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  • Patient Twelve by masonfitzzy
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    EPILOGUE WILL BE FREE STARTING JUNE 29TH, 2023! Diana wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to escape. She's been trapped by a group of surgeons with a twisted passion and she's their next victim. ***** Diana Slater, a typical University student, wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to see. After a mysterious figure, known only as Dr. Sweeney, nurses her back to health she finds out the truth. The Doctor has kidnapped her and given her a cat's eyes as part of a larger ploy to turn humans into collectibles. Now she's being trained by Ben, another patient, with the skin of a snake, on how to behave. Diana and Ben are forced to work together to try to escape the murderous doctors - until she discovers Ben might not be the victim he makes himself out to be. The only person Diana can trust is herself, and if she fails, her eyes won't give her another nine lives. [[Winner of the 2018 Fiction Awards for Best Horror Story]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston
  • Finding Humanity by NinaMarks
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    After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
  • Swallow by Pixee_Styx
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    Swallow is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Original Edition and Books Edition upon purchase. When Mildred wished for death on her bullies, she never expected a demon would possess her and make all her dreams come true...but is it worth her soul? ***** After years of torment, Mildred, a meek high school student, is determined to seek revenge against her bullying classmates. She intends to curse them with dark magic, punishing them for their cruelty - but in the process Mildred accidentally opens herself up to a terrifying demonic possession. The demon inside her is only too happy to fulfill Mildred's vengeful desires. Bodies start turning up with parts missing, eaten as though mauled by a wild animal...or perhaps something darker. Powerless, Mildred realizes that the murders are changing her in more ways than one... Content and trigger warning: This story contains scenes of violence, psychological abuse, and gore. [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]] Cover designed by Jay Flores-Holz
  • High Strangeness by elfordalley
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    Tyler is being hunted by the Grinning Man and flees to Marble Springs, where he teams up with Serling and Price, real estate agents who sell haunted houses. ***** After his brother disappears and a burial mound explodes, high school student Tyler Graves starts having strange visions. His brother warns him that something is coming for him. Soon, Tyler's entire family is slaughtered, and he's being hunted by an otherworldly entity known as The Grinning Man. Fleeing to Marble Springs, he meets Serling and Price, real estate agents who specialize in selling haunted houses. It's up to this unlikely trio to stop a madman from destroying the world - by literally unleashing Hell on Earth! (Sequel to Apartment 239.) [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
  • Serial by BLGielen
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    Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]
  • Lucius by cosmicgh0st
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    To save her brother, Veronica decides to dig up a vampire's grave and must grapple with the dangers that come with fraternizing with a killer. ***** There's a reason buried things should stay buried. Desperate to save her dying brother, Veronica digs up Lucius' grave--a notorious vampire with endearing charm and a thirst for redemption. Ignorant to the spotlight now on her family after releasing a killer back into the world, Veronica must grapple with her new reality while Lucius is forced to finally face the ghosts from his past, pulling him into the hell he helped create. As enemies begin to draw closer, Veronica finds herself having to choose a side, and leaning toward one she never thought she would. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren Tachibana
  • How To Attract A Serial Killer  by SereneDamsel
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    When a mysterious killer started wiping out the city's prettiest, meanest, most scandalous girls, Eleo thinks she's safe. She's none of those things. She's just a clumsy, overworked college student with zero dating experience. That is, until she does something spectacularly dumb that inevitably put her in his path. Now, instead of living her quiet, peaceful life, she's dealing with: • ‌A ridiculously good-looking serial killer who won't leave her alone. • ‌Death threats that sound suspiciously flirty. And, Eleo's got two options: 1. Find out who the killer is before he "accidentally" falls in love with her. 2. Die. ...And dying sounds 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 inconvenient. 🚨 Not a tutorial. Do NOT attempt.
  • 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 - 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 by notdelfr
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    "𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬?" "𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞!" Iris Henderson was popular, but the nice kind of popular. The kind of popular that you aren't scared of. Steve Harrington, on the other hand, was the opposite. They seemed like the dream couple to everyone at school even though they weren't even dating, they didn't even talk, and they were barely aquainted. until Dustin takes a liking to Steve, and the dynamic completely changes. i don't own stranger things or steve harrington, just my characters!!!
  • Old and New bonds by PLK_ARMY
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    A BTS fanfiction where there are some misunderstandings among the family members. The Kim family seems perfect from outside but in reality, its not. The bonds are broken and no one is ready to understand the other. They don't want to see the other person in different light. These unbroken bonds will be healed in coming time. But how? The Kim's life is going to take a slight turn when due to an unexpected event, a new person would be added to the Kim family who will become a bridge among the Kim family members and would unknowingly bring them closer. The new bonds will be created and old broken bonds would be healed. So, lets go together on this beautiful journey with unexpected twists & turns and few little secrets.
