Free (now Public Domain) story ideas for you to enjoy, enlarge and exploit as you see fit.

Ideas in various stages of development that I now bequeath unto the public domain
for you to enjoy, enlarge, and exploit as you please.
Showing posts with label Haunted House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haunted House. Show all posts

Jun 17, 2016

Haunted Haunted House


            Every horror trope crammed into one scary building.  Basically a psychopathic killer is using a permanent haunted house to disguise his killings, as the place is filled with guts and screams anyway.  But he has to keep the place operational so he’s always buying new scary shit to put in it.  Well… when he creates the new Voodoo room he accidentally uses some items with real magic that summon a demon and reanimate the corpses of his victims.

Feb 19, 2016

Last Looks


            When actors on a low budget horror film shooting in a potentially haunted house start dying on camera, the director and producers have to figure out whether supernatural forces related to the house, or the film’s content are at work, or whether one of the film’s crew members is a serial killer.

Dec 11, 2015

The Vortex Cage

Dual storyline following investigators who become trapped in a fortified and allegedly haunted laboratory from the 80s, and the original creators and researchers of the lab.  Both groups are plagued by phantom-like spirits that interfere with the time travel device that the original group attempted to create and that the investigators are trying to understand.  Ultimately it becomes apparent that the two groups are unintentionally doing battle with each other through temporal rifts that have spread throughout the building. 

Dec 4, 2015

Shelter Skelter

            Late ‘60s, the height of the Cold War.  An eccentric billionaire collects his closest friends, including a few proponents of his occult religious beliefs into his luxurious estate, which he has fortified to become an automated bomb shelter in the event of a nuclear strike.  The group has just collected into the building when suddenly it locks down.
            40 years later, the abandoned mansion has been found with no signs of life within.  The city wants to rezone the estate as low-income housing, so a team of assessors, architects, city officials, and an expert on the original owner are sent in to examine the mansion.  As soon as they get inside, the place shuts down again.  Steel plates cut off cell reception and prevent escape of any kind.  Now the team must examine the records left by the previous occupants of the house in the hopes of finding a clue to what happened and a means of escaping.

            As the entrapment stretches beyond the first day, strange things start happening.  Members of the team are attacked and killed in the dark.  Spirits or someone still living in the house?  Sounds emanate from the basement.  The swimming pool, still alarmingly well maintained, seems to contain a powerful hallucinogen.  As the team is driven more and more insane, they must consider the spiritual implications of the haunting, and also the possibility that a nuclear strike may really have occurred.