If you are a mermaid fiction writer who wants to craft thrillers and horrors, it is important to read scary mermaid books and browse prompts. These will help you understand what kind of story events you want to include in your fictional work. In this article, you will find some absolutely terrifying supernatural prompts including mermaids, mermen and drowned people. Perfect for a thriller or horror story that takes place in a small sea town, or by a haunted lake!
20 terrifying fiction prompts about mermaids, mermen and drowned people
- A mermaid’s body has been washed ashore and the local police are looking for her killer.
- A bloody body has been washed ashore and people suspect ravenous mermaids living in the bay.
- A mermaid finds out that her human husband has been cheating on her, and she plots to kill him.
- A mermaid tribe living in the sea calls for an alarm as a serial killer keeps discarding corpses into the water.
- A human detective investigates the murder of a mermaid, and discovers that he was killed by his cousin.
- The killer is an old merwoman who asks the merman detective to find her grandson’s killer.
- A mermaid confronts the human killer of her sister, and takes revenge.
- A mermaid struggles to escape a bloody cult worshipped underwater, and hides on land, but they’ll find her.
- A woman wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of who she is, but she has terribly bloody nightmares in which she’s tortured as a mermaid.
- A mermaid moving into a creepy little town on land learns, she looks like a local woman who drowned in the lake twenty years ago.
- A merman guilty of a crime escapes on land, but little does he know that the merman detective will follow him.
- A mermaid living on land is engaged in her life’s work: telling stories. She gets an anonymous letter telling her that she should stop so that she won’t be found out and killed.
- A mermaid must prove that she was the victim of identity theft to avoid being thrown to sharks.
- A merman’s best friend has been charged with murder and is awaiting trial. He has to think fast to help his best friend escape.
- With the help of a mermaid squad, the missing woman’s body was extracted from the sea. But wait, what if they found the wrong body?
- A mermaid wakes up in chains, in a small room that looks like a serial killer’s den, but she has no idea how she got there.
- A mermaid is being stalked by her abusive ex-boyfriend who is on the verge of killing her, but she has no idea why.
- A woman goes on a weekend getaway with her best friend, only to find out the resort is haunted by the ghosts of drowned people, and all staff working there are mermaids in human form.
- A merman is being chased by his psychopathic ex-girlfriend, and there’s only one last place that he can go to.
- A mermaid killer buries his victims with tails up.
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