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You're looking for historical fiction ideas, and most of the ones you've come across are either too detailed and specific or too vague - at least for you.

History writing prompts should paint enough of a picture to allow you to fill in the gaps as you step into it and look around.

Your own perspective and the connections that form in your mind will take that partial image and complete it.

We kept that in mind while creating this list of 51 writing prompts for your novel. May each one flood your mind with the possibilities.

51 Historical Fiction Writing Prompts

If you're racking your brain for interesting historical events to write about, check out the following prompts to get those synapses firing. You'll find everything from civil war writing prompts to famous unsolved mysteries. Dig in and find something to play with.

1. Changing Sides. A slave sent by his master to fight in the Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy changes sides to fight for an end to slavery, not knowing what it will cost the woman he loves. Meanwhile, she risks her own life to protect a friend.

2. Mail Order Bride. Your only support dies, and to survive, you answer an ad for a bride in the midwest. You're not looking forward to being a stranger's wife, but something in the letter he wrote you calms your reservations.

3. Circus Fugitive. It's 1925, and you've joined the traveling circus as a clown to hide your identity after being framed for a murder you didn't commit. A rival performer recognizes you and threatens to expose you but doesn't. He wants something else.

4. Atlantis Rising. You're a citizen of ancient Atlantis and one of the few chosen for preservation during the centuries of submersion, thanks to Atlantean technology. You'll never see your family again. One friend - with secrets - sabotages the plan.

5. Pearl Harbor. You're one of the pilots in an air fight with Japanese bombers over Pearl Harbor. You spot one going in an unexpected direction and follow it, only to see them kamikaze into the building where the love of your life is working.

6. Equal Rights for All. A friend invites you to a meeting where you decide to join the fight for women's suffrage and equal rights. Your employer spots you protesting and gives you a choice: distance yourself from the cause or lose your job.

7. Prodigal Daughter. In the 1970s, you ran away from home to see Woodstock and only now, ten years later, are you heading back home, after a brief but troubling phone conversation with your mother.

8. The Speakeasy Scandal. It's 1923, and you've just opened your own speakeasy, limiting its patronage to select members of your community. But one of them is a mole for the local sheriff. He ends up dead in the alley, and you're arrested for it.

9. Sioux Pioneer. You lose your husband on the Oregon Trail to a wagon mishap and are then abducted by a Sioux tribe. Write a story describing your evolving relationship with the Sioux chief's (adult) son.

10. No Place for Black Veterans. You're an orphan who befriends a returning WWII soldier after seeing how the community rejects him because of his skin color. Your friendship attracts the attention of local Klansmen and a neglectful aunt.

11. Undercover DJ. An undercover American WWII soldier sneaks into a German radio room and delivers a cryptic message in perfect German, hoping to alert other Americans to a devious German plot he's discovered.

12. Haunted Hotel. It's 1930, and you buy a hotel that just happens to be haunted by the ghosts involved in a very public murder in the roaring 20s. Turns out, plenty of people are willing to pay good money to be haunted by glamorous murder victims.

13. Jack the Seam Ripper. Using an item in your grandmother's "treasure box," you go back in time and get a young Jack interested in tailoring and fashion design. But can you really stop him from following his darker impulses when an old lover returns?

14. Poker Face. In 1800s England, the poker stakes are higher than most spectators are willing to risk. You're the reigning champion until a new challenger hits the scene. Thing is, you're ready to lose and disappear. But it won't be that simple.

15. Don't Forget the Pie. You run a 1940s diner and see all sorts of people, many of whom you only see once. Everyone who tries your pie wants the recipe, but it's a closely-guarded family secret. One customer offers to work for a month to get it.

16. Dear Jane. Your sweetheart is a Vietnam soldier who just broke up with you in a letter. You do some digging and find out he's left you for one of his fellow soldiers, whose fiancée is the same best friend who comforted you after the break-up.

17. Once Upon a Drama. You're a novelist who wakes up in Victorian England and meets your own characters. While rooting for your favorite two people, you don't expect to fall for one of them. You definitely don't expect to tell them about it.

