This an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts.
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Winner Bedtime by DanaSan
Congratulations to our Winner DanaSan. She has won our 2020 50 word horror contest! Please congratulate her in the comments below.
$100 50 Word Horror Creepy Christmas Contest
Welcome to our $100 50 Word Horror Creepy Christmas Contest. We are going to run one of these every couple months due to the popularity, and it seems like people really like them. It also seems like people really love the horror stories, so we are doing it again. This contest is basically the same…
$100 50 Word Horror Story Contest
Welcome to our 2020 50 Word Horror Story Halloween Contest! I’ll be honest, last years contest was a mess! We had all kinds of trouble. People played but didn’t supply their contact information. People didn’t want their personal information used. They didn’t even want their stories used. They didn’t want to get paid, they wanted…
10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You
Here are 10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You. These scary stories are written by new, up and coming authors. As a writer if you can inspire emotions in your readers
10 Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all Time
When looking at the Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all time we are defining classic here as anything that has not been published in contemporary times. I’m not defining contemporary times in any strict way here.
10 Scariest Short Film on Youtube
We wanted to do a 10 Scariest Short Film on Youtube list for you. I’m a big fan of little horror, but short Horror films on Youtube are numerous. Many are simply terrible. From bad acting to not scary
Halloween Call for Submissions!
Happy Halloween! Our site is going horror for the month of October, and we are looking for articles about horror writing or horror, submissions of horror fiction and creepy or spooky poetry.
How to Become a Werewolf by Elliott O’Donnell
How to Become a Werewolf AS I have already stated, in some people lycanthropy is hereditary; and when it is not hereditary it may be acquired through the performance of certain of the rites ordained by Black Magic. For the present I can only deal with the more general features of these rites (which vary…
A Key to Voice by Ian Martínez Cassmeyer
One concept writing-program instructors love to discuss, in lieu of craft, which might better serve their students, is voice. It seems absurd to do so because voice is the one thing one cannot teach in writing,
3 Reasons Why Horror has Cultural Value
3 Reasons Why Horror has Cultural Value: Though they capture the imaginations of many, tales of the weird, the fantastical, and the horrifying tend to be regarded as lesser works of literature–assuming they’re considered literature at all.
Slither and Me by Jean Fineberg
Jean Fineberg is a poet and jazz musician with an M.Ed. in Psychology. Her father left a new poem of his every on the table every morning.
Among the Cattails by Christopher Seiji Berardino
The searchlights from the guard towers were yet not lit, and in the blue of twilight, the garden looked like a tiny village. Bridges of desert wood crossed a shallow pond, connecting sandy peninsulas that stuck out into the water like rounded chins. A squat gazebo sat stoically above a thicket of cattails, standing careful guard over the many rows of watermelon, daikon, and lettuce.
This Is Just To Say (during Corona Virus) by Christopher Berardino
Christopher Berardino is a writer of Japanese-American descent from Orange County, CA. He received an MFA in Fiction from Cornell University in 2018. His work has previously appeared in Flash Fiction, Blind Corner Literary Magazine, The Copperfield Review, FLARE: The Flagler Review, and others.
Daily Writing Prompts
Welcome to our daily writing prompts page. These were started in our writers group over at Discord, and Kimberlee @Urania_theMuse, one of our members, took over the responsibilities and has been doing a great job. We will be adding new prompts each day. Please follow Kimberlee on Twitter and leave a comment below. If you…