Welcome to our $25 April 2024 Monthly 50 Word Horror Story Contest! We’re offering a spine-chilling $25
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25$ 2024 Six Word Spring Memoir Contest
Step right up and join our enchanting 2024 Six Word Spring Memoir Contest! As the season of renewal
6 Words of Horror Memoir 2024
Calling all horror enthusiasts and wordsmiths of the macabre! Step into the shadows and join our spine-chilling 2024 Six Word Horror Memoir
Word Search for Writers (Mondays)
Many respectable news and literary publications have crosswords or word searches, so we thought we could run a weekly Word Search for writers. On Mondays we will run one of these. If you find all the words, post a comment below. Not all of these will be this easy, but they will all have something […]
Crosswords for Writers
Welcome to Every Writer’s Weekly Writers Crossword, a delightful and challenging puzzle designed to test
2024 50 Words of Horror Contest for Halloween
Welcome to our 2024 50 Words of Horror Contest. This year our contests horror contest are starting a bit early, running from…
Continue the Poem
This is our continue the poem page. Just like continue the story, we collectively write a poem together in the comments.
Never-Ending Horror Haiku Post
Writing exercise: Can you write a Horror Haiku?
Continue the Story
We haven’t done one of these in a long time. Our Haiku, Horror Story, and 2 Sentence Stories are doing so well, we thought we’d add one more, Continue the Story…
Interview with Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
After a year of searching and many stories, I am able to meet with the man who inspired Halloween in many ways. He is iconic.
10 Horrifying Horror Story Prompts
Here are 10 horror story prompts that should give you the chills, and get you writing something scary. Warning if these don’t scare you, you are most-likely a zombie, vampire, werewolf or ghost.
Ghostwriter by Jennifer Vanderheyden
Steven was placing ant traps around the house when his wife Sylvia returned.
The Witch and the Till
I looked for the ‘Ten items or less’ checkout. This one read ‘Four items only,’ so I joined the queue.
Susanna’s Little Ghost
It started with a clock that was facing just slightly the wrong way. Of course, I didn’t think of it like that until much later. At the time I was sleepy and confused because the streetlight outside glinted off the clock’s shiny plastic surface and I couldn’t see what time it was.
Every Poem is a Catastrophe by George Moore
George Moore has published poetry in The Atlantic, Poetry, Colorado Review, North American Review, Valparaiso, and Orion. A finalist for The National Poetry Series
Bram Stoker on Witches
For convenience, the masculine offender is in demonology classed under the female designation. According to Michelet and other authorities there were ten thousand alleged witches for each alleged wizard! and anyhow there is little etiquette as to the precedence of ladies in criminal matters.
The Sources of Hallowe’en
If we could ask one of the old-world pagans whom he revered as his greatest gods, he would be sure to name among them the sun-god; calling him Apollo if he were a Greek; if an Egyptian, Horus or Osiris; if of Norway, Sol; if of Peru, Bochica.
Evidence of Witches
For Halloween: The accounts and evidence against witches (those killed for being witches) are far more terrifying than the prospects of them being true witches.
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.
Dear Whoever You Are by Angela Carlton
For that is the question, isn’t it? I don’t know who you are anymore. Once, you were the guy, my carefree man with those sea-glass colored eyes and that laugh.
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
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 […]