okay, i really need an idea for a really good horror story. please, no cookie-cutter, slasher things. please. i need something original, something to catch people's eye. plz and thnx
2006-11-18 06:28:45 · 6 answers · asked by aerie_lover 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
you can never go wrong with a vampire story. they are inherently sexy and scary. if you need a twist, make it a vampire that feeds on something other than blood. plenty of examples for this. the x-files did one where the monster fed on body fat, left his victims a gooey mess. the dementors in harry potter feed on happiness, leaving the victims feeling despair and hopelessness, in the original star trek there was an entity that caused terror in people because it fed on fear. the x-files did one like that too, in the one where they were being filmed like on "cops"
the scariest part of the vampire legend is their indestructability. in authentic legend, they are not killed by stakes or fire or beheading, nor injured by religious tokens like crosses, holy water or scripture. stakes were originally used to imobilize the vampire in its crypt, but that was all. to defeat the vampire, you had to expose it to sunlight, usually by depriving it of the ability to go underground. the earth into which they escape had to be desecrated. otherwise, you could behead it and stuff the head with garlic, and make sure that the head and body remained apart. under these circumstances, the vampire is practically unstoppable, like the terminator. unstoppablity is a great source of terror.
maybe your vampire could rob people of compassion, turning them into republicans or something. like carl rove or lee atwater or rush limbaugh.... they all scare me. heck, atwater is dead and he still scares me. you could make him into a revenant who feeds on people's compassion for one another...
2006-11-18 07:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Paul S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stephen King teaches horror writing at the University of Maine at Orono. He has written a couple of textbooks. The first was called "Dance Macabre" it was a pretty good book for reading as well as a text. I don't recall the second book. However why not learn from the master.
A storry where your own wants and needs are the villian may be good.
2006-11-18 09:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sid B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does not would desire to be some ill dying horror tale. a stable horror tale you will desire to write is something with a rather good variety of embarrassment. think of the 'horror' of having to sing or dance in front of hundreds of thousands and messing up? there is an theory.
2016-10-15 17:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A young girl (let's say between the ages of 11 and 13 or so) is on her way to water the flowers to her great-great-grandmother's grave. She'd never met her great-great-grandmother, but her mother was busy so she asked her to go water it. She water's it, and goes back home. The next week, she offers to go water it again, keeping to herself the reason why (which is she felt a peculiar presence when she went the last week)...As she goes this time, the grave is gone. Suddenly, all becomes dark. She's horrified, her heart is pounding. Her great-great-grandmother's spirit comes about. This great-great-grandmother's spirit has been posessed by the devil. Throughout the story, she tries to help free her great-great-grandmother's spirit from the devil. You can incorporate any scary images or beings or whatever you like with this. If you like this idea and want help feel free to click on my name and email me.
2006-11-18 06:41:07 · answer #4 · answered by Kiara 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Write about a nightmare you once had.
2006-11-18 06:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sabrina H 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Getting rape by a ghost is serious stuff. Write a story about a horny ghost. Noone ever had that idea! I'm awesome.
2006-11-18 06:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Hung N 2 · 1⤊ 6⤋