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Your best scary stories have been piling up so I decided to make it easier and faster for you and your friends to upload new scary short stories along with a picture.

If you do a real fine job writing a scary story and find a picture that complements the story's idea or mood, then I'll be happy to publish it and... give it its own web page on my site.

I have spent a lot of time editing stories that are rush jobs and poor efforts. In general, there have been some excellent submissions from kids that really can write, but others are simply not deserving of a web page, and I will be doing some clean up. I require that the pronoun 'i', meaning you, and the first letters of a new sentence, and proper names, be capitalized. A space follows a period, and be sure to check your spelling and grammar. Also, please review the term plagiarism. These are supposed to be your original works.

In addition, I am happy to see comments coming in from friends and family, but unless they use the rating system honestly, having reviewed other stories besides your own, the really good stories won't bubble to the top. If you are always judged the best, you will not improve.

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So get busy, but the story has to be good. Have a look around, plan and write your story, then come back here when you are ready.

Your spooky stories deserve their own web pages and you can get that job done right here.

You can upload your best work fast and, if it meets our simple quality standards, it will get its own web page so your friends and family can comment and vote on it, often the very same day.

Make it your best work... it could be on display. And when commenting on other stories, if you don't like a certain one, please be constructive, and leave the rude language behind.

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Terror In the Woods 
Christie, Nina, and Rachel were taking a hike through the woods on a cloudy, windy Saturday. They thought that it was just going to be an average hike,...

Sister in the mirror 
I was sitting alone in the sitting room, it was great. The show went on and I watched quietly, my mum was at home and only had 10 minutes before her night ...

Camping trip 
"Denise" called her mother. Come here and help us unpack the car. Denise and her family decided to go on a camping trip. They were all having fun except ...

The Horror Behind Mayonnaise 
Let me tell you about a girl named Sonia, she loved mayonnaise. Sonia would put mayonnaise on everything. She loved mayonnaise so much, that she would ...

The Cornfield 
One day there were these two boys named Mark and Andy. They were the best of friends. They live in Kansas where the cornfields grow. They would tell each ...

Revenge 
Jenny was a cheerleader. She could do flips, jumps and execute the most daring tricks. During a practice routine she heard horns and sirens. When she realised ...

Skinned alive 
There was this girl named Lizzie. She was 15 years old and she had been talking in a chat room to a guy she thought was 16 but was really 37. Lizzie had ...

Hide And Go Seek 
It was the beginning of March Break and I was ready to enjoy it. I had no school and I was free to do anything I wanted. Living with me, were these kids ...

You better run 
"You better run" yelled the mother. "No... please", cried the little boy. Blood pouring down his face. No sounds except the footsteps of the little boy ...

Asthma Attacks And Kills 
Lucy was a very kind girl. She was sweet, smart, had many friends, and asthma. One day, her best friend, Prudence, decided to throw a slumber party inviting ...

A Scream of a Night 
It is when I am sitting in my room all alone, as the clock strikes midnight, that I remember when my two friends were killed, in this very house. It was ...

Bone Dry Killer 
In an old town of California, a young women had a party with all of her friends. She had long brown hair and bright, brown eyes, but she was very poor,...

The Hanging Closet  
On night the older sister of two thought that something was out of hand so she got up and went and slept with her sister for the rest of the night.

At ...

Static 
One day, Jack went to a garage sale in his neighborhood. He loved going to garage sales because he always found something interesting. He walked up to ...

Guilt 
Okay, let's get this straight, I didn't kill her. Though many people were there and many people saw me standing next to her, I didn't push her off the ...

The scary house 
Years ago, Mom,Dad and I moved into an old house. The house was bigger than we needed so we used the extra room for storage.

It was late fall of that ...

The Haunted Corn Maze 
One late afternoon, in the ghost town of Birmingham, Alabama, a girl named Mallori Anne, went to the haunted corn maze for her friend’s birthday. It’s ...

Nightmares, dreams and sleepwalking 
Nightmares and Dreams, they're not so different. When you think about it, it's the same rules. Whether it is nightmare or a dream, it's a reflection of ...

This Old House 
Years ago,Mom,Dad and I moved in an old house.The house was bigger than needed so we used the extra room for storage.

It was late fall of the year....

The Statue 
As the babysitter watched the parents pulled out of the driveway she turned around to see the children. They then went into the living room to watch a ...

