Free Stories from One More Before Sleep

This collection gathers free short horror stories from One More Before Sleep, an imprint devoted to quiet, slow-burn horror. These stories focus on ordinary people in familiar places, where something subtle goes wrong and refuses to be set right. Atmospheric, restrained, and human, these tales are offered freely as an entry point into a world where fear lingers long after the last page.

Nightmare

Clarise hasn't slept through the night in months. Every time she closes her eyes, she's dragged into vivid nightmares that feel too real to dismiss. As the dreams return night after night, growing darker and more personal, Clarise begins to fear that something within them is watching... and waiting.

Clarise hasn't slept through the night in...

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I Love You Daddy

A solo hike into the Arizona desert was supposed to be a test of endurance.

Instead, it becomes a descent.

When the ground gives way beneath him, a man finds himself trapped underground—injured, isolated, and running out of time. As he searches for a way out, he discovers he is not alone. The caverns below are old, deliberate, and filled with...

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The Tattie Bogle

Rowena plans a quiet weekend alone in the woods, camping by a creek far from roads and other people. She knows the old stories her grandmother used to tell, warnings about the Tattie Bogle, folklore meant for children and places that no longer matter. Some stories are remembered because forgetting them is dangerous.

Rowena plans a quiet weekend...

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