# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/61 "2023-05-20T17:06:05Z")
I’m feeling all tingly inside. I wish I hadn’t eaten that spider. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/62 "2023-05-22T10:28:08Z")
You swallowed the spider to catch the fly, and I don’t know why you swallowed the fly. Perhaps you’ll die. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/63 "2023-05-22T17:42:45Z")
Right before he died, my grandfather stared at me with his one good eye, the other decimated long ago by a dynamite accident that claimed half of his face. He said, “Billy, I don’t believe in ghosts; I’m certain of them, and soon, you will be certain too.” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/64 "2023-05-25T14:34:06Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Michael Collins orbited the far side of the moon. > > He heard a knock on the hatch. “Aldrin, this is Houston; you’re reporting a possible equipment malfunction during EVA?” “Roger, that, Houston, you wouldn’t believe the size of the wad of bubblegum I just stepp…WAIT A MINUTE!” ---
**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:** [June 19, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/65 "2023-06-19T02:49:14Z")
“Haw, haw, Mister Clown, I know you can’t come out of the sewer to get me, so I’m just gonna stand right here, in the middle of the street, and you can just have that paper boat, you jerk,” Nelson sneered at the baleful yellow eyes in the storm drain. Seconds later, the manhole cover at his feet blew into the air, taking some skin off his nose; the creature rose from the hole and Nelson’s yellow rain slicker went completely crimson, then all that was left was one Keds sneaker – the left – in the road. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/66 "2023-06-19T04:24:38Z")
I had this dream last night, you know, the kind that begins innocently enough but then it starts to slip away from you, and you’re along for the ride because you can’t wake up, but you should really wake up, because you know it’s only going to get worse, and then things start to happen that make no sense but you still can’t wake up because you’re somehow tied to this illucid reality and it won’t let you wake up, and you’re screaming inside your head, trying to shake yourself awake, but you stay with the dream because deep down, you really want to be there, you want to follow it wherever it leads, to whatever terror awaits ahead, and you’re feeling queasy, with a knot in your stomach that won’t go away, it only grows, and you know, you absolutely know without any uncertainty that something awful is about to happen, something that you should not be witnessing, but it’s there and you can’t look away, and then this shadow grows from a small point to envelop you and squeeze you and speak, dear God it’s speaking in this horrible tongue from deep within your psyche, these words that aren’t words, filling your ears, your mind, and — your phone rings and you wake up, and breathe, thank God it was only a dream, it wasn’t real, but then you realize you’re awake and it’s here with you. And you scream. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/67 "2023-06-19T04:38:36Z")
“But you said these mushrooms were edible!”, I whispered while groaning in agonizing pain. And the last words I heard were “Well, you ate them, didn’t you?” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/68 "2023-06-19T14:12:06Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > It’s a hole. Nothing remarkable about it, save for the strange odor and faint, gurgling sounds coming from it. I’d still prefer it if you put on some pants. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/69 "2023-06-19T16:31:35Z")
I think you want the “One-Sentence Horror Story” thread there. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/70 "2023-06-19T16:38:06Z")
Groping for the light switch, she thought anything would be better than not knowing what was making that hideous sound in the darkness. She was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/71 "2023-06-19T20:11:28Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’d still prefer it if you put on some pants. I’ll have you know that I’m always wearing pants. On my head. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/72 "2023-06-20T14:14:15Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > I’ll have you know that I’m always wearing pants. On my head. Let’s see: Two sentences, pretty horrific. Yeah, it’ll do. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/73 "2023-06-20T18:43:28Z")
While knoodling. That sounds plenty horrific to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/74 "2023-06-20T19:08:17Z")
I will haunt your dreams. Think about that. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/75 "2023-07-12T04:06:08Z")
[![](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E05/427076.jpg?b64lines=IEFSRSBZT1UgV0VBUklORyBBIEdST0NFUlkKIEJBRz8KIEkgSEFWRSBNSVNQTEFDRUQgTVkKIFBBTlRTLg==) ](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E05/427076.jpg?b64lines=IEFSRSBZT1UgV0VBUklORyBBIEdST0NFUlkKIEJBRz8KIEkgSEFWRSBNSVNQTEFDRUQgTVkKIFBBTlRTLg==) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/76 "2023-07-15T02:40:28Z")
_Something_ was in the back seat of my car the other night. It had two heads, four buttocks, eight legs and it shouted, “Oh, God,” a lot – I think it was trying to reproduce. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/77 "2023-07-15T18:43:47Z")
Trump is elected POTUS. Again. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/78 "2023-07-31T16:10:00Z")
Four-eleven in the AM; a six day streak of sleeping straight through to the alarm goes off has been broken, thanks to Taco Bell, and I’m sitting in everyone’s favorite position – taking care of business – trying not to nod off, as that could be extremely nasty and messy… . Did something just tap me on the fundament? ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/79 "2023-07-31T17:27:03Z")
Lobsters in the sewer. Giant radioactive lobsters. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/80 "2023-08-23T15:47:48Z")
Here I was, strapped into this chair, electrode affixed to an ankle, skull cap on my head, watching the clock on the wall tick off the last few moments of my life, waiting for that phone to ring. When it _did_ ring, a few seconds later, and was answered by the warden, my heart leapt into my mouth – until he said, “Sorry, wrong number,” cradled the hand-set and bellowed, “Roll on Two!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094.md?page=5)