Bloody Barbie 
One day, in Arizona, a little girl played with her Barbie doll. The girl was poor and lived with her widowed mother. The little girl had very few toys....

Never sleep in the lower bunk 
There were once two sisters named Ella and Katie. Katie was the eldest, and this was a privilege in many arguments. When it came to buying a bunk bed, Katie ...

The House 
Today, I woke up in the middle of a large living room. My throat was dry, and it felt like I hadn't been awake in days. I coughed a few times, and when ...

Would you play with me 
I was walking down the street when I heard someone say "would you play with me". I looked over and saw no one standing there. "That was weird" I said. My ...

The man in chains. 
There was a prison bus going down a road and it broke down, however there was a crazy guy on the bus and he killed the bus driver and got his knife. Well,...

Cry for the dead 
I once had a really great friend named Jolie. She was really funny, and she loved to tell horror stories.

One night, when I was at her house for a ...

Hidden 
Once a couple needed a day off from parenting their two children, so they went out to dinner with some friends an hour away from their house. Since they ...

You can run but you can't stay alive 
As I kept running from the woods I was getting even more tired but I can't stop. Something is after me but what could it be. "Don't stop, keep running"...

Disc of Secrets 
Tim walked down the abandoned road and stared at the ground. Then, he saw something buried in the dirt. It was a shiny disc like a DVD or a CD. It looked ...

The china doll 
A young girl had three china dolls they were named Charlotte, Daisy and Sarah. Her least favorite one was Charlotte. She was the largest one of all and ...

The Red Ribbon 
She was as elusive the night, mysterious, yet appealing. Her dark hair contrasted with her skin, translucent, almost as if she had no blood. People thought ...

The Oakwood Tragedy 
1972. A year that is now remembered for the shocking events that occurred. In the small town of Oakwood which had a population of 537 people, not much ...

Last Christmas 
Christmas about a year ago my mom, my brother, my dad, and my sister, and I were sitting by the fire place with our hot cocoa, so of course we didn't notice ...

Haunted office? 
"im leaving now Jant"
"okay see you tommorow Quisa" replies Janti
"i dont want you all bye your self in this scary office at night. arent you leaving ...

Freedom at last 
Ten years ago in the small town of Modena, two gorgeous girls were born. They were christened Jane and Laura McCorby. But Jane and Laura were never seen ...

The dark train 
There once was a lady that just had her first baby and one day she decided that she didn't want it anymore. One day she was traveling to her mother's house ...

The gun 
"Mom I want that toy!" My eight year old brother pulled my mother's sleeve and pointed to a toy gun with rubber bullets. My mother bought it for him.

At ...

The Accident 
So get this. There’s this guy, Jonathan, and my best friend Sofia who will just die if she doesn’t get a date with him. I want to help her, but I just ...

Welcome to the haunted house 
There are always rumors going here in center park, but the most heard rumor is the one of the haunted house down on center hill. My name is Zack Matthews ...

Mental Charlie 
A long time ago there lived a man named Charlie. He always wore his favorite green rugged sweater. He was a mentally unstable man who lived with his wife,...

Check the kids 
One night there was a babysitter at the Millers' and her name was Alli. She was upstairs for a while but then went down and watched TV. Then she got a ...

Writer's Revenge 
"You're fired! You can't write at all! You are absolutely the worst writer I have ever seen!" shouted the man behind the desk. "Your stories aren't even ...

The Day Came 
A young girl about the age of 7 was walking to her grandma's house on her own. Her grandma's house was about 20 minutes away and she had to walk through ...

Mysterious Woman 
One late, stormy night a man was driving through the rain. He found a house... he knocked and out came an old lady. He asked if she rented rooms. She said ...

The Follower 
A woman living in the city was visiting some friends in a far away town. When she got into her car in front of this friend’s house, she noticed that a ...

The Ghost of the Rising Sun 
There once was a little girl with big brown eyes and a freckled face that was covered by long, curly, and somewhat messy hair. She wore glasses and didn’...

Ouji Board 
One night my friends and I decided to have a sleep over and play the ouji board .. the mere thought of it scared me, for my mother warned me that only ...

Clovis  
One night i was sleeping .. and my parents room is right across from mine, so i tell them to sleep with their door open cause i get scared and i am freaking ...

Trick or Treat? 
It just started to rain as we got in from school.
"Are we still going out tonight Trick or Treating, I need some money to go out this Saturday", I said ...

