Questions tagged [horror]
For questions involving monsters and horror literature. This tag is often used when talking about monsters and scenarios based on literature from H. P. Lovecraft.
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How can I record pain during a ritual sacrifice in my fantasy world? [closed]
In my fantasy world, ritual sacrifices play a crucial role in religious and cultural practices. The priests and practitioners believe that the amount of pain endured by the sacrificial subject ...
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How can the stars be wrong, so that an observer realises they're not in our world anymore?
There is a common trope in fiction: when a character find themselves in a dark place out of this reality (somewhere in the eldritch realms, dreamscapes, lost cities of Carcosa or R'lyeh, etc), at ...
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How would a creature adapted to life in a completely dark environment also have the ability to change its skin pattern like an octopus?
I'm in a bit of a pickle - I've designed a monster for a horror novel I'm working on, but I've added too many characteristics that I like for it to make logical sense. One of these features is that ...
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These creatures eat human fear - how do they justify it? [closed]
Humans have particular pheromones in their sweat that represents fear (very interesting study - tldr: there are particular chemical odors emitted through sweat when humans are fearful that can be ...
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How can you appear in an illusion in your own car [closed]
In the beginning of my story two girls arrive in their car to a central square of a little European looking town with no single living soul around. They take guns from the trunk, go to a church on ...
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How can i make my worldbuilding magical, fun and a little dark, but still maintain realism? [closed]
I'm trying to make a character, and I'm first creating their world, but I'm can't figure out whether I want it to be all magical or more realistic. Helluva Boss did this great. It took place in hell, ...
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How might a cultist disguise a body mutilated by a monster? [closed]
The main story would deal with a strange suicide in a town such as San Francisco in the 30s. The latest case deals with the disappearance of a mother and her child.
Each time the bodies are severely ...
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Could my Vampires exist? [closed]
Contrary to popular belief, vampires are not undead humans, but a species of giant hematophagous bats. Some basic characteristic of my vampires include:
They mostly consume blood, sometimes human ...
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How to keep a town in the 1960s mostly isolated?
So, the lead up to the story is that a skinwalker drags injured people into the deep forest and nails them to trees before summoning a demon into each of them, leaving them there as parasites who ...
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What terrifying monster attacks people's noses that stick out of a mask? [closed]
Suppose there is a creature that attacks human noses, if the nostrils are visible. People have discovered that they are safe from this monster, if they wear a mask. It is not enough to wear the mask ...
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What reasons would demonic supernatural beings have for giving someone a creepy phone? [closed]
The setup: Detective's office phone gets broken, so she goes out to get a new one. The one she gets will ring randomly sometimes, and she can hear events that she should not be able to hear, i.e,
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How to make FTL-technology an narratively interesting suicide-pact-technology?
Building my sci-fi setting deciding what's the in-universe answer to the Fermi-paradoxon, the reason why the universe still seems to be empty of K3 civilisations despite its age, has been quite ...
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How can I conceal the presence of magical beasts from humans for a few weeks?
I am in the process of fleshing out an alternate world where, following an unnatural super-storm (think cold snaps down to -30°C and heavy snowfall in the 4ft range [1.2 m] inside of 8 hours) in the ...
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How deep would you have to bury a body in a graveyard so that it won't be found? [closed]
I’m writing a horror book and I was wondering:
If you buried a body in a graveyard, how deep would you have to put it so that it is untraceable/undetectable? Time period—modern day
Untraceable for—as ...
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Great Old Ones Limited, or Why does Cthulhu need a Company?
A world much like our own. A city like the one in which you live. A corporation whose doors you pass every day. Maybe you notice the subtle sans-serif fonted words adorning the entrance, maybe you ...
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