Horror Writing Prompts

"Of course, while the writing is clever and the gameplay tight, that isn't what has led to this game dominating the news cycle. I'd be remiss as a reviewer if I didn't discuss the malicious spirit bound within the game's code..."

You are a night shift manager at a grocery store. You’ve started to notice that all of the people you have hired may not be humans at all.

Finding an abandoned lab, you wander inside. Finding jars of various specimen, you go to pick one up. However, the jar slips from your hand and shatters on the ground.

You woke up this morning with a terrible headache, and discover you’ve grown horns while you’ve slept. Unbeknownst to you, this is just the beginning.

"I can taste you in the air", her voice clicked and vibrated from behind the barred door.

You're a scientist. You and your colleagues have managed to image the Human soul for the first time. But that was a year ago now. You still haven't recovered. You're still having nightmares.

You live alone and off the land up in the snowy mountains. During a blizzard you hear a frenzied knocking at the door.

A pun so bad as to cause the mind of an eldritch horror to recoil in agony.

"Get 10 peaches, 10 apricots, 10 sour cherries, 10 sweet cherries, 10 plums, and 10 big apples. Take the pits out of all the fruit and turn them into a powder. Make a cocktail out of the fruit and mix the powder into it. Give the cocktail to whoever wronged you."

Turns out that the Eldritch Horror melts people's minds in order to get happy, docile and obedient fuck dolls for them and their friends.

The lumberjack should have taken the warning to leave the dark forest alone more seriously. Now an enraged tree-man has the man pinned as it vengefully penetrates him with its own "wood".

When puberty found her it hit her like a truck, and it hasn't stopped to this day. The only way she's found to stop herself from getting bigger still is to magically divert her growth to the women around her.

Parents rent a robot maid for their vacation, and they set it to "adult" mode just to keep their college daughters from throwing parties. Unfortunately, that means the robot is going to take over some very personal "maintenance" for the two sisters, whether they like it or not...

Fun fact about dragons, they can impregnate just about anything. Not so much a fun fact for any knights who learn firsthand.

They tear your disguise. "A human! A type 2 human!" Your alien captors say excitedly. You know what comes next. Your sexual fluids are a panacea to their species worth more than gold. Local law permits about 2 hours of milking you for it. catch and release.

While an astronaut is out on a spacewalk to investigate an asteroid mineral deposit, something starts moving around in her spacesuit, and its horny.

Describe something mundane but in an extremely terrifying manner

Your parents got infected and became zombies in the apocalypse. They still have enough brain function to take care of you, though.

She couldn't remember the birth of her child, only foggy moments from the pregnancy. No one but her thinks this is odd. Maybe her husband wasn't joking when he said he wasn't human.

You're a slasher villain, but you don't hunt irresponsible teenagers or adults going through a midlife crisis -- you hunt other slashers.

Humanity always assumed that the invasion of an all-consuming swarm ended with the humans being devoured. As you peel away the colony walls it becomes apparent they had 'other' uses for us.

Fertility gods are a pain - or perhaps a pleasure, depending - to deal with. Eldritch ones even more so

It watches, listening for the repressed desires of the people around it. And when it finds someone ripe with unfulfilled wants, it pulls them into the dark to fulfill every last one

You glance at the mirror before heading out the door, but your reflection is missing, and the room reflected in the mirror is a mess

"It's alright, I did not want that body anyways."

"Gods above?... That amount of energy… everyone, run! Now!" “Why? What did she do?” “It’s far too late to run... The fool summoned an Archdemon. She’s killed us all!"

You got curious and attempted to sneeze while keeping your eyes open. After managing to hold them open during a sneeze, you deeply regret what you saw. Worst of all… what you saw knows.

After bullying the quiet gothy/witchy girl, you wake up the next morning and notice changes to your body. Even more concerning is that only she and you notice them.

The zombie apocalypse would have succeeded if the zombies didn't have to ask permission to enter every house.

An eldritch abomination decides to check out humanity in the form of a peppy theatre kid girl. The theatre crew start to suspect something's not quite right with her.