293+ ‘House’ Writing Prompts
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House of Memories
Detail each room of a beloved family relative’s house, capturing the emotions and memories attached to each space.
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Looney Tunes Labyrinth
Write about an experience where someone gets lost or trapped in the looney tunes world and their adventures take a ghastly turn.
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Home Sweet Home
Draw your dream house and then write a story about the adventures that take place in it.
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Creating Your Dream House
Draw a picture of your dream house and write a short story about life there.
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Analyzing Everyday Objects
Select a common object in your house and write about its story – how it arrived, the memories it holds, and how it makes you feel.
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Unwanted Guest
Write a story about a family terrorized by an unseen entity in their newly purchased mansion.
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Haunted Diary
What if you found an old diary that belonged to a ghost from the haunted house next door?
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House of Whispers
Imagine you’ve moved into an old house that whispers stories of its past to you during nighttime.
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The Haunted House
Write about a group of friends who decide to explore an abandoned, rumored haunted house on a dare.
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The Mannequin House
Pen a tale about a suburban house packed with mannequins that creak to life during the dead of night.
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Cursed Hollows
Imagine moving into a new house in a quiet village that the locals believe is cursed.
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Flicker in the Attic
Build your narrative around a haunted house, where the attic holds a gruesome secret.
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Whispers in The Night
Write a story about a person who starts hearing disturbing whispers in their house late at night.
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The Cellar Secrets
Describe finding an old, eerie cellar hidden underneath the house you just moved into.
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Little Red Riding Hoodie
Write a story where Little Red Riding Hood is a tech-savvy teenager involved in an espionage mission.
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The Haunted Hearths
Describe a haunted Christmas house and the spirits that dwell there, instead of a typical Santa Claus visit.
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Haunting on Halloween Street
Write about a made-up residential street where every house has a unique supernatural entity.
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The Antique Desk’s Secrets
Pen a tale revolving around an old family desk inherited by a young writer that seems to have a strange life of its own.
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Haunted House Memories
Craft a story centered around a local haunted house that you and your friends dared to visit during Halloween.
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Haunted Hound of the House
Your main character lives in a house that is haunted by the ghost of a previous owner’s pet.
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Possession in the Family Portrait
Imagine a sinister spirit imprinted on a cherished family keepsake causing strange occurrences in your house.
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Victorian Mansion Mystery
A new family moves into an old Victorian mansion, only to find it’s inhabited by a mischievous ghost with a mysterious past.
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Eyes of an Editor
Imagine you are an editor at a publishing house and base your story on a submission that absolutely blew you away.
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Feelings From a Pet’s Perspective
Write a story through the eyes of your pet. How do they feel when you play with them, leave the house, or even when you are upset?
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My Dream House
Imagine and describe your dream house. How does it look, and what kind of rooms does it have?
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Animal Friends
Write a poem about your favorite animal and how it would be to spend a day with them.
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The Floating Island
Imagine one day you wake up to find your house is floating on an island in the sky. What adventures lie ahead?
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The Magic Door
Imagine there’s a magical door in your house that can transport you to any place or time in history. Where would it take you?
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Building a Fairy House
Write about building a fairy house in an enchanted forest and the fairy who comes to live in it.
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A Day in the Shoe
Imagine you lived in the Shoe House from the nursery rhyme, “There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”. How would your day go?
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Into the Gingerbread House
A story set many years after the Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel, how would the witch’s house look now?
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Dormant Spirits Awakened
Write about an individual who starts experiencing strange occurrences after moving into an old house that is revealed to be haunted.
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The Hidden Room
Write about a character discovering a hidden room in their house, and what they find there.
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The Witching Hour
Imagine waking up at 3am and noticing something odd, then realizing it’s not your home.
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Fright in Forgotten Corners
Develop a horror tale based on an often unnoticed spot within your house.
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Window to the Past
Write about a haunted house where each room is essentially a window to some past events of its former residents.
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Unseen Residents
Write about a family that moves into a haunted house and start seeing ghostly activities that hint at a more profound mystery.
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Redemption Resides
Write about a haunted house where spirits can only rest once their unjust deeds are acknowledged and avenged.
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Curiosity Curtailed
Write about a teenager who dares to explore a haunted house, only to be trapped in a terrifying time loop.
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Haunted House Adventure
Recall a time when you entered a place that scared you, like a haunted house.
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Nostalgic Lens
Write about a visit to your grandparents’ house when you were younger, emphasizing the atmosphere and tiny details.
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Night at the Haunted Manor
Your protagonist spends a night in a reputedly haunted house to prove it’s just a rumor. Strange things begin to happen.
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My Favorite Place
Write an explanatory piece about your favorite place and why it is special to you.
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October’s Hidden Door
Write about finding an old, hidden door in your house that only appears when October rolls around.
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Secret in the Cellar
Develop a suspenseful story involving a character who discovers a hidden secret in their house’s cellar.
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Decaying Mirror Mansion
Design a chilling scenario based on a mirror-filled mansion where the mirrors do not reflect what’s on the other side.
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Misty Mountain Abode
Describe an isolated house atop a mountain, enveloped by a persistently eerie fog.
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The Mysterious Object
Discover a mysterious object in your house and write about what it looks, feels, and smells like.
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The Hidden Door
Write about discovering a secret door in your house that leads to a magical world.
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A Perspective Shift
Write about a day in your life from the perspective of your pet (or a household object if you don’t have a pet).
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The Robot’s First Day
Imagine your parents have built a robot to help around the house. Describe the robot’s first day and the adventures you both share.
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The Secret Room
Imagine and write a story about a child who discovers a secret room in their house.
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Frightful Soundtrack
Imagine the sounds that would perpetually echo within the rooms of your eerie abode.
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Apparition Artifacts
Curate a collection of haunted artifacts that form the history and story of your haunted house.
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Eerie Architecture
Imagine a haunted house architecturally designed to be as disorienting and unnerving as possible.
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Designing the Dread
Describe a haunted house that you would create with the intent to inspire maximum fear.
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Enclosed Disturbances
Conceive a story about an individual being trapped alone in a haunted house overnight.
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“The Secret Door”
Create a suspenseful story about a character who accidentally discovers a concealed door in their house, which they never knew existed.
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Midnight Disturbances
Your character wakes at midnight each night, to a strange and ominous sound coming from within their house.
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The Labyrinthine House
Write about a character who moves into an old house, only to discover it’s bigger on the inside than it looks from outside.
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The Unfamiliar Mirror
Describe waking up in your house when everything seems exactly as it should, but your reflection in the mirror looks different.
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Whispering Walls
Create a story about a house where the walls whisper chilling tales of its past occupants.
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Christmas Village Uprising
Write a tale about the Christmas decorations in your house coming alive on Christmas Eve and embarking on a grand adventure.
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Haunted House Encounter
Write a story about a group of thrill-seeking friends who decide to spend a night in an infamous haunted house.
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Critters in Congress
Mice have just been elected representatives of animal kingdom and are at odds with the cat senators. Write a funny political debate.
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Nightly Lullaby
Craft a story where an old, abandoned house is said to be haunted, not by screams or moans, but by a ghost child’s innocent lullaby heard every night.
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On the Edge of Unknown
The protagonist is standing at the door of an aged, eerie, seemingly abandoned house, preparing to enter.
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The Midnight Cry
One night, a heart-tearing cry echoes through your silent house, but you live alone.
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Haunted Hideaway
Describe a secluded house deemed haunted by the local town folks due to an unsolved crime.