Jump Scare Freeforms

[everysecondtuesday]

For future reference, here are a bunch of Jump Scare freeforms I loved. As I'm linking this for my ToT letter, I also want to add that I will be adding more from the 2020 tag set this weekend (Sep.19-20), but they will be added as a second list, and nothing will be removed from the first list. [9/20 edit: Added!]


24 hr convenience store in a really weird neighborhood AU
Alternate Universe - Sunless Sea
Any random object could be a monster in disguise
AU - canon activity is now also an eldritch ritual
Building layout changes sometimes
Came Back Hotter (And Also Wrong)
Came back the same but REALLY doesn't want to be back
Can't Convince Others That You Didn't Come Back Wrong
Character Comes Back A Little More Wrong Every Time They Return From The Dead
Character Awakens Ancient Horror
character convinced no one would help even if they asked
character convinced there will be no rescue
Character Is A Lovecraftian Horror
Character keeps dying but it doesn't stick
Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
Characters Wander Into The Extra Creepy Part Of The Cursed Forest
The City Wants to Eat You
Comes Back Wrong
Creeping Horror
The Creeping Realization You've Been Hallucinating for a Very Long Time
Cursed/magical object makes them do it
Dubiously Consensual Blood Drinking
Eerily pristine abandoned places
Eldritch flora
Eldritch locations
Eventually Consensual Blood Drinking
Failing to Tame the Monster
Fell Mood
Forced Immortality - Character Wants to Die But Can't
Forest Is Dark and Mysterious and Possibly Sentient But Definitely Out to Get Us
Forests That (Probably) Want To Eat You
forests that probably want to eat you
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
Ghost cat(s)
Ghost Haunts The Person Who Meant Everything To Them In Life
Ghost loses more humanity the longer they're dead
Ghost Party
Ghost-Hunting Expedition
Ghosts
Gothic Romance
Gradual body transformation while convinced everything is normal
Handcuffed Together
Haunted by ghost of dead loved one
haunted forests
Haunted Houses
Haunted Library
Haunted or Abandoned Spaceship
Haunted Planets
Hearing eldritch voices
Horns make great handles
Horrifying Things in the Name of Science
Human Sacrifice - Death
Human-Eating
Hurt/Comfort - Comforter Inflicted the Hurt
Influence/possession via transplanted body parts
Losing Confidence in the Belief that the Monster is Really Dead Over Time
Loss of Powers
Matchmaking by a Space Monster
Matchmaking by an Eldritch Horror
Medical (Mal)Practice
Medical Experimentation
Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
Mind Games
Monster transformation for the Victim's Benefit
Necromancy
Nightmares
Non-Consensual Blood Drinking
Not-So-Abandoned Ruins
The one who can save you is scarier than the monsters
The only person who can make you feel better is one who has done worse
Outer Space is Chockful of Eldritch Horrors
People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
Physically impossible spaces/buildings
Principle of object permanence is violated
Psychological and physiological effects of the protagonist technically being a zombie
realization that you don't know the moment your partner became a monster (or if they always were)
Resurrection Via Ghost Sex
Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
Seen only out of the corner of your eye
The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
Shared Nightmares
Snowbound in a Haunted Hotel
Space Horror
Stalked by Non-Human Entity
Surrounded by monsters and trying to stay alive
Survival Horror
telling scary stories
terrifying implications of minor canon details
Time Loop - Becomes Creepier with Every Loop
Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
Transformation into a monster
Trapped in a haunted painting
Tree that Lures its Victims Close with its Sweets Scent Before Devouring Them
Turning more and more into a monster every time you use a power
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
Unreliable Narrator - Narrator Doesn't Recognize the Danger Until It's Too Late
Unreliable Narrator - Narrator is the Horror
Unusually high death rate in peaceful English village caused by eldritch monstrosity
Unwanted resurrection
The world is extremely wrong and only the amnesiac POV character seems to notice




Second list! I know these repeat a lot from above, but not all. Things that don't repeat isn't because because I don't want them, but rather because my grabbing from the JS freeforms was haphazard.


