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$500 Halloween 50 Horror Word Story Contest 2019

Posted on September 10, 2019October 17, 2024 by Richard

Welcome to our 2019 $500 Halloween Horror 50 Word Story Contest. Yes, that’s right. It’s already here. Every year we run our contests, and those of you who have been frequent readers, this is what you’ve been waiting for.

First we will be doing a print issue! We will be doing 2 print issues, and we will pick entries from this contest to be in our issue. If you had a 50 word story designated to be in our print issue, from a past contest, please contact us.

Second, we will be giving out a $500 reward for the best 50 word horror story. This is not easy for us. Every Writer is not doing as well as it did in the past, but we want your stories. I believe writers should get paid for their work. I wish we could pay all of our writers, but it’s just impossible. So $500 for 50 words, I think is a unique and valuable statement to our readers. Ten dollars a word is what all writers really deserve.

So here are the rules:

• Story must be scary
• Story must be 50 words
• Story must be original and your own
• Story may not be published elsewhere
• Story must have a title (does NOT count in word count)
• Deadline is October 25, 2019
• Enter as many times as you want
• Story must be written in the comments below!
• Be nice or be disqualified

I love these stories. This is one of favorite traditions of Every Writer. I look forward to this every year, and this year I have extended the time we are going to spend with the contest.

The winners will:

• Be announced on October 31, 2019
• Will get $500
• Will be published in our digital and print issue.
• Will get an author page on our site

 

 

There is no entry fee for this contest. It would help us out greatly if you would donate 1$ or more, if you can, to help out the site. We would really appreciate it. A donation will not be considered in the deciding this contest.


Thank you!

If you want to keep up with me on Twitter, please follow me at @everywriter, I follow back all writers.

Good luck, and let the writing begin.

HERE IS THE WINNER

I have picked 4 stories. They all have times and days on them. If the winner does not respond by Friday 11/22/19 the money will go to the next story on the list. Here are the top 4 stories in order. ONLY OUR 1st PLACE WINNER gets the $500. Also, so this insanity never happens again, the winner will be invited back next year to be one of the judges.

WINNER 1st Place: 

Kit Steward 10/13/19 5:20 pm
THE MIDNIGHT INCUBATOR
She heard mushy sounds for days and suffered from unbearable itchiness.
A doctor’s visit revealed earwig pupae nesting in her ear canal, it was flushed out.
Later, weary from stress, she crawled into bed.
That night while she slept, the creature returned.
And finding the eggs missing, it laid more.

2nd Place: 

Elizabeth Lee 09/24/19 4:36 pm

Secondhand Doll 

She didn’t want a secondhand doll so she flung it across the room. Porcelain cracked against the wall. Her mom made her glue the pieces back together. A thin shard sliced her hand, baptizing the doll in her hateful blood. The secondhand doll decided she didn’t want an ungrateful child.

3rd Place:

Alexander Daley Escobedo 10/25/19 3:38pm

Heirloom

We Buried my brother today. Suicide. He thought something evil was haunting him. He’d been medicated, institutionalized, shocked and secluded. He found his own way out. I wish I could tell him I’m sorry. Or had listened more closely. Because, when I got home, it was on my couch. Laughing.

4th place: 

JB 10/25/19 8:12pm

TITLE: RESEVOIR 

We should have known something was wrong when we first tasted the water. It was a little brown, but no more than usual in this apartment complex.

We kept drinking it until it turned black.

When they opened the water tank, they found the bloated, rotting corpse of my neighbor.

 

We usually always contact the winners first, but after all the trouble, we are opening up the process. I am again, very sorry for how late this is. I did not expect 4000 stories. Next year I will be ready.

 

 

 

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  1. Andres Driver says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:45 am

    The darkness that surrounds the night. Gives all the little trick or treaters a fright. Little goblins and ghouls scurrying around the night. That even makes
    some adults hesitant about such a sight. Such a sight of monstrous little demons terrorizing the night. The night gets colder with every fright

  2. Rosemary C says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:45 am

    The House
    As I walked down the old, creaky stairs, I heard the door closing behind me. “There is no one else in this old, abandoned house” I thought. I walked through the door and suddenly hear a crash. I slowly turned around and I saw that something was standing behind me.

