If you're reading this, you're maybe either really into ghost stories, can't sleep – or you're a bit worried that you've just seen an actual ghost. . But true horror stories are very difficult to forget and to separate from. The following Real Horror Short Stories to Tell in the Dark … and what’s more, they could happen to someone. Now turn off the lights and take a large bed sheets and hide himself in them because the truth is we’re not safe. The actual world is far more frightening than anything we can make up.