Riddles Scary Novels & Stories

"When I was a kid, my friends and I used to dare each other to ring the bell. We all thought it was haunted, but none of us ever got the guts to actually make it to the door." "Oh yeah? Why's that?" "I dunno, weird stuff always seemed to happen around here. I know this will sound stupid, you know, kids and all, but one time my friend Billy actually made it to the door. He was going to hit the bell when we heard this woman scream bloody murder at him, so we bolted. I think it was a rabbit under the porch or something, I hear they can scream like people." "No, it's a ghost. She's a screamer. Does that shit all the time."

The carriage had suddenly stopped in the middle of a road, beside all the other trees that grew around the path, forming a forest. The darkness in front of her eyes, wrapping her surrounding was terribly eerie. Rose didn't believe in ghost because she had never seen one. But she won't lie how scared she would be if she had seen a ghost. However, there are more scarier creature than ghosts which would be the wolves whom she was aware of their danger. "Sir?" Rose raised her voice, wondering if the coachman hear her. She called for the man again for the third time. Perhaps he couldn't hear her?

"Are you prepared to try to solve my riddle?" Indra nods, but doesn't feel very confident about her cause. "Remember, where you'll end up if you answer wrong..." The witch turns her milky eye to the guillotine in the corner of the room. "You're going to have to watch your friends go headless." Her rancorous laughter fills the room. Then she falls silent, before inhaling a raspy breath. "Are you ready? I’ll give you the riddle once only, so remember my words carefully."

Dried up grass and broken tombstones cover the landscape from as far as the eye can see. The sound of the howling wind could easily be mistaken as the groans and moans of the dead that slumber below the dense soil. Bats screech as they fly past the pale moon that hides behind passing gray clouds. Their screeching adding to the already eerie atmosphere. "I think it's a vampire," Ri says as we walk along the dusty pathway of the graveyard. "What if it's dead people."

Scarlett couldn't sleep. All through the night, she tossed and turned restlessly, plagued with images of Tabitha's dead body. One time when she managed to doze off, a bad dream terrified her. She saw herself standing before Mirah's dangling body, while Tabitha and Gretchen lay underneath her, their bodies slowly decaying. Then a mysterious figure appeared out of the darkness and pointed a finger at her, followed by an eerie whisper that said, "You are next..."

Rihanna suddenly tripped over a vase lying on the way, a scream left her lips as her eyes fell on the bloody white rose next to her. "Arrrghhhhhh!!!" She sat on her buttocks moving away from the rose, a loud lady like scream reached her ears sending more jolts of fear down her body.. "Who's there?!" Everywhere suddenly turned dark except her phone which lit up next to her, she turned the torch on and scurried to her feet.. Her feets moved towards the stairs when the strange screams grew louder and nearer no matter how far she ran.. Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, why was this happening to her now? was she finally losing her mind gradually?

But, no matter how hard he convinces himself, the fear of losing his only son haunts him constantly. When the visiting hour is up, Larry came home with a bottle of cheap rum. He drunk everything even though he doesn't really know how to drink alcoholic beverages. Even when he was young, he never really learned how to be a cool kid. --------------------- "Hello, Mr. Swanson. Good evening!" One of the high school student greeted Robert when he entered the Sunnyville Milkshake shop. He was about to grab some dinner when he saw the bullies drinking milkshakes together. They are all having fun after classes, all while one of the schoolmates is in the hospital.

It feels itchy. Naran who is hiding at the fear of facing the scary creatures at the back of Aliyon fell from a high place, a strange item also appeared coiled around his neck. ‘’Niru! There is something around my neck! Could this be one if the long black creature behind the beasty child??!’ Naran is shaking in fear that he is hesitating to see and touch it. ‘’No… It is not… ‘’Phewww, what a relief. Anyway, what is it?’’

I scream, a real one, a full-throated horror-movie shriek, and I stumble backwards into Knox’s chest. It takes my poor overcooked brain an embarrassingly long moment to understand what my eyes are showing it, which is not Rafael, not blood, not a single thing I have spent the last sixty seconds dying of fear over. It’s a room full of candles.

Victor looked up. I backed away at once, clutching the ragdoll to my chest. My palms were slick with sweat. I had no idea whether Victor had seen me or not. The ragdoll whispered angrily, "What are you doing? Are you scared of them? Weren't we supposed to scare them?" I whispered back, "We're in big trouble. There is someone terrifying down there." "So what? We have better items. Why should we be scared of him?"