Short stories tagged with Scary Plot
Listing 8 stories.
A 36-year-old Irish man indulges in his usual routine voyage from Boyle to Sligo via train, enjoying himself and his rituals, until an unsettling encounter throws his entire day off-kilter.
A young Arizonian boy is kidnapped twice: first, by his father during a custody battle, and second, by a prostitute with something to prove.
When his neighbor dies, a 12-year-old Black boy takes over her house, only to find himself at the center of a war between rival gangs and an uncontrollable hustle.
A young boy in 20th-century Los Angeles bides his time before the apocalypse by doing nothing out of the ordinary.
A Filipino-American man is contacted by an old neighbor, who warns him that a ghost of their childhood may be coming for him.
A contemporary Indian housewife’s peace is broken when she notices that her dog is locked in a dance to the death with a cobra.
Two American expatriates in modern Tanzania are mourning a lost lover in a tourist inn when a murderous hyena breaks their peace, hungry for the lover's corpse.
In an apocalyptic world, a dancer is performing a long-lost routine at her old, now-abandoned theater when her former dance partner unexpectedly appears, infected by a dangerous disease.