Spooky 2-Sentence Horror Stories That Will Force You To Sleep With The Lights On

Everybody loves a good horror story. But, you would be lying if you say a bone-chilling tale has never left you sleeping with the lights on or checking under your bed right before you squeeze your eyes shut or doing a double-take before realizing it’s just a chair with a pile of clothes on.

When it comes to scary stories, bigger does not always mean better. And, these two-sentence horror stories, which are certainly not for the faint-hearted, will prove just that. So if you are ready to have a sleepless night tonight, continue reading these bite-sized stories that were shared on Reddit.

1. My sister says that mommy killed her. Mommy says that I don't have a sister.

2. I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”

3.You hear your mom calling you into the kitchen. As you are heading down the stairs you hear a whisper from the closet saying "Don't go down there honey, I heard it too."

4. There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.

5. 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.

6. They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. He had no way of letting them know he was still conscious.

7. Mum always had a strange habit of stroking my hair when I sleeping, I never really minded it; it actually started to become reassuring. That changed when she died but the stroking didn't stop.

8. After so many years living alone in this large house I came to a startling revelation. In this time I had closed far more doors than I had opened.

9. "Goodnight, dear," he whispers, folding his hand over his wife's as he lays in bed. "What did you say?" she asks, coming out of the bathroom.

10. After struggling desperately to move any part of his paralytic body just to alert the doctors that he was conscious before they made the first incision, he was relieved to see that one of the nurses had noticed his pupils dilating from the bright light. She leaned in close and, in a whisper that tickled his ear, said "you think we don't know you're awake?"

11. Years ago, a lone chair appeared in the center of the basement, and no matter how many times I put it back in the corner it always found a way back to the center. It took a long time to realize it was positioned underneath the kitchen, almost like someone had taken a seat at the dinner table with the rest of us.

12. Being buried alive was bad enough. Realizing I wasn't alone in my own grave was worse.

13. After working a hard day I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn't know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there.