9 Websites with Scary Stories to Read Online 2022.
Maybe you’re a horror fan and can’t get enough of horror stories about monsters, serial killers, or ghosts. You’ve gone through all the horror movies online and you’ve run out of options. Why not read horror stories online?
Even if you’re a fan of horror titans like Stephen King, Clive Barker or Ann Rice, there are horror stories to be found outside of the bookstore. These can be stories written by famous authors and available as a free e-book, or stories told by little-known online writers with unique writing skills.
Below are the top 9 scary story websites you can read online right now.
9 Websites with Scary Short Stories
If you ever get in the mood for a scary story, you may not have time to run to the library or bookstore. Of course, you can download the ebook from Amazon or buy the audiobook from Audible. But why add those costs when you can use the sites below to read a scary tale for free?
1. Creepypasta
No list of sites to read creepy stories would be complete without Creepypasta at the top. This site is filled with stories submitted by readers. These include fictional stories about ghosts, ghosts, property, and more. Sometimes they are told in the first person, but rest assured that the site owners only accept fictional stories.
You can use the Creepypasta Stories menu to browse stories by category, duration, author, rating, etc. To get the best stories, use the Top Ranked or Famous Creepypasta menu items.
If you’d like to submit your own story, be sure to visit the content page (select Posts from the menu). Follow the editorial guidelines and you will be able to publish your story on the site!
2. Scary for Kids
Scary for Kids is a website that features a wide range of scary content targeted at kids. The content on the site includes scary pictures, videos, games, movies and stories.
Select “Scary Stories” from the menu to access the area of the site where all of these stories are collected. On this page, you can browse scary stories by categories such as Halloween stories, urban legends, ghost stories, and more.
Since this site is aimed at children, expect spooky stories, but nothing too gory or disturbing for younger children (or easily frightened adults).
3. The Darkest Blog
The Darkest Blog takes horror stories seriously. The site owner encourages visitors to submit their scariest stories, real or fictional. There are special categories on the menu, such as witch stories, ghost stories, “unfortunate” tales (bewitching the mind) or creepy dream stories.
The design of the site is somewhat outdated and plain, but you are not for that, are you? You are here to scare!
The stories here are very good. Here and there you may notice a grammatical error, since most of them are written by novice authors without an editor. However, this does not detract from the frightening nature of the stories themselves.
4. Oldstyle Tales Press
The focus of Oldstyle Tales Press is the publication of critical essays on all the classic horror authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and H. Lovecraft. If you are a big fan of classical literature, browsing through these critical essays is actually very interesting. However, the site also publishes The Yellow Book, a horror and ghost story magazine written by contemporary authors. You can read PDF magazines for free. Access to them can be found in the “Originals” section.
The first magazine was published in 2014 and the last in 2017. There are no new magazines, but that means you can read some of the best horror movies in four years for free!
5. Haunted Places
Hauntu is a website run by the owners of Colle Eastern Hotel in Malaysia. They are running a “real haunted house” with actors, special effects and more. Visit the blog section of the site to read many stories about haunted places around the world (not just in Malaysia!)
6. Reedsy Prompts
If the small collection of scary stories on other sites doesn’t suit you, then you’ll love the endless supply of them available at Reedsy Prompts. This website hosts a weekly writing contest where authors submit their stories to win the grand prize of $250 (or more) and be featured on the site.
Ready for the biggest collection of scary stories in the world? Select Stories from the top menu and the Horror category from the left menu. There you will find a very long list (175 pages long) of award-winning horror stories. Since these are the authors who received the main prize, you can be sure that the text will be top notch and the stories will be truly terrifying.
7. Housecreep
Housecreep is a creative way to find stories to scare yourself. These are not fictional horror stories written by some online writer. No, these are real horror stories that happened in your own backyard.
Just enter the name of your city in the search bar and you will see a list of places near you where the site has a record of a terrible crime (usually a murder) that happened there.
These are all very short stories (usually one paragraph), but the events they describe are no less horrific because they actually happened.
8. Medium Ghost Tales
You may already know that Medium has a very wide range of content written by online writers. Since there is so much posted there, it makes sense that there will be larger categories of stories. In fact, there are so many horror stories out there that Medium has created several “collections” that fit the bill.
Visit the medium collections page and you will find collections of stories about strange spiritual stories (Radical Spirits), monsters, near-death experiences, and evil (Cursed Souls). Browse through these collections to get your scary story fixed, or just use the Medium search box to find Medium scary stories outside of these collections.
9. Wattpad
Wattpad is both a mobile app and a website. This is a community of writers who actively write new stories and comment on the stories of others.
And when I say “comment”, I mean exactly that. Readers can comment on every paragraph in every article, which in itself can be a very interesting (and sometimes comical) read.
Wattpad has a whole “horror” tag where you’ll find all the horror stories posted by members. Not all of them are well written, but you can find some really good horror stories here. Look for those that are or have been featured as paid content before switching to free content.
Get Your Scary Fix
It’s not always easy for horror fans to find entertainment. There are so many horror movies and TV shows that you can stream. Eventually, you will run away. Scary stories to read online is a great alternative that can keep you at bay on long, dark, rainy nights when you’re looking for something spooky.
9 Websites with Scary Stories to Read Online 2022
9 Websites with Scary Stories to Read Online 2022