From twisted trinkets to haunted heirlooms, unleash your scariest cursed object story in Dictionary.com’s Haunting Hooks writing contest. The Contest We’re challenging you to write an original opening to a story about cursed objects using 50 words or less. Whether it’s eerie, chilling, or darkly funny, your first lines must pull the reader in right away. The Prizes Judge’s Choice: The winning entry will be …
The monsters have been summoned and winners have emerged. For Dictionary.com’s fourth annual spooky writing contest, we dared you to write an original opening to a terrifying monster story using 50 words or less. After nearly 900 bone-chilling submissions, our guest judges, Dan and Lynze Cummins from the Scared To Death podcast, have chosen the creepiest haunting hook of them all. She walked down the …
Monsters, mayhem, and madness—bring your best fright to Dictionary.com’s spooky writing contest, Haunting Hooks: Scary Monster edition! The Contest We’re challenging you to write an original opening to a scary monster story using 50 words or less. Whether it’s spooky, funny, or outright horrifying, your opening needs to hook the reader in just a few lines. The Prizes Judge’s Choice: The winning entry will be …
Monsters, mayhem, and madness—bring your best fright to Dictionary.com’s spooky writing contest, Haunting Hooks: Scary Monster edition! The Contest We’re challenging you to write an original opening to a scary monster story using 50 words or less. Whether it’s spooky, funny, or outright horrifying, your opening needs to hook the reader in just a few lines. The Prizes Judge’s Choice: The winning entry will be …
After nearly 5,000 (!) submissions, three finalists, more than 3,000 votes, and some seriously scary sci-fi: it’s official. You have chosen the winner of the 2022 Haunting Hooks Scary Story Opener Writing Contest! For our second annual edition of the contest, we again challenged contestants to write a captivating opening to a scary story in 50 words or less. This year, there was a theme: …
It was a dark and stormy night when the writer turned to Dictionary.com for synonyms and definitions to make their writing pop. At least, it would be a dark and stormy night if said writer was basing a story on one of the most cliché (a trite, stereotyped expression that has lost all originality from being long overused) introductions to grace the page. If you’ve …
