Spooky Boogie

The Attic

The Kitchen

The Garden

The Basement

The Living Room

Inventory

Welcome to the Mad House

How to write a horror story and induce fear in the reader's minds?

spooky stories

Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander through it until he recovers all his memories.To help him find them, you must first explore all the rooms to then recall his fate in a short story. Explore the house and try not to get trapped too..."

The Basement: Scary, creepy, frightening,... There are not enough words to express how spooky this is! [Vocab]

Inventory

Exploring narrative tropes

224

Use the magnifying glass to find the code and then insert it into the typewriter to unlock the exercises

Nice try humans, but do you have what it takes to enter the room?

Number

Oh wait, someone else is there! Who could that be?

The Garden: Dig under the ground [Analyse]

Inventory

Exploring narrative tropes

Highlight/underline words and phrases that suggest that the Bed and Breakfast is a welcomingplace to stay.

Vocabulary

Starter

Settings

Characters

Dialogues

Title

Atmosphere

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restart

scratchers

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eulogiads

Horror stories: Content

The Kitchen: Once dead, twice alive [Structure]

Inventory

Exploring narrative tropes

As soon as her mother was asleep, she put on her brand new red dress and ran down to the K.C. Hall where the dance was being held.

"Dance with me," he said. His eyes were an intense blue like the tips of a flame.

The girl hurried through her schoolwork as fast as she could. It was the night of the high school dance, along about 70 years ago in the town of Kingsville, Texas.

When the smoke from the fire died down, the girl was gone. The man in black bowed once to the crowd and disappeared.

The girl was so excited about the dance. She had bought a brand new, sparkly red dress for the dance. She knew she looked gorgeous in it. It was going to be the best evening of her life.

Later, she broke away from the crowd and went to the table to get some punch to drink. She heard a sudden hush.

She screamed and burst into flames.

The music stopped. When she turned, she saw a handsome man with blonde hair wearing a tuxedo as black as the night standing next to her.

Then the man spun her around and around. She gasped for breath, trying to step out of the spin. But he spun her faster and faster. Her feet felt hot.

The girl nodded as if she accepted her mother's words. But she was determined to go to the dance.

Suddenly the man stopped spinning her and stared at her intensely as a menacing smirk spread across his darkly handsome face.

"You are not going to that dance," her mother said with a stern look.

Her mother sometimes accused her of being too awkward to get a boyfriend. But she was not awkward that night. The boys in her class were fighting with each other to dance with her.

The floor seemed to melt under her. He spun her even faster.

She managed to stammer a "yes", completely stunned by this elegant man. He led her out on the dance floor. The music sprang up at once. She found herself dancing better than she had ever danced before. They were the centre of attention.

"I've just been talking to the preacher. He says the dance is going to be for the devil. You are absolutely forbidden to go!"

The devil had come to his party and he had danced the girl all the way to hell.

As soon as she walked into the room, all the guys turned to look at her. She was startled by all the attention. Normally, no one noticed her.

Then her mother came in the house, looking pale and determined.

The young girl was dizzy and confused but as she looked down at her hands she saw that they were burning like red hot coals in a fire.

"But why?" the girl asked her mother.

A dance with the devil

THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

RISING ACTION

CLIMAX

FALLING ACTION

(RESOLUTION)

EXPOSITION

THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

How to make your writing suspenseful - Victoria Smith

SUSPENSE

The Attic: Is he? Or was he? [Tenses]

Inventory

Exploring narrative tropes

Practice...

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The Basement: Spooky, creepy, frightening, everything at once! [Vocab to be used]

Inventory

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Nouns

Adjectives

Adverbs

Verbs

Your mission if you accept it: Go and search through the library (dictionaries, books, and magazines - no internet!) and find 7 words each in a minimum of 15 minutes. A word cannot be written twice. At the end, you will have to have created a list of about 30 words for each category! PS.: To help your classmates out, write the translation of the English word or its definition next to its English version.

It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was high. The trees waved and crashed against the barn. I looked around me and saw that I wasn’t alone. A man stood behind me. He was tall. He was mean. He had a knife. It was shining in the moonlight. It was long and slender. He reached back. He stabbed a man with it. I jumped out of the way. I ran away.

Her crying only made him hungrier.

That day, the sun didn’t rise.

Mommy, Grandad’s at the window again.

He slowly peeled off my fingernails.

Plane crash. Sole survivor – satisfied smile.

The toilet flushed. I’m home alone.

Translate

Doll under the blankets. Baby’s vanished.

« Nous avons besoin d'histoires de fantômes parce que nous sommes en fait les fantômes. » Stephen King « Si une histoire de fantôme est racontée par un fantôme, cela signifie-t-il qu’elle doit être vraie ? Un fantôme aurait-il besoin de mentir ? »

Camilla: Hello?"Stranger : I'm watching you.Camilla: W-what? Who is this?Stranger :I just told you. A watcher.Camilla: No, come on man. Who is this? Joe?Stranger :Your skin looks so smooth tonight.Camilla: My…What?Stranger :I like the way you've done your hair.Camilla: Don't freaking joke around. You're scaring me.Stranger :It tastes better when they're afraid.Camilla: Stop it! I'm calling the cops!Stranger :By the time they get here, I'll be done with you.Camilla: I'm hanging up, you're sick. Get a life!Stranger :I'm coming in.Camilla: Go to hell!....[She hung up the phone and 5 seconds later, heard someone knocking at the door]

The Living Room: Add lively corpses [Dialogue]

Inventory

Exploring narrative tropes

Methodology

Toolbox

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Practice makes perfect: Said is a dead word

Include dialogues
Have a good narrative structure
Use enough/the good vocabulary to induce fear in the reader's mind

Final Task

Write your own horror story! Length: 2 typed pages Make sure to:

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