21 Chilling Two-Sentence Horror Stories to Creep You Out

In this fast-paced world we live in, we rarely have time to enjoy a good scary tale like back in the old days before iPads and Kindles. So, when a Reddit user recently asked, “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?,” the response was tremendous, and these short stories really fit into our Twitter-sized attention span!

These stories were picked because of how inventive and effectively scary they are, given their length constraints. You can even argue that some are better than many big budget horror movies out there.

So, below are 21 of the scariest two-sentence horror stories cherry-picked for your enjoyment.

Don’t blame us if you end up needing to sleep with the lights on tonight!