18. Ever Since Summer Camp. Five teens meet at summer camp and bond together in response to a tragedy. Their lives continue to intertwine as they grow up in 1950s California. One of them shares the secret that binds them, and lives fall apart.

19. The Stolen Child. As part of a time-traveling detective couple, you're excited about your next assignment in Germantown, Maryland: the kidnapping of Charley Ross - a mystery that remained unsolved.

20. Darkness in the French Quarter. In the early 1880s, your connections with the New Orleans aristocracy leads you to a beautiful Creole woman, Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who has been torturing and murdering the slaves of her household.

21. Road Trip! Lewis and Clark plan for the Oregon Trail. They talk about hardships they expect, people they're leaving behind, and what each one most hopes to gain. Your main character is a jilted lover who hatches a plan to stop the expedition..

22. Special Delivery. He delivers milk. She delivers newspapers. They cross paths when they both witness a mugging in 1920s Chicago and intervene to protect the victim. The supposed "victim" then offers them both a job with a hefty payoff.

23. Nursing History. You pay someone to help you explore your past and see one of your past lives as a WWII nurse. Your fiancé in that life looks an awful lot like your current boss. You see what you went through together and the child you had.

24. Lost at Sea. A loved one boards the Titanic on their way back home to you. When the ship goes down, they supposedly end up on one of the few liferafts, but they don't return with the survivors. A year later, they show up at your door.

25. Million Dollar Fling. Ten years ago, you had a moment with a ship's captain during a 1950s cruise with a group of wealthy socialites you met at college. You show up at a life-changing job interview in New York and come face-to-face with him again.
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26. American Blood. Your family came to the U.S. after government intervention essentially handed rule in your native country to an organized crime network. A former friend is recruited to their ranks and comes to the U.S. for a business deal.

27. Two for One. You're waiting in the parlor for your gentleman host, watching the butler pour tea and eyeing a plate of jammy biscuits. You're here to meet the man your sister wants to marry. So, why does he know everything about you?

28. Jazz Runaway. Two new friends cajole you into joining them to check out a new jazz band. It's 1930s Mississipi, and you know your parents wouldn't approve of these friends, but they remind you of someone you lost. What you learn changes you.

29. Voodoo Priestess. It's June in 1881. You're walking in a funeral procession while the band plays. In the coffin is your mother, the Voodoo Queen Marie Leveau, and you're headed to the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, plot 347.

30. Is it Jack or Jackie? A woman named Mary Pearsay is arrested for the murder of a woman and her child. After her death, Ripperologists suggest she may have been the real "Jack the Ripper." Your investigative partner has a weird fixation on her.

31. Missing, Presumed Innocent. You're investigating the case of a young English maidservant who disappeared on January 1st, 1753 and reappeared on the 29th, emaciated and weak. Her story of abduction doesn't match what investigators find.

32. The "Mad Monk." You've just met the man who murdered Grigori Rasputin on the 17th of December in 1916, and he's only too happy to recount the details. He's not so forthcoming about why he did it, and you're determined to find out.

33. Da Vinci's Muse. The world knows about Leonardo da Vinci but not about the Renaissance woman who inspired him. As one of her descendants, you're determined to make her known, at the risk of exposing a dark secret.

34. The Invisible Apprentice. Being William Shakespeare's apprentice would be great if he weren't always stealing your ideas and claiming them as his own. So, you write a brilliant satiric play exposing him. He loves it and takes it to the stage.

35. Death in the Family. You know who really killed JFK, and it wasn't that patsy Oswald, who's already dead. Exposing the real killers would put you and your family next on their list.

36. Nightmares in Heaven. You're secretly watching Michaelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. You know he's been having nightmares, which find their way onto the chapel ceiling - before the Archbishop demands he paint over them.

37. Candy Creep. The creator of Sweethearts candies sends you a box "anonymously." The messages on those tiny hearts reveal more than you want to know about him.

