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Dorm Rules Horror
HardBlack Stories
1. Do not use the restroom at night. 2. The dorm provides food, but do not overeat. 3. There are not two roommates, but three! 4. There are only two roommates. 5. There is only one roommate.
Rules HorrorCreepy Afterthought
+2
16th Floor Apartment
HardBlack Stories
I'm a high-rise window cleaner. While cleaning a 16th-floor apartment window, I saw a couple kissing in bed. I could only see the man's back, but the woman was exceptionally beautiful, so I gentlemanly went to clean other floors first. When I returned, I found them still kissing. So I finished cleaning all the other floors, but when I came back to the 16th floor, I found only the upper half of a man left on the bed.
Medical OddityGore/Violent
+2
Salvation
MediumPsychological
I must save you. I failed. I will fall into deep pain. I don't regret my choice.
Sci-FiTragic Ending
+2
Snow White Rule Horror
HardMind Benders
Rules 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 are red-letter rules. 1. The Queen can live for a maximum of 3 years. 2. The Hunter spared Snow White. 3. The Hunter is absolutely loyal to the Queen. 4. The Hunter is very grateful to the Queen for saving him. 5. The Seven Dwarfs saved Snow White from the trap. 6. The Magic Mirror said Snow White was the most beautiful woman, and the Queen was very angry. 7. Snow White's beautiful appearance captivated the Prince. 8. The Witch gave Snow White an apple. 9. Snow White died in front of the Witch. 10. The resurrected Snow White and the Prince lived happily ever after.
Rules HorrorFairy Tale Remake
+3
Sister's Room
HardBlack Stories
Sounds of sneakers rubbing the floor came from my sister's room. The door was ajar, so I opened it and looked inside. My sister's empty gaze was fixed on me. I rushed to call security, and then I died.
Creepy AfterthoughtGore/Violent
+2
Who is Liar
HardMind Benders
Number One: I killed the burden. Before I died, I think I heard someone jump off a building. Number Two: I told them not to fight amongst ourselves, but Number Three strangled Number Five to death, and her own face turned a terrifying green. Number Three: Number Four and her boyfriend went their separate ways from us on a bus. What surprised me was that Number Five was actually a man. Number Four: I was shot. Due to unequal distribution of spoils, everyone had ulterior motives. It seems only one person can leave alive today. Number Five: Number Four discovered Number Six was poisoning Number Three, so she shot Number Six, but she seemed to have been shot herself. Number Six: I saw Number One cook a meal. After eating, Number Two killed Number One. Hint: This is a pure deduction puzzle. Only one person in the story is lying. Restore the truth in any order. (Recommended play: It's best not to ask the liar sequentially, or use a binary search method.)
Identity TwistPlot Twist
+3
Giant Dream
HardBlack Stories
Before my business trip, I found my wife had drawn a strange man. She said, 'This giant, I dreamed he held me in his hand and killed me.' It was just a dream, so I didn't pay attention. But when I returned from my business trip, I found my wife dead at home. The police sighed after their investigation: 'Alas, the sixteenth one.'
SupernaturalCrime
+2
Boy's Promise
MediumPsychological
The girl gave the boy a condition: if he met it, she would be his girlfriend. Later, the boy met the condition, but the girl went insane.
Tragic EndingCreepy Afterthought
+2
Black StoriesFun ComedyPsychologicalLogic PuzzleMind Benders
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She Is Waiting For Me At University
MediumBlack StoriesSubmitted by:刘静
A female senior schoolmate stroked my head and said: I'll wait for you at the prestigious university, okay? I failed the first year, failed the second year, succeeded in the third year. I finally got to meet her, but unfortunately she could not recognize me.
