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  • Apartment 239 by elfordalley
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    Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]
  • You in Real Life by amberkbryant
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    Mazie has fallen in love. Okay, maybe it's with the ghost of a boy from school she hates, but love conquers all, right? ***** Soon after sixteen-year-old Mazie moves to the town of Dorn, she becomes haunted by the ghost of a teenage boy. The ghost doesn't remember anything, so Mazie calls him Jack. Until then, she never knew that ghosts could tap dance, nor that it was possible to fall in love with one! But then Mazie meets Blake, a mean, popular boy at her new high school - and she realizes that Blake is Jack's living counterpart. This means Blake is in grave danger, and only Mazie can help him, but saving this unpleasant boy might kill her ghostly love forever... [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]
  • Yandere X Reader: PLAY TIME  by Winter_Sonnet
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    Your uncle commision you to restore a beautiful lifesize antique doll before disappearing. While working on it you discover that there's something going on with the doll. while in your care the doll seem to get really attached to you.
  • LUCID by cybershy_91
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    They say if you hear your name whispered in Kamikawa Forest... don't answer. At twelve years old, Luna Morrigan loses her parents after a family hike deep within the mountains of Japan. Their bodies are never found. The only thing left behind is a forest that seems to remember her. Six years later, haunted by grief and desperate to see her parents again, Luna begins practicing lucid dreaming. But the dream world is not a place she controls. It controls her. Every night, the dreams grow darker. Every morning, reality feels less real. A faceless child follows her through impossible forests. A forgotten shrine waits with its doors open. And something that has known her name since childhood whispers from the shadows. Some dreams are meant to stay asleep. Others are waiting for you to wake up.
  • Orbis Temporis: Fortunes & Phantoms by MrsBoldCotton
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    Miss Adelaide Stern is every bit as peculiar and charming as the curious wares and infallible fortunes she provides from her home shop, Orbis Temporis. Her otherwise quiet life is kept lively by Alan, the nuisance ghost haunting its walls-and complicated by a gift that has always blurred the lines of where fate ends and desire begins. With only her late grandmother's diary and a loving but enigmatic grandfather to guide her, Adelaide begins tugging at the loose threads of a family history that begins to unravel. As something sinister draws closer to her doorstep, Adelaide finds the past reaching toward the present and unexpected allies finding their way into her heart. Soon, she can no longer be certain whether fate has brought them there-or whether her own peculiar gifts have. With everything she loves at stake, Adelaide must unveil the truth about her family, her gift, and her own heart before the circle closes around her. After all, life has a way of bringing us back to what we thought we'd lost.
  • The Whistle by DxrkWhispers
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    A girl begins hearing the same three-note whistle every night. Nobody else can hear it, recordings capture nothing, and the sound seems to be getting closer. Then she discovers that years ago, another girl heard the exact same whistle before she disappeared.
  • Her Last Requests by HaylieBrown32
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    It was a slow burn. Captivating, like watching a flame lick the edge of a paper, a steady growth until suddenly everything is engulfed in fire and your skin is screaming from the heat. The only choice is do you save yourself, or let it engulf you too. Hadley Maren has been surviving for 26 years. She got to experience living for less than a year before everything went to shit again. The one person who got her through it all is gone. Now what's the point? Well, she made a promise. Hadley may be fucked up, but she's not too far gone to throw away her best friend's last request. In the darkness, someone else is lurking, growing addicted to the woman he wasn't supposed to meet. She's not a target, no one is paying him, so why can't he just walk away? He likes her fire. He loves how she's walking on the edge of his blade. The tension is only half the temptation.
  • The Dare of 1993 by dreamer_of_the_sky34
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    Five rules for surviving the night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza:Check the cameras.Keep the doors closed if something is outside.Save your power.Do not let them see you.Never, under any circumstances, get trapped inside if you are just a kid. Mark, Liam, and Ryan just broke rule number five.
  • The Undertow by SterlingWinters
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    They didn't come here to die. They came here to disappear. Elena Miller needs a clean slate. With her marriage fraying at the edges and her family teetering on the brink of collapse, a week at a secluded lake house seems like the perfect escape. Deep in the woods, miles from the nearest soul, Blackwood Lake promises silence. But the silence is a lie. The moment Elena steps onto the dock, she realizes the lake is not a reflection of the sky. It is a window into a submerged, grey-toned purgatory-a prison for the souls of the wicked who were never meant to be forgotten. They are still here. They are watching from beneath the surface. And they are tired of waiting in the dark. When the lake's stagnant, silt-heavy water begins to bleed into the pipes of the house, the boundary between the living and the damned begins to dissolve. Elena soon discovers that the house isn't a sanctuary; it's a lure. And the lake doesn't just want their secrets-it wants to trade places. In the depths of Blackwood, the only thing scarier than what's in the water is the darkness already inside your own home.
  • the midnight scream  by velvet_ks1
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    🌒 In the middle of the night, Na-ri wakes up for a glass of water... 🔪 Moments later, she begins smashing her head against the wall and stabbing her own leg with a knife, as if controlled by an unseen force. 🕯️ Terrified and desperate, her family seeks help from a mysterious female shaman whose face remains hidden throughout a disturbing ritual. 🌲 Soon after, a horrifying discovery is made deep inside the forest, and an ancient darkness begins to awaken. 🏚️ Meanwhile, Se-rah returns to her hometown after many years with her brother and friends, determined to uncover the truth about her father's past. 👻 Every night brings terrifying dreams, eerie whispers, and the restless spirit of Kim Yun-hi, who seems desperate to reveal a long-buried secret. ⛓️ Every clue pulls her closer to a terrifying truth where black magic, betrayal, revenge, and forgotten sins are all connected. 👤 But the greatest horror isn't the ghost... It's the person who has been hiding in plain sight all along. ❤️‍🩹 Some will fight for love. ⚖️ Some will fight for the truth. 🖤 And some will sacrifice everything to protect the one they cherish. ❓When the final secret is revealed... Who will survive? ✨ If you enjoyed reading The Midnight Scream, please don't forget to vote, leave a comment, and share your thoughts. Your support and feedback inspire me to keep writing. Thank you! 🖤
  • Out of Grounds by ArthurRex12
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    Chapter 6 drops Wednesday at 8:30: https://www.wattpad.com/story/413010612-out-of-grounds Mara Vale walked away from her old life years ago. She doesn't talk about the Redline Event. She doesn't talk about her family. And she definitely doesn't talk about the name she buried the night everything fell apart. Now she runs a quiet coffee shop on Bainbridge Island. Or she tries to. When a ghost glitches into three people at once, a terrified medium collapses, and the espresso machine starts screaming like it's alive, Mara realizes the world she left behind has finally caught up to her. Someone from her past has been trying to reach her. Someone she's spent years avoiding. Someone who knows the name she swore she'd never hear again. And when that name is spoken aloud, something inside her wakes up-something she thought she'd killed. With a ticking clock counting down to another disaster, Mara is forced back into a world of Veil‑touched secrets, Underfog politics, and a family legacy she never wanted. Because the Veil is stirring. The Underfog is rising. And the Sound is calling her home.
  • The Isle Song by Lulu_loVerland
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    A witch least likely to follow in her mother's footsteps begins to have dreams she can't necessarily remember and is being haunted by her dead twin sister who insists she saw her before a sacred tree. Irene Godchild hasn't transitioned yet and doesn't believe there's any harm in working as a keeper of a paralyzed werewolf. Until of course he asks her a favor she should've rather declined but chooses to agree to after witnessing him being taken over by violent convulsions almost shifting into a beast fully. Unknowingly this shifts her fate and things leave her tasked with completing a ritual she's ill equipped for. Tensions are slowly brewing in the background when she learns of something about her sister's death. Her soul ties are split, one leading her to death and the other to the one thing she didn't want to become-her mother. With her heart possibly on the line, will she risk her life or will she be uncovering the biggest secret that will shake her entire world and make her question everything she thought she knew about her world?