Abandoned Ruins
Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters
Architectural Horror
AU - canon activity is now also an eldritch ritual
Blood drinking for regeneration
Blood Rituals (Own Blood)
Bodily integration into a spaceship
burying the ghost's bones to lay it to rest
burying the ghost's bones to lay it to rest while the ghost watches and gives advice
Character always comes back from the dead. In water. Naked.
Character Turned Into Vampire
Characters Wander Into The Extra Creepy Part Of The Cursed Forest
The City Wants to Eat You
Cold ghost hands
A Colony Gone Wrong
Comes Back Wrong
Competently handling the horrifying thing
Creeping Horror
Creepy Doll
Creepy Pokedex Entries
Curses
Dark Worldbuilding
Dead character A reanimates only while character B is looking at them
Dead character A reanimates only while character B is touching them
the discovery a loved one has a horrifying secret
Dodgy special effects are actually terrifying I swear
Doomed Spaceship
Dubiously Consensual Blood Drinking
Dwarven Day Care
Eerily pristine abandoned places
Eldritch flora
Eldritch locations
Eventually Consensual Blood Drinking
Evil Biome
the existential terror of reliving your own death over and over in different ways
Fairy Tale Curses
Falling in love with an evil tree
fear boner over 9000
Fell Mood
folk horror
Folklore
Forest Is Dark and Mysterious and Possibly Sentient But Definitely Out to Get Us
Forests That (Probably) Want To Eat You
forests that probably want to eat you
Forgotten Beast Arrives
Fridge Horror
Fully Consensual Blood Drinking
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
Gentle Spooks
Getting vored by furniture
Ghost Binding Rituals
Ghost can come back to life if they eat their murderer
Ghost cat(s)
The ghost is lonely and it wants to go home
The ghost is the good guy but it's absolutely a horror story for the baddies
Ghost loses more humanity the longer they're dead
Ghost Party
Ghost successfully passing for a living person
Ghost tries to convince someone to have resurrection sex with them
Ghosts
Give Me Your Creepy/Scary AUs
giving a ghost a hug
Goat Ghosts
Haunted area is trying real hard but failing to scare
Haunted castle.
Haunted Cave
haunted forests
Haunted Houses
Haunted Island
Haunted Library
haunted objects
Haunted or Abandoned Spaceship
Haunted Planets
Haunted Sword
Haunting fails because would be victim(s) are better at this than the ghost(s)
Hearing eldritch voices
Helping confused and lost ghosts
Highly advanced aliens having to deal with magical paranormal bullshit
Horror Comedy
Human-Eating
Human/Monster Romance
The infinity stones' powers are creepier and less predictable than in canon
Influence/possession via transplanted body parts
A is a ghost only B can see
The kind of 'scary' that could be described as 'haunting'
the kind of Southern Gothic creeping horror that keeps you up at night
a lingering scent of blood
Lonely Ghost Seeking Friends
Losing Confidence in the Belief that the Monster is Really Dead Over Time
Lost Between Dimensions
Matchmaking by a Space Monster
Matchmaking by an Eldritch Horror
Metaphorical ghosts of character's tragic past start to manifest physically
monster hunting
The Monster Isn't Dead
Necromancy
Nightmares
Not-So-Abandoned Ruins
The one who can save you is scarier than the monsters
The only person who can make you feel better is one who has done worse
Outer Space is Chockful of Eldritch Horrors
People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
Physically impossible spaces/buildings
Psychological and physiological effects of the protagonist technically being a zombie
reincarnation gone wrong
Reluctant blood drinking
Repeatedly Killed and Resurrected
Requested Character Is The Threat Other Characters Are Trying To Escape
Resurrection Via Ghost Sex
Rising from the ocean
Scary But Have Fun With It
scary stories around a campfire
The School Ghost
Screaming Terrors
sea ghosts
Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
Seen only out of the corner of your eye
The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
Sexy unhinged ladies intent on revenge
Sharing A Bed (Which Then Tries To Eat the Occupants)
Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
Sharing a meal with a ghost
Soul trapped in a physical object
Soulbonded To An Ancient Monster
Soulmates With a Pain Bond
Southern Gothic
Space Horror
Space is trying to kill you
Struggling to remain human
Stupid Dwarf Trick Gone Wrong
Sure it's haunted but that plant doesn't grow anywhere else
Survival Horror
Tantrum Spiral
Telling ghost stories from around the galaxy
telling scary stories
Telling scary stories that turn out to be real
terrifying implications of minor canon details
transmigrated character discovers it's easy for their soul to slip out of their body
Trapped in a haunted painting
Trapped In Scary Situation With Only The Worst Character As Backup
Turning more and more into a monster every time you use a power
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
Unreliable Narrator - Narrator Doesn't Recognize the Danger Until It's Too Late
Unreliable Narrator - Narrator is the Horror
Unusually high death rate in peaceful English village caused by eldritch monstrosity
Urban Legends
Zombie Invention/Creation Turns Out To Be An Even Worse Idea Than Previously Thought