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Best Horror Writing Prompts

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This week's contest:
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Once Upon a Place with Sarah Jaffe

89 contest entries /
56 stories

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Closes at 23:59 - May 02 EST

Set your story in a Gothic manor house.

Horror – 133 stories

"Come with us,” two burly men in gray suits say, grabbing you by the arm and handcuffing you. “You know what you did.” But you have no idea.

Horror – 111 stories

You hear the crash of plates and a bloodcurdling scream coming from the kitchen.

Horror

It’s 3 am and you don’t know where your children are.

Horror

You'd always wanted to fall in with this crowd. Now that you had, you weren't sure about them anymore.

Horror

Everyday, you return to your apartment and say “Honey, I’m home. Oh wait, that’s right, I live alone.” But one day, a voice replies, “I picked some pizza.”

Horror

You work as a host at a restaurant when someone comes in and says they have a reservation. You look it up to find that the reservation was booked 40 years ago.

Horror

Late at night, at an empty 24-hour laundromat, someone reaches into a dryer to pull the last of their clothes out. Instead, something grabs their arm and pulls them in.

Horror

You're a janitor at the oldest theatre in town.

Horror

You realize your life is a TV show and you are the protagonist.

Horror

You fell asleep in the desert, wondering how you would survive the next day.

Horror

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