Ghost Story writing prompts

A ghost story is a memory the house refuses to forget. Use the prompt as the first cold draught, then let each writer add the next floorboard.

  1. A bed and breakfast guest realises she is the ghost.
  2. A village's lost children all reappear on the same night, the same age they were when they vanished.
  3. The new tenant inherits the previous tenant's appointments.
  4. A wedding photographer notices an extra guest in every shot — always behind the bride.
  5. An old radio in the attic only plays songs by musicians who died young.
  6. A grandfather's clock chimes one extra time every night.
  7. The cat keeps walking into a corner of the room and purring.
  8. The lighthouse log is being written in the keeper's handwriting after he died.

Write one of these together

Storybored is a turn-based story writing game for 2–4 players. Drop any prompt above into a new story, invite friends with a code, and write the next line each.

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