100 horror comedy writing prompts

Looking to add some spooky fun to your writing? Here are 100 horror comedy writing prompts: Searching for tales with equal parts shrieks and chuckles? Then get ready to cackle with glee over this list of 100 horror comedy story ideas!

Whether you prefer your horror hilarious or your comedies creepy, you’ll find inspiration aplenty with these offbeat prompts blending chills and laughter. From paranormal pizza deliveries gone wrong to monster dating mishaps, slacker demons to celestial bureaucratic blunders, this list covers the silly side of spookiness from countless kooky angles.

I mined my strange imagination to concoct an abundance of oddball supernatural scenarios crossing fear with farce. Vampire roommates, clumsy zombies, monster mischief—you name the creepy craziness and there’s probably a prompt for it!

So give that creative mind a goose with these eerie-yet-humorous writing springboards! Let your freak flag fly and get those otherworldly ideas flowing. It’s time to embrace the ridiculous realm where the horrifying meets the hilarious—your inner demon ready to let loose and pen one hell of a tale?

 

Here are 100 horror comedy writing prompts:

1. A hapless pizza delivery guy keeps getting sent to haunted houses and creepy old mansions when people prank order pizzas.
2. A timid guy accidentally raises a zombie when trying to impress a girl with a spell from a witchcraft book. Now he has to figure out how to send it back to the grave before the big date.
3. A group of friends runs a ghost hunting business, but they’re pretty incompetent. Most encounters turn more silly than scary.
4. A nervous guy has to drive his new girlfriend home to meet her family. Turns out, they’re vampires.
5. A mad scientist invents a resurrection serum, but when they test it on a dead hamster, the hamster becomes a vicious beast.
6. Turns out monsters are real, but they’re super dumb. Vampires get tangled up in phone chargers, werewolves chase laser pointers, etc.
7. A timid college student gets a job at the old museum on campus. But everything there comes to life at night—and wants to party.
8. A hack psychic suddenly starts hearing real voices from the dead. But the spirits just complain about pointless stuff or nag her to do chores.
9. A group of friends goes camping and keeps running into a mountain man who turns out to be Bigfoot. But he turns out to be totally chill and helps fix their campfire.
10. A temple of Lovecraftian horrors moves in next door. Turns out Cthulhu and other eldritch beings aren’t very considerate neighbors.
11. A clumsy guy befriends the ghost haunting his home. But the spirit’s attempts to help always make his life much harder.
12. Turns out every conspiracy theory is true. Problem is, every secret society is filled with total morons.
13. A failing amusement park replaces broken animatronics with real occult monsters. Customers can’t tell the difference.
14. Ghosts of medieval knights who died in silly ways—tripped on shoelaces, got beat up by peasants, etc—get summoned to modern day.
15. Satan loses a bet with an angel and has to be roommates with an affable college kid in a crappy apartment for a year.
16. Turns out every god and deity across human history exists together on a celestial plane. They mostly just bicker and procrastinate like office coworkers.
17. An avatar of death must take over the body of hapless humans for a day after losing its physical form. Their “borrowed” bodies always complicate its work.
18. A bumbling cryptozoologist and their rival always end up thwarting each other’s discoveries of real monsters by accident.
19. An eccentric millionaire spends their fortune creating a luxury resort area in Transylvania catering to famous horror monsters who just want a vacation.
20. Time travelers keep going back in time and messing up infamous horror events. Victims survive when killers trip on untied shoelaces, etc.
21. Every full moon a hapless guy unwillingly transforms into a French poodle. As a dog he tries warning people but can’t speak.
22. A hack paranormal investigator group keeps getting caught faking hauntings on camera in client’s homes when real ghosts start photobombing them.
23. Turns out every urban legend is true thanks to a secret prankster organization behind it all just causing mischief because they’re bored.
24. A supernatural creature keeps breaking into a woman’s apartment to nibble her food, use all her fancy bath products, and criticize her fashion choices via notes left behind.
25. A nervous guy has to take his girlfriend out to dinner with his monster family– vampires, werewolves, swamp creatures and more.
