Help with writing horror stories

2 Exaggerate about how powerful this demon or dark power is, like instead of saying she/he was powerful say something like ‘his/hers enormous power could bring down the sun’ ‘his/hers power was enough to make the world pitch black’ ‘or he/she was soo heartless, that his/her evilness could be smelt from the very moon’ or ‘he/she was soo heartless, even the sun was to scared to shine’ just make the person that’s evil, or scary sound big and evil, scary harmful, use detail, from the very eyelashes to the very fingernails, let people really feel how horrible and scary the person your talking about is. Use as much detail as you can.

3 think of things that give people nightmares like vampires, demons, ghost, zombies, and remember how they would be describe in a nightmare, or horror films like:

’pale, grey bloodless, creature’

‘Deformed and gorged with blood’

‘venomous expression, with empty murderous hollow eyes, full of hatred’ something that makes a nightmare a nightmare.

4 if you were to hear the words horror or gothic, what comes to mind? Use that to help, as with me I think of ‘killers, deadly, gloomy, and blood,’ if it helps close your eyes and try to draw a picture in your mind, of something scary, and think how you would describe that to people, so they know why your scared of it.

5 remember, basically horror, gothic and evil things are normally never funny, but if you want to add humour, then make sure it matches what’s going on other why’s what’s the point in writing it, it will make no sense and people will just quit reading your story. Your humour could be insults that would match it quite well you could use something like this if its two people talking in a fight ‘Soon you'll be wearing my sword like a shish kebab!’
‘First you'd better stop waving it like a feather-duster.’ or something like this ‘Nobody's ever drawn blood from me and nobody ever will!’
‘You run THAT fast?’ they may not be great but they add humour to horror.

6 anything can sound scary, if you just try with the detail and change the nice detail words to more of a dangerous words, like say someone can in and fainted you could say they were ‘lifeless’ or ‘colourless’ ‘grey and pale’ something that’s NOT ‘beautiful and white as snow’

7 if your going to use colours for a evil person or scene use darkness colours like:

Black

Brown

Dark blue

Dark green

Dark red

Dark grey

Dark red

Dark purple

And sometimes white, but not always. When you use light colours its not giving your character or scene the finale touch witch it may need, when its evil and dark.