List Of Prompts
Below you can find the list of prompts that will be drawn from (via randomizer) to create your bingo card. Credit to TV Tropes and sholio for helping to compile this list.
Some horror prompts can be too...well, horrifying to write about; or they just don't push your creative buttons. This is something that the mod(s) understand and empathize with, of course. Thus, make sure you look over this list before you sign up for the challenge (to ensure that you can write about at least some of the things on this list), and all participants in the challenge can choose 1-5 prompts to veto in their card request. If you'd like to veto more than five prompts - because they are too triggering or upsetting for you - then contact a mod and we'll do our best to come up with a safe and fun card for you.
Some of the prompts may be unfamiliar to non-horror writers, or just obscure in general - to help you out, we've linked some of the more weird/obscure prompts to websites, explanations or examples that will help clarify what the prompt implies. That said, feel free to interpret prompts creatively! There is no right or wrong way to fill a prompt - it's just a launchpad for inspiration, and we're all in this for the fun of it.
A quick note on the nature of horror: as any avid horror fan knows, it's rarely politically correct, and one could argue that the entire genre exists to explore taboos/the extremes of the human condition. It's a fine line to walk, and no excuse to be a jerk, but many horror stories are unnerving because they explore topics we're not comfortable talking about in everyday life - and that's okay. Do proceed with caution, though - keep in mind that you can veto any topic that is too triggering or upsetting to you - and remember that to write about a sensitive topic as "scary" is not necessarily to mock/undermine it, but rather to explore why it might scare us in the first place.
Without further adieu:
LIST OF BINGO PROMPTS
"the nightmare box"
abandoned asylum
abandoned city
abandoned hospital
abandoned house
aliens
apocalypse
attack of the giant [__]
axe/chainsaw murderer
body horror
brainwashing
bride/groom is a monster
buried alive
can't get out of the building
can't get out of the city
cannibals
Cassandra Curse
cemetery
changelings
chest burster
chimeras
classic ghost stories
corporeal ghosts
crashed spaceship
cults
dark magic
dead the entire time
deadly cute thing (bunny, stuffed toy, killer tomato, etc)
deal with the devil
demons
doomsday device
dream or reality?
driven mad by guilt [also here]
dystopian future
everyone is affected but you
evil artifact
evil asylum
evil body part
evil doll
evil fog/mist
evil mirror universe
evil plantlife
evil psychic abilities
evil robots
evil weather
evil self-help program
evil/mutant/monster baby
evil children
experiments on pregnant women
facelessness
fatal attraction
fate worse than death
fictional creations coming to life
fire
forced to kill a transforming loved one
flesh-eating disease
frankensteinian creation
gore
halloween
haunted building
hauntings
homicidal alternate personality
homicidal hitchhiker
horror in broad daylight
humanity enslaved
hunted in the woods
inanimate objects come to life
insane evil genius
insects
it lives underground
it's always daytime
it's always nighttime
killer's POV
locked in with something deadly
loss of sanity
mad science
magician's act gone wrong
malicious medical professional
malignant genius loci
masks
maze
mutants
nuclear winter
not paranoia
obsessed stalker
one of us is infected
one of us is posessesed
parasites
pets turning evil
phobias
plague
playing chess with death
pod people
poltergeist
portal to Hell
possession
prank gone horribly wrong
prehistoric evil
prolonged isolation
prophesy of doom
psychopath
purgatory
rabid animals
radiation
religious apocalypse
resurrection gone horribly wrong
scary drugs
sentient building
sentient technology
serial killer
sharing body with another entity
slasher movie story
sleepwalking
snowed into an isolated house
snuff movie
something in the darkness
something in the walls
something in the lake
something is watching you
song/movie/picture that drives you mad
song/movie/picture that kills
technohorror
telling scary stories
the monsters are us
the mummy
circus/theme park gone horribly wrong
things that no human should know
town with a dark secret
trapped in a town you can't leave
unintentionally lethal to other people
unique method of murder
unjustified death sentence
unreliable narrator
unseen evil
unwanted invisibility
unwanted psychic abilities
urban legends
vampires
virus
viral apocalypse
we're the last people alive
werewolves
where did everybody go?
wild animals
worst fear realized
you've turned into the monster you're fighting
zombies
zombie apocalypse
Some horror prompts can be too...well, horrifying to write about; or they just don't push your creative buttons. This is something that the mod(s) understand and empathize with, of course. Thus, make sure you look over this list before you sign up for the challenge (to ensure that you can write about at least some of the things on this list), and all participants in the challenge can choose 1-5 prompts to veto in their card request. If you'd like to veto more than five prompts - because they are too triggering or upsetting for you - then contact a mod and we'll do our best to come up with a safe and fun card for you.
