Category: Scary Stories

The Scarecrow is a scary story about a farmer who builds the scariest and most hideous of all scarecrows to take care of his farm.

There was an old farmer in Arizona who owned the best farm in the area. Everybody said his crops were the best and people came from all over to buy […]

The Antique Doll is a scary story about a young girl who receives a strange gift on her birthday.

On the morning of her birthday, Lucy’s mother woke her up and told her a package had arrived in the mail and it was addressed to her.
The girl hurriedly unwrapped the gift and was horrified at what […]

Cabbage Patch Dolls have freaked kids out for years and if they scare you, then this creepy little story will really make you afraid to go to sleep.

Cycle of the Werewolf is an illustrated horror novel by Stephen King. It was originally conceived as a calendar with text by King and artwork by Berni Wrightson.
It grew to be a beautifully illustrated novella in 12 segments about Marty Coslaw, a 10 year old disabled boy who must convince the townspeople of Tarker’s […]

The mysterious crystal skulls were found in the ancient ruins of Mayan and Aztec civilizations and are believed to be between 5,000 and 36,000 years old. In all, 13 have been discovered around the world.
The legend of the 13 crystal skulls has featured in the Nancy Drew Legend of the Crystal Skull and Indiana Jones […]

Vampire in the Taxi is a scary story about a taxi driver who picks up a weird passenger one dark and windy night.

It was my first night driving a taxi. It was late and there were not a lot of people on the street. I was about to go home, but I was hailed […]

The Corpse Bride movie was inspired by an old story based on actual events that occurred in 19th century Russia, at a time when anti-semitism was widespread in eastern Europe. Very often gangs of thugs who hated Jewish people would attack a Jewish family on their way to a wedding.
Because the bride would be the one […]

A troop of Boyscouts set out to go camping in a secluded area by a lake in the mountains. Just at the edge of a clearing, they found an old trapper’s cabin and decided to make camp there. They found an old stove inside the cabin and hoped that they could use it for cooking. That way, […]

It was a little after half-past nine when the man fell overboard. The mail steamer was hurrying through the Red Sea in the hope of making up the time which the currents of the Indian Ocean had stolen.
The night was clear, though the moon was hidden behind clouds. The warm air was laden with moisture. […]

Let me tell you about a place called Skull Lake. In Alabama, there’s an old rock quarry deep in the woods, abandoned long ago by a mining company. At the bottom of that deep, jagged crater is one of the best swimming holes you’re ever likely to see. Clean, deep, blue water, just waiting to […]

TailyPo is a creepy little horror story about a man who unwittingly steals something precious from a monstrous creature that just won’t let go!
The trials and tribulations of living in today’s modern society can tend to wear on your nerves. One can grow very weary of dealing with bills, taxes, insurance, traffic, and pollution; not […]

A young family with one child moves into a new house. The child is a boy, 3 years old. The mother is in the basement one day doing laundry. She hears the boy in the next room playing. She hears him talking and goes to see what he is doing. He is standing looking at […]

Who Goes There? is a scary short story by John W. Campbell. It inspired the horror movie, The Thing and an episode of The X-Files named “Ice“.
A group of scientists on a remote base in the Antarctic, discovers a crashed spaceship, buried in the ice. When they attempt to salvage the spaceship, they unleash a shape-shifting […]

A scary story for Halloween with creepy illustrations. The October Game by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a traditional Halloween game, played in the dark, that has a terrifying ending.

The short story A Sound of Thunder involves a Time Travel Safari where rich businessmen pay to travel back to prehistoric times and hunt real live dinosaurs.

A Sound Of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, […]

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W.Jacobs. 
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into suchm sharp and unnecessary perils that it even […]

There was once a woman who lived by herself in a quaint house in the country. Her husband had passed away about 5 years back and she was planning on moving soon. One day, while packing up some of her husbands things, she noticed that the temperature dropped really low. She walked down the hall […]

Jerry was driving home late one night when he saw a young lady waiting by a bus stop. He stopped his car and told her that he didn’t think the buses were running so late at night and offered her a ride. The fall night air was getting chilly, so he took off his jacket […]

A young man and his wife were on a trip to visit his mother. Usually they arrived in time for supper. They had gotten a late start, and now it was getting dark. They decided to look for a place to stay overnight and go on in the morning.
Just off the road, they saw a […]

While Ruth slept, a spider crawled across her face. It stopped for several minutes on her left cheek, then went on it’s way.
“What is this red spot on my cheek?” she asked her mother the next morning.
“It looks like a spider bite”, her mother said.”It will go away, just don’t scratch it.”
Soon the small red […]