1.
I woke up to handprints on the outside of my bedroom window. In a daze I thought it must be neighborhood kids.
I live on the third floor.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) June 4, 2015
2.
My son had been refusing to sleep in his room.
"The man keeps making noise in my closet."
We took the closet doors off
Now none of us sleep— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) May 19, 2015
3.
A light snow fell last night, just enough so I that could make out the footprints that led from the trees to my window. None returning.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) February 23, 2015
4.
You wake up to the sound of the bulb in your nightlight shattering, and in your dark bedroom something whispers into your ear. "Lights out."
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) December 15, 2014
5.
I woke up to the sound of knocking on glass. I assumed it was the window, but as I checked, I heard it again, from the mirror.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 31, 2014
6.
She asked why I was breathing so heavily.
She said it was keeping her awake.I wasnt.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 31, 2014
7.
I awoke, and in a daze, I heard it.
"Mommy," a small voice says from just outside my bedroom door, "Can I sleep with you?"
I live alone.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 23, 2014
8.
A knock at the door wakes you, followed by the familiar voice of your mother asking to come in from the cold. She has been dead for months.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 13, 2014
9.
"Love the Halloween decorations!" Your neighbors say, admiring the headless bodies of your family members propped up around your yard.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 13, 2014
10.
While you lay awake at night and stare out of your window into the shadows just beyond the trees, I want you to know, I stare back.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) October 13, 2014
11.
Every time you've been home alone and heard floorboards creak, you've forced yourself to believe it was just the house settling. It wasn't.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) July 14, 2014
12.
A tickle on your arm wakes you up, and you look over to see a spider, biting you. It breaks the skin. Smaller spiders emerge from the wound.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) May 19, 2014
13.
"What did you bring to show the class?" the teacher asked. "A special book." She answered, clutching the leather tome. "It's made of mommy."
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) May 18, 2014
14.
Often overlooked is the night blindness caused by looking at a bright screen in a dark room. You can't see them, but they can see you.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) May 18, 2014
15.
Winter had been difficult, but the spring thaw brought floodwaters to uproot the bodies from the cemetery. Finally, we could eat.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) April 3, 2014
16.
The sound of the rain falling on the tin roof was calming, as it gently ushered her to sleep. It hid the sounds of my footsteps.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) March 31, 2014
17.
You look out the window to see two neighborhood dogs playing tug-of-war with some unfortunate animal. It's wearing your daughter's dress.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) November 27, 2012
18.
You awake from a night of strange dreams to find "You are so beautiful when you sleep." scrawled across your bedroom walls.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 24, 2012
19.
He rose his hand to hit her, and before he could, she put a bullet through his head. And she sat by his body for a while, until it stirred.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 23, 2012
20.
You hear your wife singing to your newborn baby on the baby monitor and smile. Your smile fades as she texts you, "Be home late, traffic."
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 23, 2012
21.
I tripped and fell, and the contents of my pack emptied out around me. My late wife lay in bloody pieces, strewn across the forest floor.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
22.
Before he dives in, you grab your friend's shoulder. Just under the surface of the water, hundreds of faces, eyes black and wide with hunger
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
23.
Sitting down at the table, you begin to tell your girlfriend about your day. She listens patiently, her lifeless, glassy eyes staring back.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
24.
"Why are you sleeping on the couch?" she asked her brother across the dark living room. She froze, remembering he was still away at school.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
25.
People continue to go missing around town, and your neighbor has put out the most realistic Halloween decorations you've ever seen.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
26.
"Do you love me?" You hear from the dark hallway, as a misshapen frame wearing the skin of your beloved wife shuffles in, arms outstretched.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
27.
The evening breeze gently blows the curtains open, and a pale disfigured face peers in from the blackness, eyes full of hatred and envy.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
28.
She learned early on not get attached. Father was a butcher, he had a job to do. But she did love hearing them beg to be set free.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
29.
I awoke to find my empty apartment littered with polaroids of me, asleep. Strange, bony hands in some of them, gently grasping my throat.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
30.
John had always loved his mother dearly, and after her death, he found comfort in her familiar embrace, cold as it had become.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
31.
As he climbed the stairs, he glanced to the window. In its reflection he caught a glimpse of the pale, gnarled creature following him.
— Short Horror Stories (@HorrorStory_140) September 22, 2012
