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There are many reasons why one might enjoy a good horror story. One, for example, is the adrenaline rush after being scared. The other is that some of us like to experience overwhelming, complex emotions. It also helps that the scary stories aren't happening to you, so you can still feel relatively safe while experiencing them. 

And bigger doesn't always mean better, especially when it comes to scary stuff. Sometimes, it’s the small things or short scary stories that are the most terrifying, like an unexpected spider in the bathtub, a creaking floorboard in the dead of night, or a lizard on the wall staring right at you! Those are the real-life short horror stories that give us an adrenaline rush. 

Two-Sentence Horror Stories: Reddit Collection

The classic of the horror genre is, of course, the two-sentence scary stories. So when a now-deleted Reddit user asked others, “What is the best short horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” the answers scared everyone to death. You might want to keep the lights on for this one! 

From short scary stories about being buried alive to working the night shift alone (or not...?), this compilation of creepy stories definitely has it all. And if you are a fan of two-sentence horror stories, we promise this post will leave you scared and mindless. Let’s dig in!

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Shortest Horror Story

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

Overly helpful neighbour closed the door after you walked in, left it open, and drunkely fell asleep on the floor?

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Sibling Horror Dilemma

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Scary Story

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Spooky Visitors

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Perks Of Cremation

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Creepy Story

Creepy Story

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

Or MAYBE, the person next to you wasn't your wife...

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2 Sentence Horror Story

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Afterlife Horrors

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

I wonder, if you have a condensed ghost story, if you spilled water on it, would it grow into a short story or novel.

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Short Scary Story

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

Carolers waiting to sing, Mormons there for a service project, neighbors waiting to surprise you with a fresh coat of house paint?

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A Touch From The Other Side

A Touch From The Other Side

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

Whoa! This was totally a new take on the phantom limb aspect! Well done!

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Pet Horror Story

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

I always felt safe as a kid because I thought any strange noise in the middle of the night would be my cat.

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Something About Night Shifts And Short Horror Stories

Something About Night Shifts And Short Horror Stories

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Two Sentence Horror Story

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

I once heard some light knocking while I was drawing and listening to a CD. I looked around, saw nothing, didn't pay attention, dismissed it as some random sound. Then the album has finished and I wanted to change the CD... But atop the CD player there it was - a grasshopper as huge as a fist!

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Creepiest Of The Short Creepy Stories

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Spookiest Of The Short Horror Stories

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Most Scary Stories: Short And Terrifying

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Short Scary Stories For Sleepless Nights

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The Full Body Twitch

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

what did it capture?

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

A girl is alone at home one night, for the first time. She has a dog to keep her company. The girl listens on the news about a serial killer on the loose. She goes to sleep after locking all the doors and windows but for one, which doesn’t close. Suddenly she is awakened by a dripping sound. Scared thoroughly, she tries to go back to sleep and puts her hand down the bed for a reassuring lick from her dog. As the dripping sound continues, she goes to check on the taps in the kitchen, bathroom and everywhere else but finds nothing. She returns to her bedroom and puts the hand down again for the dog to lick. The dripping sound continues and the girl is too frightened to fall asleep. But as her hand gets licked from under the bed, she slowly falls asleep. In the morning, when she opens the closet, she finds her dog killed and hanged upside down. The dripping sound was from the dog’s blood. On the closet doors, she sees a message written in the dog’s blood– “Humans can lick too"

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

Always put the feeling of falling with why it's called, "falling asleep". Anyone else? I mean, that's a odd verb to put with it.

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

When you mentioned it I started thinking about it. So I tried google and found out that it is same in few other languages through Europe. Strange is that there is no good reason listed so I guess that there was some tale/myth/legend from which it originated but that story was forgotten.

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

No to this. I randomly shiver all the time, I don't need these thoughts!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah I get these all the time except for me its always a reoccurring nightmare that I'm walking on the 3 floor of my childhood house except all the banisters are gone and I lean over the edge to look down into our large foyer and then I'm pushed from behind by a man with no face and all of a sudden I'm falling and I look up to see the man with no face except he has a big wide mouth that stretches his whole face who is now smiling down at me and its absolutely terrifying and just as I hit impact I jerk awake. I've had this nightmare since I was a toddler and it will never go away...

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

i tried that and lets just say its disturbing and you don't wanna know what it is.....

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

I probably WILL sleep again, just not with a camera aiming at me. And with the covers on, so I don’t twitch, As well as the FBI outside my door.

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

easy again: a cookie that you hate jumps in your mouth and you try to get it out .

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

WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

actually its bc your body thinks its dying wwitch is pretty scary if you think about it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

now im incretibly curious on what it is and now have to spend the rest of the school day wondering about this

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get these all the time and I dont want to know whats actually happening.

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

Wait, what if I want to see it though. I mean, Unless it showed like E.T. or something cause that brother is scary as frick with his long neck and glowing fingers.

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

i feel like the person got stabbed by a ghost but i could be wrong

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

well, I get that many times some while sleeping any some while doing puke I would try capturing next time, by the way, what would happen?

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

I once read that your soul leaves your body at night during sleep...Is that what it captured?if so.......HOW THE F***K DO I STOP MYSELF FROM DOING THAT!?! 🤣

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

This one scares me the most cuz it’s one I can kinda relate to..Ish....I have that feeling all the time...And I’m assuming that this is trying to say that there is like a ghost or something shaking you...I read in a scary story once that your soul sometimes leaves you body when you sleep..Is that what is happening?

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

It's simmmplllle. You may think that you are falling I a dream so you did and "catch" urself therefore making ur muscles twitch. You don't have to be dreaming for this to happen. It's just a simple muscle twitch.

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

thanks, this is the point in slumber when you have those disturbing dreams and you are half awake and you are urging your body to wake up roll over scream anything, but nothing, so thanks for now I am scared to go to sleep yet yearn to because these moments always seem too happen when I am suffering from severe sleep deprivation.

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

well who pointed the camera in the first place?? omg my chair keeps moving by itsself

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Heights And Scary Short Stories

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Horror Short Stories: The Cabin In The Woods

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Can Cats See Ghosts?

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A Baby’s Laughter

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Who Opened The Door?

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

This doesn't need to be horror. It can be about some richman or a rich woman, closing him/herself up to the public, to close friends and relatives, to themselves... A celebrity with a troubled personality perhaps.

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Shhh, Someone Is Watching!

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What The Ghosts Want

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A Creepy Short Story On The Rails

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

It is way more terrible than the thought of someone, or even a train coming...

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Wrapped In Horror

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An Unsuccessful Operation

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Frozen

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When You Live Alone

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Turn On The Lights!

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Look For The Monsters

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I Never Go To Sleep

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The Grammatically Accurate Ghost

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Angel Of Death

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Just A Dream

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

This feels kinda like a sci-fi story about engineering artificial memories and experiences.

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You’ve Been Noticed!

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Pretty Skin

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Night At The Swimming Pool

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8 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Night swimmiiiiiing deseeeeeeeerves a quiet niiiiiight. ♬♪ ♥

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Wish I Could Remember

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Game Of Shadows?

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Last Man On Earth

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Spooky Headphones

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Horror On The Dining Table

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Good News

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

That sounds like the start of a dark doctor who episode...

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Short Horror Story In The Doorless Room

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A Deathly Heart Attack

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Creepy Coffin Tales

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A Spooky Funeral Story

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Wake Up!

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

You go to the bathroom first, when you hear some knocking. It was her, telling you to hurry up 'cause it's urgent.

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A Haunted Crypt

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

if it as locked from the inside, they could unlock it and leave.

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The Prettiest Pink Doll Dress

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