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.
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The End of the Line
Author:Carrie Moreno
When Elara dials a suicide hotline, she isn't met with a voice of comfort, but an invitation to a digital hell. A mysterious van, a network that traps broken souls, and a smiling doppelgänger on a screen reveal a nightmare she can't wake up from. Now marked by the system and haunted by a shadowy echo of herself, Elara must fight the monster that feeds on despair—a monster that has decided she is its next permanent resident. The call was a mistake. Answering was a death sentence.
The Midnight Countdown
Author:Elias Shade
Five friends, a campfire, and a ritual found online. It was supposed to be a joke. But when my nightmare of their gruesome deaths starts coming true, one by one, every seven days, I realize we didn't summon a spirit. We awoke a predator. Now I'm the last one left, racing against a ticking clock, haunted by the dream that became my reality. The entity is invisible, unstoppable, and at midnight, it's my turn. But I refuse to die like they did. I will stare into the eyes of my killer, even if I have to tear a hole between worlds to see them.
Her Echo in the Void
Author:Isobel Holland
For five years, Leo has been haunted by the day his first love, Emilia, was stolen by a silent, faceless being under an open sky. The world called it a hoax, but Leo knew the truth. Now, on the fifth anniversary, a new message appears—a poem in her handwriting, a desperate whisper from a dark, unknowable place. His annual pilgrimage of memory has become a frantic rescue mission. He will follow her echo into the void, even if it means confronting the silent things that watch from beyond.
The Silent Trail
Author:Corvus Shade
For two years, my Sunday hike was a sanctuary of perfect, predictable silence. But one day, the trail changed. The trees grew too close, the birds fell quiet, and the woods began to watch with a thousand bark-skinned eyes. I ran from the impossible, looping labyrinth, and thought I had escaped. But I was wrong. The forest followed me home, and now its suffocating silence is everywhere, waiting in every shadow, calling me back to the path where the world ends.
The Sugar-Coated Rot
Author:Jessica Bryant
Molly Tate is drowning in grief. When a mysterious presence begins leaving her gifts—nested boxes, cryptic notes, and sticky, half-eaten candies—she feels seen for the first time in months. But this sweet comfort comes at a terrible price. Her home is transforming into a saccharine prison, and her silent companion's affection is becoming something possessive, hungry, and monstrous. As the world outside fades away, Molly must confront the horrifying truth: some things are worse than being alone.
The Collector's Curse
Author:Elias Thorne
For house flipper Alex, it was just another abandoned home filled with forgotten junk. But hidden inside an antique desk, he found an obsession. A stone beetle, uncannily lifelike, that called to him. Now, it moves when he's not looking. It whispers in his dreams. It has unfolded its bladed legs in his sleeping hand, and it demands more than just a place on his shelf. It wants to burrow deep, to collect a price paid in blood and sanity.
What Happened at Storyland
Author:Evelyn Thorne
For Elara, the dream is always the same: flying over a forgotten fairytale park, a place of rot and decay where silent figures hold a candlelight vigil. When she discovers the park was real, and its closure is a sixty-year-old mystery shrouded in silence, she realizes her dreams are not just dreams. They are memories of a childhood she can't remember. And the monster that was buried at Storyland Park is waking up, calling her back to unearth a truth more horrifying than she could ever imagine.
The Memory Eater of Mountain Rim
Author:Corbin Slate
In a town where nothing changes, a mysterious movie called 'A Good Film' offers the ultimate escape—by erasing itself from your memory. Everyone thinks it's a harmless gimmick, a quirky magic trick. But when seventeen-year-old Percy refuses to forget, he peels back the silver screen to find a ravenous horror feeding on his town's placid ignorance. By choosing to remember, he becomes the sole target of the thing that crawled out of the film, and the smiling, unblinking man who wants to ensure he enjoys the final show.
The Sixth Feed
Author:Derrick Garza
Desperate for cash, Liam takes a high-paying job monitoring inmates in a secret underground facility. The only catch? A list of impossible, reality-bending rules. He soon discovers the prisoners are the least of his worries. The cameras aren't just one-way, the sixth monitor shows a feed of him, and the walls themselves whisper his name. He's not just the guard; he's the next subject in a horrific, endless loop where observation is a cage and escape means being rewritten.
The Unfinished Man
Author:Lori Henry
Struggling art student Alex finds his mundane life upended when a terrifying painting he viewed online mysteriously arrives at his door. What begins as a suspected prank morphs into a nightmare as the faceless figure in the canvas begins to change, subtly adopting his features. As the painting's sentience grows, Alex is dragged into a desperate battle against a doppelgänger that wants to trade its canvas prison for his flesh, forcing him to question where the portrait ends and he begins.
The Scent of Rot and Coffee
Author:Vicki Bell
When Leo moves into his dream apartment, he thinks he's found a new beginning. But a strange, freshly painted wall and the lingering scent of coffee hide a gruesome secret. Aided by his mysterious neighbor, Kiwi, he uncovers a horrific murder. But the victims aren't resting. They're still inside the walls, and they want out.
Always 3,417
Author:Ralph Kim
In a town where nothing ever changes, Eli discovers a horrifying truth at 3:17 AM: reality itself is a lie. Houses vanish, friends are replaced, and a hungry fog whispers his name. An ancient entity keeps the town's population at exactly 3,417, and now it knows Eli can see the seams of its world. He must unravel the town's curse before he becomes the next replacement, or worse, a willing part of the nightmare. For in Hollow's End, you don't die. You're just rewritten.