26. A group of paranormal researchers actually discover conclusive proof of the afterlife. Turns out it’s painfully dull and mostly involves paperwork.
27. The world’s monsters are real but thanks to bureaucracy, licensing problems, and red tape most are just trying to live normal modern lives.
28. A group of immortal demons work mundane office jobs after being cursed to work for a supernatural temp agency for all eternity.
29. A slacker stoner is mistaken for an exorcist apprentice when a terrified family catches them talking to a ghost while high.
30. Turns out every deity across human history exists together on a celestial plane of reality. Problem is they’re basically just immature coworkers who bicker and slack off all the time while on the clock.
31. A powerful demonic entity is summoned by accident. But they’re a stickler for legal contracts and won’t shut up until negotiators offer them a solid benefits package.
32. A vampire requests a mortal roommate. But after a new human moves in, the clumsy vamp’s attempts to help them keep making life a chaotic mess.
33. A hapless human servant gets a job working for a kooky mad scientist. Most schemes fail comedically, but then one experiment accidentally works TOO well…
34. The demigod son of an Elder One is forced to room with a mortal slacker student at university. To the godling’s frustration, campus life keeps interfering with provoking an awakening.
35. Turns out every deity and mythical figure just hangs out in one giant celestial break room when not answering prayers. They spend eternity binging supernatural Netflix and bickering.
36. A widow trying online dating keeps getting matched with ghosts of deceased killers and monsters pretending to be normal to find victims.
37. There’s a body swapping curse going around town. A girl on a terrible first date swaps bodies with the vampire across the restaurant mid-meal.
38. A temporal anomaly spells trouble when iconic fictional serial killers get summoned to the real present day. Scramble to contain slashers!
39. Monsters/killers are real but thanks to unions, licensing, outdated traditions and HR problems, few villains can be properly scary or violent to humans anymore.
40. Lucifer is busy with corporate hell paperwork so lesser demons get summoned topside. But instead of terrorizing cities, they act like troublesome tourists.
41. A magic camera accidentally captures ghosts not seen by the naked eye. The annoyed spirits in photos make weird faces and obscene gestures at being photographed.
42. A widow keeps finding her deceased husband’s ghost causing chaos and destruction every time it tries to help around their home as a poltergeist.
43. Heaven is desperately understaffed. New angel hires get zero training and keep making rookie blunders down on Earth while assisting humans.
44. An ancient one emerges after eons sleeping—yet the shifting geography confuses its attempts returning to the ritual site. Locals mistake it for a confused old person.
45. A clumsy mortal earns unwanted fame for constantly thwarting apocalypses. Their luck always ruins Armageddon rituals before completion.
46. A lazy union of demons attempts cursing a mortal by blurting whatever pops into their heads first. But every random plague somehow causes unintended positive effects.
47. The human personification of bad luck has no idea about their powers. But coincidence always makes their complaints metaphorically happen to those annoying them nearby.
48. Monsters frequently roam from magical realms after getting drunk and use human world Uber while wasted since travel amulets don’t work intoxicated.
49. A group of ruthless unicorns goes around granting deadly wishes, intentionally perverting whatever humans ask for in the most literal ways possible.
50. A novice necromancer accidentally awakens ALL buried bodies from a cemetery at once. Now hundreds of confused undead need ideas how to spend their afterlife.
51. A humorless demigod must awkwardly third wheel the first date of their vampire roommate and werewolf girlfriend who won’t stop the PDA.
52. Divine bureaucratic errors result in a harmless old lady being marked for death. Oblivious to her doomed fate, she keeps miraculously surviving supernatural assassination attempts.
53. After scientists open a portal to Hell, a slew of demons escape pretending to be exchange students to study humans—but make for awful roommates.
54. After a temporal quake, the ghost of an extinct dinosaur gets stuck haunting a modern day museums hall of paleontology, annoying visitors by nitpicking exhibits.
55. Goth deities of death and despair get summoned from the underworld but they turn out to be posers obsessed with terrible emo poetry rather than scary.
