a sudden and unexplained demotion. Each case is meant to be simple. Each one comes with a file already stamped closed. Yet threads begin to repeat. Names surface more than once. Dates refuse to stay coincidental. Certain doors remain firmly shut, no matter how carefully they are knocked upon. For Larah, the work exposes fractures in the system she was raised to trust. For Franky, it echoes a kind of harm he knows all too well. For Caleb, it stirs memories he has spent years refusing to examine. Every summer of his childhood, there was someone waiting for him. Someone curious, warm, and gone far too soon. The details of her death were settled long ago-at least, that is what the records claim. As the city grows quieter around them, questions begin to surface that no one seems willing to answer. Some histories resist being forgotten. Some truths leave fingerprints behind. And the past, once disturbed, does not stay buried.
  • Learning From You (a BFDI fanfic AU) by bu11etpoint
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    The creature learns. Every time BP fights it, it changes. Every move. Every mistake. Every weakness. What started as survival slowly becomes something worse - a deadly game of adaptation between hunter and monster. But the creature isn't the only thing evolving. As the group fractures and tragedy strikes, BP begins to realize something horrifying: The creature didn't just learn from him. It became him. ⭐️ Characters: Bulletpoint (Bp) - The one the creature learns from [FANMADE] Four - The leader Y - The emotional support of the group [FANMADE] Delta (Del) - BP's closest ally [FAMMADE] Triangular (Tri) - Emotional member of the group [FANMADE] Quadrilateral (Quad) - Logical thinker [FANMADE] X - Strong and blunt Two - The youngest / most scared Bi - Scientist-minded observer [FANMADE] The Creature - The evolving monster ⚠️ Contains: Violence Psychological horror Character death Mental health themes
  • The Weight Of The Quiet  by Hammer100
    Hammer100
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    Elias Varn has spent twenty-three years speaking for the dead. He's seen everything. Or at least... that's what he tells himself. Because in his line of work, survival depends on one rule: Don't look too closely. Don't ask questions you don't want answered. Don't let the faces follow you home. Don't remember. But when a routine case starts to feel wrong, Elias makes a mistake- He looks again. And suddenly, the silence isn't silent anymore. The bodies he signed off on... The cases he rushed... The truths he buried... They're not gone. They're waiting. Watching. And one by one- They want to be seen. Now, as his mind begins to fracture and reality slips through his fingers, Elias is forced to confront the one thing he's avoided his entire career: What if the dead don't haunt you... because they're angry- but because you failed them?
  • THE MAN CUBICLE 7C  by Twisted_Whispers007
    Twisted_Whispers007
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    When I noticed the man in cubicle 7C, no one else saw him. Not Derek from Accounting. Not Priya from HR. Not the dozens of people who walked past that dead-end corner every single day. But he was there. Navy tie. Gray eyes. Waiting. His name is Luke Grady. He's been invisible for three years. Everything about him erases when no one looks-photographs, documents, handwritten words. The world forgets him in increments. But I remember. And the more I learn about him, the more I realize: I'm not just finding him. I'm finding what I buried. 𝐀 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
  • Say Cheese by while_I_was_sleeping
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    If you capture the right angle, the right lighting, the right moment- no one notices what exists outside the frame. And when someone points the camera at you, all you have to do is smile. Say cheese.
  • still here by finalentry
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    No one notices when it starts. That's the point. This isn't a story about monsters, ghosts, or violence. It's about attention - and what happens when it becomes unnecessary. Each chapter changes something small. Not in the world. In you. There is no twist. There is no explanation. And nothing here needs to be watched to continue. You don't have to keep reading. But most people do.
  • Ashes and Echoes  by Moonlit_Petal
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    She was never meant to be free. She was meant to be a weapon. Dragged into a secret project designed to create superhuman soldiers, Eliza Fraser is forced to survive betrayal, manipulation, and a man who claims he's saving the world-by destroying hers But when the asset sent to capture her falls for her instead, everything changes. Power has a price. Freedom is an illusion. And love might get them killed.
  • The Department of Deleted Things by Eelleyy
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    Nothing you delete is ever truly gone. Inside a windowless building, Lira Vance works for a secret department that archives every erased message, unsent confession, and withdrawn doubt in the name of "stability." On Floor 9, analysts measure emotional suppression and track deviation before it becomes rebellion-but when Lira's own variance begins to rise, she realizes the system doesn't protect people, it protects itself. And in a world where silence is monitored and conformity is measured, crossing the limit doesn't make you dangerous-it makes you disappear.
  • INEVITABLE: Possession Is a Form of Madness by VeyneNoir
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    Elara believes the mind obeys rules. Adrian believes Elara was never a choice. Obsession is human. Possession is pathology. But inevitability... inevitability is something else entirely. A cold psychological story of control, perception, and a mind that never lets go.
  • Liberosis by fattymcbaddie1
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    Brain chips (Palavers) give everyone all the information in the world. The country is so much better now. No censorship, no control, no surveillance. Eluenia knows something; she always has. But now she has to uncover it... I'm a 15 year old author, and this is my first book. I hope you guys enjoy(: