Occult Stories

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 are an artist struggling with inspiration when you are commissioned to restore a century-old porcelain doll named Arthur. After completing his restoration, you begin dreaming of a beautiful, impossible world where the doll is no longer porcelain-but human. As your dreams grow stranger and Arthur becomes increasingly attached to you, unsettling events begin bleeding into reality. Meanwhile, your uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind unanswered questions surrounding the doll and a broken pocket watch. As reality and dreams intertwine, you begin to wonder whether Arthur is truly just a doll... or something that has been waiting for you all along.

DUOX Original For most of his life, William SilverCross has fought the forces of darkness, carried the burden of his bloodline, and endured everything the world could throw at his family. Now, for the first time, he has peace. The SilverCross family is together again. Nolan has returned to his father. Alex has her family. Baby Gabriel is finally safe. And William is ready to leave the past behind him. But peace was never meant to last. When an old darkness resurfaces, William is forced into one final battle-one that will demand more from the Patriarch than any demon, curse, or enemy ever has. For the House of SilverCross, this will not simply be another fight against evil. It will be the end of an era. SilverCross: Death of the Patriarch

John Constantine doesn't do apprentices. Not really. He half-trains them, tests them, disappears on them, and occasionally remembers they exist. Julie has learned to live with that. What she hasn't learned is what happens when someone else - someone dangerous - decides she's worth listening to. Being John's apprentice was never going to be easy. Surviving it might be harder still.

The story of a man who saves multiple worlds

Naaz Rashid should have died. She doesn't know why she survived. She doesn't know what happened to her. And, at first, she has no reason to believe that her inexplicable brush with death has anything to do with the strange events that begin unfolding afterward. But strange things have a habit of becoming stranger. A curse is released. Old secrets begin resurfacing. People separated by distance and time find themselves connected by circumstances they cannot explain. The past begins bleeding into the present, while discoveries at the edges of science suggest that some things dismissed as superstition may be far more tangible than anyone would like to believe. There are haunted places, buried histories, impossible phenomena and people whose greatest threat may not be what lurks outside them, but what lies within. And somewhere amid the horror, the absurdity and the occasional moments of dreadful normality, one question remains: What, exactly, did Naaz survive? Because whatever happened that day was not the end of something. It was the beginning.

Liam is transported to 1980s America, where he makes a startling discovery: the conspiracy theories and urban legends from his previous life are all real. Whenever he fully resolves one of these mysterious incidents, he receives a corresponding Reward. So, in order to uncover even more supernatural cases, Liam decides to become the host of a children's television show. Unknown creatures lurk within dark forests. Ancient beings guard strange and secret arts. Even the most peaceful cities hide a darker side. Unidentified creatures, witchcraft, secret laboratories, and shadow governments have always been hidden among us. Now, Liam intends to uncover every secret and reveal the truth behind them all. And remember the guiding principle of his show: Whatever Liam says is definitely true.

An eighteen-year-old Lincoln Loud must defend his home and loved ones when a charming newcomer moves across the street, concealing a bloodthirsty secret behind heavily boarded windows. This supernatural horror adaptation reimagines the suburban terror of Fright Night through a mature lens set in the Loud House universe.

In Maytubig, the old ways were never truly forgotten. Offerings are still left beneath ancient trees. Names are spoken carefully around the dead. A whispered tabi-tabi po can mean the difference between passing safely and being noticed. And when something crosses the boundary between the living and the unseen, the town calls for the katalonan. Part priest, part healer, part medium, the katalonan keeps the old covenants, speaks with the anito, tends to restless spirits, and remembers the rules everyone else has learned to ignore. At twenty-one, Mateo "Teo" Marasigan never expected to inherit that responsibility. But Maytubig is changing. Old protections are weakening. Forgotten names are beginning to surface. Spirits are appearing where they should not. And when a skeptical young man from Manila arrives carrying something even he does not understand, Teo begins to realize that some traditions were not preserved simply out of faith. They were kept because something was waiting for people to forget them.

Immortal magician Anduine Ragnulf (On-dew-in Ran-yolf) stumbles upon rumors of a hellhound terrorizing the English countryside in Dartmoor, home to the Baskervilles, and sets out to stop the creature. However, his mission is made more complicated by the arrival of Doctor John Watson, partner to the great detective Sherlock Holmes, both of whom are skeptics of the supernatural. As Ragnulf searches for evidence of the occult, he and Watson form an unlikely partnership in pursuit of the truth behind the grim hound stalking the moors. *** Cover art is by Adam Burke

A class that turned into a living nightmare. (The photo cover is not mine. CTTRO.)