  • Love Is A Battlefield (A Stranger Things/Steve Harrington Fanfiction) by HFFLPFF082300
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    Riley Hopper's life wasn't exactly 'normal' to begin with. The cancer diagnosis, eventually leading to the tragic death of her little sister had torn her family apart and had left a hole in both her and her parents' hearts. Her parents got divorced, unable to cope with the loss of their youngest and easily their favorite child, not that they would ever admit that. Her mother decided that if she couldn't have her youngest daughter she didn't want any daughter at all, so Riley moved to Hawkins, Indianna with her father. He became the Chief of Police...and she became something else entirely. After a tragic incident, Riley finds herself trapped in a terrifying alternate dimension, running from monsters who are trying to kill her. After a year of enduring this hell, Riley is finally able to escape, and return to her life in Hawkins, thinking that she has escaped her landscape of nightmares forever...until a little boy by the name of Will Byers goes missing exactly one year after her escape. Despite the fact that Riley hasn't uttered a word since she returned home, she must rely on the kindness and skill of complete strangers to find Will and rescue him before he falls prey to the Monsters that haunt her mind. And in the process, Riley finds out that this alternate universe isn't the only battlefield she's going to have to face.
  • Vanishing Point by blueberryallie
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    Duskford Pines isn't on any map, but it has a way of pulling people in-and keeping them there. Brooke Taylor has lived here her whole life. Ella Liu followed the wrong boy here. And Audrey Fitzgerald is still figuring out why she stayed. Together, they've survived late-night diner runs, broken hearts, and the quiet strangeness of a town where the trees lean a little too close. But when students start vanishing, rumors twist through the campus and something dark stirs in the woods. Brooke, Ella, and Audrey are drawn into a mystery that feels older than the town itself-one that doesn't just threaten to expose the secrets around them, but the ones they've been keeping from each other. Because in Duskford Pines, something is always watching.
  • superstitious,      bill denbrough         by -pparker
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    ◦ And the one thing she despised was something she never imagined would come to life. ◦ | 2017 It| book #1 of 'frankenstein reads' published: 9.16.17 finished: 11.25.17 -pparker © 2017 please note; - the movie franchise of 'It' is not any of under my credit. the ideas and characters from the movie are credited towards the directors and producers, as well as Stephen King. all rights are reserved to me for my only characters, Monet and Len Tucker. highest rank #237 in fanfiction 11.25.17 | completed | book cover styled by : @gallahers
  • Hunted By The Silence by Valensia005
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    Secret keeping. Can stop the bleeding. Staying under the shadows, stops you from seeing. We started off as a pair, but they are being pulled apart. Sydney and Violet are best friends, which are basically sisters. They ride with each other, through thick and thin. But they did something so bad, that it looms over their heads. Unfortunately for them, what they don't know is someone's, always watching. They are being played, like chess pawns. Will they out smart that person, or will they fall into the trap?
  • Under the White Coat by HarshaVarthini352
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    Varsha Sharma-youngest CEO, unstoppable, brilliant. But behind her strength lies a fear she can't outrun. When her health collapses, her brother, Dr.Varun Sharma, brings in Dr. Aarav Malhotra-strict, calm, and terrifying to her. Now she must face her worst fear... and the doctor who refuses to let her destroy herself.
  • Riddle of the Beast by RiddleoftheBeast
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    Follow the chilling tale of a group of vigilante Hunters on a desperate search for missing children in the shadowy depths of Southern California. What begins as a routine case quickly spirals into a nightmare of cults, cryptids, and a twisted serial killer. As old traumas resurface, each member of the team must confront the darkness within. With every clue, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur, and no one will escape unchanged. Listen to the linked Audio book with an original soundtrack and immersive sound effects. Updated every Saturday and Tuesday.
  • Rathods by author_azzz
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    This is a story of family, redemption, and the impact of an unexpected bond. Can a little girl soften the hearts of a family known for their merciless ways?
  • SCARY MOVIE (Scream) by Alexa_Moxley
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    Katherine Prescott, is still reeling from the shocking deaths of her twin sister and mother a year prior. She hoped she would be able to handle life again. That all changes when the past doesn't want to be buried anymore and a single phone call turns her world upside down again. -------------- All Rights go to Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, since the book does follow the plot/storyline of Scream 1996. All Rights Reserved, for MY character: Katherine Prescott and for MY own scenarios within the plot/storyline. Copyright, 2022 © Alexa_Moxley
  • STRANGER THINGS IMAGINES  by istayshook
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    a collection of stranger things imagines thank you all for 500k reads :)
  • WHEN THE DEAD RETURNED ( The Blood Of Adesewa)  by priscillaomoyele
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    Years after Tunde Badmus saved Nigeria from the Omu Ibikun plague, his family finally found peace. But when his granddaughter, Adesewa, visits Mushin on a simple family trip, her blood accidentally reawakens the ancient darkness sealed under the abandoned church where the plague once began. A forgotten door cracks open. Old spirits whisper again. And Adesewa becomes the center of a new rising that threatens to finish what the first plague started. Now, a new battle is brewing ,one tied deeply to her bloodline , and the dead are preparing to return.