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 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 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.
Tenebrous Flow
Author:Jim Alvarez
In the oppressive summer heat, Alex Mercer's only escape is the cold rush of his shower. But when a phantom touch in the cascading water turns into a predatory caress, he discovers something ancient and intelligent living in the pipes. His desperate flight from his haunted apartment only leads to a more terrifying truth: the thing in the drain isn't bound to the building. It's bound to him, and it will follow him through any water, anywhere.
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.
The Arcade of Lost Souls
Author:Joy Long
Jonah, a chef haunted by the failure of his roach-infested restaurant, sees a second chance in the old Wolfgang's Dry Goods building. But the building has a history—a revolving door of failed businesses and whispers of a curse. Soon, Jonah is plagued by visions of skittering insects and mocking voices that echo his deepest insecurities. He discovers he's been 'chosen' by the building, drawn into a horrifying game where he must play for another's life in a spectral arcade hidden in the basement. To save himself, he must win. But in this game, every player eventually becomes the next ghost in the machine.
The 10 PM Tenant
Author:Rhonda Ryan
Desperate to escape her family, Clarice rents a room from a man whose life runs like clockwork. His unnerving precision soon bleeds into obsession as he begins watching her sleep. After a terrifying escape, she thinks she’s safe. But two years later, a new man enters her life, and at 10 p.m. sharp, a familiar, chilling whisper comes from outside her bedroom door. The monster has found her again, and this time, it won’t let her go.
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 Girl in the Glass
Author:Warren Reid
Since she was nine, Elara has been haunted by a girl who wears her face—a rotting, broken version of herself that crawls from mirrors and lurks in the dark. It whispers to her in sleep-paralysis-induced nightmares, leaving real bruises and a single, chilling demand: "Follow me." After years of failed exorcisms and therapies, a fragile peace is found in the arms of her husband. But the girl has returned, no longer screaming, but smiling. She’s waiting for Elara to finally break, to get tired of fighting, and to take her cold, dead hand.
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.
The Glimmer in the Smog
Author:Mattie Wheeler
In the sun-bleached jungle of Los Angeles, private investigator Jack Thorne sees the monsters hiding in plain sight. His curse, a second sight he calls 'The Glimmer,' reveals the parasitic entities masquerading as Hollywood's elite. When rising star Seraphina Vance hires him to stop a stalker, Jack sees the truth: her adoring fan isn't human, and he isn't just watching. He's wrapping her in a web of sickly-sweet magic, a love so perfect it kills her every night, only for her to wake up smiling for the cameras the next morning.
The Caretaker of Nowhere
Author:Rene Murray
Stranded in the desert, Zach is 'rescued' and brought to a town that doesn't exist. An isolated apartment building called The Complex offers shelter, but its residents are... wrong. A mysterious landlord offers him a job and a new life, but the price is silence, obedience, and a small metal shard he pulls from Zach's neck. Now, as the new maintenance man, Zach must fix more than just leaky pipes. He must survive the horrors that dwell within the walls, or become just another permanent resident of nowhere.