Small Town Stories
Explore our collection of 131 amazing stories tagged with small town. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Jester's Path
Author:Stacy Lawson
When her car dies after a late shift, waitress Lisa Miller takes a familiar shortcut through the woods. But she’s not alone. A chilling laugh echoes between the trees, and a shadowy figure gives chase. Safe in her home, the nightmare has just begun. The thing from the forest is at her door, calling itself her lover, and it wants to come inside. She thought it was a stranger, but the truth is far more terrifying: it's a monster she created, twisted by an obsession she never saw coming, and wearing a smile she'll never forget.
The Hogeye Tapes
Author:Edna Mills
A combat veteran's therapy journal was supposed to heal his PTSD. Instead, it unearthed a memory more terrifying than war: an abandoned trailer in a forgotten Texas town where a family was slaughtered. As Jordan Daniels writes about the dare he took as a child, the horrors of the 'Esther House' bleed into his present. The phantom knocks he heard beneath the floorboards have returned, echoing in his quiet apartment. Now, he must return to Hogeye to confront the thing that has been waiting for him for twenty years—the thing that took his friend and now wants to finish the story.
The Ashfield Anomaly
Author:Herminia Hansen
Recruited for a high-paying security gig in a secret town, ex-guard Chris Chambers thought he'd hit the jackpot. But Ashfield isn't just an experiment; it's a cage where reality itself is the variable. When the morning headcount reveals an impossible new resident, Chris realizes his job isn't to keep people in—it's to survive whatever is getting in with them. The walls are high, the cameras are always watching, and the most important rule is the one he can't understand: Remember their faces.
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 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 Unseen Passenger
Author:Hugh Brown
A mother's quest for the perfect family photo becomes a nightmare when an extra, ghostly hand appears in the pictures. What begins as a digital anomaly soon bleeds into reality, as the unseen entity latches onto her family. With each passing night, its touch grows bolder, its presence more malevolent. It wants more than to be in the picture; it wants to be in their lives, forever.
The Special Blend
Author:Jonas Blackwood
In a small town obsessed with the local McDonald's, 18-year-old Leo takes a job to support his ailing mother. But his simple desire for a paycheck plunges him into a nightmare lurking beneath the Golden Arches. A forbidden basement, a missing employee, and a horrifying secret about the restaurant's famous burgers reveal a monstrous truth: the town's happiness is paid for in blood and souls. Leo must uncover the pact that binds his town to the darkness before he becomes the next secret ingredient in The Special Blend.
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 Awakening of Steinwald
Author:Daryl Gomez
A freelance translator, Maxwell, takes a high-paying job in the isolated Alpine village of Steinwald, thinking it's his lucky break. But on his first night, he's dragged into a chilling local ritual to 'awaken' a corpse. The rite works too well. Now marked by the dead man's touch and trapped by a sudden blizzard, Maxwell must decipher the town's murderous secrets hidden in ancient texts before the vengeful spirit claims him as its voice, and the sinister villagers silence him forever.
The Locker That Hungers
Author:Corvus Thorne
A forgotten locker with no number holds a town's darkest secret. When newcomer Alex befriends the haunted Jason, he learns the locker is more than a legend—it's a gateway. A year ago, it claimed Jason's sister. Now, the two boys have made a pact to sneak back into the old gym and expose the truth. But the locker is always hungry, and the man who tends to it is waiting for them.