  3. Layla L. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:45 am

    HYSTERICS

    In an instant the lights vanished and shadows devoured them. Demented laughter echoed in their ears, originating from seemingly every crevice of the room. Unexpectedly, a man tumbled forward, lifeless, an anonymous object plunged into his back. More psychotic laughter. It came from everywhere, almost cacophonous, but had no source.

  4. Margot Beaver says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:45 am

    Back from the Dead
    I knew it was only a matter of time before they would all come back to life again. Bang. The sound of a gunshot went off just outside my house, a loud shriek followed. They haven’t found me yet, I reassured myself. I wondered how long I could stay hidden …

  5. Reid W. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:46 am

    “The Forest of Tears”
    As the three of us huddle around the campfire a peculiar thing happens. As the fog clears a tunnel appears across the lake. Hypnotized by the sight we see, someone, but whom? The fog slams back together with a boom. Then behind us a tall figure looming above masked by bone.

  6. Peter S. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Figure in Photo

    One night Sam was home alone on his phone Snapchatting. He notices in one of his pictures there was a dark, creepy child behind him. He turned around and saw nothing. When his family got home they found his arm sticking out of the ground twitching like a dead squirrel.

  7. Ellie M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Barking, that’s what I heard when I woke up. Scratching, snapping, snarling, what is he looking at? What time is it? It’s three AM. My flashlight shines on what I saw and want to unsee. shadows, whispers, wind, who or what’s outside the tent? It’s just trees, time to sleep.

  8. Ian P says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Trick Or Treat
    My friends and I just got back from trick or treating. One of my friends was looking threw there candy and eating some of it. While my other friends and I were counting our candy. I looked at my other friend and he was dead, all the candy was poisoned.

  9. Braydon T says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:47 am

    The Shadow

    It was a cold night for Josh he was wrapped up in blankets in his basement. Trying to get some sleep but it was no use. Then he heard loud footsteps pounding BOOM BOOM! It came around the corner, opened its mouth so wide, drool hanging GULP! Josh was gone.

  10. Joseph Quinn says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:47 am

    “Trigger”

    Coming back to reality… Putting pressure onto my life-threatening wound, frantically looking around to see the one dark cold dead eye of Janine Sullivan’s half blown off face on the ground; looking up to see what my childhood friend had done, I froze to hear a click of a trigger.

  11. Amina Sankpill says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:47 am

    The Woman in the Corridor

    I kept hearing the tapping of a woman’s heels behind me, but I live alone. Every time I turned around, it abruptly stopped. All that was in sight was the darkness of the corridor. My heart was beating hurriedly. Then suddenly, something cold touched my shoulders. She yanked me back.

  12. Andrew K says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:48 am

    Depression

    I find my self alone! Alone and terrified! I hear noises, all around me! They’re getting louder and louder and they won’t stop! Scratching, clawing, trying to get in my head! I beg them to stop; I beg them to have mercy! I hear them scream! They will not stop!

  13. Lauren M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:48 am

    Through the Woods: It is dark in the forest, not a living soul near me, besides the one that’s trying to take my life. My legs carry me as fast as they can, but I hear them, getting closer behind me every second. They’ve found me, and they won’t stop until I’m dead.

  14. Olivia, F says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:48 am

    The EVIL HOUSE
    Long ago three kids named Scarlett, Luna, And Aaron. They lived in an old house they were walking to. The kitchen then a huge crash was heard they were never seen or heard again some say the kids wander the house searching for another kid to join them forever alone.

  15. Harper Mckee says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:49 am

    Them

    It was a long narrow road tree bordering both sides. A fog-filled night with a vibrant full moon shining through the trees. There was a movement in the woods up ahead. A group of humanoid figures meandered across the road. they seemed calm but you could tell they wanted something.

  16. Levi B. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:50 am

    “Spooky Trip”
    We were staying at my grandpas lake house for a couple of days. We kept hearing weird noises since we got there. Before were all about to go to bed, we all heard a loud BANG from Sarah’s room. We went in and she screamed and the door slammed shut.

  17. Rohan Magerman says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:53 am

    Santa Is Real

    I saw him scrambling down our neighbor’s chimney.

    Next year, I’m going to ask him for one of those big playdolls that come in shiny black bags.

