# Two-Sentence Horror Stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 24, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094 "2023-04-24T02:39:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/21 "2023-04-24T15:34:23Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > … > My young son hollered to me from the living room, asking how many legs spiders have and how large they can get. When I answered him, he casually exclaimed, “Oh, well, _that’s_ not a spider.” See also: > [@What animals would be more dangerous if enlarged?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-would-be-more-dangerous-if-enlarged/983050/27): > > Although some extant exoskeleton land critters get a bunch bigger than @Charlie_Tan’s mongo grasshopper. See here for some recent Doperish exoskeleton-equipped drama: > > > **Spoilered for potentially alarming visual once you actually go to the link. Expanding the spoiler is safe.** > > > > \ We caught an Amazonian Giant Centipede in our vacation house\ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/22 "2023-04-24T15:34:55Z")
Count Stroganoff’s fangs were millimeters from my wife’s throat, when I lunged at its face with my mother’s crucifix, which I carried with me ever since she had died. “ **JESUS CHRIST!** ” the wurdulak shouted and was immediately engulfed and consumed by a massive ball of Holy Fire. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/23 "2023-04-24T15:45:45Z")
Everything is unfolding as planned. Please do not panic yet. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/24 "2023-04-24T17:40:12Z")
First came COVID-19. Then came the widespread apathy. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/25 "2023-04-24T20:33:32Z")
I found these on the intertoobs… A mother called out to her daughter from another room. She began to search for her mother’s voice, only to be hastily pulled into a closet, where her mother whispered, “I heard it too.” **-Alysia Wilson** 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. **-Graboid27** You look like death,’ he said, brows furrowed with concern. A wide, wan smile crossed my face, flattered to be recognized, as I hooked him with my scythe and pulled him downward into the abyss. **- yesredditisaidit** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/26 "2023-04-24T22:39:06Z")
It’s a hole. Nothing remarkable about it, save for the strange odor and faint, gurgling sounds coming from it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/27 "2023-04-24T22:57:21Z")
He woke up and couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t roll over or sit up. Then he noticed all four of his limbs were across the room on top of the dresser. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/28 "2023-04-24T23:10:55Z")
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/29 "2023-04-24T23:39:06Z")
I was trying to write a post. Then @discobot showed up to help. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/30 "2023-04-24T23:39:08Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/31 "2023-04-24T23:39:36Z")
See? I told you something horrible would happen. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 24, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/32 "2023-04-24T23:47:35Z")
That one belongs in the “One Sentence Horror Stories” thread…where it has a damn fine chance of winning. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/33 "2023-04-25T00:01:38Z")
What? It wrote two sentences. It fits here just fine. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/34 "2023-04-25T00:09:11Z")
You are correct-For some reason I wasn’t seeing “Hi!” as a full sentence. And for that reason (and because I didn’t get an Erector Set for Christmas), _I am going to push The Doomsday Button!!_ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/35 "2023-04-25T00:47:07Z")
Czarcasm seems upset on his Doperversary. As he presses the Doomsday Button, the entire Doper sky begins to glow a scary unnatural chartreuse color. ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/36 "2023-04-25T07:48:25Z")
I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/37 "2023-04-25T12:01:41Z")
As Stanley was reading his newspaper on the subway, he suddenly felt a menacing presence standing before him. He lowered the paper and saw a sweaty toad of a man grimacing to the point of pain and telling him “I picked you at random to stare at you accusingly the rest of your life.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/38 "2023-04-25T13:32:01Z")
Bob wasn’t the first person to accidentally lock himself out of his vehicle. But he was the first to do it on a solo mission to Mars. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/39 "2023-04-25T13:41:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > He lowered the paper and saw a sweaty toad of a man grimacing to the point of pain and telling him “I picked you at random to stare at you accusingly the rest of your life.” “Both minutes.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/40 "2023-04-25T14:33:31Z")
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