Tap,Tap,Tap 
One night a young couple was driving home from a party. They didn’t feel like heading straight home so the boyfriend said “Let’s go for a drive.” His girlfriend ...

Dark Night 
It was a dark night. Frost was beginning to settle on the cold concrete ground, as small clear snowflakes dripped from the sky. The trees lingered covering ...

The Night of Death 
These two brothers were walking home from school one night. They decided to take the shortcut through the woods. They heard something howl, so they walked ...

1908 
“What’s the code Billy” his brother demanded breathing deeply. Billy was calm, his black hair blended in with the darkness. “1908” he said.

It worked....

The Doll 
One day there was a wife and a husband who just had their first child. His first birthday came up and they decided to buy him a toy. They went to the toy ...

The Skull 
One night, a seven-year-old girl was sleeping in her room. Her parents were downstairs watching TV. Suddently, she heard a moaning sound. It was coming ...

My Worst Nightmare 
It was about 9 pm. There was an eerie feel towards the night. As the light started to fade around me, I slowly turned back from my long walk down Gargoyle ...

The Elevator 
I let out a sigh of relief as I finished the report I had spent the past five days working on. My boss would be thrilled that I finished it so early, considering ...

Home Alone! 
There was once this rich boy with his rich dad and their dog spot in a big house. His dad always had to go away on business trips for days on end.

"The ...

The Grave 
A young woman lay suffering on her deathbed, her stillborn baby lying against her chest. Her young husband crouched close, stricken with grief. His beautiful ...

The Screaming Tunnel 
There is a tunnel under the old railroad tracks just to the west of the Queen Elizabeth Way in Niagara Falls. It is known locally as the Screaming Tunnel....

The Bloody Mess 
One late night, I was driving in my car. My boyfriend said that he was working late at a gas station in the middle of nowhere....

Never seen again 
Never seen again

Once upon a time there was a small town known as Amenit. The thing about this town was that there were recent ghost sightings. In ...

knock knock knock 
There were 2 teenagers, they were boyfriend and girlfriend. They were driving home from a party in the middle of no where. The car stopped and so they ...

The Ghost That Lived in My Attic 

The Ghost That Lived in My Atic

Once there was a girl named tori and she loved halloween. She would always ...

Seeing Ghosts 
One day my mom was vaccuming in the upstairs hallway when all of a sudden, the vaccum turned off. My mom turned around to see the cord had been unplugged....

All by myself 
From my bedroom window I can see far out over the farm and up to the twin hills we call The Sisters. The hills sort of overlap, like one sort of in front ...

Halls of Horror floor 
I was just about to go leave when the announcer said "We're going into Code blue. No one can leave from any doors. We're sorry about this"

"Man what ...

The coffin in the garden 
Yvonne is a 40 year old mother who lives in a big dark house. She and her children began to dig up the garden to bury more flowers, when all of a sudden ...

Return to the haunted house 
You just can't stay away. As most of you know I was the one who went to the haunted house and my friend Marco Diaz died right? As you may also know my ...

The barber shop 
Harriet is a young girl, who has blond locks and blue eyes like the shiniest blue berries you have ever seen. She is usually seen wearing a red bow in ...

One Late Night  
One late night, a husband and wife were walking home from a party. There were said to be murders at that part of town.

Suddenly, the wife heard footsteps ...

The Mysterious Hook 
On a Black and Stormy night, A man and his girlfriend were going to dinner. So they went to dinner and when they finished the man offered to take the women ...

Death in the closet 
It started one night when a boy named Marcus positively hated his closet. He was 14 years old and he hated his closet because of what he saw.

What ...

The Trip 
Normally scary stories happen on stormy nights, but not this one, this story happened on the hottest day of the year. 29 degrees and the beaches in south ...

Gloomy Bathroom 
I never enjoyed waking up in the middle of the night with a full bladder. I would lay there staring at the ceiling, hoping the sensation would magically ...

You can't get out 
One dark, windy night, the town drunk was meandering his way home after the bar closed. Somehow he got turned around and ended up walking through the churchyard ...

Size isn't everything 
The surface bubbled as though it boiled in the hot sun. I couldn't see beneath the algae and lily pads but I knew something was down there.

I came to ...