38. Better Half. You're on a visit to New York in 1977 with your fiancé, and you're separated when the blackout hits. Write about your adventures as you find your way back to each other - and when you find out where he's been.

39. Tactical Magic. It's 1692, and you're a witch keeping a low profile in Salem, Massachusetts while trying to protect your sister. She's just been accused by a group of girls after meeting with the minister's daughter in the woods.

40. The Baby Diaries. You found your mother's hidden diaries detailing her experiences as a young Black woman in the 50s. Now, some of the things she said and did while she lived make sense. You didn't expect to learn about a half-sister.

41. Forbidden Knowledge. You wake up in the famous library of Alexandria mere hours before it burns, destroying everything. You witness the arson and stealthily pursue those responsible.

42. Profanely Biblical. At the Nicene Council, Emperor Constantine has booted any bishop who doesn't agree with his decision on which books belong in the Christian Bible and which should be destroyed. You're a collector of the latter.

43. Before the Mayflower. On the west coast of Africa, in 1462, you see hundreds of captive men, women, and children being loaded into ships. You ask why and learn the truth as you spot a friend among them. What do you do?

44. The Haitian Revolution. In 1804, Haitians win their independence from French rule. As a Haitian immigrant to the U.S., you openly supported their fight. But when a massacre follows the revolution, you encounter open hostility.

45. More Than Courage. You're a student at Harvard when the university admits its first Black student: Beverly Garnett Williams. You share some classes with her, and you witness her courage every day. You also witness people's reactions.

46. Illegal Heritage. It's the Spanish Inquisition, and your family has converted to Christianity from Judaism to survive. That doesn't stop the local clerics from harassing you - or your pious neighbors from pointing fingers.

47. Crazy in Love. You're the last person Marilyn Monroe talked to before she was murdered. And you're determined to expose her killer. But no one believes the "crazy best friend" - including your doctors at the mental hospital.

48. Model Neighbors. You read your parents' collected love letters and learn about what they experienced as an interracial couple in the 1960s. They had you before they were forced out of their white neighborhood.

49. Pirate Queen. You've been kidnapped by Blackbeard and instead of killing you, he keeps you as a slave. But you have a brilliant plan to take over the ship and become the new pirate captain of the Queen Mary's Revenge.

50. She's Indisposed. You're an apothecary in the 1600s, and two star-crossed lovers have asked you to prepare a potion to help one of them fake their death. You create the potion but get it mixed up with a powerful remedy for constipation.

51. Tele-porta-vision. In 1972, you sit around your English family's first TV set - a gift from your dad's new employer. You wake up hours later in the middle of a crop circle nearby, unable to remember how you got there. Dreams tell you more.
Ready to start writing your historical fiction book?
Now that you have 51 prompts with cool historical events to write about, which ones make you want to put this aside and start writing?

And what else will you bring to your story to make it uniquely yours?

Humor? Romance? Horror? Fantasy? Choose-your-own adventure?

Pick a prompt, and play with whatever comes to mind. Tell your inner editor to take a nap while you get the words out. This is a time to create.

Write away.

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If you love suspense and finding clues is your idea of a good time, you're probably a fan of mysteries. Now, pick up a pen and - presto! - you're ready to also become a mystery author, right? Well, not so fast. Because we all know, the key to a gripping whodunnit are the unique mysterious story ideas behind them. If you're currently waiting for a lightbulb to go off in your head before you embrace your inner Agatha Christie, you'll enjoy these mystery writing prompts!

Here are three broad categories of mystery stories you might want to consider writing:

Cozies. These usually take place in - as the name would suggest - cozy settings, such as small towns. They are meant to be a "light read" meaning they don't involve graphic violence. The detective is typically an "average joe" with a knack for sleuthing.

Hard-boiled. Typically feature a professional detective. As the story unfolds, not only is the mystery untangled, but so is the protagonist's character development as they face their own internal struggles. These are typically more "gritty" than cozies.

