Haunting Stories

"Afraid of me? Why are you so afraid, princess?" He placed his hand on the wall next to her head, effectively trapping her between his body and the cold stone. "I'm not afraid of you," she lied, her voice steady despite the tremble in her hands. "I'm not afraid of anything." He chuckled darkly. "You should be." His lips barely brushed against hers in a tantalizingly soft touch. She froze on the spot, her legs refusing to move. He took advantage of her daze, closing the remaining gap and crushing his lips against hers.

A medium and a wealthy crooked businessman, both with darkest past met in circumstances. But fate was never wrong. Life has yet proven that love and unbinding fate is always sealed. There is no escaping it, no matter how much they both ran away from it. Warning, this book contains trigger warnings such as death, violence, rape and etc.

Edmund comes to the remote village of Black Thickett to escape the life grief has carved out of him. He wants silence. Distance. A place where memories can't follow. But Black Thickett is wrong in quiet, unsettling ways. The broken road becomes perfectly smooth the moment he crosses the boundary. The cottages are too neat, too deliberate. And on a noticeboard full of dry flyers, only one poster is wet. A missing boy, smiling as if he doesn't know he's lost. The villagers won't talk about the disappearances. The forest at the edge of the village seems to breathe, and the deeper Edmund goes, the calmer he feels... dangerously calm. The forest can quiet his pain. It can ease his grief. It can make him forget. But not everything that heals you wants you to survive. Welcome to Black Thickett, where you'll find my entry into the ONC 2026.

After loss tore her world apart, Raine Dyer vanished into the forest living in a forgotten cottage. There, beneath the canopy's twilight glow, she stumbles upon an ancient clay statue hidden among the roots. From that moment on, dreams bleed into reality. Whispers follow her. Shadows shift. And the forest remembers more than it should. A haunting tale of loss, isolation, and the secrets buried beneath moonlit soil.

Book - 1 CORE PREMISE Four Raivarya siblings inherit cursed Raivarya Manor. Condition: Each must live 1 year with a supernatural "match" tied to their deepest flaw. Fall in love = curse breaks. Don't = house keeps your soul forever. *Secret*: Parents made a deal to save Vihaan as a kid. Traded one soul, had four kids to cheat the house. Now it wants all of them. ___________________________________________ Meher Raivarya 32 | Corporate lawyer. Control freak. Plans funerals for fun. Match: Captain Gideon Vale | 200-year-old pirate ghost. Died 1789, mutiny. Hates pants, haunts Roombas. Can only touch her when she's truly scared. He is feral , dramatic and hates rules He haunts her by rearranging her spreadsheets and possessing her Roomba to chase her. She tries to exorcise him with leagal loopholes. She cites legal codes. He rearranges her spreadsheets to spell HELP ___________________________________________ Touch her and I materialize.

Some memories are not meant to survive death. Yet every night, she dreams of dying. A terrified girl running through dark corridors... blood on trembling hands... voices begging her to stay silent... and eyes she cannot forget even after waking up. The strange part? None of those memories belong to her. At twenty-three, Ira Malhotra lives an ordinary life - balancing endless CA files, surviving office deadlines, and pretending she's mentally stable after another sleepless night caused by "overthinking and dark novels." At least that's what she tells herself. Because accepting the truth would mean accepting something impossible. The nightmares are real. The fear is real. And somewhere in this very city... the people who once buried her truth are still alive. But the soul they destroyed never truly disappeared. It returned. And this time- it remembers.

As Alyson struggles with the weight of a failing career and business, a mysterious woman in black appears and delivers a chilling message that changes everything.

Silt and Silence is a lyrical fantasy novel about a sixteen-year-old boy who unearths an ancient cursed bottle in his family's ancestral valley and makes three wishes to save the people he loves - not realizing the price is his own existence. As he slowly fades from the world over seven days, his childhood friend Lena refuses to let him disappear quietly, and the spirit trapped inside the bottle - a King imprisoned for 3,000 years - turns out to be something neither of them expected. It's a story about the arrogance of trying to fix things for people without asking what they want, and about what it means to be truly seen by someone who won't look away.

