When Charlie Comes Home
When Charlie leaves, the knives go back in the block and the doors stay unlocked. When he comes home, Dad patrols with a bat and Mom keeps her phone close by.
📚 Horror Stories
79 stories
The Keepers
He wakes to clicking and finds three enormous insect-like creatures standing over his bed. They scatter when he screams, and come back, and keep him alive.
The House That Answered
Every child on the street knows the story of the woman who died in the empty house, and why nobody has answered its doorbell since.
I Wanted My Wife Back
Two teenagers meet across a crowded school corridor and build a life together, before something in the marriage starts answering in his wife's voice.
The Room That Remembered
For sixty years a grandmother keeps a small brass key in a blue envelope, and will not say which door of the old house it once opened.
The House That Makes You Remember
A summer guest is warned that the old house settles at night, and slowly learns that some places do not settle so much as hold on.
The Voice Mail That Came Back
A fifteen-year-old loses his father and holds on to the last ordinary phone call between them, a conversation about needing a lift home.
Martine Crawley Comes to Hiram
A stranger called Martine Crawley arrives in a Georgia town at the height of summer, and the three Campbell sisters are the first to listen.
The Curtain That Moves at Midnight
Every night before midnight, the curtain in the abandoned house at the corner moves, and a neighbour who does not believe in ghosts starts watching.
Three in the Morning, and a Voice
Home from a late shift at the bar, a man hears a voice in his parents' house at three in the morning and assumes his brother is being an idiot.