Finding Ideas for Horror Stories (Writing Advice)

Learn Ray Bradbury's trick for generating horror writing ideas.

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[janeyrevanescence]

Years ago, I was in college, I had to write a story for one of my creative writing classes and I was stuck.

It was late at night and I was a bit primed for horror because I had finished reading “Turn of the Screw” by Henry James for another class. Just then, my roommate flipped the channel to HGTV and on an episode focused on remodeling a Pepto Bismol colored bathroom from the 1980’s.

An idea then came to me: of a young woman possessed by a pink bathroom. I whipped up my laptop and started typing.

One week later, I had turned in my project and was prepared to get laughed at. Nope. My professor complimented me on it.

[TheBluenyt]

Congrats on your book! I'm writing a horror short story right now. Thanks for the tips 😎🤘🤘

[TrevorDuran]

My favorite story about fear is about the most basic fear (death). Alexander the Great searching the ends of the earth for the fountain of youth.

[DIGITAL_ARTS]

I have a basic fear. Serial killers😂, and I’ve had a good idea for one for a while. I just put all the things I was scared about serial killers and put them into one character.

[TruthSurge]

writing in my journal Brandon's okay, well, they are kind of scary. Those canines.... you look like you are in mid vampire transformation! Well, okay, I'm joking... uh... heheheh kind of. Good idea to keep a journal of ideas.

[errantwinds-upuu]

Oh wow this is such an old video but how cool to know your inspiration behind Bad Parts! Also I think Ray Bradbury is the best author I've ever read. Not necessarily my favourite, though he's in the top 5, but the best with how he wrote things.

[reubenshupp]

I have a fear of tarantulas--writing a story about a toy tarantula that comes to life.

[WriterBrandonMcNulty]

What's one of your silliest fears, and have you written a story based on it? Let me know!

[BornAgainCatholic]

Wow, that sounds like a great book. I like how you came up with the idea. I’m going to order your book off Amazon.

[Dani_]

When I was a kid I had an irrational fear of statues. Somehow my brain made up the notion that it was another punishment for people, to be slowly killed and molded into statues. They really gave me the creeps for a long time

[mrmadfunny]

This is absolutely amazing keep up the great work can’t wait to see more 🔥!

[mwmann]

What if I'm slightly off kilter ?

[xChikyx]

I'm scared of dogs, and my MC gets chased by one in my fiest book :D

[JuliaElizabethGraves]

My weirdest fear is definitely the color yellow. I get very uneasy when there is too much of it around and I could write about it, but sadly (or not, its great) the yellow wallpaper already exists 😂

[cyanrazorCel]

Oh god, your thumbnail just for a second made me think you were Smash JT.
And for that insult, I apologize.

[allysanchez]

I’ve written my own folklore scary story
The weeping widow of Italy
This woman named Valentina Florentino in Italy lost her husband as he was killed in a drowning murder by someone unseen in the dark. She was heartbroken and tried to drown herself in the same waters of Italy to join him in death, but she couldn’t until she found out what happened when he was killed, find his murderer, and avenge her husband. She became a vengeful spirit who searches bodies of water in Italy and when you hear her cries, beware. If there is a couple outside in the dark, she might mistake the male significant other for her husband. but if it’s not, then she will suck all the life out of them in horrifying rage with glowing red eyes filled with black streaming tears and leave them emotionlessly blank and gray on the ground, leaving them behind. She cries in the night for her love who was unfairly taken from her and will stop at nothing to find his murderer.

[shakuntshenoy]

I have a fear of being lonely when you are not alone and not being alone when you are alone.

[sarthakdas]

I'm afraid of losing my loved ones. Of dying and somehow hanging in the limbo, watching in silence as my family slowly but surely moves on. Of watching my widow falling in love with another man. Helpless.