Haunting Stories

*****A gothic Wednesday AU***** Reichenbach Academy has always thrived on silence. Pressed uniforms. Polished stone. Perfect control. And something ancient buried far beneath its halls. When a student collapses mid-class with glowing sigils carved into his skin, the administration insists the situation is contained. The students don't believe them. Thorn Rosales, a half-vampire psychic known for trouble, hears the disturbance before anyone names it. A song threading through the academy's bones. Xavier Thorpe, haunted by the Hyde and his past at Nevermore, begins drawing the same symbols appearing across campus, as if something is guiding his hand. Together, they uncover a truth Reichenbach has spent centuries burying. This is a slow-burn, lore-heavy gothic mystery about power, memory, and forbidden connection. Where silence is a weapon, and the walls are starting to sing.

Celia Jones can talk to the dead, but getting on with them is a different story. She always has at least three spirits following her around, complaining about their relatives, or the inadequacy of their funeral arrangements. The latest is a murdered actress, Maude Domby, but she's less interested in denouncing her killer than in accusing the understudy of stealing her favourite pearls. When the charming but utterly fraudulent medium Stanley Winter holds a séance to contact Maude, Maude insists she and Celia should attend, to see people mourning her 'properly'. But the séance ends up implicating an innocent woman, and now Stanley Winter is banging on Celia's door, begging her to help him find Maude's real killer. Unfortunately, helping Stanley Winter could lead Celia to confront her other power - the one that's both lighter and infinitely darker than talking to the dead. ONC Prompt: 72. A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance.

Lucas remembers everything. Every moment. Every promise. The Note. And the brutal reason why he can never speak of it again. After the accident, he chose silence over confession, carrying the weight of a love he can't afford to rekindle. Protecting Chloe has always come first - even if it means standing right beside her, unseen by the version of her that no longer remembers what they were. Chloe can't remember him. Not his name. Not their story. Not the way he used to look at her like she was everything. But something in his presence feels familiar. Safe. Warm. And as they find themselves drawn together once more, she begins to fall for him all over again - without realising it's the second time her heart has chosen him. In a world where the past hides behind silence and the future is too fragile to trust... Can love still find its way back? "You forgot me once. I just hope... You never remember how much it broke me."

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.

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.

Four girls. They became friends without remembering how it started. No first meeting. No clear beginning. Just a bond that feels older than memory. They laugh like nothing is wrong. They pretend everything is normal. But strange things follow them. Mirrors reflect something slightly different. Old photos change when no one is looking. Their names appear in places they've never been. It doesn't make sense. They feel connected - not just to each other, but to something watching...waiting. And the deeper the mystery grows, the clearer one truth becomes: This was never an accident. There is only one reason the unexplainable keeps happening. One hidden past tying them together. One secret that demands something in return. A sacrifice. But no one knows what must be given. And no one knows who will have to give it. The question is no longer what are they? It's- What are they willing to lose?

At exactly midnight, a mysterious girl appears at Daniel's door - drenched, silent, and claiming she has nowhere to go. Her name is Lina, and she has no memory of her past. But as Daniel offers her shelter, he soon discovers something horrifying: Lina died three years ago... and she knows secrets that only he holds. What begins as a simple act of kindness turns into a terrifying struggle for survival as Daniel faces the truth: some guests don't come to visit. They come back for a reason. Dark, chilling, and impossible to put down, The Girl Who Appeared at Midnight is a story of ghosts, secrets, and the night that refuses to end.

Chronicles of the Forsaken Some paths to healing must first pass through hell. Deva Cole wears strength like a mask and silence like a shield. Beneath it, she's unraveling-haunted by a past that refuses to die and secrets buried deeper than memory. When she meets Brian, a mysterious figure drawn to her chaos, their bond becomes a slow-burning match to the truth she's avoided all her life. But darkness doesn't knock-it walks in smiling. Rachel Slink, a woman wrapped in envy and vengeance, arrives with a tale too twisted to ignore. She claims to seek justice, but her real intent? To lead Deva into a labyrinth of bloodlines, betrayal, and buried sins. As Deva begins to question her father's past and her own sanity, puppets and puppet masters blur. Brian's past is no lighter. And as he digs into Deva's scars, his own ghosts rise to the surface. Everyone carries secrets. Some are just more willing to burn others with them. Chronicles of the Forsaken is a gothic tale of pain, manipulation, psychological torment, and self-revelation. In a world where not even memories are safe, the only way forward is to face the forsaken shadows within.

"He had spent his life chasing a reflection, never noticing the life waiting for him behind his own back." A mirror. A lighthouse. A curse whispered across generations. Silas Hale dreams of a lighthouse that calls him, and a mirror that whispers his name. Every time he follows it, misfortune follows too. The wind never quiets. The mist never lifts. And the sea... waits for him to return. Prompt-34. "You have to sail the seven seas to find the lost treasure, but treasure means different things to different people, what treasures will you find at worlds' edge ."

The sea gives him back - but not whole. Cassian wakes on the shore stripped of memory, with no past and no understanding of how he came to be there. He is taken in by Aurora, a woman whose presence feels painfully familiar-like a warmth remembered from somewhere just beyond reach. Yet the ocean won't leave him alone. It calls to him, insistent, knowing.
 The town whispers about him, as if he's someone who doesn't belong. As unease grows and questions surface, Cassian begins to wonder if the problem isn't the place at all - but himself. Saltwater Skin is a slow-burn tale of love, loss, and what hides beneath the surface. Updates every Friday evening (20:00 / 8 PM CET).