56. A vampire lord awakens after a long hibernation to discover his castle authority has eroded thanks to HOA rules and zoning permits established in the suburbs his lair is now part of.
57. A ruthless mathematician uses equations to flawlessly commit supposedly unsolvable supernatural killings. But law enforcement always catches math errors allowing them to unravel the occult formulas used.
58. Monsters frequently roam from magical realms after getting drunk and use human world Uber while wasted since travel amulets don’t work intoxicated.
59. A widowed witch tries a spell to erase painful memories of her late warlock husband. But she keeps reliving the same magical mishaps that led to his oddball demise.
60. The acolyte of an evil god recruits a cult via flyers for an ominous “book club.” But after reading romantic supernatural paperbacks, members revolt to demand lighter lairs and nicer rituals.
61. A cursed relic granting wishes never works right thanks to a humorless wish-granting spirit twisting outcomes according to dictionary definitions.
62. The lone human working customer service for a magical teleporter company deals with idiotic monster callers angry about mishaps while traveling.
63. During a lunar eclipse granting magic, a nerd uses a spellbook hoping it can make him wildly popular instead of just a social outcast at school. But the spell works too well…
64. A supernatural bounty hunter must retrieve Death’s favorite scythe after lesser demons steal it as a prank so they can joyride mortal souls up to heaven or hell temporarily.
65. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse descend upon Earth but are completely confused by modern technology, human fashion trends and social media.
66. A clumsy novice witch who flunked supernatural school investigates mysterious paranormal occurrences with their best friend who’s secretly a gifted but bored vampire.
67. The Grim Reaper gets forced into anger management classes after a temper meltdown scaring nearby mortals during a frustrating morning of missed soul pickup appointments.
68. A night janitor deals with shadows that move by themselves, odd noises and disappearing supplies by assumed ghosts haunting the building after dark. But the real culprits turn out to be oblivious monsters crossing over from the magical realms using the place as a late night hang out bar.
69. A demonic familiar assigned to a second-rate witch discovers too late their master is a goofball mortal who only wanted cheap magical delivery food rather than forbidden power.
70. A vampire lord’s human servant is actually a secret supernatural trump card. Their hapless demeanor hides epic destined powers sought by factions across magical realms.
71. Gateways to supernatural realms start randomly opening after a drunk high schooler reads an incantation off the men’s restroom wall on a dare.
72. A mystery writer moves into a haunted lighthouse isolated on an island for inspiration while she works on her latest book. Unfortunately, the ghosts keep trying to insert themselves into the fictional crime plot.
73. A cranky leprechaun postal worker deals with ridiculous supernatural packages delivered through magical portals thanks to fairy realm bureaucracy gone amuck.
74. After trying a forbidden transmutation spell, a clueless teenager accidentally creates a tiny spaghetti monster homunculus as a familiar. But it turns out to be 0% monstrous and 100% adorable.
75. The human disciples of crazed monsters have mostly just adopted quirky personalities rather than turning evil themselves after utterly failing to comprehend eldritch teachings.
76. Thanks to goblin labor unions on strike, half-finished cursed magical items with shoddy reliability get pawned off on mortal warlocks unable to finish the work themselves without skilled craftsmanship.
77. A vampire’s attempt to psychologically torment victims takes an unexpected comedic turn when humans reveal their bizarre secret thoughts, fetishes and search histories while hypnotized.
78. A grumpy magical inspector must investigate paranormal incidents in the human world but keeps wishing ridiculous horror movie deaths upon the foolish mortals causing the supernatural mishaps.
79. After a temporal anomaly, iconic horror villains get summoned to the modern world. But thanks to unions, red tape and HR problems, few otherworldly killers can properly terrorize humans anymore.
80. A cranky magician blows their top after an outdoor performance is finally interrupted by heckling ghosts that keep photobombing acts by making silly faces only children audience members can see.
