FoM Past Prompts

With so many judges we need something to keep track of past prompts. This will help us not to repeat ourselves.

Write about taxes and/or Texas

Your new boots are made from something more sinister than leather

Something sinister is lurking in the hospital halls at night

A corpse. A twisted doctor. Sometimes being dead is worse than dying.

You and your beloved are trying the new restaurant in town, and the waiter serves you the "Chef's Special".

Album, paper cup, voices

If you go down into the woods today, you're sure of a big suprise. Tell us what creepy suprises await us in the dark of the woods.

You bought something at a secondhand store.

You gave your daughter a pice of jewelry.

You have come into possession of a haunted mirror.

You find a hidden box under the stairs.

You're locked in a strange museum.

A black box, a shovel and a strange book. Use all.

You find a monkey's paw. Find your own spin on a classic chilling tale.
See this link for reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey's_Paw

College dorm rooms can be a wonderful source of hauntings. Write me a story about such a thing.

The blood was...

The face in the window...

Write a story involving a spellbook.

Write a horror story from a turkey's point of view. It doesn't neccessarily have to deal with Thanksgiving.

You find something unusual in your trick or treat bag.

Write a horror story that is also in the detective genre.

Write a ghost story.

Use these words: toast, dress and tuxedo.

Your tapped.

Something or someone is causing an illness...

Blackberries

Worshiping small gods

Needful things

Heat shaped box

Jack the Ripper

Lizzy Borden

Write a piece beginning with the line: It wasn't the way it felt against his skin, but the smell of the blood that brought back so many memories.

An Irish theme. Write a story about one of these creatures: banshee, merrow, leprechaun, changelings, dullahan, grogochs, pooka. For reference please see...
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005417/

Write your item about the night the veil between the worlds is thinnest.

Write about a deadline or dead line.

Use this in your story: "The presidential face on the bill stared at me."

The shadow had returned to my dreams. When I awoke, it was now in the room with me.

You are walking along a road and come to a fork. Which way do you choose and what do you find?

Edgar Allen Poe must appear in your story.

Jackets or coats

cats

soul eater

mummy

Irish myths