Writers Road Recap: Scary Stories

As a special treat, last Monday we shared scary stories in honor of October. Some are true, some legend. See if you can tell which...

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells Well I took my kids (true story) to this haunted pirate inspired theme park over the weekend. #WritersRoad

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess *Dracula voice* Good evening! *coughs* What's up? Who's ready to be scurred? ;) #writersroad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells All is well #WritersRoad until, I think we are exiting this noisy "hotel" with chainsaw wielding monsters... #hotelhell

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @StacySorrells No! Not chainsaw wielding monsters. *shivers* #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells When I open the last door #WritersRoad thinking we will be back near the crowd...we weren't. We were in an eerily quiet cornfield

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @StacySorrells Now I really am freaked out. I don't do cornfields. #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells Yes! #WritersRoad and this cornfield was heavy with mist and there I was with my two terrified children trying to get out..trying to find

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to @HeatherMcCorkle Hmmm.... man in a cabin, just him & the dog. He wakes up to a *drip, drip, drip* sound. #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @LurchzPrincess I've got chills! #WritersRoad

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to 

@HeatherMcCorkle He's about to get up, but his dog licks his hand, meaning all should be well. So he goes back to sleep. #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells Now to be honest #WritersRoad, I was thrown for a loop and was only holding it together for my kids. As the last large scary scarecrow

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @LurchzPrincess *hides under covers* #WritersRoad

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to @HeatherMcCorkle Less than an hour later, hr hears it again. *Drip, drip, drip* Once again, the dog licks his hand. #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells approached #WritersRoad I said, "Just to let you know I have my pepper spray ready" I mean you never know in the bay area

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to @HeatherMcCorkle Thinking is *has* to just be the faucet or something, he goes to sleep. The next morning, his dog is missing. #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkleto @StacySorrells I'd be freaking! #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells #WritersRoad, but we survived and entered the rest of the houses...okay some I had to do alone, but that one was the worst. The image of

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to @HeatherMcCorkle He steps outside to look, and his dog is DEAD on the front porch. Gutted. Blood everywhere. And a note on door #WritersRoad

Tina Moss @Tina_Moss to @LurchzPrincess @HeatherMcCorkle NOOOO! Not the dog! #writersroad

Melinda S. Collins @LurchzPrincess to @HeatherMcCorkle The note says.... "People can lick, too." #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells that last Scarecrow #WritersRoad coming at me in the misty cornfield was awesome. Going to have to photoshop something like it.

NightEvil @Nightveil My favorite was a story we were told as kids. Don't remember all the details, but the gist was a married couple... #WritersRoad

NightEvil @Nightveil ...Wife always wears a red ribbon around her neck as a choker. Husband always asks her to take it off. She refuses... #WritersRoad

Christine Fonseca @chrstinef Scariest true story moment: my parents were buying a new house. We went to look at one one night... #WritersRoad

Christine Fonseca @chrstinef You know that feeling when you see the silhouette of the Amityville house... Yea, that's EXACTLY how I felt seeing... #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate Back in the 30's, in New Orleans, a nine year old girl runs up to a cop screaming, hysterical. she'd been kidnapped. #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate The cop calls it in, and a group of officers head to the apartment the girl claims she'd been held out. Right in the Quarter. #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate they get there, they find bodies, skeletons and buckets of blood. Tubes running from bodies into the buckets, like a beer tap. #WritersRoad

Christine Fonseca @chrstinef My mom performed an exorcism on a house once. In the 70s. Some reporter wrote about it in some magazine.... #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells to @teetate Holy hell #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @teetate *gasp* Oh my! #WritersRoad

NightEvil @Nightveil to @teetate Ick! #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate They discover two brothers own the apartment. They are day workers on the docks, working in the Louisiana heat. The cops wait #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @chrstinef Seriously?! Wow! #WritersRoad

Christine Fonseca @chrstinef Changed her name to protect me (I was in elementary school). Made for an interesting childhood #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate Night falls &the brothers return. They'd worked in the hot sun, they were thin, gangly and it took 15 cops to wrestle them down #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate The brothers are sentenced to death. And, as is tradition in New Orleans, a year after they are killed, their crypt is open #WritersRoad

Christine Fonseca @chrstinef Current WIP is a psych thriller that opens with a creepy murder! #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @chrstinef Can't wait to read it! #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate When they open the crypt...the bodies aren't there. No bones, nothing. Just...gone. Back in the 80's on the balcony... #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate 

of the same apartment, the current owner is woken by the sound of voices on his balcony. #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells to @Nightveil @teetate I wondered about that too. Lotta cops for 2 skinny dudes #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate It's two men. Chatting. They glare at the man when he asks what they're doing on his balcony. #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @teetate And...?! #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate They jump off the balcony, three stories down and disappear into the French Quarter crowd. #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate They jump off the balcony, three stories down and disappear into the French Quarter crowd. #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate All these things are documented. And are scary as hell! #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @teetate No way! True story? #WritersRoad

Stacy Sorrells @StacySorrells to @teetate What the? #WritersRoad what are they?

NightEvil @Nightveil to @teetate So they were undead to begin with? No way! #WritersRoad

Lisa T. Cresswell @peach83352 to @teetate Creepy :) #WritersRoad

TS Tate (Tee) @teetate to @HeatherMcCorkle yeah. That was one of the stories on the vampire tour. I'm telling you. That tour scared the crap outta me #WritersRoad

Tina Moss @Tina_Moss to @teetate Moral of the story...beware New Orleans! ;) #writersroad

lmpreston @LM_Preston I don't know, I've read a lot of scary books an all it did was first make me a jumpy person, then desensitized me #writersroad

NightEvil @Nightveil Seems that the key to "scary" stories is not so much the ick or creep factor, but the tension of the suspense. #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @LM_Preston True. The challenge is coming up with new ways to freak out readers. #WritersRoad

A.M. Guynes @annikkawoods There were all sorts of creepy stories about that place. I lived there for 7 months. The creep factor was high the entire time. #WritersRoad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle to @chrstinef I used to want to work in forensics. SO glad I didn't go into it though. *shivers*

lmpreston @LM_Preston @chrstinef being a Profiler isn't as glamourous as you think, lol! Have a friend that did it. Writing Thrillers more exciting #Writersroad

lmpreston @LM_Preston Yeah, have to freak out readers that love the genre and expect their horror to be smart and unpredictable #writersroad @HeatherMcCorkle

lmpreston @LM_Preston I love good tension in a horror book. And something that really scares me #writersroad

Heather McCorkle @HeatherMcCorkle Thanks for a creeptastic chat tonight. You've all inspired me and gotten me in the October mood! #WritersRoad