Horror Writing Prompts

Healing spells can be very terrifying if done incorrectly. It was only a matter of time until somebody weaponized these flaws to make some truly horrendous attack spells.

It's a Zombie apocalypse, and you were too smart that your sheer brainpower defected the virus, leaving your humanity perfectly intact with your body completely zombified. You put yourself to a coma for safety reasons, until you're woken by survivors.

You have the power to teleport 1 cubic centimeter of matter within a certain vicinity around you. The person holding you hostage thought your power was useless, up until they started screaming and clutching their eye because there was a 1 cubic centimeter sized hole in it.

In a terrible accident, you kill someone in public. You frantically ask those around you for help but no one seems to even notice the body. You only then realize you have a horrible power. The people you kill are forgotten.

You are human, you have always been human, and you will always be a human. As long as you can keep convincing yourself you are. Something that is ģ̸̰̱̎̇̾͘̕͝͝e̶̛̠̪̗̻̜̱̤̲͖̗͔͊ṫ̸̢̛̗̦̲̯̥͍̲͍̈͜ţ̵͚̠̩͈̏̈́̏̍̑ḯ̸̛̬̰̫̮͇̰̥̦̜̠̞̤̫̜̅͑̀̐͒̃̿̾͑͊͗̕ṋ̶̹̞͔̩̥̖̦̙̻̼̠͇̭̈̑g̶̛̪̳͆̋̔́̉̀͠͝ͅͅ ̷͎̄͋͑̇̀̾͊͊̉̕̚͝ḧ̸͖̤͕̩̰̮̞̞͖̺́́͐a̷

You don't know what was more frightening, the Humanoid THING with too many teeth and eyes like shadows, or your dad looking up calmly at it and saying "Oh, yeah. I've seen one of these before" in a bored tone.

Several years ago, you thought your girlfriend was joking when she told you she was actually an Elder Goddess, the Mother of Abominations. Now you are a proud stepparent to her vast brood of unspeakable offspring.

When you found a Dark web chat room full of murderers and other horrible people lamenting ‘the ones that got away’ or detailed current plans and stalkings, you were horrified to find a series of posts from someone stalking… YOU. And you don’t very much like their plans for you…

You've contracted an unknown disease, and x-rays show it's eating away at your bones. Curiously, even when your limbs have no bones left...you can still walk and use your arms just fine. It's as if the bones are still there.

The creature reached out and touched your forehead, "I will feast on your FEAR!" it shouted. Moments later it recoiled and stood whimpering in front of you. "You....you live like this?" it asked, crying....

I was born blind but was lucky enough to have a loving mother who took care of my every need. Imagine the betrayal I felt when a stitch slipped and a ray of light hit my eye for the first time.

After a devastating car crash you look over at your spouse in the passenger seat and they have a parking sign impaling their chest. They yank it free and look you in the eye, saying "Ok I haven't been completely honest with you"

You and your crush made a promise back in highschool, "If we are still single by age 30, we'll get married." Well, the morning after celebrating your 30th birthday, you hear that your old crush's grave has been dug up during the night.

The beast hissed, its claws enveloping you, "Many humans tried to bargained with me. Some offered gold for their life, others companionship.... Even love. What useless thing will you try to offer me for yours?"

You're perfectly safe in your survival bunker, with plenty of food and water. You even have plumbing. The only problem is that you're entirely alone, with a zombie right outside. Out of sheer boredom, you decide to teach it to speak, which has led into it trying to convince you to let it in.

You thought feeding that Skinwalker some barbecue was fine maybe she would stop eating human flesh. but it seems she had spread the word and now all different types of monsters are at your door hungry.

The creature looked like something out of your nightmares, if you had the energy you would have ran, but starvation kept you laying still. In labored, garbled sounds it spoke "your kind eat apples?" with a thud it dropped what it was holding, an uprooted apple tree.

"Your job is to sit in this room and answer this phone. No matter what you are asked or told, no matter what the voice sounds like, respond only with 'yes' or 'no', whatever feels right. And never, ever say your name. Hang up only after it does."

The God of Knowledge has reincarnated, the scholars are celebrating. Problem is the small god floods those around it with an uncontrollable surge of eldritch knowledge that none amongst the scholars can withstand. You are the least-curious man in the world, and you've been called to babysit.

You died last year but you still wake up in your body everyday. You look alive, you act like yourself, but whatever it was that made you "alive" is gone, yet you can't seem to leave your body. The problem is, your brain is starting to decay and it's weakening your tether on reality.

An Eldritch horror hires a group of adventurers to destroy every cult that tried to summon it.

Standing at the altar, with tears in your eyes you say “I do.” The cultists and the thing they summoned are visibly confused

A vampire, turned at a young age, adopted by a kindly old person that thinks they're just an orphan. They try to explain what they are but it's brushed off, a macabre joke. One day, thirst building, they decide to run away to keep them safe just as they find a fresh glass of blood by their bed.

All mirrors in the world suddenly stop showing reflections. After a few days of worldwide panic, they slowly begin to reveal something else.

The Wendigo had stalked the lost human for hours, waiting for night to fall before killing its prey. But when it was ready to strike, it hesitated. The humans head had snapped in the creatures direction, walking and staring, in complete darkness. Their eyes never moving from the Wendigo’s…

"What are you talking about? Of course I take the children. If their parents are willing to trade them away for power, then they're not fit to be parents! By the way, the oldest is ready for the work force. Are you hiring? I guarantee he's trained."

For 10+ years a child goes to a forest to play/talk with the fairies there despite local legends of their sadism/cruelty, and afflicting fates worse than death. So when the now 16 y/o child is abducted, the traffickers find out not all local legends are BS when the fairies come for their "pet".

Your girlfriend is a were-god. That is, every full moon she transforms into an eldritch horror of unimaginable power. So far, you are the only one that has stuck around.

The ancient abomination layed its tentacle over your forehead. Finally, after all the perils and dangers suffered, the secrets of the universe would be revealed to you. It digs the tip of its tentacle into your brain and it appears...Never Gonna Give You Up Official Video plays on your mind.

People on the autism spectrum are resistant to completely immune to eldritch knowledge's sanity degradation effect due to their brains being "properly attuned" to recieve and process it.