Scary Short Stories for Adults and Teens

1.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,512 ratings
2.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 4.02 avg rating — 650,447 ratings
3.
Legends of the Mountain State 3
Legends of the Mountain State 3 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror 4.25 avg rating — 24,674 ratings
5.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,332 ratings
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 81,913 ratings
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Sredni Vashtar
Sredni Vashtar
by: Saki
3.87 avg rating — 868 ratings
8.
Wake Me Up Inside (Paige Maddison, #1)
Wake Me Up Inside (Paige Maddison, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Tears of Abandon
Tears of Abandon 4.21 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Uncanny Stout: A Dark Fortifying Collection of Macabre Stories
Uncanny Stout: A Dark Fortifying Collection of Macabre Stories 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying
Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
12.
Ghost Lite
Ghost Lite 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Boy Who Spoke Mosquito
The Boy Who Spoke Mosquito 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Carmilla
Carmilla 3.87 avg rating — 167,021 ratings
15.
Tales From Kensington & Other Macabre and Unsettling Offerings
Tales From Kensington & Other Macabre and Unsettling Offerings 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
16.
Beast Within 2: Predator & Prey
Beast Within 2: Predator & Prey 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
16.
Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed
Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fell Beasts
Fell Beasts 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Tales of the Undead - Suffer Eternal
Tales of the Undead - Suffer Eternal 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Fright Feast I
Fright Feast I 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Zombies Don't Read: 5 FREE YA Stories of the Living Dead
Zombies Don't Read: 5 FREE YA Stories of the Living Dead 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Fright Feast II
Fright Feast II 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Tales of the Undead: Hell Whore
Tales of the Undead: Hell Whore 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Summer People
The Summer People 3.81 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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The Interlopers
The Interlopers
by: Saki
3.64 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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The Monkey's Paw
The Monkey's Paw 3.84 avg rating — 17,009 ratings
27.
The Lottery
The Lottery 4.04 avg rating — 104,246 ratings
28.
The Damned Thing
The Damned Thing 3.53 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
29.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 641,500 ratings
30.
Hannibal House
Hannibal House 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Phase One: Identify (Territory of the Dead, #1)
Phase One: Identify (Territory of the Dead, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 139 ratings
30.
To Read or Not to Read
To Read or Not to Read 3.84 avg rating — 447 ratings
30.
The Needles Highway
The Needles Highway 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
30.
A Dish Best Served
A Dish Best Served 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Number of the House is 13: A Short Ghost Story
The Number of the House is 13: A Short Ghost Story 3.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Zombies from the Pulps!: Twenty Classic Stories of the Walking Dead
Zombies from the Pulps!: Twenty Classic Stories of the Walking Dead 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Black Rose And Other Scary Stories That Really Happened To Me!
The Black Rose And Other Scary Stories That Really Happened To Me! 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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GhostiLeaks
GhostiLeaks 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
30.
Wendy Won't Go
Wendy Won't Go 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Fairy of Teeth
Fairy of Teeth 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Something with Blood in the Title
Something with Blood in the Title liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Tobias: a short story
Tobias: a short story 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Origins of Evil (At Hell's Gates #2)
Origins of Evil (At Hell's Gates #2) 4.33 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Speak of the Devil: 17 Diabolic Tales
Speak of the Devil: 17 Diabolic Tales 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Goldfields
Goldfields 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Ocular: Monster in the Mirror
Ocular: Monster in the Mirror 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Did You Forget About Me?
Did You Forget About Me? 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings
30.
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys 3.87 avg rating — 9,358 ratings
30.
The Shapes of Midnight
The Shapes of Midnight 4.07 avg rating — 164 ratings
30.
Frightening Fables
Frightening Fables 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Felix Boni and the Reanimation of Craig Rotter
Felix Boni and the Reanimation of Craig Rotter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
30.
A Tearful Dozen
A Tearful Dozen 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
30.
Echoes in an empty room and other tales of the supernatural
Echoes in an empty room and other tales of the supernatural really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
30.
Insomnia
Insomnia 4.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight 3.85 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
30.
The Voice in the Night
The Voice in the Night 3.87 avg rating — 689 ratings
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Disco Inferno: Short Story
Disco Inferno: Short Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
58.
Limbo, Population 458
Limbo, Population 458 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
58.
Don Whitman's Masterpiece
Don Whitman's Masterpiece 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
58.
Fat Zombie: Stories of Unlikely Survivors from the Apocalypse
Fat Zombie: Stories of Unlikely Survivors from the Apocalypse 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
58.
Fiends and Creatures
Fiends and Creatures 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
58.
Destiny's Gate (Paige Maddison #2)
Destiny's Gate (Paige Maddison #2) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
58.
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston 3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings
58.
The Trade
The Trade 3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings
58.
Nine Horrors and a Dream
Nine Horrors and a Dream 4.06 avg rating — 143 ratings
58.
Not After Nightfall
Not After Nightfall liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
67.
The Dragon of Delinar
The Dragon of Delinar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
67.
Iris
Iris 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
67.
At Hell's Gates
At Hell's Gates 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
67.
Strangely Enough
Strangely Enough 4.01 avg rating — 250 ratings
67.
Nightmare Gardon: Come into My Cellar; The Fangs of the Trees; Seedstock; The Vine; The Blood Flower; Strange Harvest; The Plant Thing; Step into My Garden; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; Rappaccini's Daughter
Nightmare Gardon: Come into My Cellar; The Fangs of the Trees; Seedstock; The Vine; The Blood Flower; Strange Harvest; The Plant Thing; Step into My Garden; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; Rappaccini's Daughter 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Supermassive Black Mass
Supermassive Black Mass 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
67.
We're Coming for You, Jonathan
We're Coming for You, Jonathan 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Everyman
Everyman 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 4.25 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
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The Daylight Gate
The Daylight Gate 3.41 avg rating — 6,682 ratings
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Desolate: An Embers Short Story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 5)
Desolate: An Embers Short Story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 5) 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Sleep Well
Sleep Well really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
79.
Don't Open This Book
Don't Open This Book 3.85 avg rating — 192 ratings
79.
Affinity
Affinity 3.75 avg rating — 28,187 ratings
79.
Apples & Snail Trails
Apples & Snail Trails 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Noise in the Night
Noise in the Night liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Spooks, Spooks, Spooks: Stories and Poems of the Supernatural
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks: Stories and Poems of the Supernatural 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
83.
Kindermalke
Kindermalke 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
83.
Heart Of Stone
Heart Of Stone 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
83.
A Ghostly Gathering
A Ghostly Gathering 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
87.
Deals with the Devil
Deals with the Devil 3.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
87.
Infected (Infected, #1)
Infected (Infected, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 22,528 ratings
87.
The Realtor: An Eidolon Avenue short story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 6)
The Realtor: An Eidolon Avenue short story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 6) 3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
87.
The Werewolf Mask
The Werewolf Mask 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
91.
Deals With The Devil
Deals With The Devil 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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In the House of the Dead: A Ghost Club Short Story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 1)
In the House of the Dead: A Ghost Club Short Story (Crystal Lake Shorts Book 1) 4.02 avg rating — 90 ratings
91.
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings 3.89 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Dark Side
The Dark Side 3.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
94.
The Camp Creeper & Other Stories
The Camp Creeper & Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
94.
The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories 3.77 avg rating — 57 ratings
97.
The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections
The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
97.
The Plague
The Plague 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares
The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Stories Of The Supernatural
Stories Of The Supernatural 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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