When a game goes too far, Varian wakes to an unfamiliar room. He's tortured and taunted by a masked man that's set on breaking not just his body but his mind. As Varian struggles to keep his sanity, a dark need that he's suppressed all his life is awakened. But even when he returns home, he's not the same. And the peo...
Are dolls innocent figurines as the advertisements on television say? Or is there something sinister that lurks inside of them? As the last heir of a mysterious curse, Janneth Hudson has her hands full. For generations, a doll has been watching over the Hudson family without their knowledge. It was waiting for the rig...
"The conscience is a beautiful weapon." 'Cassidy is a young woman trapped in a world of her own fabrication. When she starts having hallucinogenic episodes, she must follow the clues hidden in plain sight to escape the hell she has created.' A young woman named Cassidy Barush is trapped in a world of her own making...
GOLD WINNER 2016 FRIGHT FEST! What's done in the dark will come to light ... Those words are engraved on the door and offer the only clue as to why I'm trapped in this windowless room with ... a chair. The old dining chair and the overwhelming sense of someone watching begins my unsettling journey to discover who's re...
"He looked through the crack and found his own fate staring back." They say to befriend one's neighbor, but Joseph Grey or Joe took it one step further and fell in love with his. However, something about Ella Greene is off; something about her reeks of danger and trouble. Will the blind love of Joseph make him smell t...
☆☆ Watty Award Winner 2020 ☆☆ Cooper Daniels lives next door to a psychopath. He just can't prove it...yet. When the most popular girl in high school is murdered at a Halloween party, Cooper's suspicions become a reality. He knows exactly who did it. But how is he supposed to prove his charming neighbor is a killer? M...
Jackson lives in a small town of Montrose his whole life. After several bodies are found in the area, the police come to a conclusion that a serial killer is on the loose. The investigation has drawn the attention of the FBI, and their team soon puts together a criminal profile. Finally, they know the type of person t...
(Free to read + a paid bonus chapter) In a time when kidnapping is a common occurrence, Nora is about to become her father's science experiment. Nora believes she's starting a new job, working alongside her father, but instead, she's trapped inside of a dream with other humans. Besides for a small group of dreamers ca...
Solange Southwood is a professional criminal. It runs in the family. She's helped countless notorious criminals and has only been in jail once. However, suddenly there are new rules to a game she didn't know she had been playing. Someone blackmails her. In order to preserve her identity and save the ones she loves, s...
[Highest Ranks] ***2018 Watty's Shortlist*** ***FEATURED STORY*** #1 in Novels #5 in Murder Mysteries #6 in Mystery / Thriller Kathrine Woods was headed to Fayetteville, a small town in Tennessee where everybody knows everybody. This small town was full of surprises, and Kathrine Woods would be one of them.... they th...
What happens when a bunch of killers are forced to live together? BATTLE OF THE KILLERS is a reality show that follows Betinia Woods, a girl kidnapped and forced to live in an underground bunker with twelve other killers. The bunker is equipped with hundreds of cameras and microphones that follow the killers every mo...
All it took to meet one of the world's craziest, most dangerous serial killers was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was all it took to send Alice into the world of a criminal. *FINISHED*
FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S TALES TO TERRIFY Benjamin Peters was not always a cold-blooded murderer. At one point in his life, he was just a simple man who hoped to one day become a doctor. But after having lived through many eras of history, he has learned that life sometimes requires committing necessary evils. Forced t...
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Peter Katz hires a hitman to take him out. But when a cure is discovered, Peter's got to outrun the assassin to stay alive! ***** When douchebag lawyer Peter Katz gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wants to die painlessly. Still, death seems to elude his every attempt, so he hir...
Madness can only be written in blood. //#1 in Horror, #1 in Action, #34 in Humour and WATTY AWARD WINNER: One of the Most Addictive Stories of 2014 and Featured Story//A Horror Comedy by 8tracks// You can't spell 'manslaughter' without 'laughter'. An adventure in which she takes great pleasure in seeing a whole...
