Liminal Space Scary Novels & Stories

Staggering to my bedroom out of exhaustion, I slumped against the couch heavily, my mouth flung open as I gasped for breath. A silent cry escaped my lips as Lucille's last cold stare invaded my memory. The sensation was eerie. The air was quiet, and tense, as fear travelled throughout every inch of my body. Goosebumps broke free on my body as the air at the back of my neck stood erect. It felt like a pair of eyes was silently gawking at me. But by the time I turned to look, nothing came into view. It must be Lucille. Even in death, she continued to torment

I’m transfixed, staring at his Adam's apple, when his silvery voice snaps me out of my trance. “I don’t like asking twice for things,” he says, his voice rough and low. I immediately know he’s referencing the comment he made while I was on stage. ‘Off’. Chills run through me. I instinctively take a step back as he steps forward. I take another small step back, and I stumble slightly. For a split second, a wave of terror washes over me. It’s like that feeling you get when you walk up the staircase at night and expect a step that isn’t there. For a split second, you’re stuck in limbo. Flailing in darkness, as your foot crashes through thin air.

Screw what we want. It appears just past a cluster of split birch trees, nestled like a secret between sloping banks and creeping vines. The surface is so still it doesn’t look like water. More like black glass, stretched thin over something bottomless. It’s creepy as hell and I want to get as far away from it as possible. Scarlett’s the one who sees it first. She stops hard, arm shooting out to halt the rest of us. “Oh,” she says. Just that. Quiet and tight. Like she recognizes it and doesn’t like it.

I said, feigning innocence. I glanced around after speaking. It was true. There wasn't a single living person in sight, but ghosts were everywhere. "This place is cursed!" Charlotte snapped. "I can't even stop. The moment I even think about it, it feels like needles are piercing my hands." Even as she spoke, her hands kept moving. Fear flickered across her face at the scene before her. The terror in her eyes was truly a rare sight to behold. "Is this your doing? Did you come up with all these tricks to scare me? You just want revenge for all the times I picked on you at school, don't you?"

Nari There is something familiar about this place , its cold darkness chills me to the bone . There is something terrifying, almost demonic feeling . I feel like I am not fully in this place , almost intruding on someone else's nightmare . The moment the thought pops into my head I realise that's exactly what I have done , without realising I had crossed planes into someone's nightmare . Well I am already here ; I think as I slowly creep along the dark cold corridor leading to the goddess knows where .

Floating in between euphoria. "I am so close. Linc. I am so close. I am scared. Oh God. Oh fuck. I am so scared. Please." I whimper. I actually am getting scared. The height he has taken me, it is not something I could safely come down from. Not in this wet steamy bathroom with all my muscles feeling like mush. "Don't be scared, love. I have got you. I have got you." Linc says, he is kissing my inner thighs. Gently.

His touch was a rare comfort in the midst of the chaos, and I found myself focusing on his presence, trying to draw strength from it. “So, what’s your go-to scary movie?” I asked, attempting to shift my focus. Just then, a menacing figure with a knife appeared in front of us, tilting its head in a grotesque manner. I instinctively recoiled, brushing against Darius’s body in the process. The figure passed us with a ghostly grace, clearly enjoying the fear it evoked. I felt a cold shiver sweep through me, and goosebumps pricked my skin, a familiar sensation reminiscent of the unsettling feeling I got before summoning a storm.

It is as if the person in front of him had suddenly transformed from a harmless and non-threatening unknown animal to a menacing prehistoric beast, opening its mouth and revealing its terrifying fangs! Even as a powerhouse as he calls himself and indeed is, he immediately feels an indescribable horror as his body begins trembling uncontrollably. The other experts and people also feel a rather unusual, strange, and freezing air. Although they don't understand what exactly is happening, the cold air is like a sharp dagger viciously scraping their bodies, causing them all to shiver violently. "What... What's going on?" This is the skepticism everyone has. Suddenly, amidst a blow that is an inch

"You know you're more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark." Lillian seemed to be listening to nothing, which probably meant that the resident poltergeist Jeremiah was talking to her. "Jeremiah says he was afraid of closed spaces." She looked perplexed. "I'm not even going to try and explain that to them." "Heights --" "Not a damn thing --"

[Content warning: Mentions of death, blood, trauma, and disgusting elements] Danielle and the male lay awake silently beside her, shivering in terror. Emlyn gulped uneasily as he tried his best to calm down the raging fear in his mind. Luckily for them, for some reason, the monster was no longer facing them but opposite with its back filled with wriggling limbs before them. It was quite disturbing but much better than the maggot-covered, huge-sized face that had been facing them.