Horror Story Ideas

Horror premises for slow, collaborative dread. Pick a line and let each writer add the next small wrong thing.

1. The new baby will only sleep if the front door is unlocked.
2. Every mirror in the village is replaced overnight.
3. The dog politely refuses to enter one specific room.
4. A grief counsellor's voicemail fills with calls from clients who died years ago.
5. The community pool drains itself and there is a door at the bottom.
6. Every photo in the new house has one extra child in it.
7. A weather presenter starts predicting deaths in the long-range forecast.
8. Someone is leaving wooden carvings of the family on the porch each morning.
9. The neighbour's renovation reveals a room nobody can fit through the door of.
10. A hotel guest realises she is the ghost.
11. The school's lost property cupboard hands back things the owners never lost.
12. An online psychic accidentally curses her own grandmother.
13. The church bell rings at 3:17am whenever someone in the parish lies.
14. A toddler starts giving driving directions to strangers.
15. A bed and breakfast guest is the only person who can see one of the other guests.
16. Every wedding photo includes the same guest, always behind the bride.
17. An old radio in the attic plays only songs by musicians who died young.
18. The cat keeps walking into a corner of the room and purring.
19. The lighthouse log is being written in the keeper's handwriting after he died.
20. A children's TV show from 1987 starts re-airing and nobody else remembers it.