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Your horror world takes its final breath today.

You’ve built the darkness — now it’s time to fill it with secrets.

Coming next:

20 Days to Writing Horror Sub-Plots
Because every haunted place hides something worse than its monsters…
The people who live there.

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Day 19 — The Warping of Time

In horror, time is never your ally.
It stretches, skips, loops — until your characters stop trusting reality itself.

Today’s challenge: write an hour that shouldn’t exist.
The thirteenth chime. The endless sunset. The morning that never arrives.

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Walls remember.
Doors listen.
Some houses are built to keep things in — others to never let them go.

Day 15: The Architecture of Fear — when buildings become part of the horror.

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And this is out, with my story, "Become the New You." The launch was at a horror convention in Utah this weekend. I look forward to reading the other 34 stories.

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Day 13: The Weight of Space

Tight rooms. Endless corridors.
Space shapes fear.

Today’s challenge:
Write a scene where the walls close in — or the horizon never ends.

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Day 12: Sound and Silence

In horror, sound is never just sound.
It warns, haunts — or stops too suddenly.

Today’s challenge:
Write a moment where silence is the loudest thing in the room.

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Every light reveals a shadow.
Every shadow remembers the light.

Light doesn’t chase away the dark — it teaches it how to move.

Day 11 of Building a Horrifying Setting is here:

Light and Shadow — Painting Fear Through Contrast

Make your illumination unreliable.
Make your darkness alive.

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Day 9: Soundscapes of Dread
A creak. A breath. A silence that listens back.
In horror, sound isn’t background — it’s heartbeat, presence, and warning.

“The knocking stopped.
That was worse.”

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