After Midnight Tales

The story follows four friends on an off-season hiking trip in the remote Austrian Alps. Their adventure turns terrifying when they follow mysterious human footprints into the wilderness, leading to a violent encounter with a circling pack of wolves. The next morning, they discover the snow scattered with mutilated wolf carcasses and unnaturally large, human-shaped tracks, hinting at a far greater...

A narrator who moves to a new town and befriends their seemingly kind neighbors, the Averies. Initially mourning the loss of their daughter, Emily, the couple’s behavior escalates as they attempt to coerce the narrator into assuming Emily’s identity through gifts, subtle demands, and ultimately, confinement. While trapped in a meticulously preserved bedroom, the narrator discovers a hidden journal...

A man recalling the traumatic death of his brother, Daniel, years earlier. It begins when the narrator discovers an old walkie-talkie in his abandoned childhood home, which begins transmitting unsettling static and the mournful voice of his deceased brother, expressing that he is scared. Through disturbing dreams and escalating encounters with the device, the narrator is forced to confront the sho...

These accounts chronicle horrifying and often classified encounters with monstrous entities in the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding areas. One narrator, claiming to be a Green Beret, recounts a mission in western Tennessee to neutralize a grotesque bio-engineered creature that escaped a hidden facility, causing mass casualties and triggering a military cover-up. Other stories describe being s...

A conductor on his terrifying first shift aboard a secretive private train hired for an unusually high-paying job with strict, unnatural rules. As the journey unfolds, he breaks one critical instruction, causing the train to halt and allowing distorted shadow entities to board as passengers. Reality fractures as fear and paranoia escalate, ending in a violent, phantom crash. After the final surviv...

Recounts a town’s terrifying annual tradition: a mandatory survival run during the first snowfall. Residents must maintain strict routines to evade the monstrous Wolf Walkers, distorted human-wolf hybrids that prey on anyone who falls behind. The narrator recalls losing their father during an early run and witnessing the horrifying appearance of the hunters when someone breaks the rule to never lo...

Presents multiple horror narratives exploring generational curses, psychological collapse, and supernatural menace. One story follows a man inheriting the role of Preserver, tasked with constructing life-sized figures from animal and human parts to appease a monstrous entity called the Parent. Another recounts a husband’s terror as his wife is overtaken by a spider entity, which ultimately invades...

A narrator’s terrifying descent into a surreal, biological nightmare. It begins with the discovery of a blinking human eye embedded in his kitchen table, which soon escalates into an infestation of dozens of living, staring eyes covering every surface of his apartment. The phenomenon spreads beyond his home, affecting people in his neighborhood, including his manager. Desperate to escape the oppre...

A group of friends confronting the horrifying consequences of their past bullying. Fifteen years earlier, they had tormented a quiet classmate, Danny Truillo, locking him in a locker before he mysteriously disappeared. Years later, one friend is found brutally murdered and twisted, and the killings escalate—even claiming a victim in maximum-security custody. The narrator discovers that Danny has b...

Recounts the harrowing experience of a surveyor and his apprentice, Seth, sent to inspect an old, sealed mine near the isolated town of Ever Creek. From the outset, the team encounters cryptic warnings from unnervingly silent locals and discovers ritualistic bundles of personal items near the mine, meant as offerings to ward something off. Research into town records reveals inconsistencies regardi...

Recounts the psychological unraveling of a therapist drawn into a terrifying case. Her client is haunted by Mr. Grin, a malevolent entity that appears whenever extreme misfortune befalls him, acting as an ominous witness to his suffering. The therapist violates ethical boundaries by staying overnight with the client, witnessing Mr. Grin force him to commit suicide. Following her escape, the entity...

A chilling confession heard by a priest during a stormy night. The confessor recounts his impoverished childhood, where his devout mother began luring hungry, forgotten strangers to their farm after the family’s livestock and crops failed. Following these disappearances, the boy and his mother would eat the victims, performing a ritual in which they covered their faces with linen cloths to hide th...

