r/scarystories↗
Scary Stories
r/ScaryStories is a subreddit for original, written short horror fiction.
604k subscribers904 posts / mo in Sep 2026578 authors / mosince 2010
r/scarystories has 604k members (+9.8% over the last 12 months). It gets about 904 posts a month from 578 people. Top topics: Haunted Houses, Woods Adventures and Ghost Stories.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Haunted Houses0.7%
- Woods Adventures0.6%
- Ghost Stories0.6%
- Haunted Family Stories0.5%
- Nightmares and Shadows0.5%
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- Substack
- Medium
- Ko-fi
- Proton
- TikTok
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