I looked in the mirror, but my reflection had a sinister smile that wasn't mine.
I sat in my car at night. Suddenly, a face pressed against the window, pale and full of malice.
The abandoned asylum was dark. As I walked, I heard the screams of the long - dead patients.
I opened the attic door. A cold hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed my wrist.
I was home alone when the doorknob started to turn slowly on its own.
I'll share one. 'I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a figure at the foot of my bed, grinning with no eyes.'
I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a figure at the foot of my bed, staring at me with empty eyes.
Walking in the forest, I heard a whisper behind me. I turned, but saw only trees. Then the whisper came again, closer.
The element of surprise. For example, 'I sat on the park bench. The empty bench beside me whispered my name.' Just a simple, unexpected twist in the second line can be very effective.
There might be a story of a cursed object. A girl found an old locket in an antique store. After she put it on, she started having nightmares of a shadowy figure. Everywhere she went, she felt a cold presence. She finally threw the locket into a river, and the nightmares stopped.
One: The old house creaked. I turned, and a shadowy figure stared from the corner. Another: Alone in the forest, a whisper said my name. I ran, but it followed in the wind.
I heard a knock at the door. I opened it, but no one was there, yet the knocking continued.
There was a story about a fox that haunted an old mill. The mill was abandoned for years. The fox made its den there. One day, a curious boy entered the mill. He heard strange noises coming from the attic. As he climbed the stairs, he saw the fox. But this fox had a face that looked like a human skull. The fox hissed at him and chased him out of the mill. The boy was so scared that he couldn't sleep for days, always seeing the fox's skull - like face in his dreams.