Horror Writing Prompts

The woman wore a trenchcoat and surgical mask, her hands in her pockets. "Am I pretty?" "Yeah, I suppose," you replied. She removed the mask to reveal her slit mouth. "Do you still think-" "Holy hell! Lady, we need to get you to a doctor ASAP!"

Demons are known for disguising their contracts as seemingly innocent agreements or promises. One day, the girl you made a "pinky promise" with when you were young shows up at your door.

The thing about Cosmic horrors beyond human comprehension is that if you try to comprehend it you'll go insane. But if you name it "squid face gary" and take it only at face value you'll do just fine. If it's beyond human understanding, just don't understand it!

'AITA because I waited to tell the other survivors about my zombie bite?'

“Play me one last pitiful tune bard.” The villain toys with you. Your friends’ corpses are all around you and you’ll surely join them, but you have one last ditch effort.“Forgive me” you say as you play your dirge of raise dead.

Death Row Inmates can have their sentence abolished if they can handle a single night in the same cell as you; the most innocent looking person they've ever seen.

When a soldier loses a limb, it is a tragedy. Soldiers are needed at peak efficiency, so they must undergoes the unthinkable - grafting metal to flesh. A horrific abomination, the mere process is often enough to shatter what is left of their mind. Then, there are the humans.

Aliens arrive at Earth, and inform us that our solar system must regretfully be processed into rocks to throw at the invasion of the Outer Gods that has been ongoing for billions of years. “Well, why don’t you let us take a crack at it for a hundred years or so? What’ve you got to lose?”

Your friend always said "I'll rest when I'm dead," so much that it became his catchphrase. He says it again today when he came into work, going about his daily routine. This normally wouldn't be concerning, if not for the fact that you attended his funeral two weeks ago.

When a deadly zombie virus broke out, you fled to sea with your yacht and managed to survive there for several years. Now that your supplies are running low, you are forced to return to land to search for new supplies. Only to find that all the zombies are dead.

A demon offers to grant all of your wildest dreams in exchange for the blood of 5 innocents. unbeknownst to him you are a trauma surgeon and you realize he never said the innocent weren't required to be dead.

As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed.

The summoning was a success, a demon emergies from the ritual circle. The cursed creature addresses the child who summoned it "What would such a young kid desire?". The kid replies "There are strangers here and I'm home alone. Please help me, I'm scared".

During the renovation of your living room you hire cheapest designer avaliable due to lack of funds. But when you come back to twitching raw muscles covering the walls and bloody heart in the chandelier you realise they might have misunderstood the assignment.

You are a young mage who just discovered the horrifying truth about where mana actually comes from.

You wake up with what feels like a terrible hangover, the dilapidated room around you is unfamiliar and you are chained to the bed, written on the ceiling is the message "If you can read this you're human enough to use the key on the nightstand"

You know your dog is anything but a dog, but you don’t mind since you both agree that it’s better than whatever’s in the basement.

The secretary at the law firm gasps, then shakes her head. "That's the name of the hotel that was here before this building. It burned down, sixty years ago, killing dozens of people. Every year, someone shows up, somehow having made a reservation..."

Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you.

An orphan is adopted by the local Witch that raises them lovingly all to feast on them once they've grown. The Witch and her fellow supernaturals are starting to have second thoughts.

Turns out most of the humanity in Modern Era is so nihilistic that even most evil supernatural entitites such as demons are now horrified by them

You just learned that the eldritch monstrosity haunting your dream has in fact "just" mistaken you for its young, and is trying to parent you in its own inscrutable ways.

Years ago you made a wish with a genie that any living Arthropods would be incapable of being within ten feet of you. You've been loving your bug free life but your starting to notice more any more people refusing to get close to you.

"Foul Creature, I cast you from this poor soul!" Screamed the priest, holding the crucifix foreward. "Yes father, I would love to leave! That's why i called you! He. Won't. Let. Me. Out!" This exorcism was most unorthodox indeed.

You married a fairy and experienced drastic physical changes. Enduring intense hunger, constant salivation, and even the strange sensation of your body dissolving inside a cocoon. But you hate the color of your wings. You are sorrowful and disappointed, despite your partner consoling you.

A zombie apocalypse plagues the planet. Strangely the zombies seem to attack some people and leave others alone. You’re part of a team of scientists and soldiers who discover why.

There is a company run by an ethereal cosmic horror entity that likes to torment it’s mortal employees by asking impossible tasks of them. However, there is one employee that somehow completes every task.

After years of searching, you finally unearthed a long lost and buried crypt covered in warnings of maddening knowledge beyond mortal comprehension. Unfortunately, "knowledge beyond mortal comprehension" was a much lower bar five thousand years ago.

You are a Necromancer so powerful that even the gods tried and failed to kill you. As a desperate measure they banished you to another realm. Annoyingly it worked, and now your listing to some guy ranting about his life before the... Zombie Apocalypse?

I pulled myself together and got up. The autopsy technicians could only stare in horror.