81. A supernatural bounty hunter named Grim who uses weaponized puns tracks monster convicts sentenced to eternal community service for minor crimes.
82. After a transdimensional mix up, a single suburban house is constantly plagued by aliens, gnomes, time travelers and other humanoid oddities appearing randomly in the kitchen pantry seeking snacks.
83. Heaven tries a “work experience” program allowing newly deceased to haunt their old neighborhood before moving on. But the ghosts prove absolutely terrible at scaring anyone or staying invisible.
84. A clumsy teen babysitter thinks they’re losing their marbles after the kids keep blaming paranormal hijinks on an imaginary friend. But “Spooky Steve” turns out to be a petulant poltergeist instead.
85. A widowed vampire relies on their mortal assistant for the latest human trends to better pass during secret nightly infiltration into modern foodie culture and hipster bars.
86. A voodoo talisman for opening barriers between worlds gets turned into a cute accessory at a supernatural gift shop catering to ancient gods and monsters. Predictably chaos ensues when teens buy cheap copies just for the gram.
87. A vampire lord crosses paths with his dorky mortal twin separated at birth. Neither can comprehend the other’s taste in magic, music or manners while forced to cooperate escaping secret monster hunters.
88. While Death takes a vacation after millennia without breaks, their indifferent undead intern fails spectacularly at collecting souls or impressed by Death’s goth aesthetic.
89. A bloodline of tragic immortal mummies keeps accidentally killing resurrected explorers seeking their lost fortune buried alongside them millennia ago while just trying to make friends.
90. A cranky retired creature must mentor lazy young monsters who treat haunting like unpaid internships rather than proper lurking to torment mortal psyches through fear.
91. The lone competent member of an ancient pantheon must tackle mythical disasters their fellow old gods cause by refusing to read manuals, memorize rituals, or learn updated supernatural admin systems.
92. A night janitor at an Ivy League university library deals with unruly shadow creatures crossing dimensions to joyride magic books and perform overly complicated pranks trying to impress each other after hours.
93. A morbid grandpa excited for his family reunion barbecue accidentally resurrects deceased ancestors as grumpy intelligent zombies who criticize his grilling techniques.
94. A temporal investigator must secretly thwart their own terrible attempts at wooing true love every time a rogue time machine sends them back too far, resulting in awkwardly interrupting their earlier first date over and over again.
95. A cranky magical inspector deals with escalating supernatural mishaps caused by the opening of a hipster cafe catering to ancient gods and monsters but serving terrible attempts at human pastries and coffee.
96. A vampire queendom tries entering secretly sponsored mortal candidates into Miss Universe pageants to influence global beauty standards towards literal neck fetishization among humans.
97. A newly turned zombie joins an undead self-help group to adjust to afterlife changes but the meetings always descend into supernatural pity parties involving lots of whining about cadaver troubles and existential dread.
98. A mismatched buddy cop duo with a veteran detective transformed into a werewolf and rookie beat cop psychic mediate petty disturbances between the magical and mortal realms while investigating supernatural crimes.
99. A lovecraftian deity goes through numerous slapstick forms trying to manifest on Earth across clumsy cult rituals, eventually winding up randomly summoned into a little girl’s doll tea party surrounded by plushies.
100. A cranky retired human servant continues advising his inept monster master after death from beyond the grave while their occult experiments creating zombie assistants repeatedly go supernatural awry.

Whether you’re a seasoned horror hound or only an occasional creeper, sink your imaginative teeth into this abundance of oddball writing prompts. With 100+ combinations of chills and chuckles to jumpstart those creative juices, you’re sure to find freaky inspiration aplenty. Craft a chillingly silly saga or kill ‘em with comedy—the choice is yours! Consider this weird and wicked well of ideas your ticket to unleashing a monstrous muse. So brew a cup of creepy creativity and get haunting those half-funny, half-scary stories! Just beware boogeymen and beasties bursting with laughter. Because in this warped world of prompts, fear and farce make frightfully funny bedfellows! 

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