There are many reasons why one might enjoy a good horror story. One, for example, is the adrenaline rush after being scared. The other is that some of us like to experience overwhelming, complex emotions. It also helps that the scary stories aren't happening to you, so you can still feel relatively safe while experiencing them.
And bigger doesn't always mean better, especially when it comes to scary stuff. Sometimes, it’s the small things or short scary stories that are the most terrifying, like an unexpected spider in the bathtub, a creaking floorboard in the dead of night, or a lizard on the wall staring right at you! Those are the real-life short horror stories that give us an adrenaline rush.
Two-Sentence Horror Stories: Reddit Collection
The classic of the horror genre is, of course, the two-sentence scary stories. So when a now-deleted Reddit user asked others, “What is the best short horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” the answers scared everyone to death. You might want to keep the lights on for this one!
From short scary stories about being buried alive to working the night shift alone (or not...?), this compilation of creepy stories definitely has it all. And if you are a fan of two-sentence horror stories, we promise this post will leave you scared and mindless. Let’s dig in!
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Shortest Horror Story
Overly helpful neighbour closed the door after you walked in, left it open, and drunkely fell asleep on the floor?
and you still think siri is just a software this was the rest of the sentence when i found it :P
Sibling Horror Dilemma
Scary Story
nah man it's just his dad joking around in the closet
Load More Replies...As someone else wrote elsewhere: Say "I'm not going anywhere, you are the worse!". Wherever direction a slipper comes flying to your face is where the real mother is.
I'm assuming the whisper in the closet came from her mom and the one downstairs is the creeper
Load More Replies...It's your gay Best Friend who hasn't erm... Come out of the closet yet? :)
Spooky Visitors
Perks Of Cremation
SO, so scary. People that don't think that must have no imagination!
Load More Replies...gosh you're even more creepy than the story lol
Load More Replies...THIS IS MY FEAR i think that when you die you can still SEE stuff no pain no thoughts just endless ENDLESS darkness in your grave forever and ever :C
I was laying behind the coach, smoke filling the space around me, as I try to get up I realize I'm in a coffin being cremated.
Just reading this gave me a mini panic attack. Very good job at being scary.
Creepy Story
Sorry I scrolled down and realized I stole yours
Load More Replies...Reminds me of an old horror movie: "Have you checked the children yet?"
Something similar happened to me, but it was because the monitor worked with wifi and my neighbour had the same model. I almost had a heart attack.
2 Sentence Horror Story
For a nurse with no mouth or face, that's pretty impressive. (Well... I guess it could be the nurses from SH1 or SH3. They had faces. But they aren't the "famous" ones.)
Load More Replies...As I heard the voices on either side of me and felt the tugging on the inside of my guts, I wondered how I would let them know that I had awakened. Just then I heard the heart monitor beeping faster and faster as I drifted back into unconsciousness. True story as I underwent life saving emergency surgery in 1991.
Wow thats deep and kinda scary but it is good that you survived
Load More Replies...this is the creepiest yet...and I have surgery coming up - maybe I'll rethink that
If his pupils are dilating despite the bright light, it means his dead or at least brain dead.
Afterlife Horrors
I wonder, if you have a condensed ghost story, if you spilled water on it, would it grow into a short story or novel.
why don't you move her to California or something maybe she wants a change of scene
Short Scary Story
Carolers waiting to sing, Mormons there for a service project, neighbors waiting to surprise you with a fresh coat of house paint?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #BLM TEAMMMMMMMM
Load More Replies...OR... he just did a REEEEALLLY spectacular job on the Christmas lights...!?
..carrying axes,torches and gallows...screaming "death to the witcher" and then you realize that the time machine had failed and you were stuck in that time ... forever.
WE RE CALLING TO INFORM U ABOUT UR CARS EXTENDED WARRANTY
Load More Replies...*me be like* HEY PEEPS U JELLY? *they no answering* *me again* CMON ANSWER OR ARE U HERE TO SING A SONG OR LOOK PRETTY?
A Touch From The Other Side
Pet Horror Story
I always felt safe as a kid because I thought any strange noise in the middle of the night would be my cat.
Or that nothing could go wrong (burglars, ghosts, etc) without the pets freaking out and letting you know somehow.
Load More Replies...._____________________________________________________________. MOVE OUT UR HOUSE IS HAUNTED
Load More Replies...I felt safe as a kid because I thought my stuffed animals would protect me 😊
easy : you live in the forest and somone is being chased so they scratch your door trying to wake you up!
