Fantasy Stories
Explore our collection of 144 amazing stories tagged with fantasy. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Keeper of the Deepwood
Author:Maeve Shadowen
A girl raised on bizarre rituals discovers her life is a lie. Her home is not a sanctuary, but the stomach of a sentient, hungry forest. When her grandmother falls, a single broken rule unleashes a nightmare, revealing that the strange superstitions were the only things keeping them off the menu. Now, she must unravel her family's dark pact with the woods before it decides to feast.
The Glitch in the Terminus
Author:Duane Chapman
A late-night dare turns into a descent into madness when two teenagers play a mysterious online ritual called "The Subway Game." One vanishes, erased from time itself. The other is thrown into a world where reality is a half-finished canvas, painted by a god-like entity of impossible geometry. Now, he's back in his own world, but it's changing, becoming the nightmare he escaped. And the Game isn't finished with him yet.
The Lucent
Author:Eleanor Abernathy
Four years ago, my neighbor's botched demon summoning banished our entire luxury apartment building into a cosmic void. We survived on magically-refilling fast food and the fragile sanity of our neighbors. We had weirdos, cults, and a janitor's closet with seven eyes. Life was predictable horror. Then, a new woman appeared in the food court. She was perfectly normal, eating her orange chicken like it was Tuesday. And in a place like this, nothing is more terrifying than normal.
Siren of the Wires
Author:June Ryan
When a reclusive deep-web diver uncovers a digital ghost story, he receives a mysterious invitation: 'The night is black without you.' To accept, he must pay a price in blood, carving a cryptic symbol into his own flesh. This ritual opens a portal not to a website, but to a terrifying dimension—a perpetual twilight festival where a siren made of light and code promises ultimate escape. But this digital paradise is a hunting ground, and the cost of admission is your soul.
The Uninvited
Author:Lysander Grey
For Elias Vance, magic was a lifelong academic obsession—until he stole a mysterious book and read a passage aloud. A simple ritual, a simple knock on his door. In his cynical disbelief, he opened it to an empty hall. But the line he missed in the book now haunts him: *It must be invited in.* Now, Elias is not alone in his apartment. A silent, watchful entity from beyond has accepted his invitation, and the silence is about to break.
The Inherited Host
Author:Ralph Montgomery
Alex felt nothing at his great-aunt's funeral, a woman he'd never even met. But the family's strange whispers and a cousin's desperate, tearful embrace were just the beginning. Back home, he's haunted by sleepwalking episodes that leave him paralyzed before his bedroom mirror, stalked by a reflection that isn't his own. Scratched onto the glass, a single word reveals the terrifying truth: Dybbuk. He is not just grieving a stranger; he has inherited her malevolent soul, and she will not rest until she has full control.
The Foxfeather Curse
Author:Silas Wren
A childhood game of pinecones and feathers was a lie. It was a ritual, a summons, and it cost him his sister. Years later, Alex is forced back to the town he fled, only to find his own daughter playing the same accursed game with a mysterious new friend named Ruth. The woods are stirring again, the golden eyes are watching from the dark, and this time, Alex won't let them take another child.
The Silence of Shasta
Author:Dan Stevens
A paranormal enthusiast's hunting trip to the legendary Mount Shasta turns into a fight for survival. He sought a legend but found a nightmare when he shot an arrow at a majestic, crimson-eyed stag. Now, the forest is silent no more, and the thing he wounded is hunting him back. It is ancient, it is intelligent, and it warned him. A warning he failed to heed.
The Arcade of Lost Souls
Author:Joy Long
Jonah, a chef haunted by the failure of his roach-infested restaurant, sees a second chance in the old Wolfgang's Dry Goods building. But the building has a history—a revolving door of failed businesses and whispers of a curse. Soon, Jonah is plagued by visions of skittering insects and mocking voices that echo his deepest insecurities. He discovers he's been 'chosen' by the building, drawn into a horrifying game where he must play for another's life in a spectral arcade hidden in the basement. To save himself, he must win. But in this game, every player eventually becomes the next ghost in the machine.
The Cogongrass King
Author:Aubrey May
Fifteen years ago, a thing made of rust and whispers stole my brother from the cogon grass. They called it a tragedy; I knew it was a monster. Now, I'm a detective, and I've returned to the village that screams my name in its silence. Another child is gone, and the scent of rust is on the wind again. This time, I'm not a terrified child running for a tree. This time, I'm hunting the thing that waits in the dark, the king of the field that wears a crown of stolen limbs.
The Silvanus Curse
Author:Tracey Mitchelle
Three toads. That's how it always begins. For Leo, a state park worker, it started as a joke—a blown cart belt after shooing away the strange trio. But when a child vanishes and mutilated animals appear, the joke curdles into terror. An old-timer speaks of a drowned town beneath the park's lake, and a vengeful guardian that demands tribute. Now, with his crewmates missing or broken, Leo is the last one left to face the ancient horror that rises from the depths, a horror whose arrival is always announced by three silent, watching toads.
The Closer He Gets
Author:Salvador Meyer
Disowned and on the brink, Silas thought his life couldn't get worse. Then he saw the man. A figure in black at the edge of his vision, always watching, always still. But every morning, he's closer. Silas tries to run, to rationalize, to medicate the terror away, but the man's patient, relentless approach is an omen. He isn't just a hallucination. He's a collector, and he's come for the one thing Silas has left to lose: his soul.