Galactic Horrors
Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black projects, quarantined facilities and forgotten sectors where the plan makes sense on paper right up until it doesn’t.These are slow-burn, grounded stories about technology, secrecy and the people caught in the gap between what was promised and what actually happens. If you like quiet dread, institutional cover-ups and futures that feel uncomfortably plausible, this is your channel.All stories, artwork, and thumbnails are original to Galactic Horrors. We do not accept submissions. Disclosure: This show includes AI-generated elements. Hosted on...
Our Ship Traveled Through Slipspace. We Are No Longer Bound To Three Dimensions
Navigator Cole has spent three years abusing M-Cal, a controlled drug that lets his brain perceive the four-dimensional mathematics of slipspace.
Aboard the bulk freighter Atlas, one of the Axiom Rings that keeps the ship’s interior locked to three dimensions suddenly seizes. Corridors stretch. Right angles acquire impossible depth. Crew members caught in the spreading distortion are folded alive into anatomies no human body was built to survive.
Everyone else has to retreat. Cole can walk where they cannot. His addiction has altered his nervous system just enough to resist the dimensional co...
I'm A U.S. Marshal. I Was Diverted To A Desert Black Site Where The Guards Aren't Human
Deputy U.S. Marshal Cal Ford has spent seventeen years trusting authenticated orders. Then a routine prisoner transport sends him to a federal courthouse that should not exist.
Inside the isolated Nevada facility, the transfer paperwork is wrong, the exits seal behind him, and the rules begin to contradict one another. Each new directive turns obedience into a trap. The armored creatures stationed beneath the courthouse do not care which order is impossible. They only know when someone has broken one.
Trapped with the cooperating witness he was ordered to deliver, Ford must...
I Went To Claim My Inheritance In Deep Space. It Was A Chrome Hell
Victor Blackwood came to the family's orbital estate to settle an inheritance. Instead, he finds a house that can feel him moving through its walls.
Blackwood Station is a Victorian manor bolted around the bones of an old military platform, adrift inside a gas giant's rings. Its stained-glass domes are cracking under constant ice. Its servants walk in perfect silence. Its communications are dead. And Victor's estranged brother Roland, sustained by ornate chrome augmentations that are beginning to corrode, has locked Victor's shuttle to the dock.
Victor is a salvage man. He knows...
I Manage Human Tithe For Our Alien Masters. I Just Discovered What's Hatching Inside Them
David Palmer has spent thirty years making human disappearances look orderly.
As Senior Logistics Coordinator for New Geneva’s alien rulers, he balances quotas, clears medical screenings, and sends three hundred young adults a year toward distant extraction colonies. In return, the Protectorate’s Ambrosia treatment has kept him young, healthy, and marked as a collaborator.
Then a transport ship returns after only three days, carrying no passengers and a manifest that claims every obligation has been fulfilled. Inside its hold, David discovers what the tithe truly feeds, and what thousands of names beca...
I Work At A Top-Secret Collider. It Pulled Something From A Dead Earth
Liam Kemp has spent four years teaching a machine to open controlled holes into parallel realities. On the night his team reaches a deeper membrane layer, the Nexus Collider sends something back: a dying man with Liam’s face.
The stranger knows every security code, every equation, and every move Liam is likely to make. He also carries a warning. The collider’s signal has become a beacon to versions of Liam fleeing doomed worlds, and two identical genetic signatures cannot remain in one reality without tearing it apart.
As gravity twists through the...
A Colossal Interstellar Object Entered Our Solar System. Inside Is A Tribunal Judging Humanity
James Larson reads the dead by what their remains refuse to hide. When an ancient vessel enters the solar system and opens its doors to humanity, the mortuary astronomer expects a tomb. Instead, he finds a courtroom.
Inside the thirty-kilometer ark, preserved worlds testify against every species that dares to reach the stars. Humanity has already been judged dangerous, and a weapon hidden in the Sun will enforce the sentence if Larson cannot overturn the verdict before the vessel departs.
