17 Horror Writing Prompts for the Best Scary Stories
As Halloween is coming up, it is the perfect time for writing horror stories! If you want to write something spooky but aren’t sure what to write about, this is the post for you. I have 17 horror writing prompts to inspire your next story. Use these prompts as jumping-off points to brainstorm from.
Also, if you are interested in learning more about horror writing, I recommend reading my post here which gives tips and tricks for writing scary stories.
All the heat left my body when it finally turned around.
You discover you are a clone.
A door you never saw appears at your workplace, and what lies inside will expose a horrible truth.
Someone begins sending you letters, warning you not to trust those closest to you.
The figures in a painting begin moving into a new scene.
An old antique store has a collection of dolls that resemble your fiance’s family.
A strange lullaby begins to play every night at the same time, but you can’t find the source.
When on a road trip, you arrive at a town that is not on the map.
When a regular customer leaves a cryptic warning and then goes missing, you set out to find the truth.
On a camping trip with friends, you hear footsteps stop outside your tent every night.
After finding what seems like the perfect roommate, you discover that no one else can see them.
You begin finding scratches and bruises on your body and discover a small doll that has matching wounds.
A lost child appears at your doorstep one night, but when you call the police, the child vanishes.
Your neighbor disappears, but everyone you ask tells you no one ever lived in that house.
You discover a staircase that seems to go down endlessly.
A stranger whispers a date and time in your ear, and as it grows closer, strange things begin to happen.
The train you are on is not stopping and the landscape starts shifting.
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