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.
Creative Writing Prompts
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Below you will find a lists of writing prompts. We hope you will find inspiration in all them. Please take the ideas here and write your next hit novel. Nothing would be more thrilling for us! Here is a list of the current lists:
- 10 Even More Horrifying Horror Story Prompts
- 10 Horrifying Horror Story Prompts
- 100 Adventure Writing Prompts
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- 100 Atompunk Writing Prompts
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- 100 Biopunk writing prompts
- 100 Captivating Mythpunk Writing Prompts
- 100 Captivating Robot Novel Ideas to Inspire Your Next Science Fiction Masterpiece
- 100 Character-Driven Writing Prompts
- 100 Children’s Story Ideas to Inspire
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- 100 Creative Writing Prompts Based on Classic Literature: A Bridge Between Literary Heritage and Modern Expression
- 100 crime fiction writing prompts
- 100 cryptid writing prompts
- 100 cyberpunk novel ideas
- 100 dark fantasy writing prompts
- 100 dialogue writing prompts
- 100 dystopian writing prompts
- 100 end of the world writing prompts
- 100 Epistolary Writing Prompts for Telling Stories Through Letters
- 100 fantasy romance writing prompts
- 100 gothic fiction writing prompts
- 100 Gothic Space Horror Writing Prompt
- 100 Greatest Fantasy Writing Prompts of All Time
- 100 Greatest Young Adult Writing Prompts of All Time
- 100 Haunted House Story Starters: Craft Your Scariest Tale Yet
- 100 Hopepunk Writing Prompts
- 100 horror comedy writing prompts
- 100 Horror Story Ideas Based on Horror Movies
- 100 ideas for monster novels
- 100 Ideas for Summer Blockbuster Movie Scripts
- 100 literary fiction writing prompts
- 100 Magical Writing Prompts to Ignite Your Imagination
- 100 Magically Creative Witch-Inspired Story Ideas
- 100 Metafiction Writing Prompts:
- 100 Mind-Bending Speculative Fiction Story Ideas
- 100 Must-Try Mystery Writing Prompts (Solve the Perfect Crime!)
- 100 mystery writing prompts
- 100 Nautical Gothic writing prompts
- 100 New Year’s Eve writing prompts
- 100 Norse Mythology Writing Prompts
- 100 over-the-top action Writing Prompts to Ignite Your Creativity
- 100 Paranormal Fantasy Writing Prompts
- 100 paranormal writing prompts
- 100 romantic mystery writing prompts
- 100 Scary Cabin in the woods writing prompts
- 100 science fiction western writing prompts
- 100 slasher horror writing prompts
- 100 solarpunk utopias writing prompts
- 100 Space Opera Writing Prompts
- 100 Splatterpunk Writing Prompts #45 will shock you
- 100 spoken word poetry ideas
- 100 Steampunk Writing Prompts
- 100 Superhero Writing Prompts
- 100 survival horror writing prompts
- 100 Tantalizing Mystery Story Ideas to Inspire Your Next Thriller
- 100 techno thriller writing prompts
- 100 Thriller Romance Novel Ideas
- 100 Thriller Writing Prompts
- 100 UFO Writing Prompts: They’re Here!
- 100 Valentine’s Day Writing Prompts
- 100 Vampire, Werewolf, Witch and Ghost Writing Prompts
- 100 Werewolf Writing Prompts
- 100 Western Writing Prompts
- 100 writing prompts for creating vivid settings
- 100 Writing Prompts to Explore Your Childhood Memories
- 1000 Writing Prompts
- 101 Mind-Bending Quantum Fiction Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Next Sci-Fi Story
- 119 Nightmare Alien Writing Prompts
- 125 Mind-Bending Cosmic Horror Prompts
- 150 Romance Writing Prompts
- 150 tech noir writing prompts
- 20 Forgotten Gothic Stories Writers Need to Rediscover
- 31 Creepy Writing Prompts for Every Day of October
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- 50 Abominable Snowman and Snowstorms Writing Prompts
- 50 Arthurian Myths and Legends Writing Prompts
- 50 Bigfoot writing prompts
- 50 Cat Poem Writing Prompts
- 50 Chilling Haunted Doll Writing Prompts
- 50 Chilling Horror Sci-Fi Writing Prompts
- 50 Christmas Fiction Writing Prompts
- 50 Christmas Ghost Story Writing Prompts
- 50 Christmas writing prompts from the year 3023
- 50 Cyberpunk Writing Prompts
- 50 Dinosaur Writing Prompts
- 50 fairy tale retelling writing prompts
- 50 Fantastic Science Fiction Writing Prompts
- 50 fantasy writing prompts to inspire
- 50 Fantasy Writing Prompts: Wizards and Dragons
- 50 historical fiction writing prompts
- 50 Horror Writing Prompts from Different Points of View
- 50 Jungle Adventure Writing Prompts
- 50 Lovecraftian horror writing prompts
- 50 Mind-Bending New Weird Writing Prompts to Ignite Your Imagination
- 50 mystery whodunit writing prompts
1000 Writing Prompts
So I am writing this post of 1000 writing prompts. It might be a little misleading because I have no where near 1000 prompts.
10 Even More Horrifying Horror Story Prompts
Ok, the biggest comment that I get about our other 10 Horrifying Horror Prompts is that they are not scary… I believe thinking story prompts are going to be scary is like thinking you