101 Folk Horror Creative Writing Prompts

Step Into the Shadows of the Old Ways... If You Dare.

From the whispering hedgerows of forgotten villages to the sacred stones that bleed when the harvest rites go wrong, 101 Folk Horror Writing Prompts invites you into the eerie, earthen heart of rural dread.

Whether you're a horror author seeking inspiration, a game master building your next folklore-drenched campaign, or a screenwriter crafting your next chilling masterpiece, this book offers a twisted roadmap to landscapes where the land remembers-and it does not forgive.

Folk horror isn't about cheap scares. It's about unease that seeps from the soil. About traditions no one dares break. About pacts made by torchlight and renewed in blood. In these pages, you'll find prompts that unearth the ancient roots of terror: crops that won't grow unless someone is buried beneath them, villages that only appear at dusk, masked festivals where uninvited guests vanish, and scarecrows that predict disaster with every movement they make.

Each of the 101 prompts comes with a chilling title and a full paragraph of rich narrative setup to launch your next story, screenplay, RPG scenario, or collaborative horror event. These aren't vague one-liners or throwaway ideas-they're full-fledged story seeds soaked in folklore, ritual, and atmospheric dread.

Inside you'll discover:

• Harvests with a price.

• Villages that guard ancient secrets with human lives.

• Buried gods, forgotten rituals, and sacred sites that remember.

• Tales of sin-eaters, corn dolls, lych gates, peat bogs, bone orchards, and more.

• Bonus fiction, including "The Charcoal Circles" and "The Sleepers in the Clay", which expand on two of the prompts in terrifying detail.

From uncanny customs to cursed crafts, each prompt is designed to evoke rich worldbuilding, macabre folklore, and a creeping fear that something far older than man still lurks just beneath the hedgerows and within the stones.

Whether you're a:

• Horror novelist in need of chilling inspiration

• Tabletop RPG creator designing a haunted countryside

• Screenwriter exploring rural gothic storytelling

• Short story writer looking for your next terrifying tale

• Or folklore fanatic obsessed with the uncanny and unexplained

...this collection will help you till the dark soil of imagination and reap a harvest of nightmares.

Plus:

• A "How to Use These Prompts" guide to help you adapt ideas to any format or genre.

• A preface that dives deep into what folk horror is-and why it sticks with us long after the candles go out.

• A beautifully creepy, hand-painted cover that perfectly captures the themes of ritual, myth, and confrontation with the ancient.

Let the land speak. Let the past rise. Let the stories begin.

Folk horror isn't dead. It's just waiting for you to find it.

101 Folk Horror Writing Prompts-the ritual begins when you turn the first page.