I need at least 3 settings for a great horror story. I have some ideas, but I'd also like to hear yours. I want it to be EXTREMELY spooky. Ideas and settings for a scary story would be great. Please, no haunted houses, I want something unique, but horrifying at the same time. Thank you.
2006-10-16 15:34:59 · 10 answers · asked by Simply_Me 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Try using a school setting, like the locker room after class. The mall at night would be good as well. Or maybe even a grocery store when the workers are doing the closing walkthrough. The scariest stories take everyday settings and occurences and give them a life of their own.
In the grocery store, a checker is making one last sweep of the aisles to check for people before they all go home. The lights are mostly out.
A girl gets stood up on a date at the mall. She withdraws to a women's restroom stall to cry. While she's in there, the mall shuts down and security locks up.
2 teens go to a midnight premier of a movie at the theater. It's usually shut down at 11 except for special occasions. Staff expects a huge turnout, but they are the only two who show up. One too many staff is allowed to go home early.
If you think long and hard, the possibilities for realistic scary stories are endless. You can tell the kind that lingers on the mind. It makes people jump at every shadow. Just think of the possibilities.
2006-10-16 16:11:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The key is not the setting, but the spooky. The setting can be an accounting firm, but if the other elements are all in place, the story still works as a horror story. Try writing something in a traditional setting. When you are done, switch the setting to something mundane, and see what you can do to make it horrifying. King's gotten away with fictional murder by starting with mundane settings. Look at Poltergeist--set in suburbia. Same with Fright Night. B.
2006-10-16 22:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by Brian M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about a a (haunted) or very run-down spooky shack, A small clearing in the middle of a thick forest, during the day its a clearing in the middle of a forest and at night it changes into a cemitery in the middle of the thick forest, and maby a Swamp near by that can bring the dead back to life some how.
2006-10-16 22:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by busman_octa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its pretty obvious but a butcher shop is a good setting for a horror story what with all the hooks nad blood and already dead animals or a hostpial is always a good they are spooky anyways
2006-10-17 16:33:21 · answer #4 · answered by beth C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hidden room in the basement of an old school
2006-10-17 00:28:38 · answer #5 · answered by Math geek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
watch Rob Zombies..Devils Rejects or House of 1000 corpses
cant get any creepier than that
2006-10-16 22:43:02 · answer #6 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
abanoned saw mill, a giant futuristic submarine under water and lost it's power.
an underground school after an earthquake.
2006-10-16 22:45:37 · answer #7 · answered by shadowmike80 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
school just kidding,
set it in an old abandoned rundown movie theater.
the old ones where they dont even have cup holders
2006-10-16 22:42:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Grand-ma's Attic, now we will find out why all grand-ma's smell like that!
2006-10-16 22:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Flower Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
old school, cematary, jungle, midnight in the mountains, burial ground..
2006-10-16 22:44:42 · answer #10 · answered by jus nobody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