More Two-Sentence Horror Stories

Posted by u/chronoz000:

Every night my mother would secretly kiss me on the forehead while I pretend to sleep...

I told her on Mother's Day that I loved her for that, but she called me silly and said that she never did.

Posted by u/FireFlavour:

As I dragged my mangled, bloodied body up the steps, I noticed the serene beauty of the sunrise from the bridge.

No matter, I must make sure to land on my head this time.

Posted by u/Hugh_Jidiot:

When we finally found food after starving for several days, it only seemed right to let my son have the first bite.

But when he touched the cheese, all I could do was watch in horror as a metal bar slammed down and shattered his neck.

Posted by u/SnowflaketheSnowball:

I waved a tearful goodbye as my lover left the bunker, promising he would be back as soon as he could with food for me and our newborn baby.

But his phone fell out of his pocket when he was climbing the ladder to leave, and with how many notifications he's gotten from family and friends in the last hour, I'm starting to wonder if there was ever a nuclear war at all.

Posted by u/sugar-soad:

My parents were deathly silent in the car ride home as they collected me from the hospital, after my latest suicide attempt

I was stunned when I walked into my bedroom, to discover a "better luck next time" banner and a fresh noose hanging from the rafters.

Posted by u/ohnoanotherstory:

Joann was a huge advocate for feeding your animals a vegan diet, always peddling the benefits on Facebook.

Little did she know a simple fall in the shower was all it took for meat to be back on the menu.

Posted by u/GladeRoamer:

Everyone warned me that having an outdoor cat meant that it would bring me dead things.

I got used to it, the occasional bloody gift on my porch...but I expected it to stop when he passed away.

Posted by u/MisterSkulk:

I thought wading through a pile of bones was bad.

I soon realized wading through a pile of everything BUT the bones was worse.

Posted by u/Vice-Monkey:

There once was a necromancer named Mai, who could raise nothing larger than a fly.

Each townsfolk and hero, thought her a zero, til her undead swarms drained their blood dry.

Two-Sentence Horror Stories That Gave Us the Heebie-Jeebies

 Posted by u/VanillaSarsaparilla:

They banged on the locked door, crying and urging him not to commit suicide, how selfish and tragic it would be.

He ignored them as he stared straight ahead, aiming the plane towards the snowy mountains.

Posted by u/cerberus1326:

My son wakes me up by screaming at the top of his lungs.

It always gets louder leading up to the anniversary of his death.

Posted by u/sugar-soad:

I looked out from the second floor at the bloody mess outside on the street, and realised that my parents had been lying to me

They told me that babies are bouncing bundles of joy, but my brother had barely bounced at all...

Posted by u/parker_thor789:

'My baby would never do something like that!' mommy screamed at the policeman.

Now that my little brother is gone, I’m finally mommy’s baby again.

Posted by u/IWnaBNkdL:

My father really loved using his fancy Fitbit watch and wanted to be buried with it.

Days after the funeral, I logged into his account to end service and saw a spike of activity the night he was buried.

Posted by u/SoPacF7:

It was scary enough when an entire squadron disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle after World War II.

It was even more frightening when they requested to land at Edwards Air Force Base nearly 75 years later

Posted by u/MintClicker:

The clown twisted and twirled and twiddled, eventually making a 'dog' for the young mother.

Staring at her mangled baby's body, she silently forced a smile to prevent the clown from making balloon animals for, or from, her other children.

Posted by u/DusterBird:

'Come on, smile for sissy,' my older sister cheerfully said to me as she tried to take my picture.

All I could do was keep myself from vomiting when the ventriloquist took his hand out of my sisters' head and forced me to smile.

Posted by u/Spugnacious:

'Well, the tests came back and the growth in your chest isn't cancer.,.

'We don't know what it is actually, and cancer generally doesn't try to hide from the scan.'

Posted by u/BwaaHhHHH:

The doctor hid his face in his hands, now crying, as screams filled the hospital that truly didn't have any more room.

Humans, no matter how injured, old or sick, just wouldn't die anymore.

Posted by u/WarriorPoet02:

As the Rapture began, I was bitterly disappointed to find myself left behind.

Then I looked up at the departing figures and saw all the open jaws awaiting them in the sky.

Two-Sentence Horror Stories

Posted by u/CarbonatedMoolk:

I was scared when I saw my dad chopping wood in the backyard.

It scared me even more to see he was using the axe I killed him with.

 

 Posted by u/abskkr24:

My last girlfriend always got creeped out by the 14 'weird' dolls I kept on display.

I have a new girlfriend now, and she wants me to throw out all 15 of the 'disturbingly lifelike' dolls.

 Posted by u/SkittishReflections:

My date took me on a cruise on his fancy glass-bottomed boat.

I didn't know what was scarier: The bloated hands pressed against the glass from below, or their warnings as they pointed to my date.

Posted by u/BasementDweller3000:

Reviewing the old tape of my 12th birthday party, I noticed there were things I didn’t remember...

...Like the part where everyone gazed silently into the camera, mouths agape, for two hours until the candles burned out.

Posted by u/Markojpp:

'You’ll feel it in no time,' the dealer laughed as smoke filled Tormund’s lungs.

Tormund tried tearing his lips from the car’s tailpipe, but the glue was too strong 

Posted by u/felix_felicis2020:

"Jesus Christ, look at his face, that - that can't possibly be a human," my wife whispered as she stepped aside letting me peer through the peephole.

I didn't even get the chance to scream as she held my head in place while someone outside shot me through the eye with a nail gun. 

 Posted by u/Roborob03:

"A guy just ran up to me while screaming that somebody had locked him in a basement, blindfolded him, and starved him for days.

You should’ve seen the look of absolute horror on his face when he recognized my voice."

Posted by u/Top_wolf78:

"My sister came in my room last night and warned me not to go in the basement with my father tomorrow.

I screamed in horror, because my sister has been missing for three years now."

Posted by u/FredGruntbuggly:

"No matter which Chinese restaurant I go to, no matter which city I’m in, the fortune cookie always reads: 'Enjoy every meal as if it was your last.'

Until today, that is, when it read: 'I hope you enjoyed your meal.'"

Posted by u/Kirby_Israel:

From my window, I could see two dozen police officers, plus volunteers, combing the old forest to find the missing children.

One by one their flashlights went dark, as the children of the old oak woods found them first."

Posted by u/IknowKarazy:

"I used to hate the sound of crickets outside the lonely farmhouse.

Now every time they go silent I know that thing is passing by, and I pray for them to chirp again."

Posted by u/909087:

"I loved my job of finding missing kids.

Until I saw my baby photo..."

Posted by u/Anthonybrose:

"Leaving the dying world infested with zombies behind, I managed to teleport to a time before it all happened.

Happy to be in a zombie-free world, I felt a pang of pain in my right leg; I saw that the scratch I had gotten from a zombie was now red and infected."

Posted by u/Sin-A-Bun:

"They all ask how many kids came to my house for trick or treating...

None of them ask how many left."

Posted by u/DarthSanity:

"My grief turned to shock when I learned my recently deceased wife’s skull matched the DNA profile for a teen missing since 1987.

The rest of her bones matched to six other people on the missing persons list from that same time period."

Posted by u/ghostmadlittlemiss:

"The sound of my boyfriend’s snores have always been able to put me to sleep.

But he’s visiting family and I can still hear them."