Maybe a homeless kid snuck into ur house and wanted to try and wake u up so he can sleep with
Something About Night Shifts And Short Horror Stories
You gotta be more specific, a face can be any face, it can be a face of a cat?
And hopefully facial recognition will be able to identify the dude, because there is no way I'm going to confront him.
I have a third sentence to add to this one: He laughed as he said, "Your mother sure was happy with the size."
Maybe it's a security guard who was working the cellar and passed out drunk, and he woke up and now he's trying to alert the other dude
Two Sentence Horror Story
I once heard some light knocking while I was drawing and listening to a CD. I looked around, saw nothing, didn't pay attention, dismissed it as some random sound. Then the album has finished and I wanted to change the CD... But atop the CD player there it was - a grasshopper as huge as a fist!
Where do you live to have grass hoppers THAT big!!
Load More Replies...There is a short story by Gerald Durrell titled "The Entrance". He is usually of funny authobiographic family stories, but this doesn't stop this story from being scary as hell.
Load More Replies...maybe the mirror is on the basement wall and his son has a room in the basement and is playing a prank
i will break that mirror for you! 7 years of bad luck or not. am i right?
I thought it wasn’t possible. Ritual? Not needed.
Load More Replies...Creepiest Of The Short Creepy Stories
that's literally my answer to anything scary. killer clown chasing you? goodbye europe hello antartica
Load More Replies...umm, if it was a stillborn child, how is she holding it? it would still be in her womb
That's a miscarriage. Stillborn the mother gives birth but the baby is dead.
Load More Replies...I was like what how- I thought about and this is what I got someone broke into his house and placed his dead gf and Childs bodies there DIGGED THEM UP 💀 Idk y’all probs got this before me lol
Spookiest Of The Short Horror Stories
Ngl I feel so happy seeing this bc my day was bad as hell and I feel a lot better now :)
Load More Replies...IMAGINE! your laying in bed with your wife or husband and they say "why are you breathing so heavily?" I would legit PANIC MY A*S OFF if someone was heavily breathing down my neck... [shivers]
Most Scary Stories: Short And Terrifying
*Muted cries the same ones of the femur breaker from SCP*
Load More Replies...This is when a boner could actually be helpful in a public situation
insert picture of Phillip J Fry by the cryogenics lab window watching the aliens destroy the world. Watches society rebuild. Aliens destroy world again. Futurama begins.
“They found my moms suicide letter” “I’m glad they didn’t recognize my hand writing”
he was supposed to be in hypersleep, correct? he could have rolled his eyes around to show that he wasn't.
If his eyes were closed that wouldn't help, and while when eyes are moving you might see a little moving buldge under the eyelids, I'm fairly sure that the icy container would develop a layer that would cover the glass, if there is any, so nobody could see him either way.
Load More Replies...Short Scary Stories For Sleepless Nights
So... she was not so dead and she was lucky enough to get out. And she left you the dress while she went to shower.
Y’know, you’re the reason I can still read these.
Load More Replies...LMAO, THE WORST THING IS MY COUSIN IS NAMED FELISHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Wait a min GIRLS ARE TURNING INTO DRESSES NOW?!!?!? but i dont wanna be a dress :(
I don't know how to respond to that other than my eye just went wide...
The Full Body Twitch
A girl is alone at home one night, for the first time. She has a dog to keep her company. The girl listens on the news about a serial killer on the loose. She goes to sleep after locking all the doors and windows but for one, which doesn’t close. Suddenly she is awakened by a dripping sound. Scared thoroughly, she tries to go back to sleep and puts her hand down the bed for a reassuring lick from her dog. As the dripping sound continues, she goes to check on the taps in the kitchen, bathroom and everywhere else but finds nothing. She returns to her bedroom and puts the hand down again for the dog to lick. The dripping sound continues and the girl is too frightened to fall asleep. But as her hand gets licked from under the bed, she slowly falls asleep. In the morning, when she opens the closet, she finds her dog killed and hanged upside down. The dripping sound was from the dog’s blood. On the closet doors, she sees a message written in the dog’s blood– “Humans can lick too"
Always put the feeling of falling with why it's called, "falling asleep". Anyone else? I mean, that's a odd verb to put with it.
When you mentioned it I started thinking about it. So I tried google and found out that it is same in few other languages through Europe. Strange is that there is no good reason listed so I guess that there was some tale/myth/legend from which it originated but that story was forgotten.
