Can You Write A Horror Story In Two Sentences?

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Ebdim9th

Dressing the Gothic interval in tritones
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The crates filling the ship's hold began to leak, the fumes rising like a living presence to permeate the vessel and kill all the crew on board. The ghost ship plowed on through the waves until it reached land, spilling its toxic, creeping load near the shore.
 
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Ebdim9th

Dressing the Gothic interval in tritones
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The man struggled frantically against his bindings in the easy chair as an avalanche of books tumbled out of the dark above on top of him. He was gradually buried alive, although already knocked senseless by an omnibus edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy series, underneath his love and obsession.

(Thanks to Patricia A for inspiration because of her avatar)
 

Patricia A

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The man struggled frantically against his bindings in the easy chair as an avalanche of books tumbled out of the dark above on top of him. He was gradually buried alive, although already knocked senseless by an omnibus edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy series, underneath his love and obsession.

(Thanks to Patricia A for inspiration because of her avatar)
You are more than welcome Ebdim9th! I dig being a muse, or having an avatar that is one, that works too. :thumbs_up: