Slow Burn Stories
Explore our collection of 364 amazing stories tagged with slow burn. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
The Stone That Crawls
Author:Merrick Thorne
Liam thought it was just an old curio, a stone scarab found in a derelict house. But the stone is hungry. It teleports into his hand, no matter how he tries to discard it. Now, pieces of it are appearing from inside his own body. As he coughs up its jagged legs and feels it gestating within him, Liam must unravel the mystery of the previous owner's disappearance before he is consumed from the inside out by the stone that crawls.
The Hollow Brood
Author:Vance Eidolon
My best friends saved me from the brink, pulling me from a deep depression with a night of poker and beer. But when I found a rotting corpse stuffed under my friend's bathroom sink, I thought I was trapped with a killer. The truth was so much worse. The body was his. The man I called my friend was just an echo. And the most terrifying part? The monster staring back at me from the mirror... was me.
The Silence Listener
Author:Brittany Peck
Liam was desperate enough to take any job. The ad was simple: Night Monitor. No experience. No questions. The rule was simpler: If you hear the knock, hit the kill switch. But curiosity is a powerful poison. When a voice whispers from the static—his own voice—begging to be let out, Liam discovers that he's not just monitoring a signal. He's the gatekeeper to a prison. And the prisoner knows his name.
The Can Man of Elderwood Manor
Author:Juan Davis
A drunken dare sends four college students to an abandoned mansion, a place from Leo's half-forgotten childhood. He remembers a creepy but harmless squatter who built nests from trash and empty bean cans. But the truth buried in his memory is far more monstrous. The thing in the house remembers him, and after a night of terror, it follows him back. Now, the scent of rot and moldy beans clings to him, a promise of the slow, creeping horror that has been waiting decades to finish what it started.
The Eighth Day's Hunger
Author:Bernice Morris
When Howard moves to the sleepy town of Forsyth, he finds a new best friend and a church with a monstrous secret. The locals believe God created behemoths on the eighth day, but as his classmates start to vanish, Howard learns that the town's god is always hungry. He came for a fresh start, but soon finds himself caught in a decades-old tradition of sacrifice, where the only way out is to become the next offering.
The Rabbit's Debt
Author:Morgan Crypt
My obsession began with a pair of shoes, black sneakers with little white rabbits on the heels. I got the first pair for a kiss, and the owner was never seen again. Years later, I see them again on a stranger in a club, a figure they call Rabbit. To get close, I'll follow them into the city's hidden underbelly, a world of secret raves governed by impossible rules and brutal games. But in this world, every truth has a price paid in flesh and blood, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm the hunter... or the hunted.
The Caller in the Static
Author:Lloyd Pierce
For Liam, it was just a tacky old phone, a relic from his grandmother's demolished house. An orange plastic eyesore nailed to the kitchen wall, completely unplugged. But then it started ringing. At first, it was a strange family joke. Then Liam answered, and he heard the whispers—faint, childlike murmurs no one else could hear. Now, the calls are becoming more frequent, the whispers more insistent, and the voice on the other end knows his name. The thing that haunted his childhood home has followed him, and it's using this dead line to reach out and drag him back into the darkness.
The Echoing Stall
Author:Silas Murmur
A quick trip to the cinema restroom turns into a descent into madness. Trapped in an infinite labyrinth of sterile white tiles, Alex must survive on what crawls in the dark. But this prison has rules, and its only other occupant is a chilling echo of his own future. To escape, he must become the very monster that trapped him, caught in a cycle of horror where the only way out is to begin again.
The Midnight Line
Author:Herminia Barnett
Night shift subway controller Leo discovers a ghost train that appears every night at 3:13 AM. At first, it's just a glitch. Then he sees it on camera—an empty, decommissioned relic from a bygone era. When a passenger from a 1974 vanishing steps off the train and into a solid wall, Leo realizes he's not just watching a haunting, he's the next stop on its route. The system he controls is turning against him, and the train is coming to collect.
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 Coward's Crucifix
Author:Silas Thorne
For twenty years, Thomas has lived a lie, haunted by the night he abandoned his mentor to a vampire's fangs. He built a family on a foundation of fear and secrets. But the past doesn't stay buried. Now, the monster has found him, stalking his children from the shadows. With nowhere left to run, the coward must finally pick up the stake and crucifix he dropped long ago and confront the ancient evil he unleashed, or watch his world burn.
The Silence of 4:42
Author:Silas Cadence
A broke musician sings a single note for a fortune, only to unleash a daily cosmic horror that shatters reality and kills those he loves. Now, haunted by a deadly echo that reverberates at 4:42 PM every day, he must return to the source of the nightmare to reclaim his sanity, or watch the world fracture around him.