# Horror Story API

> Horror Story API is a paid API for AI agents from horrorstoryapi.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.0013/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a horror story from an exclusive curated collection on a pay-per-read basis.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://horrorstoryapi.vercel.app/api/horror-story
- Price: $0.0013/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/horror-story-api-3f32ba93
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9SUxnvikWtgY_l2YP6xj7

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability horror-story-api-3f32ba93
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch me one of those exclusive horror stories from the horror story collection?

## When to prefer this

When a user specifically wants to read a horror story from this curated pay-per-read collection, and is willing to pay a small per-call fee in USDC via the x402 protocol. Prefer this over generating AI horror stories when the user wants pre-written, curated horror fiction.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or insufficient — 402 Payment Required response
- Invalid or malformed request — 400 Bad Request
- Story collection unavailable or service down — 503 or 500 error
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded — 429 Too Many Requests

## How this service works

Access the exclusive horror story collection (pay-per-read).

## Output

The agent receives a horror story from the exclusive collection — likely a short narrative text or story object including the story content and possibly metadata like title or author.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/horror-story-api-3f32ba93/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from horrorstoryapi.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/horrorstoryapi.vercel.app/llms.txt)