• Home /
  • Search By Tags

Ruins stories, books, poems, and more

41 results

Related Tags:

ruins, city, death, darkness, gods, horror, life, love, magic, pain, stone, adventure, ancient, baharna, captains, castle, despair, evil, fight, god, gothic, heart, humor, lake, laws, lhosk, medieval, monsters, mount ngranek, oriab, past, poetry, romance, secrets, sorcerer, sorrow, tales, thal, thon, traders, walk, war, world, yath, add, again, alien, alive, allan, am

Poem / Poetry

January 31, 2020

Reads: 168

Comments: 5

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Cover image: pixabay.com. Read More

Tags: nature, sanctuary, deserted, ruins

Short Story / Horror

June 09, 2019

Reads: 362

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

How many times as a child did your mum and dad take you to places you found very dull? Perhaps it was just as well you held their hands. Old ruins hold secrets. Read More

Tags: lost, ruins, monks

Poem / Poetry

May 01, 2019

Reads: 383

Comments: 4

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

What should die is reanimated. Read More

Tags: world, rich, greed, collapse, ruins

Idiot's Graveyard is a sequel to Not Quite a Hero. This story first appeared in Mythical Doorways: A Fellowship of Fantasy Anthology, which is available free as an ebook on Amazon. Read More

Tags: humor, magic, monsters, sorcerer, ruins

Tags: ruins

Poem / Poetry

March 01, 2018

Reads: 407

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Our negligence to ancient historically rich structures has demolished them into ruins... Read More

Tags: history, ancient, ruins, old

Short Story / Humor

November 06, 2017

Reads: 625

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is the second story I submitted to the Hall of Heroes anthology. It's still free on Amazon, so pick up a copy and enjoy. Read More

Tags: humor, magic, sorcerer, ruins

Tags: silence, ruins, ornamental, stone-garden, burial-flesh

" I wish I could be forgiven...If I was purely honest with myself, I'd say even God wouldn't dare to think I'd deserve it..."- Enya Enya Donnellan knows she shouldn't be born this way. The way the citizens all depict her as a murderer, savage and beast. She has lacked… Read More

Tags: romance, adventure, revenge, dictatorship, ruins

A brief story about a world. Without. Read More

Tags: time, dystopian, ruins

A man has a horrible vision of the world around him in ruins as a strange hooded figure approaches him and tells him of the future which awaits mankind. Read More

Tags: death, despair, evil, darkness, ruins

Poem / Poetry

March 02, 2015

Reads: 399

Comments: 5

The Booksie Classic House

The sacred ruins of a bitter past. Read More

Tags: loss, depression, poetry, poem, past, bitter, sacred, ruins, deeper_meaning

A mystery that is not so mysterious. Read More

Tags: hill, police, witches, village, ruins, bonfire, audio-version

A poem about Yoth in the Dreamlands. Read More

Tags: life, natives, ruins, industry, transport, remnants, tsathoggua, reptilians, yoth, kn-yan, nkai

A poem about Baharna in the Dreamlands. Read More

Tags: laws, gods, ancient, stone, tunnel, tales, city, lake, harbor, ruins, canal, volcanic, traders, punishments, captains

Decaying evidence of a family who once lived Read More

Tags: cabin, ruins, logs, pioneer, chimney

Book / Horror

July 26, 2013

Reads: 2541

Comments: 12

The Booksie Classic House

This Novella is a tale of true horror. An unimaginable object has resurfaced in the world of Kardiá. It quickly moves from owner to owner, killing all who posses it. No one knows the truth of the items power or where it comes from. But they soon discover the curse… Read More

Tags: horror, mystery, evil, greek, key, endless, universe, monsters, undead, novella, medieval, ruins, item, elias, lovecraftian

how i feel about people who say they want to be kings, or queens, it gets on my nerves, so this is how i feel about it. :) Read More

Tags: war, king, warrior, ruins, rather-be, red-steed

A poem about Baharna. Read More

Tags: laws, sea, punishment, gods, stone, city, lake, gates, ruins, traders, cthulhu_mythos, captains, oriab, yath, mount_ngranek

the tragic tale of a man in trapped in the depths of madness Read More

Tags: death, fall, soldiers, military, war, despair, world, man, beginning, hand, song, heart, eyes, smile, laughter

After the war, nearly three hundred years ago, a small group formed to up rise against the unfair government. The group was made of three people. The Brains, Gwen Titel, makes the tech and upgrades it all. The Brawns, Jagger (Jag) Titel, is the muscle of the group. And then,… Read More

Tags: science_fiction, darkness, robots, clone, ruins

A short story about a life on a mysterious island in the middle of the ocean and the attempts two of the local residents make in an effort to understand a little bit more. Read More

Tags: romance, robot, ruins

Poem / Poetry

July 15, 2012

Reads: 871

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a poem about being inside one of my father's paintings... I was trying to write about something new, try a slightly different style..... so please leave comments! J Read More

Tags: art, landscape, wales, ruins

Returning to a one fantasy land where I grew up mostly. Read More

Tags: pain, return, island, ruins, hellish

Running from the terror of the night. From the pain and sorrow. Read More

Tags: love, poetry, life, pain, hate, darkness, sorrow, poems, running_away, ruins, no_tomorrows

This story centers around seven cats. There are mountains that are filled with evil, Forests filled with war, A river full of tears, and a ruin filled with secrets. The only thing that a cat of Peace clan will ever want is Peace and Love, but all that will be… Read More

Tags: love, death, secrets, dogs, cats, ruins, clans

Article / Travel

February 17, 2012

Reads: 1209

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

The haunted ruins of Bhangarh are still a mystery... Read More

Tags: ruins

Book / Fantasy

September 09, 2011

Reads: 1273

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

In a World of Islands, The Leviathan rises from the depths once per year to destroy. It only takes one and it never follows any pattern. Only the Order can predict what Island will fall and this year it's Aven. The lives of three Individuals are going to change forever.… Read More

Tags: fantasy, death, magic, survival, trade, leviathan, slavery, wizards, kings, queens, ships, republic, ruins, islands, merchants

A teaser of my book, out hopefully in December 2011. This particular excerpt is from Chapter 6, titled "The Ruins". Jason Knightly, an archeologist, is searching for the key of all keys - The Ellesmere Codex. This chapter is set in Ellesmere Island, a part of Canada, and it is… Read More

Tags: literary_fiction, winter, jason, ruins, allan, ellesmere_island

Secrets can ruin. Read More

Tags: secrets, heart, lies, loving, touching, kissing, crisis, ruins

Pirate Story Competition image

Welcome New Writers

snowman899
mfran
Hashim
G.G KING
CatVI
attention