[Previously FEATURED] Retail workers have the least chance of being haunted, hurt, or killed. At least, that's what three cashiers assume. When Temple, Marilyn, and Martine meet little Sienna, they find out how wrong they are about job security. Sienna triggers the appearance of the Dark, an elusive Shadow that neve...
When Catalina Delgado discovers that her family's livestock has been viciously attacked during the night, she enlists the help of a notorious outlaw to track down the animal that did it. But as they soon find out, this animal is the thing of legends and something out of their worst nightmares.
It came down in a ball of fire just missing a transatlantic cruise. In a search for survivors, crewmembers find a body floating among the debris. But they also find something else. Before they realize, it's already too late. A horror quickly spreads across the ship while its passengers are trapped in the middle of the...
A team of special forces enter a house to acquire classified information but realise that the house isn't empty as they had thought. An emotionless girl that can kill in one move A young boy who chases you with a bloody axe And a pair of cute but devilish twins that you probably shouldn't go near. They prove to be...
Kidnap, torture, kill, repeat. That's how this serial killer rolls. So, what does it take for one boy to escape his horrifying captivity? It takes guts! Best friends, Kevin and Josh, are trying to juggle college classes while finding a way to launch a chemistry startup, but their lives turn into a living hell when Kev...
Yuzuko's perfect world is disturbed when she is forced to take part in the 30th season of Game of Mass Destruction, a reality tv show where twenty contestants have to fight robots and each other for a chance to become a billionaire. Each robot they destroy gives points, but extra points are rewarded for acts of sex an...
[Cover made by @Vanoeuxx] After moving to Connecticut to room with her best friend for the summer, Chastity Blake doesn't know what to think of the charm bracelet she finds, caught under the floorboards in her new bedroom; with the initials D.K. engraved into it. But ignoring the bracelet's origins isn't an option whe...
A loving father desperate for power. A mother trying to save her family. A girl named Violet trying to find out what went wrong in her life and why her father is desperate for her to sacrifice her soul to an evil book.
[COMPLETED] It was a sunny day, the weather was perfect for a nice picnic and having fun. It was a day like that when a tragedy struck in the life of a 13-year-old girl named Vivian Peyton. A blazing fire was set to her house which took away her home and her mother. She learns that her father, whose existence she did...
A team of enforcers. A gang of criminals. One common enemy. Against all expectations, a young woman enlisted as an enforcer, following in the footsteps of her predecessors in an attempt to prove herself. How far is she willing to go? How much is she willing to lose? And on the other side of the coin is a young man, a...
Ashley lives a normal 17 years old teenager's life. Matt too. However, a mysterious organization kidnap them and steer their lives in a new direction. Ashley and Matt must solve their problems as a team. As her crush slowly discovers the real her she starts to realize that she will never be the same. Will they succee...
Are you guilty or innocent? Sometimes, all it depends on, is a matter of perspective. This story follows Rahul along his mission and depicts how making a judgement without knowing the complete truth could lead to incorrect decisions.
Emilia Morales is taken in by the Russian Mafia leader at 16 after her father tries to kill her. For the next 7 years she takes on a new identity, Viola Hart. During these years she creates a name for herself and becomes infamous in the Mafia world. The only thing fuelling her is the thought of taking down her father...
Lindsay and her friends were lost on a road trip. They stop at a farmhouse to ask for directions and meet the Wilcox family. After her friends are brutally murdered, Lindsay's life is spared. She is kept alive to be Gabe Wilcox's wife. Lindsay lives in constant fear of being punished by Gabe or his father. They slowl...
~ Nirah Avani Grey She's a skilled assassin who works under the name Ava. She is on the hunt for the person who murdered her parents. She gets a call from Black Blade, an assassin company offering her a massive sum of money to locate and kill a mystery target. But good always has to come with bad for her... she has to...