Haunting Stories

*****A gothic Wednesday AU***** Reichenbach Academy has always thrived on silence. Pressed uniforms. Polished stone. Perfect control. And something ancient buried far beneath its halls. When a student collapses mid-class with glowing sigils carved into his skin, the administration insists the situation is contained. The students don't believe them. Thorn Rosales, a half-vampire psychic known for trouble, hears the disturbance before anyone names it. A song threading through the academy's bones. Xavier Thorpe, haunted by the Hyde and his past at Nevermore, begins drawing the same symbols appearing across campus, as if something is guiding his hand. Together, they uncover a truth Reichenbach has spent centuries burying. This is a slow-burn, lore-heavy gothic mystery about power, memory, and forbidden connection. Where silence is a weapon, and the walls are starting to sing.

When Man is scared, their heart is the most vulnerable. So, Chaos, let's see what horrors shackle you. - Iskra. ⚠️ There will be gore, torture, violence, death, hauntings, horrors and terrors, depression, substance abuse, and mentions of adult topics in this book. Time has passed since the tragedy of two Kings befell the Kingdom of Coronaria. Young Queen Mikaela has been trying to rule like her father and restore the Kingdom to its former glory, and the young Chaos Bearer Aiden Walker has been helping out by slaying monsters and rebuilding homes. Everything seems to be restoring itself. But Darkness lurks in the background, and bigger things are happening for our young warrior. Aiden Walker is a senior back on Earth, his teenage years ending. His magical world also changes, his job as a Hunter and secret relationship with the Queen begin to worry him. Soon, gruesome deaths and mysterious disappearances arise. Along with monster spawnings rising to new levels, Aiden decides to investigate this case, but as he does, tragedy falls on him. Aiden Walker is mysteriously subjected to horror and terrors like never before, haunted by voices that vanish when he looks back. Something dark is at play, an evil she-beast that seeks pain, destruction, and complete insanity from our protagonist. Aiden slowly begins to grow paranoid, and takes up the offer to investigate with Primara the Protector of Magic. Instead of finding the truth and cure, they find a non-reversible curse that could bring calamity to more than just Aiden's life. Stakes become high, tragedy will occur as Aiden becomes an adult. His journey of being the Chaos Bearer takes a devastating blow as the curse of Iskra takes effect on our young warrior and everyone he loves. He will never be the same again.

When a vengeful ghost begins haunting New York's City Hall, Mayor Adam Winter has only one option left: Julius W. Bygone, Supernatural Sleuth of Shadows.

"𝓲 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓲 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮" ••• || 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 . . . . Stacy Sawyer and Wally Clark's lovestory ended the day it began ••• WALLY CLARKE × FEM!OC SCHOOL SPIRITS; school spirits season one ✎ | school spirits season two ✗ | STANDALONE ¡¡TW!!; mentions of suicide ••• established: 7/30/23 published: 8/16/23 completed: tba ••• RANKINGS: #19 - Hauntings - 3/29/24 #1 - Charley - 11/27/23 #2 - Rhonda - 1/8/24 #4 - Schoolspirits - 8/19/23 #1 - Simonelroy - 11/27/23 #7 - Wallyclark - 9/2/23 #1 - Mrmartin - 3/29/24 #17 - Haunting - 1/8/24 #3 - Murdermystery - 10/10/23

When seventeen-year-old Naya Porter moves from Boston to rural Georgia to live with her dad and aunt, she expects to be bored out of her mind. But there's something in the woods behind her aunt's house that has other plans for her. Something old and hateful that's trapped behind a twelve-foot-high brick wall that her family has guarded for generations. With the accompaniment of four new acquaintances from school, ranging from emerging crush to low-key nemesis, Naya must lead a deadly expedition through a breach in the wall where she'll encounter a nightmare-scape mash-up of horrifyingly real haunted houses. **New parts drop weekly on Fridays. Start your 2026 off right with some creepy horror!**

He was adored for his beauty and feared for his cruelty. Then he was cursed. Exiled to the bell tower of Saint-Sulpice, Édouard Valmont becomes a monster in the eyes of the city. Merely an unseen voice behind the ringing bells. But when a traveling performer named Lysander discovers the man beneath the deformity, something begins to awaken inside Édouard: a longing he has never known. Yet the cathedral hides more than stone and prayer. And when a powerful church official's obsession turns into a threat, Édouard must confront the darkest truth of all: redemption may require a price he cannot pay. A gothic tragedy of love, vanity, and the unbearable weight of becoming worthy.

Liora Vaeloria has lived long enough to know that love is the most dangerous hunger of all. For a thousand years, one soul has followed her through time - not reborn, not remade, but returned exactly as he was. The same face. The same voice. The same Nomad‑green eyes ringed with brown that once lifted to her from a knight kneeling in devotion... and closed forever when she killed him. Every century, he comes back as a perfect doppelgänger of the man she loved first and lost worst. Different lives. Different sins. Same soul. Same ruin. Every lifetime ends the same way: She saves him. She turns him. He hungers for more. And she is forced to end him before the darkness consumes them both. Liora is Vaelorian - immortal, ancient, bound to a bloodline that gives life with one breath and steals it back with the next. She carries the curse of her own making: the night she turned her beloved knight against his will, shattering his soul and trapping them in a cycle of love, death, and unbearable longing. He never remembers her. He never remembers himself. But she remembers every version of him - every smile, every betrayal, every final breath. Now he is Evan Mercer. Human. Mortal. Kind. And completely unaware that he has died in her arms more times than she can bear to count. He doesn't know he is the man she has killed a dozen times. He doesn't know he is the only one her heart has ever chosen. He doesn't know he is the one fate keeps dragging back to her - and the one she is terrified to love again. Even if fate claws at their heels. Even if her people whisper that he is the doom of their bloodline. Even if loving him again means breaking the world - or breaking herself. Some souls return. Some curses bind. And some loves burn so fiercely, even eternity cannot extinguish them.

