How to Write a Short Horror Story

A Comprehensive Guide to Turning Nightmares Into Narratives

By: Patrick Méndez

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"How to Write a Short Horror Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Turning Nightmares into Narratives" delves into the shadowy realms of storytelling. This comprehensive guidebook walks both beginning and experienced writers through the process of writing short Horror stories that will chill readers to the bone. Discover the secrets to creating unforgettable antagonists, designing eerie settings, and delivering jaw-dropping plot twists. Understand how to use psychology to elicit fear, as well as how to revise, polish, and publish your work effectively. This book takes you from the germ of a terrifying idea to the final, polished tale that will have readers sleeping with the lights on. It is peppered with practical examples and stimulating exercises. This book is your key to unlocking the door to a world of haunting narratives, whether you're an aspiring Horror writer or a seasoned author looking to branch out into a new genre. Begin your journey into the heart of terror right now.

Read by AI and sounds like it was probably written by AI too

Unfortunately, this appears to be one of those books where somebody thought they can make a lot of money by quickly writing an audiobook with the help of AI and then having AI read it. Needless to say when AI read your book, it sounds like a book read by AI. It does not sound real, and there are a lot of phrasing that are unnatural and make it hard to understand what they’re saying. One example that comes to mind is when the ai said “the show don’t tell principle,” but the phrasing made it come across as remember the show, “Don’t tell Principal?” and it took me a few minutes to realize that the AI just phrased it very weird and there was no show in the 90s called. Don’t tell principal.

The overall advice is good enough, but written in the most boring straightforward way that will be very hard for even the dull list of Dillard’s to listen to. What a good writer does is show not tell this person mentions the show. Don’t tell principal, but they don’t actually follow it. The entire book is just telling you random advice on how to write a book and how to make good characters without demonstrating it. There’s precious little examples or elaborating on any point that is made for example. They’ll tell you something useful like make sure your characters are rich with a backstory that gives them depth. OK so if you’ve never written anything before, this could be great news for you, but if you’ve ever read a book watch TV show or try to write anything this is already something that you know what you might not know, though is how to actually put that into action this would be where the book should elaborate on how somebody does that and then gives you an example from an actual movie or a well written story with an example of how that is done and then they elaborate on that point and tell you how it was done this is how most how to books that are successful. Do things this book doesn’t do that instead it just tells you a point and then it moves onto the next point. It reads kind of like a never-ending bullet list of things that you should learn to do and so after you listen to this book, you’ll have to go buy a different book that actually teaches you how to do these things.
You would probably be better off watching a 10 minute YouTube video on how to write a short horror story then listening to this audiobook and it would be more engaging

short and to the point

I liked this one, it's short and to the point. it has no accompanying PDFs or much examples, but it's a solid book.

Clearly AI

Feels like quick content, generated almost at random. I normally wouldn’t say anything if I didn’t have anything nice to say but the obvious use of AI to repeat variations on a theme in dubiously divided “chapters” really rankles.