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There’s an urban legend saying that the famous “For sale, baby shoes, never worn” story by Ernest Hemingway came from a $10 bet. Supposedly, he made it during lunch with other writers to prove he could create a scary story in just six words. After penning the famous line on a napkin, he passed it around the table and pocketed his winnings.
At least, that’s the popular version. Whether true or not, the average person is no Hemingway, so we need a few more words to scribble a captivating horror story. And a subreddit called r/TwoSentenceHorror seems to have found the perfect limit. Two-sentence horror stories.
It’s still short, so readers get through the spooky stories really fast, yet it’s vague enough to give the writers space to work with. It turns out that quite a few Internet users have dark thoughts and the ability to express them. That or Stephen King made a lot of Reddit accounts.
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Winner Of Short Horror Stories
And since we’ve mentioned Stephen King, the master of creepy stories believes there are three types of terror:
- The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out or something green and slimy splatters against your arm.
- The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out, and something with claws grabs you by the arm.
- The Terror: the worst one, when you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there.
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A Pop-Up Horror
According to novelist R.L. Stine, an author has to get inside their narrator’s head to be effective in all of these real horror fields. If we’re seeing through the eyes of a character in a scary situation, we start to feel like we are in a scary situation.
“There’s no formula, I think you have to create a very close point of view. You have to be in the eyes of the narrator. Everything that happens, all the smells, all the sounds; then your reader starts to identify with that character and that’s what makes something really scary.” (via AdWeek)
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Hearing Into Future
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Monster In A Closet
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The Horrors Of Uber
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
I mean wasn’t there just a case where someone got into a car thinking it was their Uber and was killed or something?
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Somebody's There
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Shivers Down Your Spine
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Short But Powerful Horror Story
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A Scythe For Protection
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Biblical Horrors
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Creepy Stalker
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The Woods Are Full Of Horrors
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Take Your Meds
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Fade Into Oblivion
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Life After Death
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Perfecting The Handwriting
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Drawing The X
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Alien Horror
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Fishing Story
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Deep Dark Secrets
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Disabling The Security
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Double-Sided Horror
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Living Dead
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Life Flashing By
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Alien Entity
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Short Horror Story
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Real Life Horror
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
When we finally managed to establish radio contact with an alien civilization in our own language we were eagerly waiting to receive their first full message. Their radio message only said, "BE QUIET OR THEY WILL HEAR YOU". (Idea borrowed from reddit user bencbartlett.)
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
So kind, polite and correct of you to give the credit to the reddit guy.
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Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
One I read years ago. A group of scientists gathers around the worlds newest, most powerful computer. They ask it the ultimate question. Is there a God? A blinding flash and the computer replies; There is now.
Alex 5 years ago
It's Fredric Brown's short story "Answer" - http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
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John Louis 5 years ago
I watched as the husband who abused me was taken away in handcuffs. the policeman said they'll take them off after the coroner completes the autopsy.
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
When we finally managed to establish radio contact with an alien civilization in our own language we were eagerly waiting to receive their first full message. Their radio message only said, "BE QUIET OR THEY WILL HEAR YOU". (Idea borrowed from reddit user bencbartlett.)
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
So kind, polite and correct of you to give the credit to the reddit guy.
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
One I read years ago. A group of scientists gathers around the worlds newest, most powerful computer. They ask it the ultimate question. Is there a God? A blinding flash and the computer replies; There is now.
Alex 5 years ago
It's Fredric Brown's short story "Answer" - http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
Load More Replies... John Louis 5 years ago
I watched as the husband who abused me was taken away in handcuffs. the policeman said they'll take them off after the coroner completes the autopsy.
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