The Rainbow of Terror: Resurrection
This marks the fifth year of the Rainbow of Terror, where I create a number of writing challenges for a different portal, all centered around my favorite holiday Halloween.
I'm also hoping to do something a little different this year. My hopes is that we can come together and make an anthology book with our stories. Obviously these stories won't be published right away. We're basically writing rough drafts at this point. With some time and feedback from one another we can perfect our stories to publish into an anthology book. I'm hoping we can finish this project by Halloween next year.
You know the rules and so do I. I will choose the winners for each challenge. The winners will go on to help building our anthology. I will grade each entry based on the following:
1) How well the entry fits the prompt/description.
2) How well it ties into the theme of Halloween/horror.
3) Overall creativity and fun.
Keep in mind that not all challenges are not meant to be part of the anthology. Only the ones that state "write a short story" are for the anthology. The others are meant to be just good fun. To make it interesting I will not only choose one but two stories to help build the anthology. So please enter as many challenges and craft as many stories as you can.
If you have any questions, please message me. While these challenges end in about 3 weeks, you are still free to write and post your stories if you're interested in participating in creating an anthology book. You are also free to write it however you fill comfortable. Make it PG, PG-13, R? Go for it! Please tag me and many others to your work!
HORROR 1
Prompt: Trick Or Treat!
Description: Write a horror story involving trick-o-treaters or Halloween Day.
Word Count: 20-2500
Link: theprose.com/challenge/12604
HORROR 2
Prompt: There's a monster under the bed!
Description: Write a horror story from the perspective of a child who believes there may be a monster lurking under their bed or in their closet.
Word Count: 100-2000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12603
HORROR 3
Prompt: Old Witch's Tale
Description: Write a horror story centering around a witch that lives either near or in a forest.
Word Count: 25-4000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12602
PARANORMAL 1
Prompt: Cryptids: Creatures of Mystery
Description: Write a creepy story about a run-in with a cryptid (Sasquatch, Mothman, Jersey Devil, etc.)
Word Count: 100-2000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12601
PARANORMAL 2
Prompt: Paranormal Witness
Description: Have you ever encountered something paranormal before? Ever saw a ghost? Ever witnessed a cryptid such as Bigfoot or the Mothman or the Michigan Dogman? Fill free to share your story.
Word Count: 15-3000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12600
PARANORMAL 3
Prompt: Spooky stories around the campfire!
Description: Write your own ghost story to tell around the campfire.
Word Count: 100-1000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12599
LGBT
Prompt: Pride & Terror
Description: Write a short horror story with LGBT themes.
Word Count: 25-2500
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12598
SCIENCE FICTION
Prompt: Body Horror
Description: Write a bone-chilling story involving body horror. Give me something grotesque and disgusting.
Word Count: 100-1500
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12597
FANTASY
Prompt: Cosmic Horror
Description: Write a horror story involving cosmic horror (otherwise known as Lovecraftian horror). A tale where cosmic beings are in control and humanity is nothing but an insignificant pawn in their game, and the sanity of the main protagonist is truly put to the ultimate test.
Word Count: 20-2000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12596
COMEDY
Prompt: Dying... of Laughter!
Description: Write a story that will scare me and make me laugh.
Word Count: 35-3500
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12595
JOURNAL
Prompt: The Lost Journal
Description: Write a story centered around a journal found in some disclosed location. It is up to you how you want the story to go.
Word Count: 100-10000
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12594
SIX WORD STORY
Prompt: Guess Boo! Round Three!
Description: These guessing challenges seem to be a major hit each October. Time for another round. For those new here this is a guessing game of sorts. What you have to do is think of a topic that is often associated with horror, and then write out three lines, six words each, that describes what you are so everyone can guess in the comments. The topic can be a scary movie (Jaws, The Exorcist, Aliens), a scary TV show (American Horror Story, Walking Dead, Goosebumps), a scary game (Dead Space, Ouija), or a scary book (Dracula, Frankenstein). Or the topic can be some sort of monster, masked killer, or whatever that is associated with horror. Or it can be real people that are often associated with the horror genre like writers Stephen King, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero. I’ll start off with an example so you all can follow. Winner will goes to the one that stumps the most people, myself included.
Word Count: 18-18
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12592
RELIGION
Prompt: Satanic Panic
Description: The Satanic Panic was a time during the 70s and 80s where fundamentalist Christians tried to warn the public that Satanists were in charge and influencing the youth with Dungeons and Dragons. Write about what you know of the Satanic Panic and if you've ever experienced this bizarre phenomena.
Word Count: 15-1500
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12593
BOOK CLUB
Prompt: Share and Scare!
Description: What horror novel/short story have you read and recommend everyone check out?
Word Count: 15-250
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12591
GAMING
Prompt: FPS - First-Person Scare
Description: What's the scariest video game you've ever played?
Word Count: 15-1500
Link: www.theprose.com/challenge/12590
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