Steve Hutchison

Horror Writer's Block: 100 Fantasy Writing Prompts Steve Hutchison

This book tells fiction writers and screenwriters what kind of dark fantasy movies have often, rarely, or never been made, and warns them about saturated niches. The lower the frequency meter, the more unique the concept.

Each randomly formed writing prompt contains one mood, one subgenre, one genre, and one antagonist. The permutations combine 8 moods, 31 subgenres, 1 genre (fantasy), and 63 antagonists.

3000 horror and horror-adjacent films were analyzed to populate this tool, and it's just as useful in recommending dark features in the form of watchlists.