In the Kingdom of Vaelthorn, feeling is forbidden. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. By law, by conditioning, by eleven years of a king who decided that emotion was the specific architecture of disaster and built an entire civilization around its absence. Into this kingdom walks Amiana Morvaine - nineteen years old, silver-eyed, and carrying a gift that has spent her entire life being called a curse. Everything she touches dies. Everyone who gets close enough to feel her warmth is drained of it. She has spent nineteen years learning three rules. Don't touch. Don't feel. Don't love. Ashael Thorne has spent eleven years learning the same rules from the other direction. The Kingdom of Silence series is the story of what happens when two people who have made their entire lives out of distance find each other across it. It is dark and it is devastating and it is, at its core, a story about the specific courage of choosing to feel things in a world that has decided feeling is weakness. It is enemies who were never really enemies. It is a king who walks to windows he has never walked to before. It is a girl whose curse turns out to be a gift - the land's judgment, made specific and personal and human - finding the one person in a kingdom full of carefully constructed emptiness who is genuine all the way down. It is love with no condition attached to it. No exit built in. No door left standing. The Kingdom of Silence series is a dark fantasy romance intended for adult readers.

Amber shows grief of losing her best friend Klara only to find out that Klara didn't harm herself. The house is haunted and is trying to find a way to continue getting rid of the people living there. Amber is on the hunt to find the truth and put end to it all.

INTRODUCTION: THE VILLA OF BROKEN ECHOES "The woods have eyes. But the basement... the basement has a heartbeat." It was the ultimate victory. Five strangers, united by a legendary gaming tournament win, forged a bond supposed to last a lifetime. They were a powerhouse squad: A CBI Agent, a Police Officer, a Hacker, a Corporate Heir, and a Crime Writer. When they found a majestic villa hidden in the forest for a suspiciously low rent, they ignored the local legends. To a team of professionals, "haunted" was just a word used to sell cheap real estate. But as the oak doors creak shut, logic begins to bleed. The air turns thick with the scent of old copper. Shadows move without a light source. And every night at midnight, a rhythmic, mechanical hum vibrates through the floorboards-an industrial growl from a basement that should be empty. Is it a curse? A spirit? Or something far more physical, waiting with surgical patience to claim its prize? In this house, the stakes are no longer digital. There is no 'Respawn' button. 5 Friends. 1 House. 0 Escape. ⚠️ AUTHOR'S ADVISORY This is a dark psychological thriller. Read at your own risk: THE HAUNTED ILLUSION: The atmosphere feels paranormal, but the terror is chillingly real. THE ART OF BRUTALITY: Contains explicit graphic violence and Body Horror. This story explores the "preservation" of the human form. If you fear the sound of a chainsaw in the dark, turn back. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CAPTIVITY: Themes of isolation, abduction, and intense dread. The killer doesn't just want you dead-he wants you eternal. Step inside. But remember: once the basement door opens, the screaming never stops.

Du bist mein Geheimnis. Mein einzigstes & größtes. Handsome & Haunting. - Alexis hat keine Ahnung wie man trauert. Bis zu dem Zeitpunkt wo ihre beste Freundin stirbt und sie von Logan's Haus abhauen muss. Etwas was nicht ihre Schuld ist, doch ihr für immer angehangen wird. Sie und ihr großer Bruder, Sam, wuchsen ohne Eltern auf. Somit waren sie Waisenkinder. Und obwohl Sam für immer auf sie sauer sein wird, liebt er seine Schwester trotzdem und lässt sie sogar bei sich wohnen. Zwischen Geheimnissen, Joints und nicht wissen was Liebe ist, findet sie jemand ganz besonderen am Strand sitzen. Ihr Geheimnis.

Alma has never questioned The Sanctuary. Beyond the pine forests lies the Noise, a corrupt and violent world abandoned by the faithful decades ago. Inside the compound, life is orderly. Silent. Pure. Every morning begins with prayer, every choice belongs to the elders, and every girl is taught the same truth: Obedience is love. Raised within the rigid teachings of Father Vale and the Church of the Holy Silence, Alma has spent her life preparing to become the kind of woman the Sanctuary demands, quiet, devout, unseen. But when her closest friend disappears without explanation and whispers of hidden truths begin surfacing beneath the compound's careful rituals, Alma starts to notice the cracks in the world she was taught to fear leaving. Jonah has noticed them for years. Assigned to maintain the Sanctuary's generators and forbidden technology, Jonah has seen enough hypocrisy to know the cult's holiness is built on lies. He's spent years surviving in silence after his brother vanished for asking too many questions. But the closer Alma gets to the truth, the more dangerous they both become. As Father Vale tightens his grip and an arranged marriage threatens to seal Alma's future forever, Alma and Jonah are forced to confront the terrifying possibility that escape may be their only chance at freedom. But leaving The Sanctuary is only the beginning. Because the outside world is louder, crueler, and far more overwhelming than Alma ever imagined, and some forms of conditioning do not end at the gates. *Cult of Silence* is a haunting psychological thriller about control, faith, survival, and what it truly means to choose your own life.

