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Inkitt Spooky Season Contest

The nights are getting darker, the weather is getting colder, and the atmosphere is getting that little bit spookier. It can all mean only one thing, that Spooky Season is well and truly here.This fall, we want you to write your creepiest, scariest, spookiest stories to celebrate this Halloween season. Whether it is a horror, thriller, suspense or mystery, your story should have the reader wanting to sleep with their light on. Are you up for the challenge?

Submit your horror, thriller, mystery or suspense novel for the chance to win a publishing contract, social media spotlights, and an Inkitt certified badge for your story!

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Vikingr: Hellraiders

When honourable Viking Chieftain Hjallmar Ulfsson raids a Christian populated island toplunder it for riches, he doesn't expect much other than be on and off the island in the same day, so that he ...

The Address From a Letter

A millionaire named Warren Niales had gone missing in the 1950s. He was never found and declared dead. When his address was investigated, the police only found natural land, no house, no nothing. I...

Mirror Man

Terry returns home expecting a welcome, and instead she finds the opposite. A silent house with no one there, she's soon terrorised by something in the house. These encounters increase in frequency...

the unknown

everyone around him is dying one by one, a close one and not so close. he thinks that he is cursed and someone is killing them that keeps on following him wherever he go.

room number 8

what is your ideal shelter? is it okay to live on a lion's den just because you don't have a choice? what if your safe place is your own enemy?

Diaries of a Fighter

What does it take to be the best MMA fighter in the world? For Nik Torsten, it takes an adventure into the dark and occasionally bizarre world of Japanese fighting organizations. It takes a journey...

For Abigail

A group of friends come together a year after their friend assumingly commits suicide when a killer in a gas mask starts picking them off one by one.

Lilies on her grave

The spirit of a young girl must bring her killer to justice before she can escape purgatory and begin her happily ever after life. Lilly Barnes was just nineteen years old when she was murdered, an...

Malumunus

Who is 'Malumunus'? Vampiric experts always claimed the name was linked to the author of the "Cain Letters," but is it something more? Is it a darker presence? A companion to Cain of the book of G...

Annie Down the Manhole

Annie Fallmison has always loved "Alice in Wonderland" since she could remember. She has always wanted to escape to Wonderland like Alice, and finally gets the chance to do so on one unassuming day...

The Video Shack

It's the final summer of the satanic panic. Andy's two friends, Tom and Dan got the best job in town. They got hired at the new Video Shack. It will be the perfect summer, horror movies all day, su...

The Masked Ones

When tormented by masked stalkers, who else do you call but your big brother?

Run, Ruthie

Occurring through the eyes of five year old Ruthie Tomlinson, a monster is hiding in her haunting new home. But no one believes her. So when disbelief of the house's dark history turns into an unse...

Our Eternal Love - Published

Power, possession, and a shattered concept of Love. A crime story that tells the different tales of three women and the struggling mind of a guilt-ridden detective, who is trying to avenge them. ...

Barely Alive

At 19, Riley has experienced just as much as anyone, if not more. She is a survivor, a fighter, and she is bitterly alone. Having lost everyone she has ever known; she is plagued with anxiety atta...

Te extraño

Todos los días me levanto con esa sensación de culpa, mis padres dicen que no tendría por que sentirlo pero duele Esta es la historia de un par de hermanos que viven diversas cosas, que con el pas...

Chimera Falls

If you survived THE CAIN LETTERS, there's no doubt you'll go madder than the man in the "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in CHIMERA FALLS, the paralyzing dramatic horror sequel to the nail-biti...

The Cain Letters

My agony comes from the hate I have for them: the revenants of the night. They are my flame, and I am the moth. But this manuscript -- the "Cain Letters" -- uncovers the truth of vampirism deeply ...

Hugh Main

The Best words to describe Hugh was simple and Kind. He lived a troubled life. filled with drama and grief from people and family alike his, only peace was his beloved Dog Goober. But due to (unfor...

The Boy Who Laughs

Written when the author was eighteen years old, this Semi-Autobiographical novel, based on his observations growing up in Italy and the US, explores a damaged outlook of a young man on society and ...

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