Occult Stories

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

When Arjun Mandal summons a demon, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with his dead ex-boyfriend. Four years ago, Teddy Nkhoma was killed by followers of a sorcerer threatening the balance between realms and was reborn as a demon. Though beings from the Realm of the Dead are not trusted even by the magical community in the Realm of the Living, Arjun knows Teddy too well to believe him evil. He knows Teddy is still the boy he loved, still his best friend. Defying his family's warnings, Arjun agrees to work with Teddy to defeat the sorcerer. As an ancient prophecy re-emerges and more than one realm is threatened, Arjun and Teddy must face their past, their present, and a future that might tear them apart all over again. GENRE: modern fantasy, paranormal, mxm romance TROPES: second chance romance, grumpy x sunshine, nerd x bad boy MIGHT BRING TO MIND: Harry Potter, The Raven Boys, The Owl House

A powerful family of occultists unexpectedly disappear and for the next twenty years they live within society like normal people. However, as the eldest daughter reaches her 18th birthday the curse of a forgotten bloodline returns, along with the memories of her father's unprecedented betrayal. Powerful images and abilities she can't control or understand. But unbeknownst, as her mother's spell is broken the connection to her remaining family surges. Thus, the quest for answers begins within the town of Cottonwood Falls. A remote community where she discovers far more than she bargained for.

The room was quiet except for the faint sound of rain tapping against the window. Outside, the streetlights had already come on, their pale glow stretching across the wet pavement. For a few seconds, neither of us spoke. Then I looked back at her. "You really want to know?" Her smile faded slightly. "Yeah." I lowered my eyes. There were some things you could explain in a sentence. There were others that took years. Mine had taken almost everything I had. I had spent a long time convincing myself that the past didn't matter anymore. That whatever happened back then was finished. That people left, people changed, and sometimes you simply had to accept it. But the truth was much worse. Some things don't stay in the past. They follow you.

In a vividly imagined, mystical world, Shannon Sage weaves a tale of angels, demons, and enchanted beings, creating an immersive narrative filled with wonder, magic, and profound spiritual exploration.

They called it research. We called it Wednesday. Salvador, 1992. Once a week, a bus collected a handful of children and drove them to a place where the adults never raised their voices and every answer was written down. The exercises were strange, playful, occasionally impossible: build something that can survive, tell us what the animal is thinking, name the shape behind the paper without calculating. And always, at the end of the month, the same question. Have you been dreaming? Nobody asked who was paying for the bus. The children were eight. They felt chosen. Twenty years later, a leak put the Program's name in the news, along with a version of what it had done to the kids inside it. Most of them had spent their lives trying not to think about it. One of them had never stopped. Now he is going back: to the classified files, to the other subjects, to the blonde woman with the southern accent who once told him, smiling, that the adults did not know what he was going to say. He is starting to believe she was lying.

Suzy Bannion, an American ballet student from New York, travels to Freiburg, Germany to study at the Tanz Akademie, one of Europe's most prestigious schools of dance. Phillip Schaefer is an American scholar who arrives in Freiburg to study German history, hoping to find a sense of belonging and identity. Circumstances drive these two unlikely students together on an interconnected path. After a series of bizarre events and grizzly murders plague the Tanz Akademie, Suzy and Phillip begin to suspect that the Tanz Akademie is hiding something far more sinister inside its walls and that the school's history of occultism and mysticism hold the key to the nightmarish events unfolding. Between the madness and murder, a romance begins to bloom from two people of wildly different paths who find commonality through the surreal.

The Blind Witness Lucien only wanted to become a renowned writer. Following a band of adventurers seemed like the perfect way to find a story worth telling. But when a strange magical incident leaves him marked by something beyond human understanding, Lucien discovers that he may not be the one doing the witnessing. Something is watching through his blind eye. As the boundary between storyteller and story begins to disappear, Lucien and the adventurers must uncover what has chosen him-and why it refuses to look away.

🖤 House by the Black River - Story Description Ten years ago, I found a house that wasn't looking for anyone. A forgotten bathhouse hidden deep in the Swedish woods, standing beside a river so dark it swallowed every reflection. I didn't know why I stopped at the listing that night-only that something in me did. When we visited, the silence was wrong. No birds. No insects. Just a heavy stillness, as if the land itself was holding its breath. I fell in love instantly. Others felt something else. It didn't take long before the locals told us its name: "The Ghost House." Shadows walked through the rooms. A man stood in our bedroom doorway at night, watching. A voice whispered, "She's finally come home." And then came the story-about the pilot who once lived there, murdered in the house he never left. But he wasn't the only one. Some nights, something far older and stranger appeared. A creature with glowing yellow eyes at the forest's edge, running toward the house before vanishing into thin air. A force that wrapped itself around my body in the dark, trying to pull me backward. Footsteps upstairs. Voices answering from empty rooms. A hand brushing down my arm in the basement. Still, we stayed. Where everyone else fled after a few months, we remained-year after year-living side by side with what cannot be seen but is always felt. This is the true story of the house that chose us... and everything that lived there long before we arrived.

