Are you a fan of the horror novel and want to write your own but are struggling to come up with a plot idea? Below you will find 25 horror novel plot ideas that can help to set off that creative spark and get your ideas flowing.
25 Horror Novel Plot Ideas
1 A ghost story where the protagonist has to solve a mystery to get the ghost to leave
2 A ghost story where the ghost is bitter about being dead and wants to make the resident’s life hell
3 A ghost story where the ghost wants to possess the person in the house and take over their lives
4 A slasher horror where the people are trapped somewhere with the killer
5 A “whodunit” style slasher horror where the people being targeted try to figure out who is killing them and why
6 A story about a Demon possessing someone
7 A story about a Demon possessing an object
8 A story where the ghosts of the past come back to haunt the present day characters
9 A story of a Ouija board gone wrong
10 A story about a psychic medium who gets pulled into the other world
11 A story about an exorcist where an expelled Demon comes back to haunt him
12 A story about an occult ritual gone wrong
13 A story about a Satanic cult
14 A psychological horror story where a character is driven mad by another character
15 A psychological horror story where everyone believes a character is mad even though they aren’t
16 A disaster based story
17 A zombie apocalypse story
18 A story about vampires (the Dracula kind, not the kind that sparkle in the sun)
19 A monster based story
20 A story told from the ghost’s point of view, showing that ghosts too can be afraid
21 A slasher story told from the point of view of the killer
22 A story involving a sick game where the players must make a choice or be killed
23 A story of an alien invasion where the aliens are all cold blooded killers
24 A story set in a theme park, where nothing is ever as it seems
25 A story where an essential element (e.g. water) becomes toxic
Happy writing.
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I’ve seen most of those before. 😊 How about one where the ghost scares a person he hates to death and then is stuck with him as a fellow ghost in a house neither of them can escape?
Oh I like the sound of that as like a comedy horror. I’d love to see what you come up with if you write it!
Of course I had to read this post. I tried out #1, and the result was “City of Ghosts.”
Really like the idea of #21. Don’t think I’ve seen that done before.
I’ve done a few short stories from the killer’s POV and they’re quite fun. I haven’t done a novel that way though.
I kind of have. Called The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Really good book from killers point of view.
I have written my first children short novel named short tales by me. I am writing a horror series now for teens and tweens. One book of series is complete. Need to be published
Congratulations!