    Too bad the Morris twins didn’t like theirs.

    I saw men with trolleys take the two gifts away on Christmas morning.

  18. Dafanie K. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 7:54 am

    I wake up and I cannot move. I can breathe, I can feel, I can scream but my hands cannot reach. So I shut my eyes and let the seconds pass.I cannot fight their hands, their screams, their breath craving my body below me.
    I cry into unearthly vacuum.

    1. John boey says:
      October 24, 2019 at 8:11 am

      Driving Down the Field

      On a Sunday afternoon I was driving my chair down some field and I hear the scream I’m Like what was That I started to drive away soon after the monster rip me out of my chair threw me down and ran me over.

  19. Angela Cantiga says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:06 am

    LITTLE SISTER

    I slept at my friend’s house. That night, I saw her little sister staring at her. I offered to bring her to her room since her sister’s asleep.

    I told this to my friend the next day. Blood drained from her face as she replied, “I don’t have a sister.”

  20. Edwinah Namugambe says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:07 am

    The Joy of a Mafia

    We kidnapped three virgins of opposition side.
    First virgin: to be immolated and her remains to be fed to other virgins.
    Second virgin: to be gang raped till death and her head to be wrapped as a present for her mother’s birthday.
    Third virgin: to be defenestrated by her betrothed.

  21. Paolo Alfar says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:17 am

    “Gone Happy”
    Lorenzo is a magician for hire. Nobody paid attention. His parents gave him another job. But, he is passionate.

    However, due to low demand, he lost his job. He had nowhere to go.

    For his last trick, he executed his disappearing act. Only, he vanished the partygoers. He becomes happy.

  22. Parker Roehr says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:28 am

    The Doll

    It was a dark, stormy night when Nancy came home from vacation. Nancy walked in and saw an old doll sitting on their couch. She picked up the doll and looked into its eyes, they were glowing. Bright red. Then everything went blurry and dark. Nancy had become a doll.

  23. Athan says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:31 am

    the old man

    The old man says to you that he is going to kill you and that if you can get away in 1 min you can be free but if you cant you die.

    But the thing is the only way out has a maze that you need to get throw

  24. sasha says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:34 am

    “The Psychos”

    Lucy was in the woods to escape her parents because they were psycho, trying to kill her. Leaves crunched, It was a boy. She said hi to the boy, his name was Owen. He asked if I was a bad guy, I said no. I looked back, they’re chasing us…

  25. Julia Stuart says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:34 am

    It started as 6 standing in one room, then 4, 3
    3 people left and 3 people dead, what to do, what can i do
    With an empty world and 2 people standing, 1 more fallen, they know their fate
    A door opens, for the only way out is death.

  26. Valentina Miller says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:36 am

    The Yellow Thing

    It was late afternoon when Darla came to find a black cat sitting up on a fence. Darla went to go pet the cat, she found something yellow on him. She leaned towards the cat.The cat jumped up and scratched Darla’s face leaving Darla with something yellow on her.

  27. Michael Kornik says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:44 am

    *Gone, but not Forgotten*
    ———————

    Suddenly, she stopped and lifted her head. “What was that?”

    “What?” I said.

    “Shhh.” She propped herself up on her elbows, listening.
    “Oh god, it’s my husband!”

    “I thought he was dead?!”
    Alarmed, I rolled over and reached for my pants at the side of the bed.

    “He is!”

  28. Jade W says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:46 am

    Chewing gum

    I chew fervently, losing myself in the flavour. Closing my eyes I smile, savouring the sweet juices and the –
    Ew. I stop chewing and grimace.
    “The flavour’s gone… Mind if I have another?” I say, breaking off another finger. I ignore the screams and chew. “Mmm… just like chewing gum.”

  29. Jade Bailey says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:47 am

    Dark

    I come to feeling queasy. The wetness on my hands and face tells me that I succeeded. I curl the fingers of my left hand around one of the sodden orbs. Yep, that’s definitely them. Reaching out, my fingers find a jar and I place my still-warm eyes into it.

