The Howling -- Minecraft Spooky Stories

Callum Ellis (0:11)

Welcome back, everybody, to the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast. In this episode today, I will be reading a story by listener CusterSniffs00, and it is titled The Howling. Thank you, CusterSniffs, for submitting this story. If you would also like to submit a story, you can do that on my website, custersniffs00.com. Just go to the Submit a Story page on the website and submit your story. It may get read on the show.

Also in the description is a link to the Patreon. Patrons get access to the show without ads, and also a whole story series that no one except patrons get access to.

And without further ado, thank you again to CusterSniffs00. Great name, by the way. Let's get right into the story.

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Callum Ellis (1:32)

It's a story about the To spawn into a new world, your first step is to gather wood. Each player knows that the beginning is the hardest, but we persevere, we survive. You gather wood, stone, maybe iron or copper. Start a base, make a bed. But this world? Well, this world will test your resilience and strength. You may read this and think that this is just a story, hoax, maybe just a trick for attention, but believe me when I tell you, this could not be more real.

This world has its secrets. Shadows lurk in the dark, eyes watch, but their master's face is uncertain. A horror stays hidden until found. A howling cuts through the forest. It lives just to hunt, just to kill, just to... Hmm, maybe I should just tell you.

I spawned in this world. I found it. Now I must end it.

Most worlds I start, I start with an easygoing feeling. This one though, a cold tundra. From the start, I knew this was going to be bad. I hate tundras. But something kept me from deleting it. I took a few logs from a nearby tree, made a pickaxe, and got stone as quick as possible. I ran from spawn feeling like an evil lay and wait nearby. Not long, it took me to find a village out there. I immediately started to loot the chests and kill the golem and gather crops. I managed to find some useful items. Apples, potatoes, beetroots, iron from the golem. A bed. I left the village as quickly as I had arrived and ran to the sun was almost gone.

I placed the bed I had gotten and slept. Just as my eyes had shut, a howl cut through the air. So suddenly that I jumped out of the bed. I looked around for the source of the noise, but I couldn't find anything. Just the normal creatures that came out at night.

Fighters, skeletons, zombies, creepers, the whole shebang.

I decided to just continue with my journey. I didn't know where I was going, but I knew that I was not going to stay here.

The next day, I finally came to a pleasant plains biome. Flowers were planted, trees dotted the landscape, and the ocean was nearby. I decided to make a base there. So I set to work. After about three days, I finished my house. But each night, I kept thinking about the howling I had heard. Then, as if on cue, it sounded through the air, making me shudder. Each night, I heard the sound, and I retreated to my room, and slept, only for the same thing to happen the next night. But with my base done, I desperately needed to get more supplies. So, after checking the windows for safety, I left my house.

While I was building my house, I discovered a nearby cave. I would frequently visit the cave to find iron, coal, gold, and on rare occasions, even diamonds. This trip though, well yes, I found what I needed. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched. I turned and saw nothing, not even a zombie or a bat. But what was that? That thing right there, by the aquifer. Is that a dog? No, a dog isn't that tall. A dog can't stand on its hind legs and walk.

No, that's not a dog, not a dog at all. I raised my shield and readied my sword, but still felt uneasy. It's then that I realized that I was looking at Amethyst, at this reflection in the Amethyst. I turned just as this beast howled. It's then I realized that this creature was the one who made all the noise previously, who seemed to watch me as I built my house. I realized that I had actually seen it earlier, but thought it was a cow or a zombie, or, or something.