EXERCISE: Scary Bits and Pieces? Halloween prompts...

[mbarker]

 Original post Oct. 22, 2018

Ho, ho, ho... I just put together a little random generator, using horror ideas, elements, devices, and locations from The Fiction Writer's Silent Partner. Let's try hitting it six times, and see what we get?

1.
Idea:  mysterious circus lures young victims to a performance
Element: abominable snowman
Device: flying monsters
Location: locked room

2.
Idea: an artist uses real people for his sculptures
Element: forces of energy
Device: hot wax
Location: a ghost boat

3.
Idea: a monster/wild animals/reptiles/rodents infest a village or town
Element: bats
Device: reptiles
Location: garage

4.
Idea: a train or other vehicle departs its route
Element: prehistoric monsters
Device: flying monsters
Location: locked room

5.
Idea: a scientist creates life or energy that goes out of control
Element: dragons
Device: gouging
Location: deserted warehouse

6.
Idea: an electrical field feeds on other energy, growing stronger and more deadly
Element: monsters
Device: hatchet
Location: deserted fun park

Well, they may not be the greatest, but… Perhaps they will provide you with a starting point? Tell us about the locked room in the circus, or perhaps the ghost boat, filled with sculptures that are eerily realistic? How about the wave of bats and reptiles taking over the town, trapping our heroes in a garage? Or maybe it's the locked room on the train, driven off of its tracks by flying prehistoric monsters? Or the dragons that the bio technicians thought they had under control, out in the warehouse? What about the electrical monsters growing in the deserted fun park?

Go ahead, make it your story!