Load More Replies...Nah I get these all the time except for me its always a reoccurring nightmare that I'm walking on the 3 floor of my childhood house except all the banisters are gone and I lean over the edge to look down into our large foyer and then I'm pushed from behind by a man with no face and all of a sudden I'm falling and I look up to see the man with no face except he has a big wide mouth that stretches his whole face who is now smiling down at me and its absolutely terrifying and just as I hit impact I jerk awake. I've had this nightmare since I was a toddler and it will never go away...
i tried that and lets just say its disturbing and you don't wanna know what it is.....
well who in the world took the video of u in the FIRST PLACEEEEEEEEEEEEE????????????
Heights And Scary Short Stories
I glared at my window cleaner and brought my computer to him so he can see the coment
Load More Replies...True story, my dad used to live at a lake, and right across from his house, there was a summer camp. Every year, kids would go canoeing in the morning. And every time, one of them wouldn’t bring a life jacket. The boat would tip over, and only the one with the life jacket would come back. Years later, these people were scuba diving; and when they got to the bottom, there were dead bodies EVERYWHERE. They cleaned out the lake, so it’s fine now.
Load More Replies...Horror Short Stories: The Cabin In The Woods
they were windows from the beginning. your friends held up posters to them to scare you
There's a short animated horror story on you tube based on this (or vice versa) it's called Cabin. Also, if you like short horror movies (up to 6min long) check this out: http://listverse.com/2015/08/09/10-horror-movies-to-scare-you-in-under-five-minutes/
Sure, I’ll go with you. But you’re sleeping outside. I’m sleeping in the cabin.
Load More Replies...Can Cats See Ghosts?
it was the oatmeal raisin cookie! I KNEW IT WOULD STRIKE AGAIN! (see my comment for the twitching on page 2)
It wus a mailman trying to give u ur package but u n0 turn around reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
this isn't scary cats do this ALL the time :P EVEN THOUGH ITS FREAKING CREEPY!!! OKAY IM SCARED NOW
For some reason my cat really stares into empty space sometimes. I find it a bit creepy.
A Baby’s Laughter
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO NEVER WATCHES ANY OF THESE SCARY MOVIES?! (Reply if your the same)
Load More Replies...Happens in my house (built in 1820) often, but only when I'm in my closet--and my youngest is 6, lol. When we moved in, we found a weird old crib in my bedroom closet that I've always just felt uncomfortable about getting rid of. One day, when my son was four, he was lying on his bunk bed, staring at the ceiling quite intently. I thought he was just daydreaming, so I laid down next to him and said, "Whatcha looking at?" He said, "you don't see it?" I said, "What?" He replied, "The baby? Crawling on the ceiling?" I had no response for him--but then I asked him what else the baby was doing. He said, "just looking at me." It was a bit creepy--
when you realize a kid broke in right before Halloween for the good candy
anyone else looking behind their computer so see if nothings behind it??
Ugh it's just Janice, the single mom next door, she just had another baby.
Or you have a kid and normally the other partner takes care of them or your the sibling and don't know how
Who Opened The Door?
This doesn't need to be horror. It can be about some richman or a rich woman, closing him/herself up to the public, to close friends and relatives, to themselves... A celebrity with a troubled personality perhaps.
Could be a rich man with part time cleaners who are lazy.
Load More Replies...“I found a cabin to sleep in, it had many paintings” “I was shocked to find out they were all windows”
i like this guy i play cookie run kingdum to and i have raisen cookie
Load More Replies...Shhh, Someone Is Watching!
That moment when you realize the teacher caught you up cheating on the exam XD
I think he is talking about that creepy car commercial chain email where the face pops out and screams at you.
i watch your youtube @ samgolbach and sam and colby
Load More Replies...It's obviously scary because that means Martin broke in with him.
Load More Replies...What The Ghosts Want
I talk to my mirrors, saying funny things for the people watching me. The head doctor calls it "Truman delusion", but I know the truth.
what have you done with your life?? this is the reason why i threw the mirrors away!
GET THEM OUT YOU ARE GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT
Load More Replies...just watch up. it's a great movie, certainly better than watching somebody peeing
A Creepy Short Story On The Rails
It is way more terrible than the thought of someone, or even a train coming...
this isn't horror. also, the guy who tied him to the rails was none other than the oatmeal raisin cookie
if no one comes then you'll die of starvation but if a train come it might be able to stop. there is still hope, some random teenagers that like to explore could come by
This man means "No one comes here, except the train that's about to kill you"
basically he is leaving the dude to starve to death. also, quit cussing website!
you do realize that he could just struggle and burn the ropes to friction.
Wrapped In Horror
the oatmeal raisin cookie popped it, with the help of his friend, the macadamia nut cookie
An Unsuccessful Operation
The roommate is dead. Once a person dies their body heat would equalize to the temperature of the room the body is in.
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