Three lives. Three bloodlines. One dark inheritance. In Book One: A Halo in the Ashes, a teenage girl named Olivia arrives at an ancient boarding school in Italy-where shadows speak, silence bleeds, and something not quite human is watching. But the real horror isn't just what haunts the school... it's what's waking inside her. In Book Two: Beneath the Crimson Veil, Emily Gidez dreams of home, but sleep delivers nightmares-and a masked killer who walks among them. When the veil between the living and the damned thins, the line between victim and vessel begins to blur. In Book Three: A Throne of Quiet Ruin, Akana, daughter of a guarded noble household, meets a stranger who claims to know her soul. As plague and darkness devour the land, she must uncover the truth of her bloodline-and the beast prince drawn to it-before love becomes the knife that ends her. Tied by prophecy. Bound by silence. Each girl must face the legacy she never asked for- and the monsters that wait in the hollow things they leave behind. Enter a world of gothic dread, cursed romance, and haunting fate. This is A Symphony of Hollow Things.

The sweeping sequel to Whispers of Ash and Bloom In a land where vines remember, and the soil sings in silence, peace is never truly quiet. After planting the Heartseed and restoring balance to the vineyard, Elena Moretti believes her legacy and her sister's long shadow have finally come to rest. But when a mysterious child emerges from the mist, born not of flesh but of forgotten intentions, the fragile harmony begins to fray. The Hollow Heir brings more than riddles; they bring a revelation: something ancient still sleeps beneath the vineyard, older than pact, older than bloom, and it's waking up hungry. As Elena navigates rising tensions within the Rootwarden Council, cryptic visions, and a land that seems to listen too closely, she must journey into buried memories, forbidden magic, and the ghost of her twin's final spell. What she finds is a choice that could unmake the very balance she fought so hard to restore. With prose as lyrical as it is haunting, Embers of Vine and Vow weaves legacy, language, and land into a spellbinding tale of mercy, memory, and the courage it takes to let the world bloom on its own terms. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric fantasy, sisterhood, and lush world-building where nature itself is a character, this is a story that asks: What happens when the land wants to speak and you become its voice?

Every instinct screamed: run. Every thought whispered: survive. But when her life hung in the balance, I couldn't turn away. One wrong move, and it could all end in blood. A gripping psychological thriller. . . Disclaimer: Please do not copy my work. If you want to adapt this idea, contact me in the comments for permission and give credit if allowed. This story is fictional. All characters and places are imagined.

After the rain-slicked highway and the screeching tires that took her husband's life, Maya Sebastian flees to the secluded provincial town of Sombra. She seeks the kind of silence that only the deep province can provide. She expects to mourn in peace. She doesn't expect the letters. They arrive in her kitchen, tucked into old books, and pinned to her door. Hand-written, heartbreakingly familiar, and signed by Thomas-the man she buried months ago. He's watching her. He's protecting her. And he is terrified of the only person in Sombra who actually looks Maya in the eye: a charming stranger named Elias Santos. But Sombra is a town built on secrets and long shadows. As the letters from Thomas grow more possessive and Elias's own past begins to unravel, Maya realizes that her "peaceful" retreat is a gilded cage. Why does Elias hide his true identity as an Alcaraz? Why do the locals treat her like a memory? And how can a dead man know exactly what Maya is thinking? In the town of Sombra, the line between the living and the dead is as thin as paper. And for Maya, the truth might be the most haunting thing of all.

Hollowmere was supposed to be behind her. A place to forget. A place to heal. But the moment Adira steps back into town... the town wakes up. The fog watches. The lake listens. The forest whispers her name like it never stopped. Something in Hollowmere has been waiting for her return - patient, quiet, and far from harmless. And the deeper Adira goes, the more she realizes: these woods don't want her to remember. They want her to feel. Feel the pull. Feel the fear. Feel the truth she was never meant to survive. Not all secrets stay buried. Not all love stays gentle. And Hollowmere... never lets go of what it claims. If you love stories that wrap around your chest, pull you into the darkness, and refuse to let you look away - this one is waiting for you.

He was born a gentleman. He became a scoundrel. And now, he's bound by a curse. After the death of his infant son, Dorian Vale is willing to do anything to save his grieving wife and rewrite destiny. His desperation awakens a dark power older than the mortal world... one that offers help at a terrible price. To protect the people he's already failed, Dorian will make the one bargain he can never take back. A bargain that will deliver him straight into the shadows... and eventually into the path of a girl named Lenora.

What happens when Death falls in love with the paramour he is gifted? Cursed to kill everyone he touches, beastly Lord Damien Casteel lives in anger and loneliness. During a rare game of poker, he wins the final hand against a petty criminal named Luca. The prize is a pouch of twelve precious gemstones. But Luca is determined to get the stones back, no matter what. Breaking into Damien's mansion to exchange the real gems for fakes, he is captured and threatened with death. Begging for his life, he strikes a deal: his freedom in exchange for his adopted son, Jemeson, who will serve the lord as his paramour for twelve days; one day for each stone. Although he is reluctant to let anyone into his life, Damien is desperate for companionship and finally agrees. What he does not expect is to fall for the tormented young man. Warning for: spicy situations, alcohol, some swearing, blood, abuse, and typical Christine darkness. There's no graphic sa, torture, gore, or animal abuse.

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 parts drop weekly on Fridays. Start your 2026 off right with some creepy horror!**

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.

"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 was frozen in the spot, her mind a chaos of escape thoughts, but her body refusing to carry her away. It was like he took advantage of her daze, closing the remaining gap and crushing his lips against hers. _________________ In a corrupted world full of superficial and greedy people, in a world driven by lust and desire, Regan's thoughts and actions are alien to most. She feels like an outsider amidst a blur of faces that mirror the very disdain she holds for society. But she's not naive. And what will happen when she's thrust into the heart of the very system she despises, into the claws of a terrifying, demonic beast who happens to not want just her body, but her soul?