Words on paper fade as old text is read aloud the body begins to breathe. #haikuhorrorprompt #scartext

It was just supposed to be a nice family vacation where they could reconnect as a family. Not find a mass of bones hidden in the snow. Bones that were pure ivory with jagged teeth marks. Could there be someone else here besides them? #horrorprompt #bonesnow

Overlooking the crowd, ready to deliver the punchline, but he has come to collect the debt. #haikuhorrorprompt #punchline

As Paxon rifled through the remnants of the old storage unit. He was surprised to find an old set of exoskeletons left in the far back. They were covered in old sheets, and a sign taped above them simply stated... "Do not repair and do not power them on." #horrorprompt #remnant

Not all holidays are merry and bright sometimes it's a sleigh ride to a place dark and cold. #haikuhorrorprompt #sleighride

Dallas covered his nose as he stepped inside. On every surface, there was a slimy sheen of discolored mucus. Along with a sickening sour smell lingering in the air, enough to take your breath away. He knew then that he wouldn't be finding any bodies. #horrorprompt #acrid

A hissing sound comes from a swirling void blood trickles out and spills onto the forest floor. #haikuhorrorprompt #bleedingvoid

Harper knew it was unbecoming of a lady to 'seduce' her victims. How was she supposed to protect her sister if the man she was dating was willing to cheat on her? It would be okay though, because Harper would be there to hold her sister as she cried. #horrorprompt #unbecoming

It was inspection day, as he nervously awaited his fate how could he hide the punctures on his neck? #haikuhorrorprompt #puncture

Rogue came out of their hiding place, letting out an audible gasp at the scene. Blood and viscera were everywhere, along with a few bodies strewn around. What they failed to notice was the bloody cleaver in their own hand. #horrorprompt #cleaver

Down marble steps, a crimson river flows the sacrifice was made. Hopefully, you made the right choice. #haikuhorrorprompt #blood

Last night, a strange onyx meteor crashed in Noor's backyard. It oozed an electric blue from the cracks in its surface. As she drew closer, it pulsed with a shimmering light. Waiting inside was an otherworldly being ready to strike. #horrorprompt #blue

With a sinking feeling, she pressed on, searching for her missing children, who were already gone. #haikuhorrorprompt #distraught

Austin knew that once he betrayed the organization, there would be no turning back. He would no longer be accepted back, but what the syndicate did could not be forgiven. They had summoned forth a demon and fed it the country’s queen...his own mother. #horrorprompt #renegade

They never wanted to do this role, one of a servant or a hierodule. #haikuhorrorprompt #hierodule

Amris could always detect when someone was lying. It also meant that he was good at it himself. However, Amris lied to the wrong person, a man who called himself the King of Lies. Now he would have to pay the price. #horrorprompt #bamboozle

Yeva spent many grueling hours on the current project for her boss to dismiss her work. No, he would listen to her project whether he wanted to or not. Even if Yeva had to kidnap him and force him to listen. #horrorprompt #grueling

Farris had warned them not to go off the trail. That lately there had been signs of unknown flora. It had been labeled poisonous until further notice. When he went looking for them, they no longer appeared human. #horrorprompt #poisonous

A glint in the night stalking a killer unknowing a blade was at their back #haikuhorrorprompt #blade

One night it showed itself with sharpened claws, grinning from ear to ear. #haikuhorrorprompt #grinning

His world is capsized, and he watches as humans hunt their own just to have a piece of warm flesh to eat. #haikuhorrorprompt #predation

When Cassia met her first apparition, she thought they were a real person. When her parents witnessed her conversing with herself, she was taken to a child psychologist. Cassia wasn't imagining things and knew these people existed on a different plane. #horrorprompt #apparition

Outside of town, a closed-off cave lures its victims by name. #haikuhorrorprompt #cave

They wanted someone to drive the demon away from the church. To send the unholy being back to the depths of hell. Not kill them and pin their body to the outside of the building as a warning. Fenris Solari wasn't a normal preacher, and he'd had enough. #horrorprompt #preacherman

A skin without its skeleton is but a husk, for if one moves out, another takes its place. #haikuhorrorprompt #boneless