Tragic EndingPlot Twist
+2
The Battle for the Throne
MediumLogic PuzzleSubmitted by:刘静
Two princes are competing for the right to inherit the throne. The king arranges a small boat race for them, with the rule that the first party to touch the finish shore will obtain the throne. The stronger older brother stays in the lead the whole race. When he is 20 meters away from the finish, the younger brother is still far behind him. However, the one who finally inherits the throne is not the older brother, but the younger brother. Why
Plot TwistWordplay
+2
The Villa Family That Lives in the Basement
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:月下櫻桃OwO
My parents own a villa, but they say a person should know how to embrace humble, simple living, so my whole family lives in the basement. One day, I saw my dad's car had been in a collision, and the person inside was too badly damaged to identify. I rushed home immediately, only to find my parents were completely unharmed. From that day on, my family no longer had to live in the basement.
Plot TwistIdentity Twist
+3
Am I Dead?
HardPsychologicalAuthor:月下櫻桃OwO
I'm dead. This time it's for real. I must be dead, right? Am I dead?
Identity TwistSupernatural
+2
Ward 407
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:芮
I am a night shift nurse in charge of the third floor of the inpatient department. The head nurse repeatedly warned me that I must never take the initiative to enter Ward 407 at the end of the third floor, nor respond to any sounds coming from inside. She said the patient inside had a special condition, their family had given up treatment, and only basic monitoring was maintained. The door is normally locked from the outside, and it is only opened when doctors make their fixed weekly ward rounds. The first few nights were completely quiet. When I passed Ward 407, I could only hear the faint, regular beeping of the monitor inside. Until my third night shift, at two o'clock in the morning, I heard a soft call coming from the ward. It was a girl's voice, soft and gentle, constantly calling: "Nurse... help me..." I remembered the head nurse's words, quickened my pace and walked away, pretending not to hear. But every night after that, this sound would ring on time. Sometimes it was a cry for help, sometimes soft sobbing, and occasionally there were knocks on the ward door, "tap, tap, tap". That night, I was sorting medical records at the nurse's station when I noticed that the call bell for Ward 407 was actually lit. I hesitated for a long time, and curiosity overcame my fear. I took the keys and walked to the door. The old lock made a harsh creaking sound when I turned it. I slowly pushed the door open a crack. The ward was dimly lit, and the monitor was still beeping. A person was lying on the hospital bed, covered by a thick quilt that hid them from head to toe. I asked softly, "Did you press the call bell? Is there anything that hurts?" There was no answer from under the quilt, and the monitor continued to beep steadily. I took two steps forward, wanting to reach out and lift the quilt to take a look. Just then, a cold, dry hand stretched out from under the quilt and grabbed my wrist. I was so scared that I tried to break free, only to find that the hand had terrifyingly great strength. I hurriedly looked at the monitor screen at the head of the bed, and the heartbeat line on it was a flat, straight horizontal line. I screamed for help as hard as I could, but the entire third floor was empty, with no other nurses or patients around. The next morning, the relieving nurse came to the nurse's station. The medical records were neatly arranged, my work uniform was draped over the chair, and I was gone. The door to Ward 407 was still properly locked from the outside.
Rules HorrorSupernatural
+3
Homecoming
MediumPsychologicalAuthor:evolutionLAN
I returned to my hometown, saw the familiar house, saw my family, and felt very content. Then all of them vanished, leaving me all alone.
