Three Rings After Midnight
After midnight in the locked pharmacy, the brass bell above the door rings three times, and a chair is dragged across the floor of the empty room upstairs.
📚 Horror Stories
79 stories
The Quiet House
Twelve years old and away from home for the first time, the narrator spends a night at the Bell house, where the kitchen clock stopped at 2:17.
Mother’s Chair
A small white cup of water is waiting beside the narrator's bed at dawn, and another by sister Betsy's. Their parents insist neither of them left either cup.
The Time He Had Left
For his tenth birthday Daniel Mercer is given a plain grey watch counting down years, days and seconds, and told that this is all the time he has left.
The Clown Who Lives in the Water
Lucy, five, finds a brass button stamped with a smiling moon and says it belongs to the clown who lives in the water, down by Bellweather Creek.
The Glass of Water Nobody Left
A house empty for a month still holds a half-full glass of water beside the upstairs bed, a windup clock stopped at 2:17 and a paperback left open.
Please Don't Leave Me Here
Three days after the football game, a girl finds a photograph under the car seat: an old man on a country road, and five words asking not to be left.
Don't Look for the Ceiling Light
Their host points out the brass lamp every night and repeats the same warning: if you wake and need anything, do not look for the ceiling light.
The Forty-Fourth Floor
Broke and three days from payday, the narrator takes a fifty-dollar bet to climb the abandoned Bellweather Hotel and shine a torch from the forty-fifth floor.
The Robes Had Eyeholes
Behind winter coats in a friend's parents' bedroom hang long white robes with eyeholes, and Rebecca says they are not supposed to know about them.