Frozen Fright Syndrome Novels & Stories

It was one of the cases he couldn’t get out of his head. Young, beautiful women found in a basement and encased in ice. Their features were forever frozen in time. Their beauty was captured like some horror portrait. It was something they couldn’t unsee no matter how they closed their eyes. The mother was found locked in a cage and her head twisted completely around. It was enough to give the department nightmares for weeks. He took a moment to glance at the TV. He forgot he turned it on. Dr. Freyman’s attack was all over the news.

However, she couldn't help herself just to let out the lingering beam in her tender heart. Now all that beautiful smile and thought of sweet memories in a lonely cold winter soon dwindled away softly, over the next few days as nothing much seemed to happen. Yet still trouble by the powers of those tragic memories of the death of her best friend and dad. Freya now became fixated on the window and could barely walk around the new neighborhood. Unable to cope with her fears and with the coldness that was rapidly spreading inside her fragile body like a living creature, Freya withdrew into her imaginary self shell. Several times she would feel lost in the blue as though she had no knowledge of h

Zara’s eyes widened, a shiver crawling over her skin. Fear, cold and sharp, gripped her chest, creeping through every fiber of her being. Her hands trembled, her breath caught in her throat… the nightmare she had been trying to escape was now closing in with terrifying certainty.

Could only watch as she raised the knife higher, panting hard, chest heaving like a rabid animal. “You bitch!” she snarled, spit flying from her mouth. Lincoln and Zoey’s voices ripped through the air at the same time. “FREYA!!!” I squeezed my eyes shut, heart exploding in my chest, every beat screaming this is it. I waited for the sharp, burning pain to tear through me. But nothing happened. No pierce. No white-hot agony. My eyes flew open instantly. My temperature dropped ten degrees in a single second. Pure terror flooded every inch of me—shock, confusion, horror—all of it crashing together so hard I felt dizzy.

Drew muttered under his breath, pasting on a smile. I did my best to follow suit, although mine probably just looked ghastly on my pale, terrified face. And we stepped into the fray. Despite how hard I’d tried to keep it together, I’d passed beyond panic into some kind of mental state I didn’t even have a word for. Both fight and flight being impossible, my sympathetic nervous system fell back on freezing me in place like a terrified rodent. Only my death-grip on Drew’s arm kept me moving around the room.

His breath came in short, ragged gasps as if he was drowning in his own fear. His body felt electrified, every nerve ending sizzling with anxiety. His skin crawled with a thousand imaginary spiders, making him want to rip his skin off. His mind was a jumble of fragmented thoughts, each one more terrifying than the last. Memories he'd long suppressed came flooding back like a dam had burst in his brain.

“Not until she says you can.” Fear rippled through the crowd. Some tried to crawl back. Others cried. A few begged. None of it mattered. Ethan turned away from them and walked back into the mansion. Up on the balcony, Lily stood frozen. Her fingers were wrapped tightly around the iron grill behind her, knuckles pale. The screams below had faded, replaced by a suffocating silence. When she heard footsteps, her breath hitched. “Lily.” She turned slowly. Ethan stood a few feet away, his shadow stretching toward her under the balcony lights. She didn’t move closer. She didn’t move away. Her eyes were wide—not with hatred, not with anger—but with something closer to fear mixed with disbelief.

The gory sight had Katniss’ mobility rapt as she stood transfixed at the spot. She was moon-eyed and agape with fright and shock, she was indeed scared to her bones. Her eyes were glued to the unpleasant scene as for some reason, she couldn’t take them off the sight. She had a strong phobia for blood and seeing this much amount of it at once was just too much for her body to handle. She began to profusely sweat as her body started to quiver. She needed to get out of there fast or else she might spaz out as a result of the phobia. But she couldn’t move neither her arms nor legs, she was frozen, stuck in place like a statue.

No sound came, not even shouts or footsteps. My heart made the loudest sounds. I was breathing in loud pants with how hard it drummed and it frustrated me. I knew I had to calm it down but I just couldn’t get my heart to slow down. Sweat coated my forehead, everything pounding. A voice told me to give up. I was tired. I didn’t want to feel such fear. I didn’t want to feel such traumatizing coldness and dread. Then I froze. I swear I seized even breathing. The door gave him away.

Fear triggers to become active for self-defense or shut down the entire system. For Savannah, it was shutting down her entire system and aligning the memory one after another. The sheer morning lights entered, and they were ready to tap on her eyelids. Like her usual morning,s she cringed when those sunlights flashed on her closed lids, but the surge of pain crossed her body and started her senses actively to be in hibernate mode. She fluttered those lids and adjusted her cornea with the heavy lights, calculating it was late morning.