  30. Jade Taylor says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:49 am

    After work

    “Just whistle while you work”…ugh, that song is always stuck in my head. Twist left.
    I’m hungry. Twist right.
    There’s a sharp snapping sound and a muffled groan. I grin and collect my prize. “Eyeballs always feel so funny” I tell the jerking, blood-soaked body beneath me. Anyway, next one…

  31. Parker Roehr says:
    October 24, 2019 at 8:55 am

    The Lantern

    It was a cold, foggy night when Samantha saw a light shine through the fog. Then she heard a scream. She ran through the fog straight to the light where all that was left was a hat and three drops of blood. She was never heard from again. The end.

  32. Angel Stebbins says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:08 am

    “Punishment”

    She had been tried and banished to her castle to live out her days walled inside for murdering young girls. They had not found her secret dungeon. She would figure out how to get out of here, but for now she would bathe in blood, eat flesh, and stay young.

    -AS

  33. Angel Stebbins says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:10 am

    “Attack”

    I eyed him and he eyed me. I watched him lower his head in trepidation. His long neck stretched out and his yellow mouth opened with a battle cry. He charged, his webbed feet hitting the cement softly. His wings extended outward. I ran forward but the goose continued attacking.

    -AS

  34. Obika Onyinyechi Viola says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:13 am

    Nostalgia

    I do really miss home; the tall trees, the chattering birds, the magnificent river, the clean air and also the sumptuous meal of foo-foo made from the cassava harvested from the backyard farm, served with melon soup, cooked with lots of mouth-watering human flesh.

    Can’t wait to get back home.

  35. Julie Germain says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:21 am

    HOME AT LAST

    They took possession of the house on a rainy Friday night. Found a bottle of champagne and an envelope waiting inside. The house was groaning in the storm, doors creaking, windows rattling. He popped the cork while she read the card. “Congratulations,” it said, in dripping red letters. “You’re next!”

  36. Jenna Busch says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:27 am

    Did I Say That Out Loud?

    “I am not ugly,” he snarled as he passed her. Weird. She’d just been thinking that, but hadn’t said it out loud, had she? “So go pee then,” someone yelled at her. Then, “If you want to have sex with me, just ask.” Oh God, could they hear her thoughts?

  37. Obika Onyinyechi Viola says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:27 am

    Really?

    “After spending my money on this belt grinder. Now look it, the thing won’t even start,” complained Wilson. “I’ll give it one last try.”

    He tried starting it again and this time it worked but not without the belt grabbing Wilson’s shirt and making his abdomen reveal his internal organs.

  38. Ashlee Dawson says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:30 am

    He Got Her

    His strong fingers held a firm grasp around the girl’s neck. She struggled to breathe as her weak body lifted off the ground. She clawed at him in an attempt to escape. Nothing helped. He lifted her higher, his grip tightened. Her body went limp and her eyes fluttered closed.

  39. Jenna Busch says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:31 am

    The Present

    That little girl is sweet, but odd, she thought as she looked at the bouquet. The flowers were mostly dead, but she could probably save a few. She tossed them on the counter and went to get a vase. She didn’t notice the hundreds of baby spiders scurrying out.

  40. Ashlee Dawson says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Did He Get Her Too?

    She stayed perfectly still, barely breathing, trying not to make a single sound. She spotted a shadow under the door from her hiding place beneath the bed. The red-stained feet moved towards the bed. Certainly, he heard her wheezing. She expected to feel his hand grab her at any moment.

  41. Cooper Alexander says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:32 am

    I start to think to myself “is there a noise coming from my room” I start to walk upstairs and get a text saying don’t come up here I continue then he starts to walk toward me and he texts me run then I turn around and there he is.

  42. Ashlee Dawson says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:32 am

    Its Eyes.

    Remember those eyes? The ones you thought you saw behind the window pane? The one’s your parent assured you were just a figment of your imagination? They lied. They didn’t want you to know creatures like me exist. Because once you believe in me, my eyes will always follow you.

  43. Ashlee Dawson says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Don’t Leave Them Alone

    Concerts are the easiest targets. Parents always over trust security guards. Children get snacks on their own as the parents save seats. It’s not hard to pluck one unsuspecting kid from the crowd, especially if you have a pretty face, knives, and a van waiting. Just wait and I’ll show you.

  44. Ashlee Dawson says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:34 am

    Why?

    Why can I hear my heartbeat? Why is there a man standing over me? Why do I feel a weight being lifted from my chest? Why is he holding a human heart? What are those red things moving on the tray? Why can’t I breathe anymore? Why is he laughing?

