After keeping you up for days with our first installment of 20 Terrifying Horror Stories, we thought it would be only fair to bring you 20 more. Who needs sleep anyway? Not when there's creepy Reddit threads like this to make every sound at night seem like a murderer or demon coming to kill you. Here are 20 more horrifying two-sentence horror stories.
1. Gagege
The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments though, when he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand.
2. bentreflection
The grinning face stared at me from the darkness beyond my bedroom window. I live on the 14th floor.
3. Mikeyseventyfive
They delivered the mannequins in bubble wrap. From the main room I begin to hear popping.
4. KnowsGooderThanYou
They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. He had no way of letting them know he was still conscious.
5. yoshkow
The pairs of emaciated eyes outnumber the single round in my gun. With pleading tears falling on her doll's hair, I point the barrel at my last surviving daughter.
6. marino1310
I just saw my reflection blink.
7. Pleguyfry22
I burned the dolls even though my children cried. They did not understand my fear because they assumed I was who moved the dolls into their beds each night.
8. Nurseish
I hesitantly scrolled through a website full of pictures of me sleeping and realized that in each image the strange man gets closer to my bed. In the one uploaded last night he was lifting the blanket.
9. iamtheassbutt
My sister says that mommy killed her. Mommy says that I don't have a sister.
10. Scry67
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.
11. hctet
Working the night shift alone tonight. There is a face in the cellar staring at the security camera.
12. Miami_Metro
When we bought the house I assumed the scratches on the inside of the basement door were from a dog, but the neighbors say the previous owner didn't have one. This morning the scratches had multiplied.
13. AnarchistWaffles
Don't be scared of the monsters, just look for them. Look to your left, to your right, under your bed, behind your dresser, in your closet but never look up, she hates being seen.
14. scabbycakes
Being the first to respond to a fatal car accident is always the most traumatic thing I see as a police officer. But today, when the crushed body of the little dead child boy strapped in his car seat opened his eyes and giggled at me when I tried to peel him out of the wreckage, I immediately knew that today would be my last day on the force.
15. Horseseverywhere
It sat on my shelf, with thoughtless porcelain eyes and the prettiest pink doll dress I could find. Why did she have to be born still?
16. StoryTellerBob
I kiss my wife and daughter goodnight before I go to sleep. When I wake up, I'm in a padded room and the nurses tell me it was just a dream.
17. pgan91
She wondered why she was casting two shadows. After all, there was only a single lightbulb.
18. Graboid27
I can't move, breathe, speak or hear and it's so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.
19. anonymous_abc
You start to drift off into a comfortable sleep when you hear your name being whispered. You live alone.
20. ichokedcheryltunt
Nurse's Note: Born 7 pounds 10 ounces, 18 inches long, 32 fully formed teeth. Silent, always smiling.
For more two-sentence horror stories, check out Volume 1.