13 Terrifying Short Stories for Halloween: The Cryptid Collection

From shadowed lakes and forgotten ridges to swamps that breathe and mountains that remember, thirteen nightmares wait in the dark.

In The Cryptid Collection, Aria Amidei gathers modern legends and ancient horrors into a single, chilling anthology that blurs the line between folklore and reality. Each tale uncovers a place the world has tried to forget — a cursed hollow, a silent glacier, a whispering forest, a river that murmurs with the voices of the dead.

Within these pages, witnesses vanish, voices echo where no living thing should speak, and the creatures we call myths stir once more beneath the surface.

Atmospheric, cinematic, and utterly haunting, these stories remind us that some legends never die… they wait.

Lock the doors. Turn off the lights. And listen closely — something’s moving just beyond the page.