  45. william pruett says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:41 am

    I saw it

    I was there, I saw the body. Clear as day, its face beaten a bloody pulp. Its arm tied down to the chair, the arms seemingly missing. I then noticed what’s left of his brownish sliver eyes on the floor. I then smile. A job well done on my part.

  46. Grace Taylor says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:42 am

    Truth or Dare

    “Truth or dare?” Kate asked.

    “Truth” I said.

    “Have you ever killed anyone?”

    “No, why would you ask that?”

    “I don’t know,” she said with a grin.

    “Truth or dare,” I asked.

    “Truth, “she said very quickly.

    “Have you ever killed anyone?”

    “I’m about to” she whispered.

    Everything went black.

  47. Laila Manley says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:44 am

    BLOOD HUSH
    Heart pounding, blood dripping, bones aching. She stopped and panted. ´´I can’t do this anymore.´´ She screamed and ran. She felt someone watching her. ´´Oh no.´´ She thought. Racing she darted under the trees and bushes and suddenly felt a gunshot miss right pass her. They are here.

  48. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:45 am

    ON THE HILL FARM

    Stomach scraping the wet yard, hungry, it slinks to the end of the clinking iron chain. The farmer knows he has caught the last one, and his wife, one arm left, claws all day and night at the cellar door, desperate to escape before it needs to be fed again.

  49. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:48 am

    SOMETHING FROM THE KITCHEN

    Turning on a bare bulb hanging on twisted wire from the sagging kitchen ceiling, he watched ghosts of cockroaches scuttling across the floor. A web, dripping mucus, stretching from wall to wall, contained a child – shrunken, wrinkled, dried, its moving eyes a furious bright red as it spat at him.

  50. william pruett says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:50 am

    The Trend

    A friend told me about this trend where you mix milk with a strange drink called “Liquid bullet” and drink it. I thought it was stupid But still, I decided to record myself doing it. Imediently after my head pounded, I looked on the bottle and it said “Rat Poison”.

  51. Benson Hollon says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:51 am

    ¨Please dont¨”I cried when I woke up handcuffed in a dungeon with a sphycopath in my face making a weird laugh this is why I shouldn’t have taken a dare from my friends’ cause now no one knows where I am and who knows what this guy is going to do

  52. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:51 am

    THE CEREMONY

    The body was rotting, stinking; and so bloated with flies it was moving. I’d never believed the rumours of end-of-life cannibalism, but what I’m pretty certain about is that ‘The Last Rites’ do not begin with: “For what we are about to receive.” Then they ordered me to eat it.

  53. Catalina Eddy says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:51 am

    Kidnapped

    Brooke’s sister McKenzie was kidnapped. Brooke fell in a sewer and found McKenzie but fire was lit around her. Brooke jumped over the fire and saved her then Brooke got hit by fire, and McKenzie had to leave, and she returned home safely, and nobody ever saw Brooke ever again.

  54. Gerri Zimmerman says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:52 am

    Exorcism

    Evil spirits can be removed by way of exorcism, or so the witch and the warlock had been told. They performed an exorcism on a werewolf on Halloween. It worked, at least they thought it did until the werewolf attacked them. There are now three werewolves in the vicinity.

  55. Cooper Alexander says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:52 am

    The Demon

    I start to hear a noise from the cornfield I send my husband to go check it out he doesn’t return so I go looking for him, when I enter I hear noises I follow it then there he is getting eaten by a demon then turned around and stared.

  56. Catalina Eddy says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:54 am

    The Creature

    I heard it coming, I didn’t know what it was going to do with me. I don’t even know what it is. I couldn’t make a sound, then the door creaked open. Something walked into the room. I couldn’t hold it in, I screamed in terror then everything went black.

  57. Catalina Eddy says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:55 am

    The Killer Doll
    We got a new house and I think it’s haunted, every night I hear my door open and say “The end is coming for you”. One night my room door opened and I hear singing coming from a doll with an eye dripping from her face. I went missing forever.

  58. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:55 am

    CONTENTMENT

    At last. After all these years of trying, she had been right – it was the one thing she’d needed to make her happy. She was completely and utterly content now, stroking her newborn baby’s head on her lap in the firelight, the rest of its body scattered around the garden.

