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Yandere prompts of horror!
Horror Prompts
Something you can choose for yourself or ask followers to send in suggestions!
Setting.
Abandoned farm
Small town
Country house
Woods
Cabin in the woods
Summer camp
Suburbs
Abandoned house
Abandoned factory
Apartment building
Abandoned theme park
Motel
Hotel
Store at night
Alley
Bedroom
an attic
a hospital
an old well
an elevator
a place that feels eerily familiar to you, like you knew it in a dream
an empty/abandoned room
a room you’re not quite sure you’re alone in
an embalming room
a funeral home
body freezers
an empty parking lot
the only other car in the abandoned parking lot
Old Victorian manor
Abandoned prison
Isolated snowy area (think the thing)
Sealed off bus/car
Mountains
Haunted/Abandoned ship
Deserted island
Space station
Airplane
Cliff’s edge
Forest
Abandoned city
Arcade
State fair
Fun house mirrors
(Suggest your own)
Scenario/basic theme/feeling/villain
waking up in a random room with no idea who/where/why/how you got there
A strange, beautiful flower that sprays lots of small spores...that you just so happened to inhale
a knock at the window
The shadow you see out of the corner of your eye
you’re home alone and there’s a knock at the door.
broken glass
You work as a mortician and you think you hear laughing coming from one of the caskets
The fallen woman
The lady of the house
You get a beautiful, handwritten letter from an old school friend, inviting you to come stay at their old, mysterious manor
A road that never ends
A road that takes you every place that you don’t want to go
Being followed
A guide on how to navigate a setting
Revisiting a distant memory
Lonliness
Suffocation
Revenge
Paranormal visitors
Seance
Stranded
Only (allotted amount of time) to escape before (bad thing happens)
Dealing with strange natural phenomena
Bad side effects of time travel
Something isn’t right about (setting). Something is off.
Absolute gore fest
Juxtaposition
Mad doctor/scientist villain
Dolls
Killer clowns
(Create your own)
Thank you to @s-s-southsideserpentine and @annibunnysworld for helping out!
Possible rooms in the backrooms that sound like good ideas
- a small room with bright white walls and a red carpet. There are pieces of abstract art hanging from the walls, either colourful splatters or soulless shapes put together on a similarly shaded background. A white ottoman sits in the middle of the room. The hhhhh of air vents can be heard.
- A dark room cluttered with sofas, furniture, lamps and boxes. The space is cramped and you sit down on a sofa half taken up by cardboard boxes, right against a few plastic lawn chairs. In the middle, is a stairway with bright lights shining from it. Chattering and footsteps can be heard, but you don't see anyone from the stairs.
- A soulless hotel room with pale teal curtains and shiny grey “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” balloons hanging over them. Your bed is all white, and you have a small wooden desk with a black rolling chair. Several colourful birthday cards lay on your desk, and there is a white balloon next to the window. Every hour, a single colourful balloon slips in from your doorway.
- A small room with the same familiar beige wallpaper and the bright white ceiling lights. The floor is a strange bunch of porcelain white tiles, and in the middle lies a rectangular inflatable pool large enough it reaches your shoulders when you sit down in it. There is a metal pool ladder leading into it, and nearby are ring-shaped floaties and an inflatable dolphin and beachball. The room is weirdly musty.
Story Starter #12
Most people’s idea of a good time doesn’t involve a cross country roadtrip with a suspected serial killer.
Scenario Prompt #2
Your protagonist adopts a seemingly normal animal which becomes more horrific over time.
Scenario Prompt #3
Your protagonist is late for work, but when they arrive, they find everyone dead. What happened? And is your protagonist now in danger?
Scenario Prompt #4
It is not leaves falling from the trees, but something else...
OTP Writing Prompt #25
Your OTP somehow manages to glitch out of reality. What do they find on the other side? How do they get back?
Image Prompt #1
(Photo by Lennart Wittstock from Pexels)
Scenario Prompt #7
Your protagonist takes a job as a night janitor. There is something off about the building they’re cleaning, but not in the way one would expect.
Story Starter #45
No insurance company on Earth covered damages caused by wendigos, so it looked like I was on my own.
