r/shortscarystories↗
Short Scary Stories - The Home of Horror Flash Fiction
We deliver scares, thrills, and heart-wrenching twists in 1000 words or less
884k subscribers597 posts / mo in Sep 2026301 authors / mosince 2011
r/shortscarystories has 884k members (+2.6% over the last 12 months). It gets about 597 posts a month from 301 people. Top topics: Doorways and Rooms, Pain and Poetry and Nightmares and Shadows.
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- Doorways and Rooms0.8%
- Pain and Poetry0.6%
- Nightmares and Shadows0.6%
- Monsters Under the Bed0.6%
- Death and Afterlife0.4%
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- Substack
- TikTok
- Wattpad
- WordCounter
- Spotify
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