Horror Stories & Ghost Tales

A hundred classic horror stories, already on your phone. No signal, no account, no ads.

This is a collection of the tales that built the genre — ghost stories, gothic horror, weird fiction and Japanese ghost lore — wrapped in a reader built for reading rather than for selling you something. The whole library installs with the app. Open it on a plane, in a tunnel, or with mobile data switched off, and all hundred stories are still there.

WHAT YOU GET

• 100 complete stories, not samples or opening chapters
• Works entirely offline — the library ships inside the app
• Any tale can be read aloud to you, hands-free
• Interface in 35 languages, including right-to-left
• No ads, no account, no tracking, no in-app purchases
• A small download that is easy on the battery

THE WRITERS

Short horror from the authors who defined it:

• Edgar Allan Poe — gothic madness and doom
• M. R. James — the antiquarian ghost story at its finest
• Ambrose Bierce — sardonic, cruel and supernatural
• E. F. Benson — classic English spook stories
• Lafcadio Hearn — yokai, spirits and curses from old Japan
• F. Marion Crawford and Ralph Adams Cram — terror at sea and in haunted places

FOUR SHELVES

• Ghost Stories — 54 classic British and American hauntings
• Weird & Supernatural — 22 strange and unexplained tales
• Gothic Tales — 13 stories of madness, murder and doom
• Japanese Ghost Tales — 11 tales of yokai and curses

Browse by shelf, by author, or by theme — graves, dreams, monsters, haunted houses, witchcraft, curses, the sea.

BUILT FOR READING IN THE DARK

• Four themes: Night, Void for OLED screens, Parchment, or follow your system
• A dark mode that is genuinely dark, not grey
• Text size, line spacing and margins, all adjustable
• Serif, sans or monospace — whichever your eyes prefer
• Ragged or justified edges, and an optional drop capital
• Tap the middle of the page to hide everything but the story
• Keep the screen awake while you read

IT REMEMBERS WHERE YOU WERE

Close a story mid-sentence and it opens exactly there — to the paragraph, not the chapter. Keep tales with a ribbon, see what you have finished, and check how long you have spent reading.

LISTEN INSTEAD

Any story can be read aloud by your device, at the speed you choose, with the paragraph being spoken highlighted as it goes. Good for a commute, for the dark, or for tired eyes. Once your device has the voice installed it works with no connection at all.

READ IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE

The interface is translated into 35 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Swahili — with full right-to-left support for Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Hebrew.

Story text can be translated on your own device into most of those languages too. A tale you have opened once stays saved in your language, ready to read or hear again with nothing but the phone in your hand.

ABOUT THE STORIES

Every tale here is in the public domain, drawn from Project Gutenberg and similar archives, with the author and source credited on each story. These are the originals, unabridged — not retellings or summaries.

PRIVACY

The app asks for no permissions beyond network access, and uses that only to fetch a translation language pack when you ask for one. Nothing you read, save or listen to ever leaves your phone. There is no analytics, no advertising and no account to create.

Turn off the light. Something is waiting.

Recent changes:
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