Horror Writing Prompts
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
As the glaciers have been melting ancient horrors have been releasing into the world. You are part of a group who has been assigned to destroy these horrors
As you finish the autopsy, you are sure that, whatever this is, it is definitely not human
A standard slasher cast of college kids goes to an infamous camping ground. Only the killer in the forest isn't out for blood. He fell in love with the would be Final Girl and wants the other campers to help him ask her out.
"7 gunshot wounds to the chest. Dead on arrival. And you're tellin me that a corpse walked out of your autopsy like it was nothing?!" "I'm telling you, that's what I saw! They didn't even have a scratch on em when they left!"
Everyone knows that as a kid, there's a monster under your bed. What people don't realize is that when you're an adult, that monster goes to haunt the next generation and a new kind of monster takes residence in your bedroom instead, one with a very different kind of appetite.
After dying, you awoke to being inside someones mind, you keep trying to escape, but keep getting silenced whenever they eat some medication.
You woke up this morning to find your wife acting strangely. Her movements and speech are unnatural. You attribute this to fatigue, but by evening your suspicions grow stronger. Eventually, you notice a pair of tentacles sticking out from under your wife's T-shirt.
Some children will draw terrifying shadow monsters sometimes. You are a kindergartener who has to explain to the teacher that the shadow monster you drew in your family photo really is part of your family and not something you made up.
You and the boys break into your local high school to investigate a rumor. The rumor is, there's a secret swimming pool under the school that's been sealed off. You guys finally found it but, somethings seems way off about it.
You and your best friend were caught in a horrific accident. You surely thought you would die, but to your horror, the hospital staff have done a horrific procedure to keep you alive.
You get a text from a sibling at 4 a.m.just saying "Run! There coming!" The problem is they died in a home invasion years ago
You were kinda curious how it felt to have a penis... what you didn't expect was to transform during the night... and to top it off... you didn't even transform into a boy. you just grew a penis above your vagina... what's worse is that your female friends were visitting for a slumber party.
āIām telling you there is no soul behind those eyes just unending evil.ā
You stand near the ocean to summon Cthulhu, but the odd smell of chicken fills in the air. There Cthulhu was... baked and broiled and fried... but still alive. What in the world happened to him...?!
Becoming fused with an alien symbiote results in the ship's science officer turning into an ultra horny and ultra fertile busty bombshell...
Trapped in this apartment with a raging zombie apocalypse outside your building. Your cat is the only one feeding you with animals She brings from the outside, you've never been so grateful with it.
Every month a child is chosen from the hallowed halls you call home and dragged away never to be seen again. Today, your name was chosen.
"Hi, I was told to meet here to apply for a job. Is this the secret organization that contains and studies cosmic horrors?" "No, that's the next city over. This place deals with cosmic eroticism."
The many deities of the multiverse consider the insular gods of Earth their Lovecraftian abominations. The one rule these gods all agree with and stick to is to never gain the Earth gods' interests or ires. One god has broken this rule by abducting an Earthling to be their hero. Panic ensues.
Tentacle Lairs are a common issue on starships. Fleshy growths sometimes consuming entire decks, filled with addictive secretions for any captured crew. How does one train to handle them?
You don't know who cursed you. It doesnt matter how long it is, whether it starts from 3, 10, or 30. It doesn't matter where you are. You don't know why. But anytime you hear a countdown, it's a matter of time until you cum, and always when it reaches zero.
With the city in the grips of a horrible plague, its citizens find an unlikely savior in the form of the lich entombed in the local catacombs. After all, neither he nor his skeletal and ghostly servants can catch or spread disease, and he is a highly accomplished alchemist besides.
A vampire's bite doesn't always cause its victim to become a vampire and you learned this the hard way
Write a porn parody of your favorite horror film.
The universe is so, so big. But it cares. It cares so much about us. Us, we tiny, less than insignificant things. I can't help but feel horrified by that thought.
A woman doses her husbands food with a potion labeled "Penis +" in the hopes of making his already large member even larger. He wakes up in a panic when he grows a second cock.
"The nanites were supposed to make our lives better! Why are they turning us into fuck-hungry monsters?!"
Something has returned, and it intends to remind the world why man used to be scared of the dark.
You live in a world of horror movie killers. Due to all the supernatural killers in the world, the government has decided that as a last chance before killing them all, to put them into a sort school to educate them. You, are a successful teacher at this school.
When an obscure cult overthrew the kingdom, everyone expected a reign of terror. Turns out the King in Yellow is pretty good at his job.
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