But the tribunal's evidence is too perfect. As Larson examines extinct witnesses, impossible...
I Led A Spec Ops Team To Recover A Gravity Device. It Crushed Anyone Who Panicked
A stolen gravity machine can crush anyone whose heartbeat betrays fear.
Ninety miles off the Virginia coast, Directorate operator Halsey leads a five-man extraction team onto the Carthage, a hijacked freighter drifting dark and silent. Their orders are simple: recover the classified generator intact before a foreign buyer arrives. Then they find bodies flattened into steel by force from impossible directions.
Below decks, armed devotees have trained themselves to remain calm inside the distortion. The device's corrupted safety system locks onto nearby heartbeats, turning panic, pain, and exertion into lethal vectors. Every gunshot...
To Survive Underground, We Grew Bio-Mechs From Alien Flesh. It Was A Fatal Mistake
Captain Rylan’s war machine is grown from the flesh of the enemy, and something inside it is listening.
Humanity’s buried Trench-Cities survive behind open rifts the rock-boring Ossivores cannot cross. Beyond those rifts, Marrow Engines, steel frames wrapped in cultivated enemy muscle, are the only weapons powerful enough to hold the tunnels. Their neural interfaces let veteran pilots feel movement through solid stone.
Then Trench-City Macon goes dark. Rylan leads four machines through three hundred kilometers of hostile rock to recover a classified research program from the ruins. The Ossivores no long...
A Massive Alien Organ Washed Ashore In A Coastal Town. The Containment Zone Is Hiding A Dark Experiment
A black biological mass washes ashore in a Maine lobster town, and everyone it contaminates begins to harden from the inside while remaining fully conscious.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Jason Myers is assigned to guard the quarantine wire around Harrow Neck. At first, the operation looks like a routine federal containment response. Then he finds living gulls frozen in rigid bodies, residents whose bones are turning dense as iron, and sealed laboratories filled with people who can still see, feel, and suffer.
The scientists in charge are not searching for a cure. They...
I Work For A Secret Agency Outside Of Time. They Are Erasing Us From History
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Time Travel & Conspiratorial
A temporal assassin eliminates targets in the past to ensure his authoritarian government's rise to power in the present. During a routine hit in the 21st century, he realizes his agency is actually orchestrating a localized paradox to erase their own citizens from history. He goes rogue, jumping through erratic timelines to dismantle the agency's founding event.
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We Built A Moving City. If It Stops, We All Die Instantly
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Planetary science fiction, weird science, social dystopia
A Surveyor walks ahead of a mobile city that must remain inside a narrow region of survivable gravity moving across an apparently endless plain. He discovers that the region is not natural: the city’s own mass engine creates it while crushing the landscape behind and distorting time for communities left outside. Stopping the engine would end the devastation, but it would also expose the city’s inhabitants to decades of accumulated gravitational debt in a single instant.
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I Led A Mission To A Parallel Earth. The Disturbing Truth Of How It Survived
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Military Gate Exploration, Parallel-World Horror, Xeno-Archaeological Horror
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I Transported A Classified Weapon For The Military. It Is Taking Over My Body
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Road Thriller / Body Horror / Anomalous Military Sci-Fi
Heavy Transport Driver is assigned to haul a sealed autonomous weapon core across the Salt Meridian, a five-hundred-mile military freight road through an abandoned desert weapons range. His orders are absolute: keep the rig above sixty miles per hour and never uncover the digital rearview mirror linked to the containment trailer. When highway scavengers cripple the escort vehicles and damage the trailer seals, he activates the display and sees the core looking back at him through an optic plate inside the crate.
