Have you ever felt that you have a great horror story and you just need to do a little research to get more ideas, get the time period right or other facts? Maybe you have writer’s block and don’t know where to start. Here is a great collection, I stumbled across, to get you creative juices flowing.
Crime
- truTV: Crime Library
- About: Notorious Crimes and Criminals in History
- Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia of Crime
Urban Legends
- Wikipedia:Urban Legends
- Snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages
- About: Urban Legends
- The AFU And Urban Legends Archive
Ghosts & Folklore
- Over 2000 Free Horror Stories Organized Into Horror Themes…Ghosts, Vampires, Monsters, the Occult, etc.
- Classic Horror Short Stories – The Greatest Horror Story Collection
- Horror Writers Association – Horror Reading List
- The Library of the Classics
- Google Books: Scary Stories
- Wikipedia: Ghost Stories
- Horror Masters: Classic Ghost Stories
- Halloween Ghost Stories
- The Moonlit Road: Ghost stories and folktales of the American South
- American Folklore: Spooky Stories
- HowStuffWorks: Ghost Stories
Public Domain and Classical Horror Stories
- Public Domain Horror Movies
- Wikipedia: Public domain characters
- Arthur’s Classic Novels
- Works Referenced in Supernatural Horror in Literature
- Literature of the Fantastic
- Horror Masters Horror Library
- DagonBytes.com Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Litrix Horror Reading Room
- Manybooks.net
Online Screenplays
- Scriptologist: Horror Screenplays
- HorrorLair: Horror Screenplays
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie Scripts
Horror Movie Websites
- Horror Film History
- CHUD.com
- Dead Harvey
- The Groovy Age of Horror
- Old Time Radio at The Monster Club
- Fangoria
- All Things Zombie
- The Horror Channel
- Bloody-Disgusting.com
- Rue Morgue
- Death & Dementia
- Film Monthly – Horror
- Filmsite’s History of the Horror Film
- Flesh Farm
- HellHorror.com
- Horrorview
- Horror Movie Reviews
- Killing Boxx
- Mr E.’s Horror Blog
- Movie Deaths
- FanGirlTastic
- Scary Old Films
- Upcoming Horror Movies
- Werewolf Movies
- Vampire Movies
- Zombie Movies
Articles
- Horror Filmmaking: Understanding Your Own Fear for Fun and Profit
- Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts
- The Making of 9 Classic Universal Monster Movies
- A Tour of the The Creature Shop
- How to make a Japanese Monster Movie
- Dario Argento An Eye for Horror
- How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller…
- StoryWeaving – Avoiding the Genre Trap
- The Thriller
- The Lure of the Dark Side
- Seven Screenwriting Tricks From Horror Films10 Steps To Writing A Horror Screenplay
- Horror Factor – Horror Writing Articles for the Serious Horror Writer
- A Basic Primer on Writing Horror Screenplays
- Horror Sub-Genres
- Back to the Basics: Horror 101
- The Killer Inside Us:Why serial killer novels continue to fascinate
- The Perception and Psychology of the Horror Writer
- (Edgar Allan) Poe & His Relevance Today
- Sex and Horror
- What Women Want…in Horror (PDF)
- A Few Thoughts on the Horror Genre
- What is the Difference between Horror and Dark Fantasy?
- What is Dark Fantasy?
- Giving Rein to Horror
- Sculpting Horror
- Horror Sub-Genres
- The Other in Fiction: Creating Wonderfully Wicked Villains
- Horror Fiction – Ten Cliches to Avoid
- Top Ten Tips for Writing Good Horror Fiction
- Elements of Aversion: What Makes Horror Horrifying?
- Suspending Disbelief
- The Bottleneck
- Creating a Character for a Horror Story
- Why Horror Scares Us
- What Makes Horror Scary?
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