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5 Short Horror Stories That Will Terrify You In Just 2 Sentences
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5 Short Horror Stories That Will Terrify You In Just 2 Sentences

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Halloween is not the only occasion for scary stories, and if horror movies aren’t enough for you, we’ve got some creepy drawings that might just cater to your spine-chilling needs.

New York-based artist and CollegeHumor head illustrator Jacob Andrews has plucked some of the eeriest two-sentence horror stories from the depths of Reddit and turned them into a short series of chilling comics. Unwelcome intruders, texts from the afterlife, and dug-up bones are just a few of the themes that haunt each panel, and it’s impressive how these short horror stories manage to unsettle the reader in so few frames.

Scroll down to be spooked and get your dose of the good old-fashioned scary stories to tell in the dark. If you’re still not shaken senseless, check out more bit-sized horror stories here.

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Greta is a Photo Editor-in-Chief at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication.In 2016, she graduated from Digital Advertising courses where she had an opportunity to meet and learn from industry professionals. In the same year, she started working at Bored Panda as a photo editor.Greta is a coffeeholic and cannot survive a day without 5 cups of coffee... and her cute, big-eared dog.Her biggest open secret: she is a gamer with a giant gaming backlog.

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Greta Jaruševičiūtė

Greta Jaruševičiūtė

Author, BoredPanda staff

Greta is a Photo Editor-in-Chief at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication.In 2016, she graduated from Digital Advertising courses where she had an opportunity to meet and learn from industry professionals. In the same year, she started working at Bored Panda as a photo editor.Greta is a coffeeholic and cannot survive a day without 5 cups of coffee... and her cute, big-eared dog.Her biggest open secret: she is a gamer with a giant gaming backlog.

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Asia
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh s*it... These are intense! I kinda want more, though.

Raptorex
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, The Mobile Text One, Didn't Scare me at all, Because it can be any other family member who had seen that,But, Others are Quite Scary

Kyla Jones
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that was scariest, because my late wife and I were the only ones on our family plan, and her phone is still in the dresser drawer.

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Wasima
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mobile one happened to me... a year after my dad died, my phone rang and caller id said "Dad"... my heart stopped. Turned out it was my brother who found the sim card and called to tell me he will be using the number in future.

Emmanuel Machani
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rang my mum off a family business office line she had saved as my late sister's (who used it often) about a year after my sister's passing on. I can not explain what that did to her.

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Kiahna
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing! But... no matter how many times I read it, I just can't get the ocean one.

Christina Nordin
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have passed the "deepest" point of the ocean. Let your imagination take that further.

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Bobbi Newell
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The mobile one was sad, not scary. I liked the deep ocean one best.

FABULOUS1
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 made me laugh only because my mother just told me today that my little brother asked her where one of her long time friends worked. My mother responded back telling him that she died 2 years ago, and my brother responded back saying thats weird i just talked to her on the phone.

Just a Purpler
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoa. My goosebumps kept rising higher with every story. I probably look something similar to a porcupine right now...

Amara
Community Member
1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that these are in comic form makes them even better

Jason Marin
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I invited my girlfriend over my house for a very special dinner. I have to say, she was very delicious.

TheReader19
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love, love, love these, how imaginative, how creative. Big thumbs up

Heidi Golff
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is nothing wrong with texting your dead spouse....I highly recommend it. No one ever needs to know. It helps......

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is not with talking to the dead, the problem is when they answer (or check their messages). ;)

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Ingrid Tsai
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 isn't scary, maybe someone else is using the phone or that person is just not dead but no one knows it yet.

Tracy Moorhead
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, they were terribly creepy! Don't like the jingling keys at all!!

Zori the degu
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are indeed scary, considering they are only two sentences each.

James Grey
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#3 is really good. Otherwise...if anyone wants a real scare or just something thrilling and creepy...I invite you to read some of Shaun Allan's and Nate D. Burleigh's work on Wattpad. You won't regret it.

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I liked the deep sea one :D Sounds like the blurb of a good book.

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Think about where they are now. They know that there are so-and-so many km of water, and then there is/should be the ocean floor. They are 3 km deeper down than that well known number.

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Peri Perrin
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last man alive in the world sat alone in a room. . . . There was a knock at the door.

Dongo Dongo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's one: I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”

Ashley Hunt
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every night the shadows on my walls got bigger. Last night I realized they were really getting closer.

Lazy Panda
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well the texting one wasn't that scary because after someone dies and they don't use a number, the number can be given to anyone else when they cancel they cell and all that stuff

Mario Gutiérrez
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The one about being in the submersibke vehicle and not reaching the bottom would be freaking me out!

endelbendel
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3 is the funniest. 2 better with pronouns reversed: . . . after i died. . . .

Meara
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they didn't kill the neighbors dog in self defense, they killed it because it was good at digging up bones, probably from people that they've murdered and buried? at least that's how I understand it c:

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Cat person
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 is where they sent a text to someone who died and the message was seen, by who, we don't know (they are implying that the dead person saw it) #4 is saying that they have gone PAST what they previously believed was the bottom of the ocean

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Echo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow the "here" link's content is REALLY dark compared to these short comics.

