A short but scary story is 'The Most Dangerous Game'. In this tale, a big - game hunter falls off a yacht and ends up on an island. There he meets a man who hunts humans for sport. The hunter becomes the hunted and has to fight for his life. It creates a sense of extreme tension and horror as the hunter tries to outwit his pursuer in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Sure. 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a very good short scary story. It's about a woman who is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper for her 'rest cure'. As she spends more time in the room, she starts to hallucinate and becomes obsessed with the pattern of the wallpaper. She eventually believes there are women trapped behind it. It shows the mental breakdown of the protagonist due to her restricted life and the lack of understanding from those around her.