Presents five distinct horror narratives centered on isolation, technology gone awry, and unavoidable catastrophe. One story follows a predictive military uniform system that forcibly integrates soldiers into optimized, rigid platforms, driving the lead engineer to attempt a desperate facility-wide EMP strike. Another recounts a deep-sea research crew encountering enigmatic, non-biological structu...

A professional squatter, known as a "frogger," who secretly lives in others' homes for thrill and challenge. He targets a secluded, unnaturally fertile ranch in Utah, where a seemingly normal family engages in occult-like rituals. The narrator discovers a hidden basement and witnesses the family perform a grisly decapitation ritual on a pregnant woman to summon a powerful entity. When discovered b...

A desperate individual who invents the persona “Brother Elias” to pose as an exorcist for quick rent money. Initially, the narrator profits from this scam using cheap props and generic Latin phrases, addressing clients’ mundane problems like leaky pipes or rats. The scheme collapses when they take a high-paying job at a remote house and confront a truly terrifying entity that violently attacks the...

A chilling narrative in which a man struggles to process the death of his former partner, Emily, five years earlier. As he begins a new relationship with Clare, a mysterious playlist titled "You remember us right" appears on his music app, featuring songs tied to deeply personal memories with Emily. The playlist exhibits supernatural influence, manipulating his technology and even causing a near-f...

A chilling horror narrative following Detective Hanley as he investigates two gruesome murders in the same apartment building. Both victims show no signs of forced entry or defensive wounds, but a horrifying pattern emerges: each crime scene features a bloody handprint on the ceiling, later identified as belonging to the first victim, revealing the killer is using her severed arm as a grotesque si...

A harrowing horror story in which the narrator’s wife, Lily, develops extreme arachnophobia following a traumatic encounter with a spider. Her fear escalates to the point that she is committed for treatment and subjected to exposure therapy. Upon returning home, the narrator notices alarming changes in her behavior, including manically laughing while consuming a massive spider, signaling a terrify...

A chilling horror story about a desperate narrator who takes a high-paying but mysterious job at a remote, high-altitude mine known simply as “the dig.” The mine enforces a strict rule: no worker may enter the heavily sealed Level 7. Over time, the crew begins experiencing unsettling psychological effects and hearing unnatural sounds emanating from below. When an emergency forces them to use a ser...

A narrator inheriting a remote Kentucky property and the secretive workshop of his recently deceased father, a taxidermist. He soon discovers that his father’s work involved creating grotesque, human-shaped figures designed to appease a local, ancient entity known as “the parent,” which punishes the town by causing children to disappear if the figures are not provided. After witnessing the consequ...

A chilling story of a childhood overshadowed by a malevolent, shadowy entity haunting the family home. This entity manipulates the family’s fortune and decisions through ominous written demands, a consequence of a desperate pact made by the grandfather to cure the father of a serious illness. The creature eventually demands a child sacrifice, driving the parents into panic and resulting in the tra...

A terrifying delivery experience in which a pizza driver encounters a family at an unfamiliar house who are exact duplicates of his own mother, father, and sister, leading him to suspect they are malicious doppelgangers. After confirming his real family is apparently at home, the increasingly paranoid driver pursues the duplicates and captures them, bringing them back to his house. Consumed by obs...

A series of chilling horror narratives depicting ordinary individuals encountering unsettling, often fatal phenomena. One story follows a disastrous alpine hike in which friends are hunted by wolves and an antlered monstrosity, leaving a lone survivor who later takes on a surreal career transporting the dead. Other accounts detail a perilous urban exploration inside an abandoned hospital that ends...

A disastrous marine biology expedition aboard the RV Arkite. While surveying the abyssal plain, the crew discovers an enormous field of perfectly geometrical, synthetic structures etched into the ocean floor, which actively shift and appear to track the vessel. Tension escalates when a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) becomes entangled in an unknown fibrous material, prompting a crew member to desc...

A bored middle schooler who becomes engrossed in a secretive online forum after befriending another user in a sandbox game, who introduces him to the purported "real internet." Initially thrilled by the strange, rule-free community, the narrator is later persuaded to meet his online friend in person. Due to a change in his custody schedule, he accidentally provides the address of his father’s hous...