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Daily horror writing prompts 

Daily horror writing prompts 

. These daily horror writing prompts range from directional to introductory. We have a little of everything for everyone. We hope you enjoy them. Please leave your writings in the comments below.

If you leave a horror story of 500 words or less written in response to one of the prompts below, and we like it, we will contact you and ask you to publish it on our site. Please use your correct email address. 

Many of these horror writing prompts will be based on a famous horror movie and novel storylines. You may recognize these storylines or scenes when you read them. It’s important to remember every writer’s take on the same story will be different. I’ve found that writing a story, even one I know well, turns out very different than I expect. These are good exercises and will surely get your creative scare churning. 

We have many other writing prompts listed on our site.

02/01/23

Write a story about someone you know being possessed by a spirit or demon suddenly.

02/02/23

The world has ended, and a zombie is chasing you at night. You seem to be the lone human survivor. These zombies, luckily, are slow, but it is very dark in the city now that all the power is out. You can hear the zombie walking and shuffling behind you as you walk quickly down the alley. You turn the corner, hoping to get to your safe house. When you turn, you see a mass of 1000s of zombies surrounding the apartment where you usually hide. Your loved ones are inside.

02/03/23

Write a story about this picture. 

02/04/23

Write a story about throwing away an old doll that keeps coming back. 

02/05/23

Write a story about the person you are in bed with suddenly being attacked by someone in their dreams. You see cuts forming on the person from nowhere. The person is sleeping and being killed by someone in their dream. The police are sure to think it’s you. 

02/06/23

A group of scientists has brought back dinosaurs from their long extinction. Your town won a lottery for displaying these prehistoric nightmares. The collection of dinosaurs is in the middle of your town when they break free and start hunting you.

02/07/23

You are driving on a highway. There is a man in the backseat you don’t know about. He has a knife and is going to kill you.

02/08/23

You hear an ice cream truck late at night. It is 3 am. You look out your window and there is a large ugly clown giving ice cream to children sleep walking to the trucks open window.

02/09/23

You wake just after sunrise. You hear someone banging around your kitchen. When you go to look you see a zombie dumbly fumbling through you fridge. You smell smoke, hear sirens outside and screaming. You know it’s begun.

02/10/23

You wake up as a giant bug in your bed.

02/11/23

You are home alone. You’re watching tv. You look over and a man’s angry face is pressed against your window.

02/12/23

You go for a walk at night. As you walk you see The Smiling Man. At first he is dancing, then he walks over to you. The link goes to a Youtube video of The Smiling Man. Watch it if you have never heard of him.

02/13/23

There is a monster in your room. He is standing over your bed. As long as he thinks you are sleeping, he won’t hurt you.

02/14/23

You are trapped in your 35th floor lavish apartment. Outside people are dying by the 1000s of a deadly virus. Something has happened and you are being overrun by bugs.

02/15/23

You are an assistant to scientists working on a time travel machine. There is an accident in the lab, and when you wake up, you are living in prehistoric times with dinosaurs.

02/16/23

You have found a pill that will make you into a super genius. Taking the pill will make you rich beyond your dreams, but at night you will rage the countryside as a hideous monster.

02/17/23

You wake up to lights outside your windows. In a minute, aliens pass through the walls of your bedroom. You suddenly can’t move. They shine a light on you. You float up into the air and they take you to their ship.

02/18/23

It’s morning. You wake up to a beautiful day. You get ready and drive to work. As you drive there is no traffic. You don’t see any people. When you get to work it is empty. You are are the last person on Earth.

02/19/23

There is a murder after you. You are babysitting 3 children under the age of 10. You can’t call the police. You have to make sure to keep him out of the house.

02/20/23

Aliens are real. The whole world knows it. You work on a team of scientists and realize they are going to attack in 3 days.

02/21/23

A demon keeps appearing to you every night. He sits in a chair by your bed and tells you to do terrible things.

02/22/23

You bring home your newborn baby, and a cult shows up to worship your child. You open the door of your home and 100s of people are standing on your lawn.

02/23/23

You are a friend have the same dream of a witch killing you in your dream. When you wake up your their are leaves in your bed from where you saw the witch in the woods.

02/24/23

A cult promises you wealth and power if you will only join them and become possessed.

02/25/23

Your arm has been itching and you have net felt well. On closer examination you realize there is something moving under your skin.

02/26/23

A new virus is spreading around the world, but this virus kills 90% of the people who get it.

02/27/23

You are eating a meal at a friends house. It’s a fancy dinner, and the noodles begin moving. 