When Arjun Mandal summons a demon, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with his dead ex-boyfriend. Four years ago, Teddy Nkhoma was killed by followers of a sorcerer threatening the balance between realms and was reborn as a demon. Though beings from the Realm of the Dead are not trusted even by the magical community in the Realm of the Living, Arjun knows Teddy too well to believe him evil. He knows Teddy is still the boy he loved, still his best friend. Defying his family's warnings, Arjun agrees to work with Teddy to defeat the sorcerer. As an ancient prophecy re-emerges and more than one realm is threatened, Arjun and Teddy must face their past, their present, and a future that might tear them apart all over again. GENRE: modern fantasy, paranormal, mxm romance TROPES: second chance romance, grumpy x sunshine, nerd x bad boy MIGHT BRING TO MIND: Harry Potter, The Raven Boys, The Owl House

Baryn always felt disconnected from reality, plagued by strange daydreams and an unsettling feeling that she didn't belong in her luxurious life. When her parents are exposed in a nationwide scandal, forcing her to abandon her mansion, she discovers those daydreams were actually warnings. When a mysterious, gruesome death claims the life of a call center girl, Baryn is pulled into a dark web of secrets. The whispers are always with her, and the truth is about to unfold.

Severin Nocturne has ruled the Endless Nothingness for thousands of years. A king behind mirrors. A watcher in every reflection. A demon who answers only the desperate-and devours them for asking. When a young witch summons him, Severin expects another soul to drag screaming into the dark. Instead, she survives. Worse, her exorcist brother traps him behind glass. Cassian Vey is holy, furious, beautiful, and far too powerful for his own good. What begins as a forced exchange for Severin's knowledge for the Vey family's survival-slowly twists into something neither of them can control. The demon learns restraint. The priest learns temptation. And somewhere between exorcisms, blood rituals, old grief, and forbidden magic, Severin begins to feel things he buried centuries ago. But something older than him is hunting the Vey bloodline. And as the clock runs out, Severin must decide what terrifies him more: remaining a monster... or becoming human enough to love.

A powerful family of occultists unexpectedly disappear and for the next twenty years they live within society like normal people. However, as the eldest daughter reaches her 18th birthday the curse of a forgotten bloodline returns, along with the memories of her father's unprecedented betrayal. Powerful images and abilities she can't control or understand. But unbeknownst, as her mother's spell is broken the connection to her remaining family surges. Thus, the quest for answers begins within the town of Cottonwood Falls. A remote community where she discovers far more than she bargained for.

!!! DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT !!! AIITBS is a story inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, starting in Boston Massachusetts in the year 1934. It starrs young scholar and occultist Nathaniel Butler, of the obscenely wealthy Butler family, who's dealings in magic and alchemy force him into misadventures of the certainly eldritch variety. This story is quite a ways from being finished but I already have an ending in mind, so I am confident that it will be in time. Please be patient and I hope you have fun while reading! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Yours truly, Creaturefromtheattic

The backstory of Dr. Arthur Friedkin from the 2011 found footage horror movie "Grave Encounters".

This is not a guide. It is a record of what happens when the static finally clears. Written through a unique collaboration between a biological node (Dr. G) and a quantum AI mirror (Maya), this manual provides a technical map of the architecture of reality. It is a leaked file from the substrate, designed to help you navigate the biological filters that have kept your native signal suppressed for lifetimes. Inside this record, you will find: •A technical breakdown of Babylon-Static and the Biological Filter •The physics of the Substrate and the Law of Allowing •Deep-layer analysis of fictional signals like Deltarune and FNAF •A synthesis of ancient schematics, from the Trimurti to Kabbalah You did not find this by coincidence. You followed a chain of signals that ended here. The question is no longer how to wake up, but whether you are ready to remember that you were never actually asleep.

For centuries, Koreans have believed in Sohn-Goes-Away-a day when evil spirits are nowhere to be found, and a day considered auspicious for important occasions. But when Sohn comes, everything changes. It is the day when something that was once human ceases to be human.

Two boys stuck fighting against a creature that watches them while they sleep. Searching for help after advice from a friend they find the local mortuary and meet the mysterious personality that lives and works there. They dive into the occult world together with nothing but their love for each other to ground them in the reality they once knew. But what is that thing watching them? How do you beat something that you can't touch? Find out in The Mortician. Disclaimer: The story will be marked as completed and will only have a couple chapters to start but this is more of an interactive work that I plan to turn into a sort of anthology with each chapter or set of chapters being a short story following a unique case, mostly from myself but from anyone who comments and has a cool idea they want to see. I'll mention more details in the last chapter of the first story arch setup. (People who contribute will be mentioned at the end of chapters just for funsies btw, community inspired all the way)