Absolute Horror - In & Out Prompt Page

Take a Special Day - e.g. Halloween, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, or even International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and write a nasty little tail to depict your chosen event.

Take a song - listen to the lyrics and write a story based around them - I find a lot of ideas hidden away in old Maiden, Motorhead, Deep Purple lyrics - though I have to admit there must be a story in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

A mother does her shop, her kid sitting in the cart. At the check out 2 old ladies fuss the kid - pinching cheeks & towsling hair. One says "... so cute, I could eat them right up." The other, a twinkle in her eye replies "oh, yes."

Stuck in a surreal painting, sold out some people and now they are out with vengeance on their minds, rock star nightmare.

"They can't kill us all."

Write a story about a mannequin or a person who collects them, or who creates one.

"They're all dead."

Take an OLD monster - keep true to the mythos and write a story based in the present, giving the monster a modern day twist.

write a story about the most evil frightening thing you can think of, encountering something which frightens them.

A dream collector

Write a story about the picture seen at item# 1415368 To see the picture quickly, go to the top of this page and type 1415368 into the search box. Tombstones should pop up for you to see.

News Story - An Australian Zoo after an Orangutan used a branch to scale an electric fence. Don't take this literally - think Monster Zoo, or Mental Ward.

News Story - US restaurant chain to probe snake head in broccoli - What else you hate to find in your mixed salad?

News Story - Eaten Alive, mice chew on War Vets head: A War Veteran was found covered in blood after mice chewed at his head in an Australian nursing home. "He nearly died on Saturday Night; He was being eaten alive."

News Story - Search For Tourist Uncovers Seven Corpses: While a rescue team searched a Chinese Tourist Spot for the tourist they found a nasty surprise. The news story didn't report how the seven died or who they were; the tourist is still missing.

Take a Movie Title and use that to give your imagination a kick - try "How To Make A Monster"; "It Came From Outer Space"; "Them"; "Black Christmas"; "They Live"; "Nightmaster"; "Dreamscape"

A deadly/dead/dangerous/insane/etc. prostitute/concubine/harlot/geisha/etc. who kills/bites/tortures/haunts/etc. Choose one or your own of each category.

a ghost hunt goes "deadly" wrong

I saw a man on the back seat of the bus this week. He was ranting and raving (with expletives) about everyone on the bus - Apart from being on drugs, what else could've brought the man to this?

Write a story on the "Black Zodiac" see my notes in "Black Zodiac" 

Begin with "It was midnight, and the world knew it..." OR: *hopefully sarcastic* Write a fan-fic of my play.

Cannibalism as a religious ritual? Perhaps a fantasy religion where it is considered wrong to bury the dead and not use the body as nourishment, weapons, tools...kind of like a waste of waste of precious materials that the gods gave to you.

A night at an abandoned amusement park.

You attend an interview for a new job. However, something doesn't quite feel right with the place or the people there

Your dog can smell the disease growing in your thumb and bites it off. To you he's a hero. Did he get all the infection, or did he get a taste of blood...

Who in their right mind would get themselves into this sort of situation, hanging around a mortuary at 2 am?

While on a long solitary camping trip, with the dog[s], your foot is caught in a bear trap, what happens to you?

You are a poor, fat kid in school and you are picked on constantly. After graduation, you move away and change your appearance. You come back home with your mind set on revenge.

Be careful when you laugh at me, because you don't which one of me your laughing at...

"I will take your strongest desire, and I will make it your worst nightmare!"

The Maid, housekeeper(?), is tortured by her employers.

sitting in church letting your mind wander, you look up and only a few people are left, where did everyone go?

you wake to bright lights filling up your bedroom from your windows, is this a nightmare or an attack?

A woman is giving birth. The doctors deliver the baby, The Nurse looks at the baby and screems....

Two kids are hiking, they spot a big hairy being, have they just found big foot, or is it a narly looking bear?

a couple is argueing, they run across a funny old person, the next morning they have switched bodies

"Loss as muse, Loss as charater, Loss as life." Anna Quindlen

"Let's start shooting the prisoners"

Reality used to be a friend of mine

A child being eaten alive by fruit flies...

"It came to kill me!"

Use as a title "The Hunt."

"The only way out, is through the basement"

The lights go out. The house is black. You stumble to the kitchen. When you reach in the drawer for a flashlight, your hand closes around something moist and quivering.

"It was supposed to be a night we'd always remember" -starting line-

12-21-2012 is just around the corner and the stars will align with the center of the galaxy, and many ancient cultures marked it as the End, but don't say how. Will Lovecraft's Outer Gods and Great Old Ones return "when the stars are right?"

Do a character study on what it's like to be the villan (ie, the monster living under the bed, the seriel killer, the vampire, etc.) and twist it to what it means to be them.

Do you really believe that noise is just your house settling?

Put an old monster (Drac, Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, Blob, etc) and put him/her/it into today's world of technology.

(another prompt with a starting line) Soft/Quiet style story using the first words "The hallway was quiet..."

Love me! Why won't you love me!

"Life is like a river. I like to build dams."

Take a well-known real-life event and tell how it "really" happened, the older the better. Stay away from standard conspiracy theories (we've already heard them), but original theories are fine.

Is it paranoia if they really are out to get you?

You go home from college to find your small town empty.

Your story must contain the words "butterfly/butterflies" "teeth" and "inhospitable"

The students aren't learning. What's a teacher to do?

All the world is a stage and my parts are getting bigger everyday. (Twisting Shakespeare)

Jump on Twitter and just start reading random tweets. Something mundane may spark a thought process.

"You think I'm dead? Think again...."

A Zombie creature makes his way home from work. At home he finds a party underway. He makes drinks, cleans up, and as a last service for the day feeds his flesh to wife and kids.

You wake up caged in a dungoen. You feel liquad up to your ankles, It stinks like soething vile was left to die yet the smell remind you of blood..O yeah let the story be supernatural

She-wolf (or male), full moon and a out of control hunter.

I have a prompt that seems like a good one to explore, its kind of like an oximoron: A Flower, Winter weather (sleet, snow, wind, etc), and a lyric from a song intergrated into the story as a sentence or dialgoue

Baptism

A new plant has been delivered to the office you work at. But something about it seems strange....

TITLES: My Stomach Growls. The Malignant Mole. Just A Small Slice, Please. Wet Red Pillow. In Case of Vomit, Cover Face. Moist Fat. Too Weak To Scream. I Had No Idea My Small Intestine Was That Long. Yellow Puddles Streaked With Red.

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