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Horror Tools

Free tools for horror writers, creators and fans: photo effects, soundscapes, generators, quizzes and games. Everything runs in your browser, and files you open stay on your device.

A few favourites from each part of the toolbox.

VHS Horror Image Generator

Turn any photo into a worn VHS still: scanlines, tracking noise, colour bleed and a camcorder timestamp.

Horror Movie Poster Maker

Design a poster for a horror film that doesn't exist: your photo, a title, a tagline, billing credits and cinematic grading.

Horror Ambient Sound Mixer

Mix rain, thunder, wind, footsteps, forest night and low drones into your own background soundscape for reading, writing or games.

Horror Story Prompt Generator

Pick a sub-genre, setting, character and theme, and get a story prompt built to give you a situation, not just a mood.

Random Horror Movie Picker

Can't decide what to watch? Filter by sub-genre, decade, mood, intensity and length, then let the picker choose.

Would You Survive a Horror Movie?

Make the choices horror characters never get right, scene by scene, and find out whether you would reach the credits.

Image and Visual Tools

Photo effects, posters and props. Your images are processed in your browser and never uploaded.

VHS Horror Image Generator

Turn any photo into a worn VHS still: scanlines, tracking noise, colour bleed and a camcorder timestamp.

Horror Movie Poster Maker

Design a poster for a horror film that doesn't exist: your photo, a title, a tagline, billing credits and cinematic grading.

Night Vision Photo Editor

Give a photo the green glow of a night-vision scope or an infrared monochrome look, with grain and a viewfinder overlay.

Creepy Newspaper Generator

Write a front page from a town where something terrible happened: masthead, headline, story and an aged-paper finish.

Paranormal Case File Maker

Assemble a typed investigation dossier: case number, location, evidence photos, field notes and an official-looking status stamp.

Cursed Polaroid Generator

Turn a photo into an old instant print: faded colour, scratches, light leaks and a handwritten caption on a worn frame.

Found Footage Screenshot Maker

Make a photo look like a frame from a security camera: REC indicator, timestamp, camera ID, static and harsh contrast.

Horror YouTube Thumbnail Maker

Build a 1280Γ—720 thumbnail for a horror video with cinematic layouts, readable title type and a preview at real size.

Audio Tools

Soundscapes, effects and voice processing built with the Web Audio API, right in your browser.

Horror Ambient Sound Mixer

Mix rain, thunder, wind, footsteps, forest night and low drones into your own background soundscape for reading, writing or games.

Scary Soundboard

Tap to play creaking doors, heartbeats, knocks, whispers, chimes and more, synthesised on the spot. Search, loop and adjust volume.

Ghost Voice Effect Maker

Record your voice or open an audio file and turn it into something not quite human with echo, reverb, distortion and pitch.

Reverse Audio Generator

Play any recording backwards. Open a file, preview it reversed and download the result.

Creepy Sound Effect Maker

Design unsettling tones from scratch: oscillator, pitch sweep, wobble, echo and distortion, then export a WAV.

Audio Spectrogram Viewer

See any recording as a waveform and a spectrogram, scrub along the timeline and read the frequencies at any point.

Writing and Text Tools

Prompts, names, titles and twists for horror writers, drawn from hand-written word banks.

Horror Story Prompt Generator

Pick a sub-genre, setting, character and theme, and get a story prompt built to give you a situation, not just a mood.

Scary Name Generator

Names for ghosts, demons, monsters, haunted houses, villains and cursed places, built from period-appropriate parts.

Horror Story Title Generator

Atmospheric titles for horror stories, novels and episodes, shaped by a theme: haunting, folk horror, cosmic, slasher and more.

Horror Plot Twist Generator

Stuck at the turn? Generate a plot twist that fits your theme: who the threat really was, what the place hides, what the hero did.

Cursed Object Generator

Invent a cursed object with an origin, a power, a price and a way out, ready for a story, game or campaign.

Monster Profile Creator

Create a creature file: name, appearance, origin, abilities, weaknesses, habitat, behaviour and threat level.

Glitch Text Generator

Corrupt any text into creepy glitch, zalgo, struck-through, corrupted or upside-down styles with a live preview and copy button.

Urban Legend Generator

Generate a fictional urban legend as it would be told: the place, the story that goes around and the rule everyone follows.

Interactive Horror and Entertainment

Film picks, quizzes and short games to play alone or with friends.

Random Horror Movie Picker

Can't decide what to watch? Filter by sub-genre, decade, mood, intensity and length, then let the picker choose.

Would You Survive a Horror Movie?

Make the choices horror characters never get right, scene by scene, and find out whether you would reach the credits.

Horror Escape Room

You wake up locked in an old study. Search the room, solve the puzzles, combine what you find and escape before midnight.

Horror Movie Marathon Planner

Tell it how long you have and what you like; it builds a running order that fits, with start times, breaks and a total runtime.

Horror Movie Bingo Generator

Generate a bingo card of horror tropes for your next movie night, mark squares as you watch, then print or save it.

What's Your Horror Personality?

Answer twelve questions to discover which horror archetype you are, from the Final Survivor to the Skeptic.

Interactive Haunted House

A choose-your-own-adventure through an abandoned house: explore the rooms, collect what you find and try to get out.

Halloween Countdown

Days, hours, minutes and seconds until the next 31 October, always counting towards the coming Halloween.

Folklore and Horror Countdowns

Live countdowns to Samhain, the Day of the Dead, Krampusnacht, the Ghost Festival and other dates from folklore, gothic culture and traditions of remembrance.