Horror Writer Essentials Bundle
Horror Writer Essentials Bundle
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Craft your next nightmare with the Horror Writer Essentials Bundle.
Whether you’re aiming for a hint of unease or want to wade straight into the depths of darkness, this bundle gives you the tools to set up the perfect scare.
Cut open the decks to build creatures, characters, scenes, and stories for your horror writing, then combine essential storytelling elements with the expansions to make prompts suitable for your preferred style of horror.
Are your characters fighting off an Eldritch terror? Or is the monster a metaphor for something in their mind?
You’ll never feel lost or stuck again with the Horror Writer Essentials Bundle!
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Horror uses mystery and the unknown to weave in tension, turning mundane activities like playing, showering, and driving into life or death struggles. Overexplain and you lose your reader en route to your reveal. Under foreshadow and your twist lands flat.
This applies equally to meticulous serial killers and mindless monsters. Before your protagonists can find their silver bullet, you need to know what it is.
The cards in this bundle let you shuffle through ideas until you find a combination that inspires you. That can be a fresh take on a classic creature, a complimentary mash-up of subgenres, or the perfect conclusion to the idea that’s been whispering to you from the back of your mind.
With this fast, flexible, and open-ended storytelling tool, you’ll be able to:
- Declutter your ideas, visualize your plot, and track your story's secrets
- Literally lay out your plot, both the details you give to your readers and the secrets you keep from them
- Keep your plot clear and unpredictable
- Add unexpected expansions to revolutionize your setting
How Horror Writers Use Our Cards
Writers use our prompts to overcome creative blocks, develop fresh horror concepts, and dive deep into new subgenres of fear. Whether you write cosmic nightmares, haunted tragedies, or gritty end-of-the-world tales, you’ll find inspiration that lingers long after the lights go out.
Why Horror Writers Love Our Writing Prompts
Endless fuel for dark fiction. From gothic decay to cosmic terror, you’ll never run out of story sparks.
Banish the blank page. Draw a few cards and watch your next horror story unfold before your eyes.
Explore every kind of fear. Experiment with psychological horror, supernatural dread, and post-apocalyptic despair.
Included in this bundle ⮯
The Story Engine Deck
Our bestselling prompt cards instantly deliver ideas in endless combinations for any creative challenge, whether you're a seasoned writer or just learning how to write.
2 Story Prompt Expansions
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Horror Expansion
Whether crafting a terrifying short story or outlining a horror novel, this 60-card deck gives you a rich, unsettling foundation, filled with scary ideas.
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Character Questions Expansion
Write characters that feel psychologically real using open-ended questions to flesh out details, from formative memories and core beliefs to petty grudges and personality quirks.
4 Horror Subgenre Boosters
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Eldritch Horror Booster
Gaze into the infinite void with this 18-card set of unspeakable prompts that spawn nightmarish cults and dark arcane rituals for those who dare use it.
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Post-Apocalyptic Booster
Roam the wasteland with this 18-card set of atomic prompts that erases the old world in a nuclear haze of ruthless warlords, thirsty scavengers, and radiated mutants.
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Gothic Booster
Complete the séance with this 20-card set of spectral prompts that chill the bones with tales of drowned ghosts, crumbling estates, and bloody family secrets.
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Pulp-Fiction Booster
Unearth the accounts of daring thieves, mad scientists, and pirates on cursed seas with this 20-card set of penny dreadful prompts.
Upgrade Your Bundle
- Save $65 in bundle discounts
- Free shipping within the United States
- Includes all 3 main deck systems
- Comes with 7 expansions + 7 horror subgenre boosters
- Everything you need to write a spine-tingling horror masterpiece
Ultimate Horror Writer Bundle
What deck users are saying
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"...built to fuel the creative fire within Dungeon Masters, writers and teachers"
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Forbes Magazine
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"I've found this to be very useful while writing."
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Jamie McKelvie, creator of The Wicked + The Divine
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"I use them for plotting and love them."
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Aliette de Bodard, Nebula Award-winning author