Then I thought to personify that force as a kind of time-traveling hitman or assassin whose job it is to navigate the timeline and hunt down people who didn’t die when they were supposed to, in a cold, ‘strictly business’ sort of way. It’s also scary to me to think of death as an unstoppable, inevitable force, like in Final Destination, where no matter what you do or how you try to avoid it, it comes to you all the same. “I think what many people fear most about mortality is the unknown-not just of what’s on the other side, but also not knowing when, where, or how their death will happen. □ 1st place (1,215 votes/37%)įrederick Barstow on composing the winning entry: We now present 2022’s most Haunting Hook, as judged by you. Your enthusiasm for sci-fi horror exceeded our wildest expectations-we received more than double last year’s entries! Competition was extremely stiff, but editors were able to narrow it down to three finalists, and we left the rest up to the scariest contingent of humans we could think of: the internet public. This year, there was a theme: scary sci-fi. You have chosen the winner of the 2022 Haunting Hooks Scary Story Opener Writing Contest!įor our second annual edition of the contest, we again challenged contestants to write a captivating opening to a scary story in 50 words or less. After nearly 5,000 (!) submissions, three finalists, more than 3,000 votes, and some seriously scary sci-fi: it’s official.
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