I have to write a horror story for english by tomorrow, halloween, any ideas?

Question

I have to write a horror story and I am not quite sure where to go with it. We got a few things that we had to incorporate. Mine is about a paranoid lighthouse keeper who finds a message in a bottle. Any creative scary ideas?

Answer 1

Message in a bottle, huh? Let's see.....

It's autumn. Lighthouse keeper is alone in the lighthouse during a heavy rainstorm. The wind is howling. He hears footsteps on the lighthouse stairs while he is in his room. He believes it is the sound of the rain hitting the lighthouse. He hears the footsteps again, but this time much louder. He turns on his flashlight, but the batteries are dead. He walks to the foot of the steps, looks up, but he sees no one at the top of the stairs. All of a sudden, he saw what he believed to be an apparition of a 17-th century woman in a long white nightgown. Startled, he scurries back to his room. The keeper falls asleep. The next morning he woke up to a beautiful and calm morning. He walked over to the harbor and he saw something floating in the water. He pulled the bottle towards him with a stick. In the bottle was a note. The keeper found it very peculiar. He pulled the bottle's cork, took the note out, and read the message. The message read.......


Well, toots...that's where you come in. Hope this helps. This story just popped in my head. I was experiencing writer's block, though! Good luck with your story!

Answer 2

Well you could do the classic horror-movie thing, where they have a past bad experience and they just go nuts with it. For example, the lighthouse keeper is trying to hide from people who are breaking in, but in reality, they're not really there, he's just imagining it. Something along those lines. Something unexpected. Or you could go the Norman Bates route, he's talking to someone else, who's not really there, it's just him. Or he could be afraid of himself. That kind of thing is always good. Ghosts are fun, but it's the kind of thing that people would expect. Although the light going off randomnly does sound cool. Hope I could help, I'd like to hear how it goes!

Answer 3

Isn't the point for you to use your imagination and write the story yourself? Think about what scares you most in your everyday life. It might be that someone will make fun of you or like in a dream you go into a classroom and find out that you have a test that day about something you have never studied. Or that you go looking for someone, and they keep disappearing in rooms in a hallway. Whatever you yourself fear, you can make into an object to bring into this lighthouse. Imagine yourself there, all alone. What kind of message would scare you?

Answer 4

here is basis to try.

Paranoid lighthouse keeper has premonition of terrible disaster in the sea during a horrible storm. When he finds the bottle he knows that he only has about 5 hours before the disaster happens, can he stop it before hundreds of people get kill.

Answer 5

a million. it is interior the incorrect place. this could be in "homework help". 2. i'm uncertain what you're able to write yet do no longer write on the tip "and that i wakened and realised it became all a dream". instructors are ill of that. in basic terms use a sprint mind's eye, take thought from a movie or e book?

Answer 6

oh oh oh!!! and he is not sure but ever since he opened the bottle he thinks he can hear someones voice but he is not really sure at first.Or he looks in the mirror and he thinks he just saw some one walk by behind him. Good luck this is fun!

Answer 7

I was thinking "morgue" when I saw the question, but then I saw your idea, and its better.

Answer 8

Start it now!

Answer 9

No, Sorry but I hope someone else does!!!!!!!!!!!!