  • Goddess of Dark Dreams by WorldsByKacie
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    Can you hear me? Good. I was beginning to think you were boring. I am Morgana. Goddess of Dark Dreams. Daughter of Nyx. Ruler of Neverdream - the finest realm in any dimension, I designed it myself. I fuel your nightmares. Before you misunderstand me, fear keeps you alive. You are welcome. It is community service and nobody appreciates it. I have existed for over 100,000 years. I have watched dimensions rise and crumble. I have walked through your dreams uninvited and left you better for it. I have creatures that would make gods weep. I was perfectly content. Then my mother found me a husband. The God of the Underworld. He went to her first. I verified this twice. Now I have a Halloween wedding to plan, a self-proclaimed Demon King under raven guard in my castle, a trip to the Sky World that will end with me owning a dragon, and an heir on the way. It is a lot to manage. Fortunately I am exceptional at everything. Follow along closely. My creatures and I love to trap souls inside. You have been warned. Delightfully. #2 in dark fantasy 7/21/2026 #1 hellfire 7/26/2026
  • Golfball's Mansion(BFDI HAUNTED AU) by Chamom1leMatcha
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    Just like Luigi's Mansion 3, the cast of BFDI haunt a humongous hotel!! Only one can solve the mystery and turn everything back to normal, Golfball. Can she figure out the case or will she get lost in the horror? THIS IS A HUMANIZED AU FOR BETTER DETAILS!!!(So human descriptions will be provided in the story) Please be patient with chapter releases and enjoyyy!!!
  • After the Last Bell - formerly "The Geek's Obsession" by jenniferkatherine7
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    Senior year starts out as it always has for outcast Edison Bates and best friend Nora Slater but changes one afternoon when an unseen force takes a liking to Edison. When Edison loses his outcast status, popular girl "Queen Anna Devereaux" invites him to join her clique. Nora senses something vile and dark about Edison as she watches him transform into "Eddie." Unwilling to lose her best friend, Nora starts out on a path to discover what changed him. 3rd Place Winner in The Wolf Awards. (Paranormal Category) Copyright © 2017 by Jennifer Katherine Chapman Cover Design by khushir_05. (Wattpad) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  • Midnight at Harrow's Fair by Sylvie_Stone
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    Halloween, 1997. Six college friends just want a low-key Halloween weekend - VHS horror marathons, their Halloween parties, and avoiding midterms. But when they find a strange flyer for a one-night only carnival, curiosity wins out over common sense. The fair isn't on any map. No one in town has ever seen it. And yet... by Halloween night, the Ferris wheel is glowing on the horizon, and old music is drifting through the cold autumn air. What begins as a night of rides and cheap thrills turns into something far darker. The games aren't fair, the prizes aren't prizes, and the smiling workers seem to know more about the friends than they should. Whispers of unexplained disappearances trace back to the 1930s. And as secrets unravel, the group realizes that not everyone came to Harrow's Fair by accident - and not everyone will leave. In a place where the line between attraction and nightmare blurs, survival may depend on trusting the very person you're afraid of.
  • INTOXICATE ME by osheyyyyy
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    Sierra has been the untouchable twin sister to Sean and they practically ruled the school but Damien comes in and shakes her world but something was weird the house was more eerie and everything seemed off and... that chilly breeze always with him
  • Rule of Three  by moonlit_scribz
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    Three years after the horrific night that tore her friend group apart and claimed Ellie's life, Sarah returns to the town she swore she'd never see again, desperate to outrun the guilt that has haunted her ever since. When she finds a cheap, secluded house listed online by a faceless landlord known only as Mr. J.C., it feels like the fresh start she's been praying for. She has no idea she's just signed a lease with a nightmare. It begins at exactly 3:02 AM. A terrifying presence traps Sarah inside her own bathroom, turning a single night into three days of unimaginable horror. When she finally escapes, she discovers a truth more disturbing than anything she witnessed behind that locked door: somehow, out of every house in the city, she has unknowingly rented the very place where Ellie died. Determined to uncover what really happened that night, Sarah and Lily, her last surviving friend, return to the abandoned property in search of answers. Instead, they uncover a buried stone box, an ancient blood oath, and a curse far older than the house itself. Now the truth is impossible to ignore. Some promises were never meant to be broken. Some curses were never meant to end. And the Rule of Three always collects what it's owed.
  • My Shadow by UnnaturalGeek
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    Jerry is a man who has lived alone for years, never reconciling the relationship with his family and never having a family of his own. Till one day, when going through his recently deceased father's belongings, Jerry discovers he was disturbed. Jerry then seeks answers, only to end up travelling the same path as his father. However, things may not be as simple as he initially considered.
  • The Crooked Line by FatimaLove4u
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    Fatima wakes up at 3:17 AM to a warning from an unknown number: Don't look at the window. Soon, people begin smiling too widely, mirrors start copying her, and strange creatures leave behind one tiny mistake: a crooked line. But the person helping Fatima escape might be hiding something too. And when she finally learns how to recognize the copies, she discovers something worse... They are afraid of something too.