The Free Library · by Alden Cross

Free scary stories,
complete and uncut.

Nothing here is monstrous. That is the problem. These are complete horror short stories — no paywall, no sign-up required to read. The monsters are the ones you already live with: an elevator that opens on a floor that was never built, an answering machine that still takes messages, a door that knocks back. Read them in bed, phone propped against the pillow, lights on. If one gets under your skin, the rest of the collection is a pay-what-you-want download.

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Story 01

The Thirteenth Stop

An elevator stops on a floor that does not exist — and the narrator's wife has been setting an extra place at the table, every single night, for forty-three nights.

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Story 02

The Machine Still Takes Messages

Her mother's answering machine is still taking messages. The newest one is from the narrator — left the night before she died, in her voice, using her name like a stranger's.

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