how to write a scary story

2. Horror means scaring your readers! Scaring
does not mean blood and guts for the sake of
showing blood and guts - it means making
the reader believe that something horrible
could happen to them! It means making them
afraid to sleep with the lights off!

3. Here are some tips for writing a good horror story:
Plan the plot in detail - you need to know exactly what is going to happen, so that you
can have all your characters in exactly the right places for the horrible things to
happen.
Choose things that are scary to you - you're not going to be able to put fear into your
story if you write about cute, fluffy, happy things! If you find roaches "icky," then write a
story about roaches! If you feel the emotion, then the reader will feel it.
Make your characters believable - describe the characters so that the reader can
imagine them and identify with them. You should know how they look, how they act,
how they talk, and what they want.
Make the situation believable - don't just randomly toss characters into a horrible
setting; give them a good reason for being where they are!
Read the Old Masters - to write really good horror, you should have read enough
classic horror by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King to give you a
good idea how the story is done.