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18 March 2023

Posted by Holly Spillar

Horror Writing

This week the junior writers requested a session on horror writing. We’ve briefly touched on horror before with our ghost stories last term so they were keen to try it again with a wider rage of horror characters and writing forms. 


Firstly Evie (our helper from the 15-18 group) led an opening task in which the writers had to create an origin story for how horror began. They had about 10 minutes to come up with a short idea…here are some of their stories:





Once the writers had thought about the history of horror they had to make up two spooky Horror Haiku’s that would later be used as inspiration in their main writing piece. The first Haiku had to set the scene of their horror story and the second had to introduce a character.

Here are some of their Haiku’s 




Once some characters and horror story ideas had been generated from their Haikus the writers started their own horror stories. They were all very spooky and very creative, we had dolls with moving hands, little girls with no faces, evil butterfly fairies and some ghost stories, our junior writers weren't scared of anything!





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