  59. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:57 am

    PRACTICAL JOKERS

    She was born in the old house on the edge of the original cemetery. The only path leading to her home was through that ancient graveyard. But since they’d shoved her and she fell she’d been confined to her bed, and she was miserable without the laughter of the dead.

  60. Hailey Snodderly says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:57 am

    The Little Girl In The Black Dress

    As the creepy little girl with ragged hair was leading them into the old deserted house they start to hear a voice screaming “Help me!”
    A blood curdling scream comes from the upstairs of the house. As soon as the scream stops the girl turns back and everything goes black.

  61. Tim Goldstone says:
    October 24, 2019 at 9:59 am

    VACATION

    They were enjoying packing to go on holiday without the children for the first time. She smiled and said – “It’ll be nice to get away from the cat,” and her husband laughed harder than he had in years. “And the bodies,” he added grinning, and this time they both laughed.

  62. Charlie K says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:02 am

    The Tea

    The poison was in the tea. The poison was in the tea. I’m all along with a dead man on the floor, and the poison was in the tea. There is no one around in this house, but me and a dead man on the floor. What have I done.

  63. Aidan V says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:02 am

    The House
    Billy and Bob were walking down the dark road. Billy saw this interesting house and told Bob that he was going in. they agreed and went in. the house had a very weird feeling. They were walking though and they heard a noise. After that they were never seen again.

  64. Bradathon Nu says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:02 am

    NO ESCAPE

    The woman ran as fast as she could down the hallway. Behind her she could hear the sound of the saw revving up and screeching after her. She finally reached the door and thrust it open! And…then…

    She shuddered as she walked forward, back into the same exact hallway…

  65. Brendan M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:02 am

    BloodStained Blade

    One cold evening, Joringle’s engine cut like it was slit. He looked for the farm owner when he got closer lightning illuminated a figure, as he rapped upon door it was the last action he took, for there stood the glint of a reaper with dark liquid dripping from steel.

  66. Alexander Flower says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:02 am

    A house, creaking and groaning like a wooden ship. The lonesome child, huddled in a corner, while rain harassed her through the broken window. Footsteps, like the devils’ misery and loneliness, snapping twigs outside the window. The rain stops. Silence. “Hello, Darlin.” One-shot. Loud and clear. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing.

  67. ElliottD says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Bloody Murder

    he turned to find her in the doorway screaming and then a hand gripped her mouth and pulled her in. He ran into the house he caught the creature run downstairs he followed to find her decapitated and had been gutted then he felt a bloody hand grasp his mouth

  68. Caitlin C says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Spooky Story
    There I was sitting in the hospital room “POW!” The lights go off. “AHH,” someone screams. “Crack,” goes the thunder. I try to go find someone in this hospital. It was empty. All exit doors were locked. “AHH,” I scream, but then I find out it was all a dream.

  69. Sam. A says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:03 am

    As I walked into my room as I heard a screech, the door slammed behind me, the lights flickered off and everything went silent. I thought to myself what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? I felt a tap on my shoulder, and I turned around.

  70. Dylen M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:04 am

    A Night in the Hospital.
    I woke up to a fright. I woke up in the night. The night I woke up I could not see. The night I woke up there wasn’t just me. When I woke up I felt a presence. I called for the doctor right away. Instead of the doctor, decay.

  71. Gary Super says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:07 am

    My Last Night

    I’m lying in bed, in my humid room. I feel something lurking near me. I can’t sleep. I’m afraid. What beast lies behind the door, what monster crawls within the walls? It’s going to get me. I can’t escape. Demons block every entrance to tomorrow. My life will end tonight.

  72. Gary Super says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:09 am

    My Last Night

    I’m lying in bed, in my humid room. I feel something lurking near me. I can’t sleep. I’m afraid. What beast lies behind the door, what monster crawls within the walls? It’s going to get me. I can’t escape. Demons block every entrance to tomorrow. My life will end tonight.

  73. zach fritz says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:09 am

    There I was, sleeping, but then I heard an unexpected nock at the door. I slowly crept forward wondering who it could be. As I stepped closer and reached for the door I heard more nocks one after the other they began to speed up then I open the door.