He was born a gentleman. He became a scoundrel. And now, he's bound by a curse. After the death of his infant son, Dorian Vale is willing to do anything to save his grieving wife and rewrite destiny. His desperation awakens a dark power older than the mortal world... one that offers help at a terrible price. To protect the people he's already failed, Dorian will make the one bargain he can never take back. A bargain that will deliver him straight into the shadows... and eventually into the path of a girl named Lenora.

When a strange storm crashes through Adventure Bay, Skye begins to experience visions-haunting dreams of a mysterious kingdom, burning skies, and a prince who looks just like Chase. But when a glowing symbol appears beneath her collar, Skye realizes these aren't just dreams-they're memories from a life she never knew she had. As Skye unravels the truth, she discovers she's not just a pup with wings-she's the last descendant of the Midnight Line, a royal bloodline cursed to be forgotten and hidden from the world. The curse was meant to keep her safe... but now it's breaking. Meanwhile, Chase has been keeping secrets of his own. He's been waking up in strange places, hearing whispers in the wind... and every time he looks at Skye, his heart aches in a way he can't explain. Their connection is ancient. Their fate is bound by stars, shadows, and stolen time. But someone else knows the truth. Someone who wants the Midnight Line to die with Skye. And they'll stop at nothing to make sure she never finds her wings again. In a world where love is forbidden, magic is hidden, and destiny is written in moonlight... can Chase and Skye rewrite the stars?

okay, listen, I know I promised Jason adopting Danny so I will do that in between this but I needed to write this, 16 -not 15- AU. Dazai died btw!

In a village where the river remembers names and the soil listens, silence is never empty. Noziphozamandla (Gift of Power) returns home carrying a grief she does not yet understand-unaware that death has already crossed her path, that her bloodline hums with secrets older than language. At night, the drum begins to speak. Soft at first. Patient. Calling not to her ears, but to her spirit. Children chant where no children should be. Shadows move without bodies. And something small watches from the dark, waiting to be acknowledged. Rooted in South African ancestral lore and whispered truths of witchcraft, When the Drum Speaks is a slow-burning, unsettling journey into the unseen, where amadlozi (ancestors) walk beside the living, gifts are inherited in silence, and ignorance is the most dangerous curse of all. Some stories are read. Others are answered.

"𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮'𝓼 𝓷𝓸 𝓭𝓸𝓾𝓫𝓽 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽, 𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓳𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓼𝔂" ••• || 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 . . . . Matilda Lockwood is forced to make up with her brother and face her painful past, but of course, that can't be done without a couple of obstacles and a talking skull ••• FEM!OC × MULTIPLE LOCKWOOD & CO SERIES / BOOKS; lockwood & co. season 1 ✎| lockwood & co.: the hollow boy ✗| lockwood & co.: the creeping shadow ✗| lockwood & co.: the empty grave ✗| STANDALONE !!TW¡¡; mentions of suicide, insomnia ••• established: 2/3/23 published: 2/3/23 completed: tba ••• RANKINGS #1 - Flobones - 5/25/23 #8 - Hauntings - 2/21/23 #8 - Georgekarim - 1/8/23 #39 - Locklyle - 1/12/23 #3 - Quillkipps - 6/6/23 #15 - Georgecubbins - 4/23/23 #36 - Lucycarlyle - 4/23/23 #7 - Lockwood - 8/8/23

Elias is an ordinary young man living a quiet, simple life in the foggy town of Greyhaven. He loves books more than anything and finds comfort in their silence and stories. One evening, by sheer chance, he discovers a mysterious black book hidden among his familiar collection. Its presence subtly disturbs his reality, introducing whispers, strange shadows, and a feeling of being watched. Though nothing overtly supernatural occurs yet, the discovery hints at a hidden world beyond ordinary perception. As Ethan navigates his daily life, the book quietly begins to pull him toward mysteries he does not yet understand.

For 200 years, two families were destroyed by an evil curse casted by the town's witch, making sure the daughter of the Jones family dies on her 20th birthday. It is now up to Lyra and her two best friends to solve the riddle of the curse after years of hearing a story about a diary that could possibly be leading some clues to help break the curse, using their special powers and guidance of the caretaker's son, will they be able to diminish the hauntings or will their powers be let go and take over their souls by the witch's curse?

A single connection. And one choice that bends time just enough to ruin them both. Was it meant to be, or did time take the revenge. Was it foolish, or was it to protect own self?

Detroit isn't dead.. Far from it...a paranormal story about a Detroit community coming together and resilience

When forbidden knowledge and awakened crystals offer a way to defy death itself, the question is no longer who is good or evil - but who gets to decide what love is allowed to cost. Those called heroes protect balance by denying one man the chance to reclaim the lover the world stole from him. The one called a villain believes no law is worth a love left to rot. Between magic schools and battlefields, beasts and books, devotion and obsession, every choice fractures the world a little more. This is a story of magic and friendship. Of grief and devotion. And of a world where righteousness and cruelty often wear the same face.

A sealed floor. A boy who never left. When Elara transfers to a university full of secrets, she's drawn to the one place everyone avoids. Heeseung was never meant to be seen-until her. Some bonds defy time. Some desires refuse to stay buried.

" Time..is not a child's play. " Every change in time takes something in return. For them, it's each other.