In the old house, I heard a baby's cry. I followed it to the attic. There, a doll stared at me, blood on its porcelain face. I ran, never looking back.
I woke in a dark room. Chains on my wrists. A shadow loomed. 'Your screams will be music,' it hissed. I knew I was in a nightmare from hell.
Once in an old, creaking house, a girl heard whispers at night. She followed the sound to the attic. There, in the dim light, she saw a figure. It turned, its eyes hollow. Before she could scream, it vanished. But she felt its cold touch on her neck, and then, nothing but eternal darkness.
In the old, creaking house, a girl heard whispers at night. She followed the sound to the attic. As she opened the dusty box, a cold hand grabbed her wrist. She screamed but no one heard. The hand pulled her into the box, and the lid slammed shut. She was never seen again, only her faint screams could be heard on windy nights.
How about 'Empty Nursery'? A nursery is supposed to be a place full of life and the sounds of a baby. But when it's empty, it feels wrong. It might make you think of something bad that happened to the baby or that there's some sort of malevolent presence in the room that drove the baby away.
One word could be 'nightmarish'. It's like the story is a nightmare come to life. It can involve all sorts of terrifying and surreal elements. Another useful word is 'unnerving'. It takes away your sense of comfort and security. And 'dreadful' which simply means full of dread or great fear.
Grim, because it gives a sense of being very dark and unpleasant. Macabre, which implies a fascination with death and the grotesque. Eerie, as it creates a feeling of unease and strangeness.
Terrifying, spine - chilling, and macabre are good words to describe a horror story. 'Terrifying' emphasizes the extreme fear it can induce. 'Spine - chilling' gives the sense that it makes your back shiver, like a cold feeling running down your spine. 'Macabre' is more about the grotesque and disturbing elements often found in horror stories.
Gory glory. This is a simple rhyming pair. 'Gory' has a similar ending sound to 'horror' and 'glory' rhymes with'story'.
There are also 'draw and straw'. 'Draw' rhymes with 'horror' and'straw' rhymes with'story'. In a horror story, perhaps there could be a scene where a character has to draw straws to decide their fate, which shows how these rhyming words can be imaginatively connected to the concept of a horror story.