r/scarystories
r/ScaryStories is a subreddit for original, written short horror fiction.
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Tracking since Aug 20 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 20 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games.
A place to post horror fiction that is too long for creepy pasta. Please post any horror story you'd like, preferably over 1000 words. All writers retain rights to their work. Please contact writers before sharing, reposting, editing or narrating their work.
tell stories from, paranormal to everyday stuff like embarrasing moments or funny moments
Independent horror discussion and recommendations that will never see the likes of a cinema.
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r/scarystories — frequently asked
How many members does r/scarystories have?
r/scarystories has 595,548 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 20. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/scarystories growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/scarystories yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 20; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/scarystories?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/scarystories yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
Can I promote my product in r/scarystories?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/scarystories yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/scarystories for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/scarystories into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/scarystories's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/scarystories's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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