Echo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For those who might have read the mobile one and thought like I did. The first picture is a person sending a text to someone they lost. Then it says Seen as if their ghost saw the text. For some reason, I read it as someone sending me a text as though I was dead.

Master Markus
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed at the first one because I have a dark sense of humour. The most terrifying thing about the text one was the spelling.

Baked Panda
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think its that he survived the fall only to be eaten alive by vultures ... would have been better off dead.

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Royal_Emperor
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulation! i was bored now i am terrified. The fall story is horrifying

Ash adow
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watch this ----> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2WzWC_TaA

Lucida
Community Member
7 years ago

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What? I'm I missing something here? Because I seem to be the only one thinking they're worthless.

PsychoPrincess
Community Member
7 years ago

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I'll get down voted with you. They were worthless. Eerie just to the simple.

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Asia
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh s*it... These are intense! I kinda want more, though.

Raptorex
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, The Mobile Text One, Didn't Scare me at all, Because it can be any other family member who had seen that,But, Others are Quite Scary

Kyla Jones
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that was scariest, because my late wife and I were the only ones on our family plan, and her phone is still in the dresser drawer.

Load More Replies...
Wasima
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mobile one happened to me... a year after my dad died, my phone rang and caller id said "Dad"... my heart stopped. Turned out it was my brother who found the sim card and called to tell me he will be using the number in future.

Emmanuel Machani
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rang my mum off a family business office line she had saved as my late sister's (who used it often) about a year after my sister's passing on. I can not explain what that did to her.

Load More Replies...
Kiahna
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing! But... no matter how many times I read it, I just can't get the ocean one.

Christina Nordin
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have passed the "deepest" point of the ocean. Let your imagination take that further.

Load More Replies...
Bobbi Newell
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The mobile one was sad, not scary. I liked the deep ocean one best.

FABULOUS1
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 made me laugh only because my mother just told me today that my little brother asked her where one of her long time friends worked. My mother responded back telling him that she died 2 years ago, and my brother responded back saying thats weird i just talked to her on the phone.

Just a Purpler
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoa. My goosebumps kept rising higher with every story. I probably look something similar to a porcupine right now...

Amara
Community Member
1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that these are in comic form makes them even better

Jason Marin
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I invited my girlfriend over my house for a very special dinner. I have to say, she was very delicious.

TheReader19
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love, love, love these, how imaginative, how creative. Big thumbs up

Heidi Golff
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is nothing wrong with texting your dead spouse....I highly recommend it. No one ever needs to know. It helps......

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is not with talking to the dead, the problem is when they answer (or check their messages). ;)

Load More Replies...
Ingrid Tsai
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 isn't scary, maybe someone else is using the phone or that person is just not dead but no one knows it yet.

Tracy Moorhead
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, they were terribly creepy! Don't like the jingling keys at all!!

Zori the degu
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are indeed scary, considering they are only two sentences each.

James Grey
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#3 is really good. Otherwise...if anyone wants a real scare or just something thrilling and creepy...I invite you to read some of Shaun Allan's and Nate D. Burleigh's work on Wattpad. You won't regret it.

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I liked the deep sea one :D Sounds like the blurb of a good book.

Isa Car
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Think about where they are now. They know that there are so-and-so many km of water, and then there is/should be the ocean floor. They are 3 km deeper down than that well known number.

Load More Replies...
Peri Perrin
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last man alive in the world sat alone in a room. . . . There was a knock at the door.

Dongo Dongo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's one: I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”

Ashley Hunt
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every night the shadows on my walls got bigger. Last night I realized they were really getting closer.

Lazy Panda
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well the texting one wasn't that scary because after someone dies and they don't use a number, the number can be given to anyone else when they cancel they cell and all that stuff

Mario Gutiérrez
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The one about being in the submersibke vehicle and not reaching the bottom would be freaking me out!

endelbendel
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3 is the funniest. 2 better with pronouns reversed: . . . after i died. . . .

Meara
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they didn't kill the neighbors dog in self defense, they killed it because it was good at digging up bones, probably from people that they've murdered and buried? at least that's how I understand it c:

Load More Replies...
Cat person
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#2 is where they sent a text to someone who died and the message was seen, by who, we don't know (they are implying that the dead person saw it) #4 is saying that they have gone PAST what they previously believed was the bottom of the ocean

Load More Replies...
Echo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow the "here" link's content is REALLY dark compared to these short comics.

Echo
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For those who might have read the mobile one and thought like I did. The first picture is a person sending a text to someone they lost. Then it says Seen as if their ghost saw the text. For some reason, I read it as someone sending me a text as though I was dead.

Master Markus
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed at the first one because I have a dark sense of humour. The most terrifying thing about the text one was the spelling.

Baked Panda
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think its that he survived the fall only to be eaten alive by vultures ... would have been better off dead.

Load More Replies...
Royal_Emperor
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulation! i was bored now i am terrified. The fall story is horrifying

Ash adow
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watch this ----> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2WzWC_TaA

Lucida
Community Member
7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

What? I'm I missing something here? Because I seem to be the only one thinking they're worthless.

PsychoPrincess
Community Member
7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

I'll get down voted with you. They were worthless. Eerie just to the simple.

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