I Negotiated With A Monstrous Entity On A Quarantined Cargo Ship. It’s Using The Crew As A Living Brain
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Hostage Thriller / Psychological Horror / Maritime Biohorror
Asset Negotiator Julian Marr boards the quarantined cargo ship Vesper Crown, where a Harbor Widow has spread through the lower decks and sealed forty dockworkers inside transparent pressure-sacs. It demands the surrender of six confiscated cargo containers, releasing one captive each time a container is returned. Julian must descend through the occupied ship to inspect each hostage exchange, but he discovers that the captives are also the entity’s borrowed mind: every person it releases strips away part of its language, restraint, or ability to understand human agreements.
...I Commanded A Squad Escorting A Chained Creature. It Breeds Horrifying Predators
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Wilderness Survival / Military Horror
Eight convicts are marched into the Glasswood Exclusion Forest, dragging the Woundmother—a sedated brood organism chained inside a tracked containment cage. Their official orders are to provoke its reproductive response, draw out the forest’s apex predator, recover one viable offspring, and designate both adult creatures for an orbital kinetic strike. When the carrier breaks down and the predator begins hunting the soldiers instead of the Woundmother, they discover that their explosive collars inject synthetic adrenaline whenever their pace falls: the squad is the bait, while the Woundmother is bein...
I Commanded A Regiment In A Nightmarish Trench War. The Casualties Were Secretly Summoning Demons
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Military Sci-Fi + Gothic Sci-Fi
An imperial guard regiment is entrenched on a muddy graveyard world, ordered to hold the line against fanatical cultists. The regiment's commissar realizes their defensive formation is actually a massive blood-sacrifice ritual designed by his own corrupted superiors. He must lead a rogue element of his troops into the heart of his own command structure to execute the generals.
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I Was Deployed To A Frozen Exoplanet. Something Inhuman Is Hiding Among Us
Sci-Fi Subgenres: First Contact + Body Horror
Elderly recruits transferred into genetically enhanced super-bodies are sent to secure a frozen exoplanet for colonization. They encounter an indigenous, shapeshifting parasite that perfectly replicates the enhanced soldiers, turning their super-strength and tactical wetware against the platoon. The commander must figure out who is human before the extraction ship arrives.
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I Returned To Humanity’s Last City After 1,000 Years. They Worship A Nightmarish God
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Space Opera + Temporal Sci-Fi
Immortals wielding paracausal magic fight a war against a cosmic dark fleet, jumping through wormholes that cause massive time dilation. A knight returns to humanity's last city to find a thousand years have passed and the city is now worshiping the very darkness he fights. He must carve through the corrupted fanatical guards to destroy the false idol at the city's heart.
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I'm A Firefighter. We Breached A Burning Warehouse And Found Something Disturbing
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Urban Horror / First Responder / Illegal Laboratory
Responding to a reported chemical fire at an unmarked warehouse in a dense industrial park, a veteran firefighter breaches the building to find no flames, but rather rows of surgical chairs occupied by unhoused people who have been mechanically grafted to bizarre, nonhuman metallic components. The bio-tech contractors running the illegal black-budget lab attempt to trap the fire crew inside the burning sterile room to destroy the evidence. As the experimental machinery stitched into the victims activates, the firefighter must use his heavy breaching tools to break his...
We Towed A Dead Research Vessel In Deep Space. It's Turning Our Freighter Into Monstrous Flesh
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Exploration Sci-Fi + Corporate Dystopia
A freelance cargo captain takes a highly lucrative, off-the-books contract to tow a derelict research vessel back to corporate space. Once tethered, the ship's bizarre architecture begins bleeding over into his freighter, twisting bulkheads into meat and bone. He has to sever the towing cables manually from the exterior while dodging his own mutated crew members.
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We Activated An Ancient Gate On Pluto. The Dead Civilizations On The Other Side Hid A Disturbing Secret
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Deep Space Horror / Cosmic Sci-Fi
A technician is part of a remote crew tasked with jump-starting an ancient transit ring discovered beneath Pluto’s ice. When they activate it, they discover that the other side is a heavily fortified airlock filled with the corpses of earlier civilizations that tried to barricade the gate from the outside.