Baryn always felt disconnected from reality, plagued by strange daydreams and an unsettling feeling that she didn't belong in her luxurious life. When her parents are exposed in a nationwide scandal, forcing her to abandon her mansion, she discovers those daydreams were actually warnings. When a mysterious, gruesome death claims the life of a call center girl, Baryn is pulled into a dark web of secrets. The whispers are always with her, and the truth is about to unfold.

Severin Nocturne has ruled the Endless Nothingness for thousands of years. A king behind mirrors. A watcher in every reflection. A demon who answers only the desperate-and devours them for asking. When a young witch summons him, Severin expects another soul to drag screaming into the dark. Instead, she survives. Worse, her exorcist brother traps him behind glass. Cassian Vey is holy, furious, beautiful, and far too powerful for his own good. What begins as a forced exchange for Severin's knowledge for the Vey family's survival-slowly twists into something neither of them can control. The demon learns restraint. The priest learns temptation. And somewhere between exorcisms, blood rituals, old grief, and forbidden magic, Severin begins to feel things he buried centuries ago. But something older than him is hunting the Vey bloodline. And as the clock runs out, Severin must decide what terrifies him more: remaining a monster... or becoming human enough to love.

WHISPERS OF THE UNSEEN "I want this family destroyed. I want its entire lineage erased." Rudrani's words were not a threat. They were a promise. "Who do we start with?" "Suhasini." ... "I want to save you... not because it's my job, but because this has become far too personal. If I can't save you, then being a psychic means nothing." -Aritra Sen ... A family cursed by vengeance. A woman chosen to be the beginning of the end. And a man willing to risk everything to save her. Welcome to *Whispers of the Unseen*, an unusual love story between the girl who is possessed and the psychic who saves her .

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?

Unlock the secrets of controlling earth, air, fire, and water with modern spells and rituals. Learn how ancient runes can empower magic and protect you from unseen forces. Discover simple methods to ward off negativity and create strong protective barriers. Craft potions for love, strength, and healing using everyday herbs and plants. Master the art of reading tarot, crystals, and dreams to predict the future. Explore how to project your soul and travel through otherworldly realms in your sleep.

John Constantine doesn't do apprentices. Not really. He half-trains them, tests them, disappears on them, and occasionally remembers they exist. Julie has learned to live with that. What she hasn't learned is what happens when someone else - someone dangerous - decides she's worth listening to. Being John's apprentice was never going to be easy. Surviving it might be harder still.

I accidentally almost killed someone with magic. My mother disappeared right after. And now I'm stuck in England with the grandmother she spent sixteen years warning me about. Tabetha Clarke is rich, terrifying, suspiciously wrinkle-free, and lives in a mansion full of silent servants who disappear when nobody's looking. Literally. Then there's the cat. The demon accusations. The midnight exorcisms. And the tiny little issue of my magic feeding off living things. Apparently, that's bad. Now everyone's acting like I'm either destined to become the most powerful witch in the family... or the reason it finally destroys itself. Personally, I'd just like one normal day and maybe a waffle that doesn't come with emotional trauma.

Liam is transported to 1980s America, where he makes a startling discovery: the conspiracy theories and urban legends from his previous life are all real. Whenever he fully resolves one of these mysterious incidents, he receives a corresponding Reward. So, in order to uncover even more supernatural cases, Liam decides to become the host of a children's television show. Unknown creatures lurk within dark forests. Ancient beings guard strange and secret arts. Even the most peaceful cities hide a darker side. Unidentified creatures, witchcraft, secret laboratories, and shadow governments have always been hidden among us. Now, Liam intends to uncover every secret and reveal the truth behind them all. And remember the guiding principle of his show: Whatever Liam says is definitely true.

After spending a whole nineteen years of her life just barely surviving injuries, illnesses and freak accidents, Mimi Danes thinks she's met what might finally be death. However, she immediately learns that is far from the truth, and she had been the wrong being with the wrong lifetime. When the Higher Fates recognize their own unseen mistake, they decide to offer her a second chance to life, however she cannot live a new one. To make up for the damage they caused to her story, she will have a fair opportunity to live with protection, and safety until she dies naturally in old age. Naturally, this would sound like a dream, living life on easy mode. The only issue is, her "protection" is actually a vengeful devil who was never given a choice.

Immortal magician Anduine Ragnulf (On-dew-in Ran-yolf) stumbles upon rumors of a hellhound terrorizing the English countryside in Dartmoor, home to the Baskervilles, and sets out to stop the creature. However, his mission is made more complicated by the arrival of Doctor John Watson, partner to the great detective Sherlock Holmes, both of whom are skeptics of the supernatural. As Ragnulf searches for evidence of the occult, he and Watson form an unlikely partnership in pursuit of the truth behind the grim hound stalking the moors. *** Cover art is by Adam Burke

An eighteen-year-old Lincoln Loud must defend his home and loved ones when a charming newcomer moves across the street, concealing a bloodthirsty secret behind heavily boarded windows. This supernatural horror adaptation reimagines the suburban terror of Fright Night through a mature lens set in the Loud House universe.