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Doggy in the Window
Short Story (Prose) | 8 Pages | Word Count: 3,916 📖 | Season 7 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
Dogs love unconditionally. Buddy is no exception, though his murderous owner leaves much to be desired.
by Akuorkor Allotey
RequestKEGEL
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 6 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
After plain Jane is ghosted one too many times, she muscles a feral vagina-driven revenge spree.
by Marisa Green
RequestThis Is Not The End
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 5 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
When a low income, immigrant couple spend their life-savings on a procedure to upload the cancer stricken wife’s consciousness into the AfterLife servers, things don’t turn out how they planned.
by Victor Ridaura
RequestThe Cockatrice
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 7 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
A door-to-door salesman's pitch curdles into a nightmare when he discovers a dark secret in his customer's home.
by Taylor Shofner
RequestANSWER MAN
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 7 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
Maisie thinks the Answer Man is just a silly sleepover game, but when a mysterious man appears on the other end of her phone, she begins to worry that it is actually something much, much more…
by Lucy Foster
RequestWhat Remains
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 7 | Top 3 Winner 🏆
As her husband’s health declines, a devoted wife reconnects with an old lover — and finds herself pulled toward a choice that will change all of their lives forever.
by Sam Das
RequestWelcome to Our Cabin
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A man wakes up in a cabin with no memory and struggles to determine if his friends are who they claim to be.
by Shane Thompson
RequestNo Fishing
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
A poacher gets his just desserts when a mutated reptile infects him, turning him into the same creature he is trying to kill.
by Sebastian Watson
RequestNo Faces
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
On the eve of moving in with his girlfriend, a closeted Charlie escapes to an anonymous cam site, but when a faceless stranger threatens to erase his identity, reality starts to glitch.
by Michael Pisaturo
RequestLyla's Last Dance
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Trapped in her sister’s bedroom, a dancer on the brink of losing herself must confront the truths of their bond as the walls close in around her.
by Michael Clifton
RequestGrim
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Death has always followed the rules, but when the innocent begin to outweigh the guilty, the Reaper must choose between duty and compassion.
by Joshua David Matthews
RequestBy Yourself
Horror Short Screenplay | 12 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Following a breakup, Syl goes solo camping in the deep woods to unplug and connect with herself. Her solitude turns sinister when she wakes to find a neighboring tent that wasn’t there the night before.
by Elaine Frost
RequestButtons
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 7 | Top 10 Finalist 🎖️
Given a hard choice forward and an easy way out, a button anyone can press could shape the future of humanity.
by Benjamin Luk
RequestWe'll Be In Touch
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 7 | Honorable Mention
A job interview goes very very wrong.
by Drew Maron
RequestSuper Absolutely
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 7 | Honorable Mention
In this alternate version of 1980s America, four singles use a video dating service to find love, unaware of how closely they’re being watched.
by Francesca Pazniokas
RequestRiding with the King
Horror Short Screenplay | 18 Pages | Season 7 | Honorable Mention
When a shady con man tries to swindle his unstable aunt with a garage-sale Elvis bust, he's pulled into her psychotic fantasy, where nothing stands between her and The King's adoration.
by Salvatore Liuzzi
RequestHow Was Your Day?
Horror Short Screenplay | 9 Pages | Season 7 | Honorable Mention
Dorothea is forced to navigate a dark musical world, teeming with Filipino folklore demons, in order to rescue someone who might not care to be saved.
by Sapphire Sandalo
RequestDeerest Darling
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 7 | Honorable Mention
A grieving backwoods hunter discovers a second chance with his young, deceased daughter in the form of a wounded not-deer.
by Eislinn Gracen
RequestWookalark
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Two young boys on a camping trip are sent on a wild goose chase.
by Walker MacDonald
RequestTV-MA
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
When two friends discover they can control a brutal home invasion through their television, their late-night experiment turns deadly when the killer crosses the screen and into their house.
by Chris Vanderhorst
RequestTRICKY ME
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
When a broken collision analyst investigates yet another fatal crash, his own desire to survive is tested. But when the mangled bodies come back to life, and his sadistic alter ego continues to provoke him, his will to live is reignited – though the dead may not let him.
by Brianne Nord-Stewart
RequestThis Vehicle Has Been Checked for Sleeping Children
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A school bus driver is taunted by a menacing presence in the last row of his vehicle.
by John Burdeaux
RequestTHEY STILL REMEMBER
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
An elderly Chinese American woman fights eviction from her crumbling Chinatown apartment, forcing a reckoning with the unquiet dead of the 1871 Chinese Massacre.
by Joan Mao
RequestThere Were Signs
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A timid office assistant struggles to keep her colleagues alive while she figures out how to banish a man-eating demon.
by Lee Cotman
RequestThe Widow's Itch
Horror Short Screenplay | 4 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
When her wife dies, a woman must cut her grief off at the source or risk being consumed by it.
by Jessica McLaughlin
RequestThe Offering
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
With no other options, a woman desperate for motherhood goes to peculiar lengths to create the life she wants.