  74. Aidan Sam says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:10 am

    “Thalassophobia”
    Our submarine approached the light hanging in the darkness. The closer we got the brighter it became. Something was terribly wrong. Through the murky water, I could make out hundreds of pointed teeth. The lantern flashed for a split second revealing an angler fish the size of a sperm whale.

  75. jerry ozzo says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:12 am

    JUDGEMENT
    A man approaches a gate. he has suffered much pain. Dragged into this world against his certain and untimely will, He knows where he is, shadows of the dead portray the walls, flames surround the walls and ceiling, it was like a cave, but had no end. This was suffering.

  76. Jakeer Shaik says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:12 am

    ” Scary Island ”
    “This island was replenished with skulls after the massacre of men many years ago”, reported Maya. Maya petrified when she noticed a living skeleton. She cried, “Help me”. The skeleton replied, “ Don’t worry, I will eat your flesh”. Maya agonized with pain when blood gushed out from her body.

  77. Kayen Rogers says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:13 am

    I Tried to Run Away

    I run I run. I hide I hide. I try to get away. It runs It runs. It hides It hides and tries to snatch its prey. I try to sway away. It follows me. I try to flee. It snatches me, latched to me. I tried to run away.

  78. Sal Sabil Chowdhury says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:17 am

    ~LOST & FOUND~

    Jerry’s clothes were found in the woods; shredded, covered in blood, among footprints of wolves.

    But Mother knew, her lil’ boy wasn’t dead. He’s just lost somewhere in the woods; alone, scared..

    So she started searching, until she finally found him. Howling, Jerry greeted his mother with his sharp fangs.

  79. Sarah H says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:18 am

    Pitch Black

    The darkness, it surrounded me, Then I saw it, it had a bony starved body, and the face, the face was something that would haunt me, Pitch black eyes and a mouth full of bloody sharp teeth. Then in a low growl, it said “your next, time to say goodbye”

  80. Sal Sabil Chowdhury says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:25 am

    “BLOODY MARY”

    On that stormy Halloween night, I lit a candle and stood before the broken mirror.

    “Bloody Mary…..Bloody Mary…Bloody..Mary”-thirteen times, I counted; and opened my eyes.

    There she was, on the other side of the mirror. Tall, pale and terrified.
    “Hello, Tilda! Here I am!”,
    said I.

  81. Cooper Alexander says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:31 am

    Paralyzed

    There I was Playing on my swingset but suddenly there were strangers walking toward me with a knife I would run inside but my mom there with a knife, I ran and fell in a sewer I couldn’t move I was paralyzed and there was my mom right above me.

  82. Zulqarnayan Hossain says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:36 am

    SATAN’S BARTER

    “Growing up, Granny unfolded those Satanic tales.
    I now know, how that passage from the commode
    ushers to his realm, the HELL.
    I know, how he can change my vile appearance if I
    trade my………..”
    , blood spurts over the commode as the saw in
    her hand tears apart her neck.

  83. Cooper Alexander says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:40 am

    The Possession

    I just woke up from a nap and turned the tv on and there it was a possessed girl and her army I look outside and they were all standing outside my house the house turning black I try to make a run for it but it was too late.

  84. Nick Carr says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:43 am

    A Sound of Violence

    The first time the sound crawled into Mary’s head she was six and she’d pushed Sadie out the window. Then in college… that teacher, his blood everywhere. Now, she could hear the chattering growing again; grinding, incessant. Across the table John made airplane noises, feeding cereal to little Abigail.

  85. Sal Sabil Chowdhury says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:50 am

    ***UNDER THE TABLE***

    During dinner, I rubbed my feet against Ariana’s. But she seemed expressionless. I rubbed again, no reaction.

    “Whose feet am I rubbing? Gosh! If anyone figures out that I’m banging my sister………” Looking under the table I found him; green, skinny, naked.

    “Time to go, Bastard”, his phantasmal voice uttered.

  86. Lola says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:51 am

    The Legend of the Haunted House By Lola Kernell
    One time, Bo and I went on a walk outside of Indian Hills and found a haunted house not far away from where we were walking on Halloween night and so we decided to go check it out. So, we went to the house and heard/smelled death and random………………….

