About Scary Short Stories

Some websites give you comfort. This one gives you chills.

ScaryShortStories.net was built for one reason: to make your skin crawl. Every word here has one job to stick with you long after you’ve turned off the light. Whether the stories come from twisted imaginations, real-life horrors, or our AI horror engine, what matters is they all come for you the same way: slow, quiet, and unforgettable.

This isn’t a blog. It’s not a writing hobby. It’s a living archive of fear. New stories drop regularly some written by humans, some created by AI, all of them edited to get under your skin fast.

Some visitors just read. Some create. Some submit stories they say are real. Others use our generator and pretend it’s all a game. But everyone walks away feeling a little colder.

There’s no big company here. No team. No sponsors.

Just one storyteller. One basement. And a growing list of names that shouldn’t be forgotten.

If you’re here to read stay awhile. If you’re here to share submit your nightmare. But if you’re here to prove you’re not afraid… be careful what you click. Some stories don’t like being read.

Welcome to the last website you’ll visit before you sleep with the lights on.