Scenario Prompt #9
Your character is a monster hunter. They are called to a funeral. The problem? The dearly departed won’t stay dead.
listen ok. so there’s that typical horror trope about the family and the haunted house and yadda yadda.
but like, have a movie where this family has gone through many haunted houses before, to the point where they move into this new one and are like ‘okay. fresh start number seven.’ and then basically throughout the movie avoid and deflect any typical horror event from the house like it’s no big deal.
something’s under the teen girl’s bed? she takes a can of bug spray and some chloroform and uses that shit on the demon creature without turning an eye from whoever she was texting. mom’s cooking and the family’s nowhere to be found? weird creaking noises? she sighs and continues cooking. family comes through the back door later with some blood on them and carrying a few hockey masks. mom doesn’t question it. family looks exhausted and irritated. younger brother walks into his room to find the dog trapped in the wardrobe, wardrobe unable to open? seeping dark smoke and gross liquids? move it and throw some salt around that thang and kick in the back of the wardrobe. dog hops out with a scoff and trots to the door of the room and down the stairs. a shadow follows. lots of growling and snarling and scuffling. a shadow runs fuckin outie back down the hall in fear. dad is in the garage working in the car. car shuts it’s doors and locks them. he is unable to get out. he sighs and starts the car. might as well go get groceries.
family don’t give a fuck.
fall sentence starters
hey y’all! i’ve been in the writing mood so here are some autumnal writing prompts, both tricks and treats!
1. “I don’t really like candy corn.”
2. “I have no one to go apple picking with...”
3. “Do you... maybe wanna have a scary movie night?”
4. “Did you bring an umbrella?”
5. “My hands are so cold.”
6. “Can I borrow your hoodie?”
7. “Look at all the leaves!”
8. “Can you light a candle or something?”
9. “I know a way to warm you up.”
10. “What kind of candy should i get.”
11. “My nephew wants us to take him trick or treating this year.”
12. “Haven’t you ever seen the leaves change colors before?”
13. “Oh no, it looks like it’s gonna rain.”
14. “Your sweater is so big!”
15. “Lay with me?”
16. “Why is it so hot? It’s October!”
17. “Why did you get such a tiny pumpkin? We have to carve this!”
18. “You didn’t tell me we had to carve this!”
19. “Be careful with the decorations! That ladder won’t hold your— weight.”
20. “Are you seriously going all black this month?”
21. “What is the point of pumpkin spice pringle’s.”
22. “Summer is over. Stop wearing sunscreen.”
23. “The sun doesn’t go away just because it’s fall.”
24. “It’s raining so much.”
25. “But you’re so tall! Can you pleaaase come apple picking with me?”
26. “We are NOT dressing up my animal in a halloween costume.”
27. “You make a pretty cute ghost, babe.”
28. “I don’t want to go either but it’s a company party and there’s free food and we might as well have fun with it, right?”
29. “When was the last time you went to a Halloween party?”
30. “What are you going to dress up as?”
31. “You’ve never been to a corn maze?!”
32. “If you want to go to the haunted house I’ll go with you, just so you don’t get scared, y’know?”
33. “They have the best plain donuts here i’ve ever had in my life.”
34. “Cider is the best drink. Period.”
35. “But I’ve never made an apple pie before.”
36. “Come on, aren’t you excited to see the little kids trick or treating?”
37. “I don’t have to have to hand out candy alone, just put on the costume!”
38. “I picked it out especially with you in mind! You’re hurting my feelings!”
39. “They have good stuff down at the farmers market.”
40. “Why are your eyes so... red?”
41. “I haven’t been sleeping well lately.”
42. “Did you hear that?”
43. “Is that an... actual skeleton?”
44. “It’s just your imagination.”
45. “Maybe it’s just a scary prank.”
46. “Is that your blood!?”
47. “Is this what being poisoned feels like?”
48. “Help them! They can’t breathe!”
49. “It’s just a scrape...”
50. “How did you break your leg? And so close to Halloween, too?”
51. “Do you know what death smells like?”
52. “Is that a real knife?”
53. “Your nose is bleeding, like, really bad.”
54. “Just sit down, I’m gonna take the nail out.”
55. “It’s Halloween, they’re probably just in a costume.”
56. “You’re scary good at that. For a beginner.”
57. “I love that sound.”
58. “There’s nothing better than fresh meat.”
59. “When I said trick or treat, I meant just treat.”