How to tell a good horror story

Telling a good horror story is as difficult as finding one. Here I am packing some tips that will help you to tell a good horror story that will send chills down the spine

Setting

In any genre setting of the story is must. And in the genre like horror, setting plays really an important role. A good horror story has a incredible setting.

Setting is the place or location where your story occurs. It's the place around which your story is woven. So from now on when you tell a story especially horror story try to put a good setting in the story.

Explain the minutest details of your setting in such a manner as you audience is inside your fictional world. Detailing, we will go later on that.

Character

After the setting is installed in the story slowly introduce the character and slowly means really slowly. A horror story should have a slow pace and when you are trying to tell an important part of the story like introducing a character it prerequisite.

Now you will have a question how to decide a character. That's really a great question. I personally take characters from the audience I am telling the story. Why? Because nobody is more excited than the person who is the part of the story. There's lot more ways to find or build a character. You can find a character from any movie, you can find any from your daily life, in the bus , public places, office, home etc.

Characterization

Now as you have decided characters in the story, it's time you should start introducing them and their characteristics.

Tell the most distinctive features of the character first. This will let your audience remember them. Also you can recall it by recollecting that characteristics. Try to be the character while describing them.

Conflict

Every story has a conflict. A good horror story should have a conflict. It's up to your creativity how when and with whom you want to create the conflict in the story. When I tell horror story I create a sense of suspense in the beginning itself. Then I turn this suspension into conflict further in the story. While you telling this part you have to have a tensed and heavy voice tonality.

Conclusion

The most difficult and the most interesting part of a story that everybody waits for is the conclusion especially in a horror story. My stories have always a shocking and not very happy ending. I am a horror insect. I empathize with my antagonist ( who is actually protagonist for me). I tend to not kill or destroy the antagonists instead I end it to a whole new another story which is left open to interpretation. This keeps the audience thinking even when the go home. For me every part of the story is important but the ending of he story is what makes it memorable.