A spine-tingling collection of bloodcurdling microfiction inspired by the "30 Days of Spooky Tales" prompts offered up by the @adultfiction, @ChickLit, @MicroBytes and @Paranormal profiles.
A description of this chilling moment in 50 words or less.
Day 3: Subject: Remember Me?
Curious, you open an email from an old acquaintance. You haven't heard from them in some years and you didn't part on the best of terms. You stare in disbelief... you have been cursed! This is the message/ curse in 140 characters or less.
Day 4: Taert Ro Kcirt
150-200 words inspired by this video: https://youtu.be/LcvcbLQ9W2U
Day 5: A Haiku
A haiku inspired by the image and its words.
Day 6: Where Science Lives
A science project goes horribly wrong... tell us what happens in 100 words or less.
Day 7: Black Sea Cruise
You win first prize in a competition, a 14-day luxury ocean cruise with only 100 passengers on board. Everything seems perfect, but little do you realise that only 99 passengers will disembark... alive. (Write your story in no more than 500 words.)
Day 8: Six Scary Words By Me
My version of the scariest six words...
Day 9: The Devil Is In The Microwave
Everyone has heard of haunted houses, haunted objects, churches and so on. But is it really only places? Are there places that have never been considered as haunted before? Open your mind and tell us, in no more than 100 words, where the devil is hiding. (Somewhere no-one would think of.)
Day 10: Familiarity Betrothes Contempt
Based on the song Familiar by Agnes Obel, in 250-350 words, write about your hidden supernatural companion that could destroy everything you know.
Day 11: Lock Up Tight This Halloween (A Limerick)
A Halloween Limerick.
Day 12: Little Miss Muffet Extended Ver.
What happens next to little Miss Muffet. (50 words max.)
Day 13: Six-Word Invocation
Six words about the picture.
Day 14: The Thing In The Wardrobe
It's late at night, you're home alone and you hear a suspicious knocking coming from your closet. Write about what you find after opening the door. (100 words max.)
Day 15: A Trail Runner's Close Encounter
Spooky tales can be heard in/ from unexpected places and people. Where and how did you hear about the scariest tale? (101-199 words max.)
Day 16: Nightmare Fuel
Confronted by your worst nightmare, what do you say to it before it devours you? (10 words.)
Day 17: Florence + The 7 Devils
Write about which seven deadly sin you embody, based on the song Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine. (200 words max.)
Day 18: On Fear (A Poem)
Be afraid. You should be because there are horrors lurking in the night, capture them in a poem starting with just those words... 'Be afraid.'
Day 19: I Think I'm Losing It
Free association with Haunted House Sounds/ Ghostly Murmurs. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58dAcjgtfbk | 150 words max.)
Day 20: Igor's Diary
Write your daily diary. What happened today at the lab with your master, Victor Von Frankenstein, working on his last creation. (100 words max.)
Day 21: Going Viral
Start with: "This is the story about how I died. Don't worry, though! I came back." (500 words max.)
Day 22: Dare You To Go In There
Using the picture, in 100 words, write about what you find upon entering the abandoned house.
Day 23: Calling Card
There was a famous serial killer decades ago. He never missed the chance to put his signature phrase on his victims' bodies. Write your version of this sentence, in exactly six words.
Day 24: The Children Were Right
She burst into the room and screamed. "What the hell have you done with the children?" What happens next in 200 words max.
Day 25: The Voice Is Real
You realise the voice inside your head isn't your own voice. In 50-100 words, write about a conversation you have with the voice.
Day 26: The Ultimate Spooktacle (An Acrostic Poem)
An acrostic poem using the word I think best describes Halloween.
Day 27: This Ends Now
Last sentences are often terrifying (or pretty hilarious, depends on your sense of humour). In 10 words max., write the very last sentence before death.
Day 28: Invest All
You're an investigator tracking the monster who killed your family. In 100 words, write about your investigation based on the picture.
Day 29: Transylmania
Write a 300 word story using the following words: spine-chilling, ominous, grim, phantasmal, nightmarish.
Day 30: Sometimes It Isn't Easy Being Alive
200-499 words from the point of view of a loved one who was resurrected on Hallows Eve.
Day 31: Outro
When it's over there is only one place left to go.
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