Gone Fishin part 2 
Still turned around, I tried to knock on my front door when, to my surprise, it wasn't there. I had knocked on something. I turned to see and my eyes got ...

Help! 
There was once a boy he was ten. He walked to a shop and saw the shop keeper dead on the floor with a knife in his back. He then went running out of the ...

October 31 
It was October 31, 1774 I was making dinner with my mother. My little sister was washing the clothes in the river and my dad and older brother were getting ...

Terror of the bird 
Deep in the heart of a forest on a cold winter’s night, you’re by yourself in a log cabin all alone. Your parents are gone to get some fire wood but they’...

Snake Attack 
BAM!! You toss your bag on the ground of the damp forest floor. You're in search of a snake that was extinct, but was somehow seen one year ago. Your back ...

Overpowering Storm Town 
Lightning clashed down. Up ahead I could see an uprooted tree. The rain hammered down on the rooftops. The wind howled in pain. Gigantic bolts of lightning ...

The Warmup 
Kobe was warming up for the big game against the Heat. Turiaf walked up to Kobe and told him "You gotta mark up on shaqueille man because if you don't,...

Happy Halloween 
You wake up on a haunted Halloween night. You had just gone trick or treating and decide to take a rest.

You walk down the stairway and enter your ...

There's no escape 
Lots of people used to believe a myth about a guy who was going to the tools store and went to work there and later had a customer.

A drunk and deadly ...

666 Came True  Not rated yet
I had just turned sixteen and was packing my suitcase and putting all my belongings in an old cardboard box I had found underneath my small bed. My mum ...

Jeepers Creepers  Not rated yet
There was a boy who was with his grandpa on a farm and the grandpa said "Go hang up the scarecrows on the pole and make sure that they are tight." So the ...

The fog at the riverside  Not rated yet
It was a night like any other night, peaceful and quiet until you add the party crashers and crazy traffic. A man was walking home it was along the road ...

Brogan my...dog  Not rated yet
Mr and Mrs Eliott were a happy couple until the bad news came. Mr Brogan Eliott had a disease that couldn't be cured. Soon after they were told this, Brogan ...

Sleep Walking  Not rated yet
"She kissed the prince and..."

"David lights out!"

"OK Mum." David closed his book and turned off his night-light. He fell asleep dreaming of love,...

The Beach House  Not rated yet
A family of five went on vacation to their beach house. It was beautiful. It had six bedrooms, five baths and had an incredible view of the ocean. "This ...

A doll named Mary  Not rated yet
There was a little girl named Rachel and she had a big brother, a dad, and a mom and it was her birthday, so her mom went shopping and found a doll shop....

Deadly kisses  Not rated yet
The only one care Sarah had was finishing her homework. Her little sister was there because her parents had to go out of town on a job in North Carolina ...

Sleep walking  Not rated yet
"She kissed the prince and..."

"David lights out!"

"OK Mom." David closed his book and turned off his night-light. He fell asleep dreaming of love,...

Room 616  Not rated yet
A couple wanted to take a vacation one day. They decided to go to a beautiful hotel called the Blacksmith Hotel. When they got to their hotel room the ...

Kiss of death  Not rated yet
This is about a girl named Sara. She lived a scary and sad past. All her friends have died strange and Violent deaths. She still cries about it in bed....

Air Vents  Not rated yet
There was once a little six year old girl called India Rose. She was a cute little girl, and took her puppy scruffy for a walk every afternoon. She was ...

Phone call  Not rated yet
Molly was talking to her friend Tilly on her phone and then she got cut off and a voice on the phone said "I will kill you" and she put the phone down ...

My Friend Jim  Not rated yet
About a year after World War two started I was born and so was my so called friend Jim Wricker.

"C'mon Larry you know you want to." Ah my best friend,...

The Happy Couple  Not rated yet
There was once a beautiful girl and a handsome man who loved each other dearly. One evening, just after they had married, they were driving home in their ...

One time and one time only  Not rated yet
It was dark and the sky seemed to be gray as I looked it seemed something or some one was out there so I took a look. There was an old lady saying over ...

Giant Snake at Camp Fun  Not rated yet
Every year my parents say its the greatest camp on earth, and that they have been there a thousand times. Camp Fun, it's so fun. There are no bugs or snakes....

The Picture  Not rated yet
There was a girl and her parents who moved into a small cottage in the woods. The girl went exploring in the woods one day and saw a little house. As she ...

