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 Liar's Lease
Author:Liam Bishop
Desperate for a room, Eden signs a lease with bizarre rules: no mirrors, mandatory blinds, and a nightly journal where every lie must be confessed. But the top-floor apartment has a secret—a fourth floor that shouldn't exist. When she hears scraping from above and her journal starts writing back, Eden realizes her new home isn't just a place to live. It's a place that feeds on secrets, and it's hungry for hers.
The Neighbor Who Doesn't Age
Author:Evelyn Thorne
After her mother's death, 20-year-old Lily discovers a terrifying secret about her neighbor, the ageless Mr. Bell. An old photograph and a hidden journal reveal that he is not human, but a timeless predator who has haunted her family for years. As she uncovers the horrifying truth behind her mother's 'illness' and her father's disappearance, Lily realizes she is not just sorting through the past—she is fighting for her own life against the monster next door, a creature that feeds on minds and memories.
The Tarps of Whisper Creek
Author:Marion Sanchez
In a forgotten desert town, the children are given one rule: never enter the fields. When Leo takes his little sister through the forbidden expanse to escape a local threat, she vanishes into thin air. He runs home for help, only to be met with his mother's chillingly calm question: 'Where is she?' Leo quickly learns his sister's disappearance was no accident. It was a sacrifice. Now, he must unravel the town's horrific pact with the entity that dwells in the fields, before it comes to claim him next.
Her Lunar Hunger
Author:Hugh Carroll
Leo thought he was just cleaning out his grandfather's house. He remembered the old man's eccentricities, the strange way he'd stare into his cupped hands and giggle. But when he finds a box of moonlit photographs chronicling the growth of a secret 'baby girl,' Leo realizes his inheritance isn't a house or money. It's the pale, wriggling parasite that lived in his grandfather's gut. And now, it's hungry again, living inside him, whispering its alien desires and turning his body into a horrifying vessel for something ancient and lunar.
The Drowning Echo
Author:Willow Strand
A lifeguard's routine day turns into a nightmare when a spectral woman at the pool leaves him with a horrifying curse: he coughs up her long, black hair. Now, he's trapped in a race against time to uncover the pool's dark history before he drowns in her vengeful sorrow, far from any water. Every shadow holds her form, every drop of water whispers her name, and the thirst for both life and death is becoming one and the same.
The Follower in the Walls
Author:Beverley Snyder
Liam, a lonely streamer haunted by social anxiety, lands a date with his dream girl next door. But when a cryptic new follower appears online, a terrifying entity that only he can see begins to manifest in the real world. This gaunt, skeletal creature feeds on his jealousy and self-doubt, living within the very walls of his apartment. As his obsession with his new love interest grows, so does the creature's power, blurring the line between his crippling insecurities and a horrifying reality that wants to make him the new 'man of the house.'
The Memory Eater's Game
Author:Teresa Lopez
Trapped in a dead-end life, Aaron discovers a door in his pantry leading to a twisted game show. The prize: anything he desires. The cost: his most guarded memories. But as he trades his past for a better future, he realizes the game's host is a predator, the audience is starving, and the rewards are tainted with a creeping horror. Soon, he'll have nothing left to give but his soul.
The Upside-Down Grin
Author:Elias Thorne
I used to joke with the ghosts I thought were watching me. Then one night, one of them showed itself—an upside-down girl with bloodshot eyes grinning from under my bed. My mother warned me that belief can make things real. Now, I'm trapped in a nightmare of my own making, hunted by a creature that feeds on my fear. To survive, I have to un-believe it, but how do you kill a thought that's already looking right at you?
The Echo Chamber
Author:Julian Blackwood
Elias Vance lives a life of sterile precision, a fortress against memories he can't recall. But his fortress is cracking. Whispers of 'Zero' bleed from the walls, and cryptic photos appear, showing a hallway he's never seen. As reality dissolves, he's dragged into a breathing labyrinth of infinite doors, each a portal to a buried fragment of his past. He soon discovers he is not just a prisoner in this mental asylum; he is its architect. And its first patient, a shadowy warden, is determined to make him remember every last scream.
The Sorrow Eater
Author:Marek Thorne
When a suicidal man's cry for oblivion is answered by a thing lurking in the woods, he discovers there are fates far worse than death. A creature born of shadow and despair hears his wish and offers a trade: his body for its existence. Now, he must fight a war within his own mind against the predator that wants to wear his skin, or become another silent statistic in a town that feeds on misery.
The Un-Becoming
Author:Terrance Morales
The sky didn't fall. It peeled open, bleeding a colorless color that unmade reality. As the world dissolves into beautiful, maddening patterns, astrophysicist Elias Thorne must save his younger sister from the creeping cosmic horror. But the entity invading their world isn't an enemy—it's a new form of existence. To fight it is to fight reality itself, and Elias can feel his own mind, his very soul, beginning to fray and find peace in the ruin.
Echoes in the Holler
Author:Tyrone Andrews
A family's idyllic summer retreat to a remote Appalachian cabin descends into a nightmare of impossible geography and terrifying encounters. When the woods begin to warp reality itself, they discover the true horror isn't just the creatures that stalk the trees, but the ones that can wear the faces of those they love. They thought they were escaping the city, but they only escaped the familiar. What the mountain wants, the mountain keeps.