Chapter 1: The Anatomy of Fear

This chapter includes:

• Why people get scared

• The difference between tension, suspense, dread and terror

• The psychology of anticipation

• Why uncertainty is scarier than certainty

• Why imagination beats explicit horror

• How fear changes throughout a story

Comes with: Quick Fear Checklist

Chapter 2: The 50 Core Human Fears

This chapter breaks down the 50 core human fears that are categorized into: physical, psychological, existential, and social.

You'll learn what they are, how to use them, and why they works in horror.

Chapter 3: The Crypt of Atmosphere

This chapter contains everything that lay inside the Crypt of Atmosphere:

• The Architecture of Atmosphere 

• The Five Layers of Dread

• Atmosphere Recipes

• The Atmosphere Builder

• The Atmosphere Vault

• Escalating Dread

• Atmosphere Checklists

Chapter 4: Designing Monsters

This chapter goes in-depth into creating monsters, to help you design your own original nightmares on legs (and maybe arms).

You'll get:

• Highly detailed monster creator worksheet

• Monster generator roll table

• 50 monster concepts

Chapter 5: Character Archetypes

Need help creating a character? This chapter details +10 horror character archetypes, including their strengths, weaknesses, fatal flaw, fear, and possible arc(s).

Chapter 6: Villain Archetypes

Just like the last chapter, but now we're dealing with the baddies!

Chapter 7: 100 Horror Locations

Here you'll get 100 horror settings, which all include:

• Visual details

• Sounds

• Smells

• Potential scares

• Secrets

• Best monster types

Chapter 8: The Anatomy of Horror Settings

This is a lesson breakdown of the structure of horror settings.

Chapter 9: Scene Bank

This chapter includes:

• 50 Opening Scenes

• 50 Discovery Scenes

• 50 Chase Scenes

• 50 Confrontations

• 50 Final Battles

• 50 Endings

Chapter 10: What?!

Ready to leave your readers jaws on the floor? This chapter gives you 100 plot twists that you can adapt to your story.

Chapter 11: A Touch of Gothic

We all love Gothic (if you don't we need to chat). In this chapter you get a breakdown of how to add a Gothic touch to your stories.

Chapter 12: Oh the Horror

Feeling stuck with your horror story or ran into a problem? In this chapter you'll find the most common horror story emergencies and how to fix them.

Each problem gets:

• Symptoms

• Causes

• Solutions

• Exercises

Chapter 13: Horror Pick Me Ups

Welcome to prompts from Hell, just kidding! This chapter is FULL with prompts to help get your creativity going.

Including:

• Daily prompts

• Monster prompts

• Dialogue prompts

• Atmosphere prompts

• One page challenges

• Flash fiction prompts

• Word sprint challenges

• Random combinations

The appendices section includes:

Horror research resources

• Museums

• Folklore

• Mythology

• Medical resources

• History

• Psychology

• Urban legends

Horror reading list

• Classic novels

• Modern novels

• Short stories

• Academic books

• Screenplays

Horror film watchlist

Organized by subgenre.

Horror Subgenres

Explanations of the most popular horror subgenres.