The Darkive — Scary Stories, Horror Fiction, and Creepypastas

After miners uncover a mysterious barricade deep underground, Professor Greg Darwin is called in to investigate strange symbols and growing rumors of creatures lurking beneath the tunnels. But when the excavation team becomes trapped inside an ancient cave system, the stories quickly prove terrifyingly real. Hunted through darkness by savage one-eyed predators while deadly traps close in around th...

Unable to provide for his starving family, Abdu eagerly accepts an offer of shelter and food from an elderly woman who claims to be his cousin. But after overhearing the woman reveal sinister intentions in the barn, Abdu’s wife becomes convinced they are living under the roof of something monstrous. As Abdu refuses to believe her warnings, the family is forced to choose between trust and survival....

When a strange, featureless figure begins appearing outside his window night after night, a terrified narrator initially assumes it’s some kind of cruel prank. But as the entity continues watching him with impossible persistence, he realizes the thing outside isn’t human—and may not even be confined by the glass separating them. As the creature’s hidden features begin pushing through its skin and...

After suffering a horrifying nightmare about a giant white wolf killing her while her parents are away, Celia becomes terrified when she realizes the events of the dream are beginning to unfold exactly as she saw them. Alone in the house and unable to shake the growing sense of dread, she soon discovers that something has broken in—and it’s hunting her. A fast-paced and deeply unsettling tale of f...

Exhausted by the overwhelming burden of maintaining his enormous farm, Richard Mayes believes his troubles are finally easing when a plague begins thinning his livestock. But after his wife becomes pregnant, a horrifying new problem emerges as the unborn child develops an insatiable hunger that only grows more monstrous with time. As their son consumes more and more of the farm—and eventually ever...

While spending a summer night near a lonely cornfield, two boys encounter a horrifying figure lurking in the darkness—something that appears neither fully human nor entirely dead. After the creature attacks Trevor, a mysterious infection begins spreading through his body, leaving doctors helpless as his condition steadily worsens. As fear and disbelief give way to horror, Will realizes that whatev...

Heather’s afternoon visit to her friend Jenny’s house takes a disturbing turn when a doll in the next room seems to fix its gaze on them, no matter how many times they try to shut it away. As doors open on their own and the doll refuses to stay where it’s placed, the unease builds into something far more sinister. A simple childhood object becomes the center of a growing nightmare, leaving Heather...

Lost in the depths of a sprawling forest, a weary hunter seeks shelter for the night in an abandoned cabin hidden among the trees. Inside, he discovers the walls covered with unsettling portraits whose hateful expressions seem fixed directly on him, filling the cramped room with an overwhelming sense of dread. But when morning arrives, the hunter learns that what he saw during the night was far mo...