Sweetie Belle is invited by Twilight Sparkle to the decrepit castle in the Everfree to see if they can't find any other spell books, and Sweetie wouldn't lose such an opportunity. Unfortunately, she gets lost after a brief distraction and can't find her way back. The more she panics, the scarier and more twisted the trees started to become, and the more Sweetie starts to see things coming from the bark that disappear when she looks at them directly.

Cover art by Ralvar. Source on the image.
Psychological Horror
I fancy this as the theme of the story.
There are hidden symbols in here explaining what is happening. Can you find and decipher the hidden story?

Fluttershy had finally reached the end of her days, her life perhaps extended by Discord as she's the last of her non-immortal friends to die, but the first thing she sees aren't the green pastures where her friends and the animals she cared for await her. Instead, she sees her friend Discord staring at her cheerfully, but something feels...off...

Image by Marking. Source on the image.
Psychological Horror
Youtube read here by Dusky Novel

Changelings can become emotional like ponies. Changelings can also make shitty characters representing their true-selves as well. Unfortunately, ponies can't transform into their edgelord creative OCs and be whiny brats great actors. Chrysalis can't believe the horrors she's facing with this new nest of changelings.

Disclaimer: Origami Caricature; Donut Steel

This story is a sequel to Deer Me: Black Snow

At ages twenty-four and twenty-two respectively, Stelimus and Copper Blossom have become the new king and queen of the Tundran Deer, but it isn't without difficulty. Not only is their inexperience in such an important position impactful, but also because Anglacite's venom still courses through the minds of the deer who refuse to acknowledge a union between deer and pony-song and the death of such an 'eternal' figure. Unfortunately, Stelimus' mother remains locked in the laboratories and Grimliss is the only one that can keep the order as an advisor. Without Grimliss, Stelimus fears what might happen to him and his 'queen'.

Things don't seem to get better when the god-king invites the rulers of Equestria, creating more tension amongst the deer. An unexpected and as-of-yet unknown group arrives at the same time, surprising everyone with one bit of information:

Stelimus and Copper end up traveling over seas to a land untouched by pony and deer and touched by a miasmic aura bizarrely familiar by Stelimus.

Cover art by Mix-Up.

The Draconic Apocalypse; a war between the dragons and ejge, has practically destroyed the world. Only a few pockets of every species has survived and are dotted around the landscape, but these are hardened veterans and their resistance is mighty indeed, but not enough.

All the survivors have all day are sharp scales singing through the air as they traverse dragon bodies and ejge being crushed against mountain walls, and Twilight Sparkle has had enough. Being one of longest living ponies in terms of life expectancy in these times -the expectancy being maximum twenty-four years of age- she seeks to travel back in time about seven-hundred and eighty-three years. A month before the King Dragon and Royal Ejge awaken at the same time, but to do this, she must convince Princess Celestia to prepare their defenses or kill the two creatures in their sleep.

Why then, does Twilight go into a berserker's rage and try to kill the princess whenever she sees her?

The story's beginning happens during the same time period as the show's current season.

Image is an ejge of my design and drawn by Illiarovanna at DA. She improved their wing design.

A read done by darksymphony777 which you can find here

Sometimes people wish for things. Rarely do those wishes come true, but today, one did. Charelz, an easily amused scientist with too much time on her hands, wished every day on a piece of paper with Twilight Sparkle's picture on it. Every day she wished for her to come to life and noted the results.

One day, it finally paid off and Twilight rose up out of the paper. Finally!

But a character is far more than just their appearance. You have to be very careful when filling in those missing details and try not to go outside the lines.

TheDriderPony helped iron out the description.

Contains ponies that stand on their hind legs.
We bring you Winona the Cowardly Dog! Abandoned as a pup, she was found by Applejack, who lives in the middle of nowhere (Well, Ponyville, but there's no real difference, is there?), with her brother: Big Macintosh! But creeeepy stuff happens in Ponyville, and it's up to Winona to save her new home!

For those that don't know, this is based on Courage the Cowardly Dog.

A large group of Veneighzuelan sad-faced spiders are looking for a home to call their own and care for the future generations, but they haven't had much luck. Now they've found a thick forest called the Everfree which suits them just perfectly. Unfortunately, while their usual prey live within the confines of the trees, they weren't prepared for the special beasts that live there too.

Now they must find the safest place possible to rest and rebuild and live. Let's hope they find it soon. They're too tiny to survive for long in the wild.

The Veneighzuelan sad-faced spider is Jet_Black1980's teeny tiny creations and this story is set within his HB-Verse. This is a gift...so it'll probably be mother's day quality...

EqD page here

A 47 year-old man named Gregary is sent to the hospital and put into an artificial coma after collapsing in a store and sees himself being reborn in a beautiful winter wonderland to talking deer. Of course, he doesn't realize it, but he's born to one of the most important families there, and the Deer lands sit next to the Crystal Empire of the ponies, which Gregary is unaware of.

How unfortunate it is, then, that he already had developed hearing and the first thing that reaches him is the word 'betrothal'. 'Who are the unlucky ones', one would wonder.

Now he must live through the life of a young stag with many employees surrounding him and a village that looks like it's in Christmas all year. Strangely, the adults and elderly look at him with a disconcerting gaze. Is it because he doesn't act anything like them? Maybe he's too open to the idea of meeting other races. Who knows? This hallucination is likely to prove loaded with amusement, and Gregary intends to take advantage of it until it ends. Something forbidden stretches towards the northern lands, however, in search of their vengeance on one that yet lives and another that no longer is, and this might be the last time snow shines like a diamond.

Cover art by Mix-Up. Also here

Discord was invited to attend a private dinner with the two princesses of Equestria, but it's tremendously boring, so he decides to spice things up a bit. What else would a uselessly long table be for?