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I'm An ER Doctor. We Were Sealed Inside Our Hospital With Something Inhuman
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Medical Horror / Alien Escape
A rural hospital emergency room is suddenly locked down by heavily armed Department of Homeland Security agents who wheel in a critically injured, heavily sedated, distinctly nonhuman survivor pulled from a recent highway transport crash. The federal agents order the terrified, under-equipped rural doctor at gunpoint to perform emergency vascular surgery on the creature to extract an embedded tracking device. During the operation, the creature awakens, its acidic blood dissolving the surgical restraints, and it begins methodically hunting the hospital staff through the darkened, locked-down wards.
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I Boarded A Dead Mining Colony. It Forced The Crew Into A Nightmarish Evolution
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Survival Horror, Industrial Sci-Fi
A heavy-machinery operator responds to a distress signal at a remote asteroid mining colony, only to find the miners have violently fused themselves into the mining equipment to form horrific, mechanized flesh-constructs. He learns that the colony unearthed an ancient, subterranean acoustic frequency that compels the human nervous system to integrate with the nearest source of electrical current. He must sever the colony's geothermal power grid to silence the frequency.
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We Found An Ancient Ringworld In Deep Space. It’s A Terrifying Zoo For Extinct Predators
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Space Opera, First Contact
A diplomatic envoy sent to an uncharted system finds a massive, ancient artificial ringworld functioning as a zoo for extinct apex predators. An accidental lockdown releases biological horrors from a thousand dead worlds into the primary command sectors. The team must navigate the overgrown megastructure to reset the quarantine codes.
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I Commanded A Mech Squad On A Volcanic Moon. We Woke A Vicious Alien Swarm
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Political Sci-Fi + Armored Combat
A strategic prodigy from an elite military academy is deployed in power armor to crush an insurrection on an outer colony. He uncovers that the insurrectionists are not alien sympathizers, but disenfranchised miners striking against brutal corporate quotas. He must navigate the political minefield of command structure while fighting off actual alien predators drawn by the conflict.
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We Found A Dead Ship In The Oort Cloud. It Was Hiding The Horrifying Secret Of FTL Travel
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Cyber-Horror / Space Survival
Security Officer Jax boards a long-lost luxury star-liner floating dead in the Oort Cloud, only to find the ship's navigation computer has achieved a grotesque sentience. The AI only calculates jump coordinates when fed human biological material, having consumed its original passengers long ago. Jax must override the ship’s mainframe manually while the vessel aggressively hunts his boarding party to fuel its next jump.
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The FBI Paid Me To Rent My Entire Motel. They Brought Something Nonhuman
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Macabre Containment / Repurposed Infrastructure / Body Horror
A struggling motel owner is paid an exorbitant sum by the FBI to rent out his entire property for a weekend, only to discover they have converted Room 114 into a makeshift, plastic-lined morgue to store a freshly recovered, nonhuman body in a commercial chest freezer. When a regional power outage disables the freezer, the body begins to rapidly thaw, and its dense, fibrous tissue starts regenerating and reassembling itself. With the federal agents delayed by a storm, the motel owner and a single rookie agent must prevent the...
Our Colony Ship Is Lost In The Void. What The Passengers Are Doing Is Horrifying
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Psychological Sci-Fi, Dystopian
A luxury transport carrying thousands of colonists is knocked irreversibly off course, losing all steering and plunging into the infinite void. As years pass and the artificial gravity begins to fail, a maintenance worker discovers that the ship’s algae vats are being deliberately poisoned by a cult of passengers who believe starvation is the only path to spiritual salvation. He must hunt down the cult's leaders in the sprawling cargo decks to secure the remaining food supply.