Tragic EndingMental Disorder
+1
Lodging
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:芮
I had to temporarily move in with my distant elderly aunt to lodge there after an accident happened in my family. This is a very old two-story small building, with yellowed wall plaster, and the stairs creak loudly when you step on them. The old lady said all the rooms on the second floor were locked, told me to only stay in the bedroom by the window on the first floor, and absolutely never go upstairs at midnight, nor knock on the doors on the second floor. The first few days were completely peaceful. The old lady didn't talk much, she made dinner for me every evening, and went back to her own room to rest early right after we finished eating. Around the fifth day of my stay, I started hearing sounds at night. It was a soft, intermittent knocking sound coming from the direction of the second floor, "Tap, tap...", with a very slow rhythm. I asked the old lady if there was something upstairs, she just shook her head with a dark face, said it was the wood of the old house expanding and contracting with temperature changes, told me not to overthink it and go to sleep early. After that day, the knocking sound appeared on time every night. Sometimes it was knocking on the floor, sometimes it sounded like the tiny scratching noise of nails scraping against wood. One night, I woke up feeling thirsty. By the moonlight, I saw a thin shadow swaying back and forth under my door. I held my breath and didn't dare move. After a while, the shadow disappeared. The next morning, I told the old lady about this, she stroked the top of my head after listening, smiled and said I was just having a nightmare. Two days later, I couldn't hold back my curiosity. When the old lady went out to buy groceries, I quietly walked to the stairway leading to the second floor. All the doors had rusted locks hanging on them, except for the innermost one, whose lock was loose, and it opened with a light push. The room was full of dust, and all the furniture was covered with white cloth. Right in the middle of the room stood a tall full-length mirror. I walked in front of the mirror and looked at myself. But the me in the mirror moved half a beat slower. I raised my hand, and the person in the mirror raised their hand a few seconds later. I stepped back one step, the person in the mirror didn't follow, they just stood there, looking at me quietly. I was so scared that I turned around and ran straight downstairs. As soon as I reached the first floor, I ran right into the old lady who came back carrying groceries. The old lady saw me coming down the stairs, the smile on her face vanished immediately. That night, the knocking sound never rang again. In the middle of the night, I felt someone sitting on the edge of my bed. The next day, the neighbors found that both the old lady and I had disappeared from this small building.
SupernaturalCreepy Afterthought
+3
Night Shift Janitor
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:芮
I work as a night shift janitor at a shopping mall. I only start cleaning every day after the mall closes and all customers have left. This night was just like any other: the entire building was dead quiet, the only sound was the rolling of my mop cart, and the security guard in the monitoring room would occasionally chat with me over the walkie-talkie. I cleaned floor by floor, and when I got to the women's clothing section on the third floor, I caught a faint fishy stench. I assumed it was some rotting garbage somewhere, didn't think much of it, and kept wiping the mirrors in the fitting rooms. The door of one of the fitting rooms was ajar. I reached out and pushed it open. The room was empty, save for a small dark puddle on the floor. I mopped up the puddle and was about to leave, when I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye that something was off with the fitting room mirror. In the mirror, there was a person standing right behind me. I spun around sharply, but there was nothing behind me at all, completely empty. My hair stood on end, I quickly called the security guard over the walkie-talkie, but all I got was static rustle, no response from the guard at all. I didn't dare stay any longer, I pushed my janitor cart and ran for the elevators. The elevator took forever to arrive, so I turned and bolted for the emergency exit stairwell. The motion-activated lights in the stairwell went out one by one every few steps I took. I ran for my life down the stairs all the way to the ground floor lobby. All the lights in the lobby were on, but the space was completely empty, and the main entrance was locked tight. Right then, I heard the mall PA system turn on. The soft background music that usually plays during daytime hours was playing, mixed with a deep, low voice that slowly called out my name. The next day, when the police arrived at the mall, they only found my janitor cart. I was gone without a trace.
Creepy AfterthoughtCrime
+3
Snow
MediumBlack StoriesSubmitted by:芮
In winter, every time Mom went out she told me to take good care of my little sister. When she came back, my little sister had vanished. In spring, my little sister showed up again
Gore/ViolentFamily
+2
Thud, Thud, Thud
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:DEKU
I just got home and found the front door open. I saw that my parents' room was completely covered in blood, so I hid under the bed in my upstairs bedroom. After a moment, I was literally scared to death.
Gore/ViolentCrime
+3
Five Words
HardPsychologicalAuthor:月下櫻桃OwO
Happiness, Perfection, Rules, Self-Esteem, Freedom.
Plot TwistIdentity Twist
+2
The Invisible Family Portrait
HardBlack StoriesAuthor:月下櫻桃OwO
Late at night, a father sits in the living room with his son. The father points at the family portrait, smiles and says: "This is me, this is you, and she is your mom." Then he points to another person next to them: "This is your uncle." The son stays silent for a very long time, then suddenly rushes into the kitchen, grabs a fruit knife, and stabs his own father to death. Why?
Plot TwistFamily
+2