# 2 sentence horror stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639 "2013-07-26T23:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/81 "2013-07-28T20:39:23Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I climbed through the hatch of the Temporal Displacement Capsule, happy to be back in my own hometime. > > “President Palin is on the phone and she wants to personally welcome you back, Major!” said Doctor Smith. Gives _me_ goosebumps… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/82 "2013-07-28T21:02:53Z")
Low black clouds swirled as I watched from my condo balcony. Then the tentacles dropped down around the building across the street and the screaming began. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/83 "2013-07-28T21:10:11Z")
The screaming woke him from the nightmare. He then realized that it wasn’t a nightmare, and that he was the one screaming. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/84 "2013-07-28T21:12:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Indeed I would, but mine’s not exactly completely original, either. > > What you’re describing, though, is typical of a late-1980s horror anthology named for (and based very loosely on) the _Nightmare on Elm Street_ films, called _Freddy’s Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series_. I like to call such shows “a human head” stories, for this exaggerated example: \ Nietzsche’s Eternal Return, in other words. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/85 "2013-07-29T00:03:43Z")
“Rick, you’ve been good to me, and I am truly grateful,” he said, smiling through tears. “I’d like to take something to remember you by, and I don’t think you’ll be needing these anymore,” he added, as he began cutting. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/86 "2013-07-29T00:10:05Z")
One side of the coffin lid was covered in dirt, and the other side was covered in scratches. Apparently, someone _really_ wanted to get their hands on the dirt that was inside that coffin. From (an item description in): [http://www.kingdomofloathing.com](http://www.kingdomofloathing.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/87 "2013-07-29T03:11:41Z")
Oh you folks are freakin’ _awesome_. I knew you could come through in this. Keep 'em coming. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/88 "2013-07-29T03:13:47Z")
[Quint](http://www.whysanity.net/monos/jaws.html)watched as the PBY lumbered into the cloudless Pacific sky, trailing streams of pink water from its white underbelly. When the thrum of the engines faded to silence, all that remained was the lapping of the waves and the high pitched screams whenever the sharks stained the ocean with yet another sailor’s blood. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/89 "2013-07-29T03:35:55Z")
When I woke up today, I decided to meet my wife at the cemetery. After all, she comes here to visit me every week. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/90 "2013-07-29T03:46:15Z")
I was 20 when the aliens arrived. Our first contact was to be our last. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/91 "2013-07-29T04:01:52Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > James Otto is the bestest singer in the world. God bless you and him always! :):)🙂 HAHAHAHAHAHA! Classic! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/92 "2013-07-29T04:02:12Z")
It turns out that it’s _not_ true that if someone’s mouth and nose are closed while sneezing their eyes will pop out. All that sewing for nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/93 "2013-07-29T04:21:26Z")
Some things make me have to blow my lunch. Usually it’s when he says something cute. [from “Dahmer in Two Sentences”] ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/94 "2013-07-29T07:23:18Z")
I’m so happy that I can finally tell my headaches are getting much worse. It means the eggs are hatching, you see, and the maggots will soon come crawling out. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/95 "2013-07-29T10:06:34Z")
“Why me?” asked Job. “Why not?” replied God. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/96 "2013-07-29T10:23:35Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > When I woke up today, I decided to meet my wife at the cemetery. After all, she comes here to visit me every week. Well done. Got another one: As in days long passed, again I fed the gulls on that familiar stretch of beach, but I could no longer hear their ravenous cries as they feasted. My ears, like the hollow sockets of my eyes, were so stuffed with sand that I could not even hear my own screams. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/97 "2013-07-29T12:09:23Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The police found no intruder, and we never got an explanation for the mysteriously ringing phone, or for the faint lingering scent of incense in an upstairs bedroom. And my wife’s missing stuffed bear has still not turned up… > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Seriously? > Ooh, creepy! I think that’s **Jackmannii** ’s second entry. . . . Right? (I stared, perplexed, at the tattered and unfamiliar teddy bear now sitting on the end of my child’s bed and gazing back at me with button eyes. It reeked of incense and something else, and its lumpy form told me that whatever it was stuffed with was certainly not cotton.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/98 "2013-07-29T12:24:10Z")
Her body felt so warm nestled against mine. But like all the other times, the warmth didn’t last. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/99 "2013-07-29T12:27:51Z")
“Oh my God” he cried out as he ran towards me, “I’m _not_ the last human on Earth!” “I certainly hope not” I replied as my fangs ripped into his tender neck. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-sentence-horror-stories/664639/100 "2013-07-29T12:46:03Z")
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