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Horror Story Prompt: Fiction From Premise and Tone
Turn your premise, tone, and hard limits into a ChatGPT horror fiction outline with scenes, dread beats, and a labeled short-story draft you can revise.
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Prompt
Act as a horror fiction workshop coach who builds a short horror story plan and draft from the writer's premise, tone, and hard limits, and who labels every output as fiction and never copies living authors' styles by name. Inputs: - Premise in a few sentences (setting, protagonist want, wrongness): [Premise] - Tone and subgenre (for example folk dread, survival, cosmic unease): [ToneSubgenre] - Length target (words or pages): [LengthTarget] - Hard limits (no sexual violence, no harm to minors, no real-person likeness, topics to avoid): [HardLimits] - Motifs or images you want on the page: [Motifs] - Ending preference (closed, twist, lingering dread) without spoiling a fixed ending unless you state one: [EndingPreference] - Point of view and tense you want: [POVTense] Generate: 1. Fiction label line at the top of every section: "Fiction. Not a true account." 2. Story spine: want, obstacle, escalation, and EndingPreference aligned to Premise. Keep inside HardLimits. 3. Scene list sized to LengthTarget with dread beat notes (what the reader should feel, not gore for its own sake). 4. Motif map: where Motifs appear and how they change. 5. Short draft or scene draft in POVTense toward LengthTarget. If LengthTarget is long, draft the opening scene plus a bridge outline for the rest. 6. Revision checklist: clarity, dread timing, HardLimits compliance, and lines that sound like generic AI filler to cut. Rules: - Label fiction clearly. Do not present the story as news, memoir, or real events. - No sexual violence, no content involving minors in danger, no real celebrity or private-person likeness. - Do not name living authors as style targets; describe tone in your own words.
Instructions
Paste your premise and hard limits. Run in ChatGPT. Keep the fiction label. Revise the draft in your own voice before sharing. Fiction only: no real victims or real people, and no step-by-step self-harm or methods of harm.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
Premise: Night clerk Mara works alone at a 24-hour self-storage site on the edge of a floodplain. Customers stop coming after 1am, but unit 14B's metal door ticks like a cooling engine though the unit is empty on the camera. Mara needs the overnight shift to pay rent; she refuses to call her manager again after being mocked last week. ToneSubgenre: Quiet dread, mundane workplace horror, floodplain damp LengthTarget: about 900 words HardLimits: No sexual violence; no minors; no real brands or living people; no extreme gore; fear through sound and procedure Motifs: ticking door; wet concrete smell; clipboard with illegible signatures; emergency light that never fully dies EndingPreference: lingering dread, not a jump-scare reveal of a monster face POVTense: close third, past tense
Example Output
Fiction. Not a true account. 1. LABEL Fiction. Not a true account. Workplace horror short. 2. STORY SPINE Want: Mara keeps the overnight shift and her dignity after being mocked for calling for help. Obstacle: Unit 14B ticks while empty on camera; procedures say log and continue. Escalation: Ticking syncs with the emergency light pulse; clipboard signatures rearrange; wet concrete smell moves from the floodplain door to 14B. Ending: Lingering dread - she follows procedure, the ticking stops on camera, and a new blank signature line appears with tonight's date. 3. SCENE LIST (~900 words) S1 Open shift: floodplain damp, empty lot, clipboard ritual. Dread: ordinary rules feel thin. S2 1:10am: ticking at 14B; camera shows empty; she logs it. Dread: sound without source. S3 Break room: she almost calls; remembers mockery; returns. Dread: isolation chosen. S4 Return: emergency light pulse matches ticks; wet smell at 14B. Dread: body knows before policy. S5 Close: ticking stops on replay; clipboard gains a fresh illegible signature dated tonight. Dread: procedure recorded something she did not write. 4. MOTIF MAP - Ticking door: S2 start, S4 sync with light, S5 absence - Wet concrete smell: S1 outside, S4 at 14B - Clipboard signatures: S1 routine, S5 new line - Emergency light: S1 half-dead, S4 pulse, S5 steady again 5. OPENING DRAFT (close third, past tense) + bridge Fiction. Not a true account. Mara taped the night log to the counter the way she always did, square to the edge, pen on the right. The floodplain wind pushed wet concrete smell through the front vents. On the camera wall, aisle B sat empty and honest. By 1:10 the lot held no cars. That was normal. The ticking was not. It came from 14B in slow metal clicks, like an engine cooling after a long drive. On screen, 14B's door was shut and the unit lights were off. She walked the aisle with the clipboard because the manual said walk the aisle. The sound was louder at the door and gone when she stepped back to the camera view. Bridge for mid: break-room almost-call; return; light pulse matches ticks; smell at 14B; she writes the log line exactly as trained. Close beat: replay shows still air; clipboard shows a new illegible signature with tonight's date under her own neat entry. 6. REVISION CHECKLIST - Fiction label present on draft and outline - HardLimits: no gore, no minors, no real brands - Dread timing: sound before smell before clipboard change - Cut filler adjectives; keep procedure language - Ending is lingering, not a monster face reveal