02/28/23

You get a new job! It’s a wonderful place to work. After lots of mysterious things going on, you are asked to come to an after work meeting. There you find your entire workplace worships the devil. 

03/01/23

You answer a want ad that is for house sitting. The house is out far out in the country, and it is an old 1700s mansion. You desperately need the job. Once you take it, you hear people all night in the house. At midnight they appear and want to sacrifice you. 

03/02/23

You were recently bit by a werewolf. You will turn soon. Start your story telling the steps you will take to protect your family from what you will turn into. 

03/03/23

You are on a cruise ship having a great time. Suddenly your ship is attacked by a giant monster. 

03/04/23

People you know are suddenly changing. They are becoming different people though they look the same. You and a few close friends try to figure out what is happening. 

03/05/23

A group of thugs killed your son. You realize if you go to the old witch in the hills you can trade your soul to her so she will raise the monster of the forest to kill the men and get your revenge. It will only cost your soul. 

03/06/23

You move into a new neighborhood, into one of the nieces houses, and suddenly things start happening. Things go missing. You hear whispers. Late at night one of your children go missing in the house. You have to find them and get them back from the demons.

03/07/23

Your plane crashed in the isolated mountain range. No one has come for you in 30 days. Many people have died. With no food they are talking about eating the bodies. 

03/08/23

You are 12 years old. Your mother and father divorced 2 years ago. Now you found out your mom’s new boyfriend is a Vampire!

03/09/23

 The zombies have taken over. You are living in a house by yourself. They don’t know you are there. You have stuck to a route that lets you stay safe, get food, and you feel like you might make it. At a critical moment today, you tripped over a trashcan blown down by the wind. It was a stupid mistake, but now, a 1000 zombies are chasing you back to your house. 

03/10/23

You are trapped at the southpole with a group of people. One of them has been taken over by an alien. You know this won’t stop. They will all be turned soon. You have to do something. 

03/11/23

You fall asleep in a mall. No one sees you and your are locked in! Unfortunately the mall has released a new security system. They are robots, and for some reason they are set to kill. 

03/12/23

You have killed your ex and his/her lover. They have come back to haunt you. 

03/13/23

You have been bitten by a vampire. As you go unconscious, you know you will awaken again. In fact you never fully fall asleep. As the undertaker gets your body ready for the funeral you feel and hear everything.

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  1. Angelyn Gumbs says

    February 9, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Last night after making garlic mashed potatoes and cheese and having a t-bone steak with corn on the side for dinner. I had decided to make a celebration dinner, it was delicious ; I just broken my fiance’s that I was engaged with for the past three years. And he had decided to broke -up with me . With little or no explanation to why?
    A week before Valentines day. What a ass he is!
    But anyway I’m not going to let depression or anxiety set a claim on me.
    As begun to brush my teeth and talking to God Almighty in my head ; asking God ;why and what I didn’t see for these past years, And why was I being fooled . To then took off my clothes and heading to a shower, when my eyes belong his favorite body wash Blu Atlas, That he would use when we was living together as a couple for these past years. I loved the scent on him ;it brought out my animalistic impulse on him . It drove me wild in bed when making love or just having just plain old sex.
    So I have now decided that , I have enough of that ;so I emptied it out and toss the container in the trash. Because I didn’t want anymore of belongings in my house .
    Done taken my shower and now heading to bed and saying my prayers; “I think to myself why? ”
    To the wee early morning ; that’s when my alarm clock wakes me up. As I now roll over to the left of my bed towards the night stand .And reaching over to press the off button on the alarm clock. But here’s the thing it won’t go off. And I know that I’m pressing; but still nothing that when my eyes glaze down and saw ; “Oh My God!” That’s all I can scream at the top of my lungs; because my hands was now turned into three pairs of legs sturdy as shit ! And with a large coxae and five claws on each of them. “Oh God what has happened to me ? ”
    My body has now change with these characteristics with a thoracic segments front legs , are shorter and my hind legs were the longest , That I even have a hind wing and a tough exoskeleton . I remember saying my prayers last night; and being anger. I called my now ex- fiance’s a cockroach and now it seems , like God had turned into that same thing that I called my fiance’s
    My head was now small and as for my once sexy body. It was now broad flattened with reddish brown color. The American cockroach is now me.
    And screaming and crying was going to change me back . I know that I called my ex -fiance’s
    a cockroach; but in fact . I was really the truth cockroach in the end and now God had let me see it.

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