Some of the prompts may be unfamiliar to non-horror writers, or just obscure in general - to help you out, we've linked some of the more weird/obscure prompts to websites, explanations or examples that will help clarify what the prompt implies. That said, feel free to interpret prompts creatively! There is no right or wrong way to fill a prompt - it's just a launchpad for inspiration, and we're all in this for the fun of it.
A quick note on the nature of horror: as any avid horror fan knows, it's rarely politically correct, and one could argue that the entire genre exists to explore taboos/the extremes of the human condition. It's a fine line to walk, and no excuse to be a jerk, but many horror stories are unnerving because they explore topics we're not comfortable talking about in everyday life - and that's okay. Do proceed with caution, though - keep in mind that you can veto any topic that is too triggering or upsetting to you - and remember that to write about a sensitive topic as "scary" is not necessarily to mock/undermine it, but rather to explore why it might scare us in the first place.
Without further adieu:
LIST OF BINGO PROMPTS
"the nightmare box"
abandoned asylum
abandoned city
abandoned hospital
abandoned house
aliens
apocalypse
attack of the giant [__]
axe/chainsaw murderer
body horror
brainwashing
bride/groom is a monster
buried alive
can't get out of the building
can't get out of the city
cannibals
Cassandra Curse
cemetery
changelings
chest burster
chimeras
classic ghost stories
corporeal ghosts
crashed spaceship
cults
dark magic
dead the entire time
deadly cute thing (bunny, stuffed toy, killer tomato, etc)
deal with the devil
demons
doomsday device
dream or reality?
driven mad by guilt [also here]
dystopian future
everyone is affected but you
evil artifact
evil asylum
evil body part
evil doll
evil fog/mist
evil mirror universe
evil plantlife
evil psychic abilities
evil robots
evil weather
evil self-help program
evil/mutant/monster baby
evil children
experiments on pregnant women
facelessness
fatal attraction
fate worse than death
fictional creations coming to life
fire
forced to kill a transforming loved one
flesh-eating disease
frankensteinian creation
gore
halloween
haunted building
hauntings
homicidal alternate personality
homicidal hitchhiker
horror in broad daylight
humanity enslaved
hunted in the woods
inanimate objects come to life
insane evil genius
insects
it lives underground
it's always daytime
it's always nighttime
killer's POV
locked in with something deadly
loss of sanity
mad science
magician's act gone wrong
malicious medical professional
malignant genius loci
masks
maze
mutants
nuclear winter
not paranoia
obsessed stalker
one of us is infected
one of us is posessesed
parasites
pets turning evil
phobias
plague
playing chess with death
pod people
poltergeist
portal to Hell
possession
prank gone horribly wrong
prehistoric evil
prolonged isolation
prophesy of doom
psychopath
purgatory
rabid animals
radiation
religious apocalypse
resurrection gone horribly wrong
scary drugs
sentient building
sentient technology
serial killer
sharing body with another entity
slasher movie story
sleepwalking
snowed into an isolated house
snuff movie
something in the darkness
something in the walls
something in the lake
something is watching you
song/movie/picture that drives you mad
song/movie/picture that kills
technohorror
telling scary stories
the monsters are us
the mummy
circus/theme park gone horribly wrong
things that no human should know
town with a dark secret
trapped in a town you can't leave
unintentionally lethal to other people
unique method of murder
unjustified death sentence
unreliable narrator
unseen evil
unwanted invisibility
unwanted psychic abilities
urban legends
vampires
virus
viral apocalypse
we're the last people alive
werewolves
where did everybody go?
wild animals
worst fear realized
you've turned into the monster you're fighting
zombies
zombie apocalypse