In a village where the river remembers names and the soil listens, silence is never empty. Noziphozamandla (Gift of Power) returns home carrying a grief she does not yet understand-unaware that death has already crossed her path, that her bloodline hums with secrets older than language. At night, the drum begins to speak. Soft at first. Patient. Calling not to her ears, but to her spirit. Children chant where no children should be. Shadows move without bodies. And something small watches from the dark, waiting to be acknowledged. Rooted in South African ancestral lore and whispered truths of witchcraft, When the Drum Speaks is a slow-burning, unsettling journey into the unseen, where amadlozi (ancestors) walk beside the living, gifts are inherited in silence, and ignorance is the most dangerous curse of all. Some stories are read. Others are answered.

***** A gothic Wednesday AU ***** Reichenbach Academy has always thrived on perfection. Pressed Cabernet uniforms. Polished cobblestone. Pristine image. All while something ancient has been buried far beneath its halls. When a student, Daniel Gonzalez, collapses mid-class with glowing, unknown sigils carved into his skin, the administration insists that the situation is contained. But the students know better than to believe them. Thorn Rosales, known for trouble and sarcasm, hears the disturbance long before anyone names it. A song threading through the academy's bones. Xavier Thorpe, haunted by his past at Nevermore, begins drawing the same symbols that have appeared across campus, as if something is guiding his hand. Whether brought together by fate or something far more deliberate, they uncover the truth Reichenbach has spent centuries trying to bury. This is a slow-burn, lore-heavy gothic mystery about power, memory, and the lengths hatred can go. So, Welcome to Reichenbach Academy, where silence is a weapon, and the walls are starting to sing. I am also posting this to royalroad

It starts with a rustle in the hedges... and a gardener shocked into silence. When a girl senses something stalking her garden at dusk, fear is the only thing that makes sense. But as a shadowed figure lingers at the edges of her world - and her silent gardener leaves cryptic warnings - she follows the trail toward the sea and the ruins of a village long claimed by time. There, among broken walls and moonlit stones, she uncovers a past steeped in tragedy and threaded with her own forgotten story. Something is calling her back - something she once knew, something she once loved - if only she can remember what was lost. As the mysteries of then and now collide, she must choose: run from the unknown... or step toward the truth waiting in the dark. The Silent Gardener is a haunting, tender supernatural mystery about fear transcended by curiosity, danger that becomes connection, and a girl brave enough to follow the unknown into the place where she truly belongs.

Isaac thought grief had a smell. Pine. Lavender. Frank's tea steeping before sunrise. But when those familiar scents vanish overnight, the house he's always known begins to feel wrong-like something invisible moved in while everyone was sleeping. Doors open where walls should be. Memories don't match reality. And the deeper Isaac digs into Evergreen's secrets, the more he realizes some absences were never meant to be noticed. Because something in the house is hungry to be remembered. And once it learns your name, it never lets you leave unchanged.

Loria Tensom is a successful writer who has built a wall around her emotions, translating her inner turmoil into gripping stories. Deep down, she feels a profound, spiritual pull to leave the secular world behind and enter a convent to become a cloistered nun. However, her final weeks before entering the postulancy become an emotional crossfire. She is suddenly caught between the nostalgia of her youth (Charlie) and a passionate, protective bond from her recent past (AC Cortes). To protect her spiritual calling, she actively avoids them both, leading to an intense psychological and emotional struggle. When the ghosts of your past finally offer you the love you always wanted, do you choose the life you've built, the men who adore you, or the divine calling meant to take you away from it all?" Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

A middle-aged newspaper reporter, Daniel, is haunted. Horrifying nightmares. Sleepless nights. When his colleague discovers a series of articles about a ghostly girl haunting people across the region, Daniel begins to connect the dots and launches an investigation of his own. However, the ghost does not seem to appreciate his curiosity. As Daniel digs deeper into the mystery, it soon becomes clear that he is fighting a battle between life and death. And he is losing. (A fanfic based on the Slendrina games by DVloper.)

{ LOTF AU ! } - A plane crashes in an island in the middle of nowhere, leaving a group of boys and a girl to be isolated and trapped in the certain island. Survival instinct is a need. The question is, how long can the girl survive, and how does she fight her way to survival?