Water Girl  Not rated yet
There was once a family named the "Davids". Steven Davids is the father, he own a very large toy company. Susanna Davids is his wife, she owns a very admirable ...

Down In the Basement.  Not rated yet
Once I was on vacation with my family when my mom needed some jelly from the basement and she told me to go get it. Some old man had died in that very ...

Midnight Murder   Not rated yet
Sleepovers were the best thing we could all do together. It was coming up to midnight. Gemma, Kaley, Samantha, Me and Grace were beginning to settle down ...

The Clip Clip Slide   Not rated yet
One evening in a small town a young girl, about 12, was spotted running home suspiciously. A policeman saw her, stopped the car and rolled down his window....

Shooting Owls  Not rated yet
One night as I lay on my bed trying to go to sleep, I heard an owl screech and shirk into the night. The terrible noise that came out of the owl was so ...

The Haunting In West Cove  Not rated yet
There once was a boy named, Matt, and his friend Alex. Alex and Matt were best friends and they lived down the street from each other, in a small town....

Moonlight Manor  Not rated yet
It was getting dark. John was lost, he regretted taking that shortcut. He was running as fast as he could through the wild forest. Every so often he would ...

Weirdest drive ever  Not rated yet
One day my mom and I were driving to my granny's house. We were half way there, driving along the countryside, but then I thought I saw a PUTTYCAT! Naaaaaa,...

The Television  Not rated yet
Once was a small family upon Darren Road. A mother and her daughter. The father was killed in the Korean War. The girl was frightened when she heard the ...

A night in Dennis lake woods  Not rated yet
John Gabe and his dad were packing his bags to go camping in Dennis lake woods. "So how long are we going to be there, Dad" said John while fixing his ...

If only  Not rated yet
She heard a noise up in the attic, but she didn't scream.

She saw him walk by but she didn't scream.

She heard his voice but she didn't scream....

The Evil Witch  Not rated yet
A long time ago I used to live by a cemetery. There was a grave that was really old and was far away from all of the others.

We made up a story that ...

A dog's lick   Not rated yet
A nineteen girl named Melissa had lived for only about a month now in her new house all alone. At night she would hear bangs and things falling but always ...

The Artist  Not rated yet
One sunny afternoon there was an artist (His name is confidential). He went outside in his front yard because he wanted to paint. He searched around looking ...

The Aswang  Not rated yet
Growing up in Canada, (I'm just 14 now) I have seen many horror movies and had lots of attempts at scaring myself. But I find the scariest things are from ...

The lighthouse keeper  Not rated yet
Old legend has it that a lighthouse in Florida, USA has a keeper spirit that roams it with a knife and bucket. I didn't believe it, until the night I went ...

Revenge  Not rated yet
The boss sat at his desk, working like a maniac. He was looking for some important papers, which he had lost. The clock struck 7:00pm. Just then, the door ...

A Terrible Time Machine  Not rated yet
The oven stopped working so Bill called a man to come and fix the problem. After about a couple hours, it was fixed and the repairman left. Now, Bill had ...

Turner's New Shoes  Not rated yet
The street was almost complete dark. Only the stoplights were a source from where the darkness was broken. A young man was walking on the street. His hair ...

The Pitcher  Not rated yet
There once lived two brothers who both liked to play baseball. They grew up loving baseball. One day one brother wondered, and asked his brother if there ...

The Night of the Bloody Moon  Not rated yet
Five teens were driving into the woods to camp out. As they drove, Lilly was making out with Henry in the back. Sue and John were planning where to stop ...

Black Coffin  Not rated yet
Once there was a old man and a woman. The woman was 56 and the man was 53. The woman was having cancer and she was dying. The woman said please get me ...

The Cemetery  Not rated yet
The girls stood there in front of the gate to the cemetery. Not knowing what to do next. They stood still then finally thinking that they didn’t come ...

Wolves  Not rated yet
I began to look around at my environment. But it was getting late and I needed to setup camp. The only thing worse than the dark is being afraid in the ...

Blue Barry Woman  Not rated yet
when i was 13 years old I went to AL and my cousin told me a story that ther was a woman in an old house that had been killed 30 years ago

Well in ...

Gone Fishin part 1  Not rated yet
I had just finished school. I procrastinated most of the week, so on Friday the workload was heavy. I woke up at 6:30 that morning. The long 7 hour work ...

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