by Renuka Singh
RequestTHE MONSTER WITHIN
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
When a woman diagnosed with MS loses her strength to do her job as a bridge inspector, a cure helps her find new strength that comes at a cost -- feeding on the flesh and blood of humans.
by Michael Haas
RequestThe Last Dance of Victor Hall
Horror Short Screenplay | 18 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A young carer assigned to help a brain-injured ex-con with amnesia plots revenge for a crime he can’t remember committing - but as buried memories are stirred his fading mind hides a far darker secret than she imagined.
by Mike Underwood
RequestThe House of Man
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A couple struggling to emotionally meaningfully connect turn to their eccentric neighbor for an unusual approach to shifting their perspectives and understandings of each other.
by Greg Kaczynski
RequestTHE BIG DARK
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Years after the power grid collapses and gives rise to creatures that hunt human fear in the dark, a young boy disappears into an underground tunnel system, forcing his family to risk everything to save him before the darkness transforms him forever.
by Scott A. Weiss
RequestThe Bellows
Horror Short Screenplay | 15 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Still grieving the recent loss of their 5-year-old daughter to a hit-and-run collision, a suburban couple copes in a dangerous and problematic way during the ongoing investigation.
by Darren Bailey
RequestShredded
Horror Short Screenplay | 5 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A bodybuilder alone in a gym faces his inner demons.
by Mitchell Alan Banks
RequestSara
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A newly-minted stepfather finds himself in a fight for survival when his stepdaughter reveals that she was responsible for a gruesomely brutal act.
by Tex Gresham
RequestRecycled
Horror Short Screenplay | 13 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A wealthy couple purchases the world's first fully recycled android, but its increasingly rogue behavior reveals a grotesque truth.
by Michelle Iannantuono
RequestOrchid Thieves
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Days before his fifteenth birthday, Ezra learns of the shocking things his father has done to keep him alive for fourteen years.
by Tope Ogundare
RequestONLY YOU
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A lonely late-night janitor discovers he's not alone.
by Seth Kelman
RequestMy Other Half
Horror Short Screenplay | 17 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
In a future where people share bodies with other tenants, a host learns the “mindmate” sharing his body has an abusive streak
by Sanchez Taylor
RequestLure
Horror Short Screenplay | 19 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
In 90s suburbia, a lonely teenage boy becomes obsessed with the alluring woman who appears in the window of an abandoned house at the end of his garden - only to discover she is the living lure of a monstrous predator, and that survival may mean becoming part of its trap.
by Lee Bacon
RequestLovebirds
Horror Short Screenplay | 4 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Howie and Millie celebrate their 50th anniversary.
by Cole McCabe
RequestLocust Grove
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
When their daughter is given months to live, a desperate young couple hires a witch to perform a dangerous healing ritual in the East Kentucky hills.
by Christopher Guerrero & Ryan Dee Gilmour
RequestLimbo
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A man nervously awaits the beginning of the most important interview of his life.
by Matthew Yongue
RequestKILLJOY
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Road rage turns deadly as a group of college kids get chased by killer clowns.
by Catherine Casey
RequestKeepsake
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
After a grieving scientist resurrects the woman he loved, his act of devotion becomes an unforgivable transgression—forcing three souls into a collision between love, guilt, and the cost of defying death.
by Michael Sheetz
RequestKathy and Jeb
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A retired widow is forced to re-evaluate her life after being kidnapped by two crazed lovers on the run.
by Steven Lee
RequestJinx
Horror Short Screenplay | 8 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
Exiled by her own curse, a reluctant jinx walks forty-two miles through a Christmas blizzard to deliver a card to the family she can never have — but some shadows are inescapable, and even the smallest act of love comes with a devastating price.
by Sherice Griffiths
RequestIn Sheep's Clothing
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A pregnant woman must survive the werewolf terrorising her rural home – knowing that at dawn, it will turn back into her husband.
by Katie Walker-Cook
RequestIn Recline
Horror Short Screenplay | 11 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
DeSean, trapped in his apartment by a sentient recliner with the face of an old Black man, must find a buyer to pass the curse along before he loses his mind, his health, and his will to live.
by Kyle Harris
RequestGraven
Horror Short Screenplay | 20 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
In the near future, where traditional artists are nearly extinct, a drifter is abducted by a masked figure who feeds on human creativity. Forced to produce one final masterpiece, he must outwit an AI-driven killer using the only weapon he has -- his talent.
by Ryan Curtis
RequestGot Milk?
Horror Short Screenplay | 14 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A height-insecure man answers an online ad promising growth through extreme milk consumption, which turns his insecurity into a bodily and psychological nightmare.
by Marisa Martinez
RequestFood Chain
Horror Short Screenplay | 10 Pages | Season 7 | Semifinalist
A haunted fixer, with a knack for attracting trouble, takes a job in a seedy tavern to deal with a seductive stranger.
by Richard Garry
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