horror novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “horror”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• Apocalypse: I Hear My Genius Husband's Sins
  

  With the dead at the stairwell door, the genius who will save humanity sends his wife down to hold it. She hears every lie he tells, and now she hears what he is hiding.

  contemporary · thriller · female lead

  32 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• They Wanted My Haunted House, I Let Everyone Leave
  

  My relatives came to claim my haunted inheritance. The ghosts' rules were clearer than my family's manners, and the key would let me keep everyone who broke them. At sunrise I had to choose which kind of host I wanted to be.

  contemporary · female lead · horror

  24 chapters published

• They Fed Me to the Dead, So I Woke Up Before the End
  

  Reese Tolland died on the roof of the last safe base, cut open by her boyfriend while her best friend held her hand. She wakes twenty-four days before the dead rise, and the people who killed her have woken too.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Dying to Marry Him
  

  A smut author is dragged into a deadly show where eight brides must vow themselves to a faceless monster. Every bride who copies the safe vow dies, so she vows to tell him a story every night and never the ending.

  contemporary · female lead · dark romance

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Dead Girl's Wheel of Wish
  

  A week after the campus beauty jumped from a roof, a wheel of wishes appears on the school forum and every spin comes true. Jo is the only one who refuses to spin, and the whole school calls her a murderer for it.

  contemporary · female lead · dark

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Whole Town Forgot My Sister Overnight, So I Made Them Look at Her
  

  The night of her engagement party, Callie Coker sits alone for her future mother-in-law's antique camera and vanishes from her sister's couch at midnight. By morning there are three plates on the family table, her room is a sewing room, and her fiancé is engaged to someone else. Only Haley remembers, because Callie pulled her hand into the picture.

  contemporary · female lead · horror

  24 chapters published

• Rule One Said I Was the Only Person Awake After Midnight, but My Mother Never Sleeps
  

  A broke caregiver takes the night desk at an old lake hotel in the off-season, where a laminated card says that after midnight she is the only person awake. Her mother has dementia and wanders every night, and on the first night a man knocks on the glass while he is also asleep upstairs.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Horror Game? Looks Cute
  

  Juno Haddon taps a honey jar in an unreleased cozy village game and wakes inside it. By nine o'clock the cute animals have split faces, the friendly survivors have thrown her out the door, and the seven-foot teddy bear hunting her has a human eye.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  24 chapters published

• Draven Steals My Game Then Hell Takes Us
  

  On the day his forged noncompete expires, Andrew is trapped with his coworkers inside the hell-linked game he secretly built, where he must clear seven deadly-sin trials alongside Fin, the judge who risks everything to help him escape.

  forbidden love · romantic comedy · sci-fi

  17 chapters published

• Accidentally Pregnant with the Horror Boss
  

  Trapped in a death-game mansion with her glasses smashed, a nearsighted preschool teacher kisses the tall stranger in the dark, and he answers from the head he's holding in his hands.

  contemporary · survival · female lead

  32 chapters published