Urban Fantasy Stories
Explore our collection of 324 amazing stories tagged with urban fantasy. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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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.
The Passenger's Price
Author:Mia Green
A man haunted by his brother's disappearance is forced to play a cursed urban legend known as the 'Endless Hitchhiker Game.' He thought he was just appeasing his adventurous girlfriend, but the passenger they pick up on a desolate highway knows their deepest fears. The prize for this game isn't wealth or glory—it's a debt paid in sanity and soul, and the road to the end is paved with the ghosts of everyone you've ever failed.
The Sanguine Chorus
Author:Blaise Grimm
A bloody number is counting down on Alex's hand. Each day, it changes, and a monstrous power grows within him. He's escaped a clandestine lab, leaving a trail of death, his only thought to find the woman he loves, Cassandra. But the whispers in his blood have their own agenda, urging him toward a gruesome reunion. To save her, he must embrace the monster he's becoming, before the countdown hits zero and unleashes the Sanguine Chorus upon the world.
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 Emerald Facade
Author:Clara Howard
After a reckless one-night stand, Shai finds himself the object of a terrifying obsession. His stalker isn't just a man; it's a thing that wears people like masks. It has his ex's jealousy, his lover's face, and now it's wearing his sister's smile. As it jumps from body to body, getting closer with each new host, Shai realizes he's not just running from a stalker—he's being hunted by a love that will consume everyone he's ever known.
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 Perfumer's Revenant
Author:Sterling Thorne
A washed-up PI takes a simple stalker case for a rising Hollywood starlet. But when he hears her murdered one night, only to see her smiling on a talk show the next, he's dragged into a world of occult alchemy. He must now race against time to save a woman who is no longer herself, a living doll reborn from death by a monstrous love potion, before her soul shatters and unleashes an unspeakable horror upon the city of angels.