The town set a curfew after everything had gone down the proverbial drain. Ensuring that no one would be outside after dark. Though it would seem they had a couple of unbelievers in their midst. Two people who walked outside and never came back. #horrorprompt #afterdark

Ancient magic of bone and soil binds its fabric, herbs, using words as your spool. #haikuhorrorprompt #voodoo

In a shady bar in the middle of the city, a group of villains gathered for an intervention. Fellow villain Bloodfest had gotten too careless. Due to his trademark kill, the 'jugular burst' caused too much work for the clean-up crew. #horrorprompt #jugular

A dim stone pathway behind someone follows. redwake fills the air. #haikuhorrorprompt #redwake

As the woman hollowed out another corpse, she wiped the sweat from her brow. Orders like this always piled up around Halloween time. Monsters were really determined to blend in with humans so badly. That they resorted to using them as costumes. #horrorprompt #hollowing

Bring out your dead, their skin black as coal, burned and not buried, for fear of them becoming one of the undead. #haikuhorrorprompt #blackplague

The survivors found out the hard way that not all lurkers lack intelligence. In fact, some of them set traps or lure people in with hostages. At first, they thought it was to eat their flesh or use them like cattle, but the truth was far worse than that. #horrorprompt #braindead

Don't show them pity or show you care we're all out of mercies, nothing more to give. #haikuhorrorprompt #mercies

He promised the princess a happily ever after. That both of them would be together forever. Her dreams of living within the castle had finally come true. What she didn't expect was to become a witness to its horrid secrets. #horrorprompt #happily

Sharpened fangs upon an exposed neck drinking deeply from the ever-flowing river of red #haikuhorrorprompt #fang

Never break a pinky promise because if you do. Bad things will happen, and it will be more than broken bones and a needle in your eye. There is someone who will come for you, collecting what it's due. #horrorprompt #pinky

Scaly and unkempt, crawling in the sewers, watches you wherever you may go. #haikuhorrorprompt #mangy

The Oneironaut Ezai entered his companion’s dream, discovering that 'they' were the traitor. He decided to keep this information to himself. For if Ezai told them, the princess would be slaughtered without the leader knowing her true identity. #horrorprompt #lucid

Glittering red-veil shimmers in beams of moonlight draped on a bride who is just a skeleton underneath. #haikuhorrorprompt #redveil

Penn stared at the entity before him, transfixed in place. He thought his patients were just sharing their religion. That 'they' weren't a real, vital force with a physical form. As a doctor, he felt completely powerless in how to deal with this. #horrorprompt #paralyzing

Freya was tired of running and fighting in this apocalyptic world. Her partner had gotten himself bitten during a supply run. Now it was up to her to either show him mercy. Or let him become one of the masses of the undead. #horrorprompt #mercenary

Inside the greenhouse, is moldy and decayed, a missing gardener has become a botanical display. #haikuhorrorprompt #rotten

Pulled down into the softened earth, what lies below is worse than the living dead, than want more than flesh, that want your very soul. #haikuhorrorprompt #yanked

To be in the glowing warmth of the limelight. To have everyone look at you for once instead of someone else. It was a role that he simply had to 'kill' for. Just don't go looking behind any curtains, and ignore the specks of blood on the collar. #horrorprompt #limelight

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A textile floor is revealed by moonlight there Ahma lay in, congealing crimson. #haikuhorrorprompt #pooling

Though he had a scruffy exterior, Mateo knew the city of Kaishire like a book. He would lead the survivors out, but at what cost? If it meant that he would be left behind as fodder for those creatures, Mateo wasn't going to be the bait for their escape. #horrorprompt #slovenly

Outside the window, it perched in the tree, an ivory raven with deep ebony eyes. Ever since Jett's daughter passed, it had been coming around. This time, it carried something. A viscous vial with a crimson liquid. The one his new bride claimed was medicine. #horrorprompt #raven

Worn and weathered, crafted from flesh, to be its cover, binding the devilish words of the Normanomicon #haikuhorrorprompt #leather

Liam had to make up for the mistake he had made. His family was being punished for his choices. Now standing before the court of the Akkoil, Liam was ready to accept the thrashing he would receive, even if it ended in death. #horrorprompt #retribution