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 Echoes of Ashworth Park
Author:Joel Vasquez
Six friends sought a night of illicit fun in an abandoned WWII munitions park. But when a storm drove them into a forgotten bunker, they weren't alone. Awoken by the screech of metal and the soft patter of wet, bare feet in the pitch-black darkness above, they learn some secrets are buried for a reason. Now, what they disturbed is following them home, leaving muddy footprints on their doorsteps and whispers in the static of their phones. They have to go back. They have to know what walks barefoot in Ashworth Park.
The Echo in the Static
Author:Morgan Vance
Ash thought the worst part of managing a rundown arcade was the sticky floors and screaming kids. He was wrong. An old shadow called Frank stalks the laser tag arena, and a little girl's voice mimics his coworkers to lure him into the dark. But the ghosts of 'The Pit' are just an appetizer. Ash carries his own demon, a consequence of a teenage mistake, and it's using the arcade's dark energy to grow stronger. Now, the haunting is bleeding into the real world, following his friends home and whispering his name in his own voice. He can quit his job, but he can't outrun the echo in the static.
The Keeper of Blackwood Hollow
Author:Grimshaw Locke
For fourteen years, Leo has followed two simple rules as a cemetery night guard: lock the gates, and never, ever speak to the things trapped inside. The thousand-dollar-a-night paycheck is worth the terror. But when a new recruit with a dark past arrives and the entities change their tactics from trickery to brute force, Leo discovers the cemetery isn't just a graveyard—it's a prison. And he's not a guard; he's a warden on the brink of a jailbreak that could unleash hell on earth. The silence he's kept for so long might be the one thing he has to break to survive.
The Host of Risk and Reward
Author:Arthur Fletcher
Lonely and desperate, Aaron stumbles upon a mysterious game show in his pantry that promises lavish prizes. But each reward comes at a horrifying price. Poisoned, manipulated, and supernaturally altered by the charismatic Host, Aaron is trapped in a deadly game where the risks are his sanity and soul. When the show begins to target the only family he has left, Aaron must play not just to survive, but to unmask the eldritch evil behind the relentless smile and the booming applause.
The Atheneum of Flesh
Author:Lucille Wells
Leo, a desperate night guard, takes a job at a museum where the art is disturbingly alive. The sculptures are not stone, but flesh, and they watch him with hungry eyes. The curator's only warning: 'Don't let them look at you for too long.' Now, trapped in shifting corridors and hunted by living nightmares, Leo discovers the museum's final exhibit: a perfect, breathing replica of himself. The collection is growing, and he is the next masterpiece.
The Oily Sea of Waking
Author:Silas Vance
For Elias, dreams were a nightly escape to other worlds. But one dream refuses to end. Trapped on a rickety boat on an endless black ocean, he is ferried by a faceless monster towards a desolate shore he may never leave. Every time he 'wakes up,' he finds more of the dream bleeding into his reality. The oily water stains his skin, the smell of brine haunts his apartment, and the creature's labored breathing echoes in his waking moments. He is no longer dreaming; he is being transported.
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 Black Hollow Anomaly
Author:Clayton King
Desperate for money, Mason takes a high-paying job as a night operator at a remote arctic station. But his salvation comes with a list of bizarre, non-negotiable rules. Don't move when the lights flicker. Never look away from the man on Camera 6. Ignore the whispers from the vents. These are not suggestions; they are rituals holding back a reality that crawls in the dark. As the rules begin to activate one by one, Mason realizes he's not just a watcher. He's bait.
The Decompression Chamber
Author:Julian Frame
One day, you lose your job. The next, a mysterious corporation offers you a new one. No interview, just a sterile white room and a single computer. Your only task? You don't know. But the 'Employee of the Month' photo is you, from the future. A video left by your predecessor—who is also you—warns you that your family isn't real. And the man slumped over in the next file is what happens when you fail. Welcome to the job. Don't look in the mirror.
The Cauterized Sky
Author:Franklin Lucas
For three generations, Jebediah Stone's family has read the language of their Texas ranch. But when the world falls unnaturally silent, a new language is written across his land in scorched flesh and impossible geometry. A silent, triangular craft hunts in his pastures, and men in black sedans patrol his fences. Caught between a cosmic horror that doesn't bleed and a conspiracy that wants him buried, Jeb must unravel the terrifying truth before his entire world is harvested.
The Spiral Legacy
Author:Vance Eldridge
He thought it was a gruesome suicide. His grandmother, dead on her floor, her face carved with bizarre spirals. But when he uncovers her fifty-year-old secret—a demonic entity summoned in a forest fire—he realizes her death wasn't an end. It was a warning. Now, the creature that haunted her has a new target, and the spirals are starting to appear in his own life.
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.