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Horror has never been a favorite of mine because of the terrifying dreams that follow it, but I do appreciate some good horror story writing prompts!
Horror or thriller novels will always give you a shot of adrenaline in some exciting scenes. Though the vivid description and the wild imagination of a reader added together can be the result of a bad nightmare at night XD
But that can only be said as a job well done by the author for writing such a scene!
Writing prompts are meant to help inspire your own writing and for you to go on and elaborate on further more than the prompts given and into a story of your own. The details are for you to wove in and the ending is for you to decide.
Horror films and novels can definitely be mixed among other genres such as mystery or fantasy, to add some fictional characters to grab the reader into the haunted house that’s your horror novel.
So let’s take a look at these 32 Terrifying Horror Story Writing Prompts that might give you a scare or maybe even a nightmare!
Let’s Start :
1. The house shook, and the power went out in your house. You go to the window to look at the neighbor’s house. Only your house is down on power, and a hand touched your shoulder, but you live alone.
2. You like the thrill, so you love to go into haunted houses. And the second you entered the house, the first thing you hear is, “Good luck for ever finding your way out.”
3. She lives in an apartment alone, but when she woke up one night, her bedroom door was wide open, and her bathroom’s lights are on.
4. Footsteps were constantly heard in the attic, so you set up a camera to see, since you can never find what’s making the sound. You are now holding the camera and rolling back the footage.
5. Clowns used to attend birthday parties, but now that people think they’re scary, it’s time for revenge.
6. 3am is the time of ghosts, and that’s when you were called by the police force to go and visit the abandoned hospital, because hundreds of frantic phone calls poured in about it.
7. You plugged off your TV, and still saw a shining red dot at the bottom, you managed to follow the charger of the dot to the wall next door. You were being watched.
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8. He looked at an old photo he had with his ex girlfriend who had passed away, when he inspected it upon closer look, his current girlfriend was right behind them, with a knife.
9. Whenever you take a shower, the steam shows a message, and you assumed it was your sister the whole time. She just came in from the bathroom, her voice hysterical, “If it’s you, stop it, it’s not funny anymore!”
10. You went on a roller coaster with your friend, and you felt something wet on your face after you went through a dark tunnel. It’s red.
11. You turned over in your bed, and opened your eyes a little bit. You see a full green figure squatting next to your bed, looking straight into your eyes.
12. He stared at the little boy standing in front of the graffiti wall, the boy turned and smiled ruefully, his eyes were pure white.
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12. “Which part am I going to cut next?” He twirled his knife around and giggled. “Let’s do the fingers next.”
13. She whispered, “I don’t know who you are, but please, leave the place, leave my home, leave me alone.”
14. There was a murderer in town, and after a walk in the woods, I walked to the police station, “I know who the murderer is, and it’s my _______.”
15. She pulled down her mask, her lower face scarred and slit, “Do you want to join me?”
16. The ghost ship that had went missing years ago appeared at the dock, with only the captain alive on there, and he’s shivering with fear.
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17. You opened the basement to find broken shackles and you whipped your head around to find a swinging iron bat.
18. The painting that you just bought at the thrift store and putted up on the wall, is now ripped into pieces and splashed with the color of red. The wall writes, “Don’t bring such a thing into my house.”
19. The attic you never bothered to clean until now, reflects a pair of eyes in the corner and a hunched figure.
20. A loud scream. A rifle went off. The birds flew. But no one knew, that this had happened multiple times already.
21. He had been the murderer of hundreds of cases, yet no one will ever suspect him, because he was the _________.
22. After you had a drink with your husband, you woke up in a confined room, a voice came from the speaker, “Thank you for volunteering as tribute, you will now proceed to the trial.
23. He made the deal with a witch for a demon to live inside of him for a year in trade for riches. It went horribly, but now the demon doesn’t want to leave, and there’s no way to get him out.
24. You went into the maze with your friends, and they left you as a prank, and it’s midnight, and you still haven’t left the maze, but you start to feel eyes looking at you.
25. The prisons was the last place on Earth that was secure and safe, because the world is now ransacked with _____.
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26. He shook the jail bars, “Let me out! I need to stop it! This is only the start of it all!” And in a split second, the 911 calls blew up ringing like crazy.
27. “I told you, you should’ve believed me.” He whispered, his eyes shaking with his face pale. “It’s too late now.”
28. You went on a drop tower, despite you hating heights, and you closed your eyes waiting for the drop for what seems like forever. But you opened your eyes to the panicking riders next to you, you’ve been on it for thirty minutes and it’s still not going down.
29. An encrypted letter was sent into your mailbox, you tried to decoded it through websites and the message is warning you : Don’t trust anyone, they’re all in it together.
30. Your family went to the creek, and you peered down as you saw a rock with a green tint. It was a grenade.
31. He jogged up the mountain, and he saw a crowd all huddled up on the top. He goes over and a children was pointing at a skull with several bones that was a couple feet from where we were all standing.
32. Footsteps were coming closer and closer to where she was hiding, she held her breath. A voice came from behind her,”You should know that you couldn’t hide from me.”
Conclusion :
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