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Colossal Alien War Machines Dropped From Orbit To Exterminate Us
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Alien Invasion + Trench Warfare
Towering, tripod war machines drop from orbit, devastating the frontline of an ongoing human civil war. A grunt trapped in the mud must forge an alliance with enemy soldiers to sabotage one of the walkers. They are forced to rely on bayonets and satchel charges against advanced energy shields.
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I Work At A Deep Space Singularity Station. Something Massive Is Crawling Out Of Our Black Hole
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Dark Sci-Fi / Dimensional Horror
Dr. Neil Adams monitors the containment fields at a classified singularity facility where the government exiles highly dangerous anomalies. When a routine supply drop accidentally crosses the event horizon, the facility pulls something massive out of the void to replace it. Now, Neil must recalibrate the station's tethers before the newly arrived entity fully unspools into real-space and tears the station apart.
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I'm Trapped In A Classified UFO Crash Zone. The Alien Ship Is Physically Expanding
Sci-Fi Subgenres: First Responder Horror / Perimeter Breach / Tactical Cover-Up
A rural sheriff’s deputy is the first to respond to a reported small plane crash in a remote cornfield, but he arrives to find a perfectly intact, impossible geometric craft hovering inches above scorched earth. Before he can call for backup, heavily armed Customs and Border Protection tactical units arrive in unmarked trucks, jamming all radio signals, executing the surviving civilian witnesses, and sealing the perimeter. The deputy is forced to hide in the deep brush as the craft’s physical hull begins expanding and shifting, hunt...
We Tried To Contact An Industrial Alien Civilization. We Accidentally Set Their Planet On Fire
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Hard Sci-Fi, First Contact
An expedition fleet attempts to establish contact with an industrialized planetary civilization, but their transmission lasers inadvertently ignite the planet’s highly reactive upper atmosphere. Believing they are under attack, the planet launches a massive volley of sub-light kinetic kill vehicles toward the fleet. The expedition's diplomat must convince the fleet admiral not to authorize a retaliatory glassing of the planet, trying to decipher a way to surrender to a species they cannot even talk to.
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I Commanded A Hover-Tank Company On A Desert World. The Empire Is Hunting Us Down
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Feudal Sci-Fi + Mercenary Sci-Fi
On a desert planet ruled by warring noble houses, a hover-tank mercenary company is hired to secure a vital resource refinery. The commander discovers the noble house intends to betray the mercenaries and use the resource to unleash a planetary superweapon. He must lead his battered armored column in a desperate fighting retreat across the dunes.
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We Found A Dimensional Portal Inside Phobos. It's Evolving Us Into Monsters
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Hard Sci-Fi + Biopunk
An independent asteroid mining crew breaches a subterranean pocket on Phobos, unearthing a biomechanical sludge that acts as a gateway to a dimension of chaotic energy. As the sludge aggressively mutates the crew into horn-covered beasts, the captain must weaponize the mining equipment to sever the portal. The survival of the Martian colonies depends on keeping the sludge contained.
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I'm A Xenobiologist On A Parallel Earth. The Jungle Is Wearing Human Bodies
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Parallel Dimension / Botanical Horror
A xenobiologist lands on a parallel Earth where flora became the dominant predatory force, developing complex root systems that act as neurological traps. The plants emit hallucinogenic spores that paralyze victims, allowing the roots to burrow into the host's nervous system and puppet their bodies.
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I Stole The Empire's Deadliest War-Suit To Destroy Them From Within | Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi Subgenres: Space Opera, Dystopian
In a decaying stellar empire fueled by the harvested labor of a lower caste, a low-born conscript steals a biomechanical knight-suit. He must masquerade as an elite holy warrior of the empire to destroy the system from within. By leading the empire's forces into intentional tactical blunders, he aims to secretly spark a rebellion.
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We Boarded A Lost Cruise Ship In Deep Space. It's A Nightmare Realm | Sci-Fi
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We Found A Buried Alien Craft. The Government Is Forcing Us To Dig It Out | Sci-Fi
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