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2023 Souls of Darkness 50 Word Halloween Story Contest!

September 13, 2023 by admin 8 Comments

Get ready to unleash your inner horror maestro in the spine-tingling 2023 Eat Your Soul 50 Word Halloween Contest!  Share your most blood-curdling, hair-raising 50-word horror stories below, and brace yourself for the terror-fueled showdown of the year. 

Why am I doing this? We’re here to quench that Halloween thirst for chills and thrills! The grand prize? Oh, it’s a monstrous treat! The winning tale will be promoted on our site, sent out in a bone-chilling email blast, and hauntingly posted across all our social networks! 

I’ve been running these contests for ages, and trust me, some spine-chilling masterpieces have emerged from the shadows! 

The rules are simple yet devilishly delightful:

  • Must be a top-notch horror story that’ll make our bones shiver.
  • Keep it within a bone-chilling 50 words or less.
  • It should be a complete tale that leaves us screaming for more.
  • Don’t let the clock strike midnight; submit before the witching hour on October 25, 2023. 
  • Feel the darkness in your soul? Excellent! Enter as many stories as your twisted imagination conjures!

The prizes are spine-chillingly thrilling:  The most bloodcurdling tale will win the ultimate promotion package:  One terrifying ad campaign.  An email blast that’ll send shivers down spines. A nightmarish presence on all our social networks.  Plus, your eerie epic will be enshrined on our haunted site!

Don’t be scared; it’s as easy as conjuring a ghost. Leave your 50-word slice of horror in the comments below. I’m practically trembling with anticipation! 

Remember, you can enter as many times as your nightmares allow! Dare you accept the challenge? 

Enter your soul eating stories below!

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  1. Josh M says

    September 14, 2023 at 4:59 am

    The cursed mirror I bought at the estate sale reflected a distorted figure. I smashed it in terror, but the fragments still showed that grotesque form. Panicking, I ran outside, and in every puddle, window, and glass, that twisted reflection grinned back at me, beckoning me into its nightmarish world.

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    • Melinda Care says

      September 18, 2023 at 9:01 am

      Josh M – Short but creepy enough to scare and sets the tone for a grisly tale,. It is hard to have only 50 words to do this kind of writing, but you have a great submission!

      Reply
  2. Sylvia T says

    September 17, 2023 at 3:33 am

    Tip tap, sounded the keys of the keyboard, as the writer frantically documented the images that had been ingrained in their mind through the evil force that now stood behind them. They would be released from this evil spell when the very last letter of the story was complete.

    Reply
  3. Marilou P says

    September 17, 2023 at 3:59 am

    Stranded in the dark, blue ocean, where the waves were raging, she swam for two days and two nights and her muscles were aching. A set of two piercing eyes approached her from behind – a creature that lurks is not a good sign. She screamed and then… she woke up.

    Reply
  4. Melinda Care says

    September 18, 2023 at 7:22 am

    Dinner plans for six had been banjaxed going on two weeks now. Rotten food covered the table. The stench of decaying corpse filled the air as flashing lightning revealed the Gremlin on the table, carefully studying the shotgun he had ripped off the wall in the den two weeks earlier.

    Reply
  5. Ben Philibert says

    September 28, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    Deep in the dark, moldy boiler room, sitting lifelessly on a shelf, is an old wooden marionette. The closest thing resembling life are its glass eyes, where you can see heartbreak…
    …and unbridled rage.
    The red glow from the boiler fire reflects in its eyes as they start to move.

    Reply
  6. Ben Philibert says

    September 29, 2023 at 8:48 am

    Abraham looked through his telescope at the night sky and the universe beyond.
    “Anything is possible,” he said.
    He lowered the lens to the city. Miles away, down an alleyway, he saw a grotesque humanoid creature feeding on a woman. Then it looked at Abraham and hissed.
    “Impossible!” Abraham exclaimed.

    Reply
  7. Ben Philibert says

    September 30, 2023 at 10:12 am

    The graverobber opened the casket of a random woman’s old skeletal corpse, removing the ring from her bony finger. He went home and gifted his wife with it. She happily went to bed wearing it that night.
    The next morning, he found her dead. She looked exactly like the corpse.

    Reply

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