

The world's population is overtaken by vampires - all except one little child.ġ3. Serial killers worldwide are connected by a dark web website.ġ2. A man afraid of snakes is shipwrecked on an island covered with them.ġ1. A woman wakes up to find her family gone and her doors and windows boarded up with no way to escape.ġ0. A man wakes up in a coffin next to a freshly dead body.ĩ. A man wakes up bound to an electric chair.Ĩ.

A scientist clones his family that died in an airplane crash - but soon learns the repercussions of playing God.ħ. A man reads a novel, soon realizing that the story is his very own - and according to the book, a killer is looming.Ħ. But they listen in fear because they killed their daughter that dark night years ago.ĥ. Fifteen years later, her parents get a call from her older self. But there's something different about him. He returns a year later to the delight of his family. New residents of an old neighborhood are invited by their friendly neighbors to a Halloween party. They soon learn that the doll is actually their daughter. A girl goes missing in the woods, and her parents find only a decrepit and scary doll left behind. They may inspire screenplays, novels, short stories, or even smaller moments that you can include in what stories you are already writing or what you will create in your upcoming projects.īut beware! If you scare easily - and have active imaginations like most writers do - turn up the lights and proceed with caution.Ĭontest opens in 15 days | Remind Me 101 Terrifying Horror Story Promptsġ. In the spirit of helping writers find those seeds, here we offer 101 originally conceived and terrifying story prompts that you can use as inspiration for your next horror story. They can come from a single visual that entices the creative mind - a seed that continues to grow and grow until the writer is forced to finally put it to paper or screen. They can come from a scene or moment in a film that wasn't fully explored. We get our ideas from a plethora of sources - news headlines, novels, television shows, movies, our lives, our fears, our phobias, etc. Most writers are often asked, "Where do you get your ideas from?" A majority of the time, writers find it difficult to answer that question.

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