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Two-Sentence Horror Stories: Bite-sized scares.. Give us your scariest story in two sentences (or less)! Founded 2014 · 1.9M members · text posts only

1.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 40K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.9Mmembers
40Kbest post
738most comments
438posts we track

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96%
Text 96% Question 4%

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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

All my life, my parents have told me not to open the basement door, but I got curious and disobeyed them.

↑ 40K 💬 358 text 2019

When the kidnapper made me guess where he kept my daughter, I went for the basement and he said "Correct!" allowing me to see her.

↑ 36.1K 💬 256 text 2020

I have been working on stories to compete with the best on this sub but I'm finding it near impossible.

↑ 34.3K 💬 323 text 2020

Whenever I considered killing myself to escape my parents' abuse, I'd just recite my mantra "you don't deserve to die".

↑ 33.6K 💬 438 text 2022

...she said last time, we're stuck in a time loop

↑ 32.6K 💬 357 text 2020

I framed the first letter I got as a police officer, from a woman thanking me after I'd supported her through her daughter's suicide.

↑ 29.4K 💬 327 text 2020

"Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out," the man said, welcoming my group into his refuge.

↑ 29.1K 💬 364 text 2020

My husband has been very upset with me since my failed suicide attempt

↑ 28.9K 💬 308 text 2019

I was born blind but was lucky enough to have a loving mother who took care of my every need.

↑ 28.8K 💬 353 text 2022

As I slit her throat, I looked in her unblinking eyes and realised too late that she wanted to live.

↑ 28.4K 💬 354 text 2020

Communities its size

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r/TwoSentenceHorror, in numbers

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What is r/TwoSentenceHorror?
r/TwoSentenceHorror ("Two-Sentence Horror Stories: Bite-sized scares.") describes itself this way: Give us your scariest story in two sentences (or less). It was founded in 2014 and has 1.9M members.
How many members does r/TwoSentenceHorror have?
r/TwoSentenceHorror has about 1.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 438 of its posts; the biggest reached 40K upvotes, which is 21 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TwoSentenceHorror?
"All my life, my parents have told me not to open the basement door, but I got curious and disobeyed them." reached 40K upvotes and 358 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TwoSentenceHorror.
What subreddits are similar to r/TwoSentenceHorror?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/TwoSentenceHorror?
Of the posts we hold, 96% are text posts and 4% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TwoSentenceHorror?
Across 438 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 22:00 UTC (16.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (14.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (14K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/TwoSentenceHorror?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TwoSentenceHorror has 25.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 109 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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