  87. Brian Fairbanks says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:54 am

    If only he could reach his glasses. With his glasses, he could see what the trouble was, perhaps ascertain who had confronted him. But as his fingers crawled through the spiky grass toward the place where the spectacles fell, his blurred focus remained on the man leaning over him. The only thing Bernard could determine was that the man was grinning.

  88. Ben Tullis says:
    October 24, 2019 at 10:55 am

    “The Tent”

    I woke to the sound of scratching outside my tent, soft at first but now intense and coming from all sides.

    I’ve heard it breathing; it’s not human and it’s not an animal.

    A realization dawned on me inside the darkness.

    The tent won’t protect me from what’s outside.

  89. Ben Tullis says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:00 am

    “The ‘Imaginary’ Friend”

    Emily heard her 4-year-old daughter talking and walked into the living room.

    Lizzie stood by the chest of drawers, nodding now, not speaking.

    Emily smiled. “Who you talking to, Lizzie?”

    Lizzie looked at her and frowned. “My friend Jane. She doesn’t like you, mommy.”

    A drawer flew across the room.

  90. Ayden Beveridge-Calvin says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:00 am

    The creaking and groaning of rust on iron rang throughout the factory. Beeps in whistles screeched in pain. “ Klil eth meakr” They wailed. As she walked down the corridor she heard the scratching of sharp steel drawing near. Her breathing ended when she saw it. And then she saw no more

  91. Grace Mackay says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:02 am

    No Way Out
    I knew haunted houses were a bad idea. But they said it’s not real. I shouldn’t have gone. It’s not like a normal haunted house. I’ve been wondering for 2 hours by myself. Clowns and zombies everywhere I turn. But something’s off. They’re not pretending anymore. There’s no way out.

  92. Hannah P. says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:02 am

    “I Found You…”

    I had heard a strange noise, the sound of creaking. That’s peculiar, my house hardly ever creaked. The sound only got louder, like someone was walking straight towards my room. I was frozen as I saw my door slowly open by a tall, dark figure. “I found you..” It whispered.

  93. Anthony M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:02 am

    Halloween Night

    It was a dark Halloween night. John was trick or treating by himself. It was very quiet. No one else was around. John heard a noise behind him. He turned, and there was a tall, masked guy staring at him. There was something in his hand, pointed at John. BANG!!!

  94. Elliott Korentager says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:02 am

    “The last three” By: Elliott Korentager

    We were watching horror movies when all of a sudden his head turned toward me. In an inhuman motion, It was with my friend so I thought he was messing around. His eyes were almost red he said the last three words I heard we found you. Then he collapsed.

  95. Elizabeth G says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Friday Night I take my son to a haunted house on Friday night. He’s 14. It’s a dark, spooky feeling. The floors creak and the windows are shattered. We walk. We walk. Everything feels real. A man approaches. We run. We run. My son disappeared, who took him. It is too late.

  96. Beck Jones says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    THE BEAST ON EAST LOCKET STREET

    When the kids were outside playing in the street, they understood nothing. Maybe that was why it was so easy to take them. It looked around. It saw. These ones were older. But maybe that put them in even more danger. It’s in his imagination, he thinks. He is wrong.

  97. Charlie Carroll says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Not Alone

    On holidays at the hospital, I have to close up alone. I was cleaning on the bottom floor and the final room to clean up was the morgue. I noticed one of the freezer doors was open. I thought nothing of it until I heard a voice whisper my name.

  98. Tony M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Steve and his dog Gregory were walking in a spooky forest at night they could hear the sounds of mobs all around them, they could see red eyes glowing in the darkness staring right back at them. They could hear a noise getting closer, sssss…..ssssssss…..ssssssss…..ssssssss…..BOOM!

  99. Veronica M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Nightmare
    “NO! DON’T!” I screamed.
    I woke up sweaty in bed tossing and turning. I had a nightmare of my mom murdering my dad. It seemed so real. My mom came running into my room panting, holding a gun. She held it up to my head, her hand on the trigger.

  100. Jake M says:
    October 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    The Intruder

    Mr. Jacobs sat in bed waiting for his wife downstairs. He heard a loud bang and a scream he wasn’t sure what it was, so he stayed in bed. Then he heard a thump, thump, thump coming from the stairs, he hid under the covers waiting, then it stopped. BANG!!!

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