Horror Writing Prompts

15 horror writing prompts

1. Every night your smart speaker plays a song you have never heard. Tonight it sings your name.
2. The town's only rule: never answer a knock after midnight. Someone is knocking at 12:01.
3. You find a second set of stairs in your house that goes down, though there is no basement.
4. Your child's imaginary friend starts leaving real gifts.
5. Everyone in the photos from your holiday is smiling except the person who was not there.
6. A new family moves in across the street. They are you, ten years ago.
7. The GPS keeps rerouting you to the same abandoned motel.
8. Your reflection blinks a fraction of a second too late.
9. A voicemail from yourself says, "Don't open the door."
10. The lake in your village gives back one thing it took every summer.
11. Your elderly neighbour asks you to water her plants. Do not go in the back room.
12. At the sleepover, everyone counts heads. There is always one extra.
13. You inherit a doll collection. One doll is new every morning.
14. The night shift at the petrol station has three rules taped to the till.
15. A hiker finds a campsite still warm, with a diary describing the hiker arriving.