Short Horror Stories
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A late supper becomes a lesson in inheritance as an old matriarch teaches respect with a cleaver and a hunger that rebuilds itself—what is passed down here is not bloodlines but obedience.
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A parish meeting unravels into accusation and appetite as a stranger strips away masks and the congregation reveals the bargains it keeps, pulling a glowing jewel from a heart and trading mercy for a hunger that will not be sated.
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A man discovers a wall of photographs that chart a life he has not yet lived and meets the figure in every frame—an answer that demands his final breath fold back into his first.
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A desperate bargain in a market stall promises a month of youth for a pair of tear-filled vials. She collects her joy and watches her face mend while the vendor waits for the rest of the price to come due.
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A desperate drive devolves into wreckage and a hunted man discovers the slow accounting of bargains made in blood—nothing is forgiven and night always keeps its receipts.
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A private rage turns a single room into a theatre of ruin where breath, blood and madness trade places until nothing recognises itself.
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Malcolm is offered an ‘upgrade’ to a truer reality by strangers in helmets; as his bathroom turns rotten and official he must decide between a manufactured salvation and the family that tugs him back. The choice tastes like metal and something older than regret.
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An old modem hides more than forgotten firmware—its memory stores a presence that waits, hungry, for a cable and the hands brave enough to plug it in.
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A bone found in a cold room answers the words you whisper and keeps its bargains. Curiosity becomes a pact and something patient and hungry waits at the table for the next wish to be spoken.
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A fan’s shrine becomes a theatre of devotion and a private screening of guilt—fame festers into ritual, and what watches from its plaque will not be ignored.
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A man wakes to a living room that eats him—rooms twist, a woman with a bloodied grin hunts him, and violence fractures reality into a road of screaming metal.
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When curated images start wearing a man’s gestures and smile, the feed becomes a teacher and a thief. He watches as the internet learns him—until the reflection no longer belongs to him.
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She tries to buy back a Polaroid that stole her life but finds the photograph keeps accounts—money and houses are offered and yet the ledger demands a darker payment she never imagined.
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Stranded newlyweds seek a phone in a storm and end up invited to a house where hospitality is performance and bodies are bargaining chips.
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He opens a storage unit and meets a decaying doppelgänger who claims a queue of bodies waits for a chance at life. A bargain of skins unfolds in the dark where identity is traded for the promise of being someone else.
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A nervous man hovers over a blinking prompt—pressing Enter might reveal he is a program or unleash something worse and curiosity becomes a command as the screen answers back.
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A hired vessel for the dying finds one client who refuses to let go—years bleed into hours and identity frays until possession becomes a life sentence. A claustrophobic story about who owns the years you lose.
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Pinned to the ceiling and watched by smiling things, a man bargains with a false mercy as the face he loves dissolves—Anna’s hand is warm and wrong as the world tilts toward oblivion.
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When she peels the tape from her eyes she finds a room full of silent, sightless figures—familiar strangers standing among blood and glass. Recognition arrives like a contagion and asks her to choose whether to belong to the dead or remain alone in the hush.
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A fortune told in a tent rewinds a life and leaves a tune lodged inside the throat—an intimate glimpse that unravels a man’s future into something far crueler than fate.