Procedurals. Distinguished by their very in-depth explanation of how a mystery was solved - whether a police procedural or an explanation from a medical examiner.

Want more help learning how to write a short mystery? Check out How to Write a Short Story That Gets Published - a free, ten day course by Laura Mae Isaacman, a full-time editor who runs a book editing company in Brooklyn.

Have a story you're ready to start submitting? Check out our list of writing contests or our directory of literary magazines.

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Best Horror Short Story Ideas of 2020 * Get Inspired Now

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Sometimes you just want to read a book that gives you the comforting knowledge that there will be a Happily Ever After - and that's one of the defining characteristics of the romance genre. If you'd like to write your own love story, we hope these romance prompts will help you!

Here are a few types of romance stories you might consider writing:

Historical romance. The Romance Writers of America (RWA) classifies this as any romance novel that takes place before 1950.

Contemporary. Logically, the RWA classifies this as any romance novel that takes place after 1950.

Paranormal. Romance stories with elements of fantasy or science fiction.

Suspense. When love stories become intertwined with gritty plots.

Erotic. This RAW defines this as "Novels in which strong, often explicit, sexual interaction is an inherent part of the love story, character growth and relationships and could not be removed without damaging the storyline."

Want more help learning how to write short romance? Check out How to Write a Short Story That Gets Published - a free, ten day course by Laura Mae Isaacman, a full-time editor who runs a book editing company in Brooklyn.

Have a story you're ready to start submitting? Check out our list of writing contests or our directory of literary magazines.

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Your favorite science fiction series (or movie) has got you thinking of writing a sci-fi novel.

This is the world you live in, after all (at least part-time). It makes sense you'd want to write in it, too.

You're just not sure where to start - or which science fiction story ideas to explore.

The possibilities are overwhelming. That's where this list of 61 sci-fi writing prompts comes in.

We've divided them into six groups, based on popular sub genres.

Let's start with what science fiction is in the first place.

What Is Sci-Fi?

Science fiction (often shortened as SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction that focuses on the impact of real or imaginary science on its characters.

Most sci-fi stories fit into the following sub-genres:

These stories pull you in because they offer something you don't get in your real life. At the same time, enough about it feels familiar to make you identify with the main character and see yourself in the story.

61 Science Fiction Writing Prompts

Take a look through the sci-fi story starters below to find one that makes you smile. Then write down whatever comes to mind.

Fringe or Futuristic Science Fiction Writing Prompts

1. In your world, you can "reincarnate" into a new, lab-created body. You're shopping for one, now, and you run across a familiar face with a list of customer reviews.

2. All babies are now temporarily sterilized at birth, but you weren't born in a government approved hospital. Neither was your new crush.

3. You're part of a new human-AI hybrid project, and your consciousness is uploaded to a state-of-the-art, ageless synthetic body with memories that aren't yours.

4. Nanotechnology now allows you to regenerate your entire body, but while you're regenerating, an enemy hacks into the process and changes the design.

5. A hundred years into the future, the United States has open borders, universal healthcare, and public servants who live up to the name. You were created with one purpose: Tear it all down.

6. A lab-created monster turns a bioengineering firm's entire workforce into hosts for its spawn. You break in to steal some tech.

7. A new chemical weapon renders your whole special forces team invisible. The only person who can see you is your handler.

8. As the winner of the annual "Evolution Project" lottery, you have the opportunity to receive a genetic "upgrade." The fine print gives you pause.

9. You're on a field trip to an intergalactic Disney World, via stargate, when you realize everyone around you is changing into Disney characters.

10. All marriages must now be approved by the government, which also arranges marriages according to a compatibility algorithm you created.

11. You're a fringe scientist who's developed a way for anyone to witness scenes from their past lives. A favorite client learns one of her past lives murdered one of yours.

Fantasy Science Fiction Writing Prompts

12. Your father is a pariah, having recreated mythological beings. Now, the government wants to weaponize them. Saying no is a declaration of war.

13. In your world, magic and technology work together to create an infrastructure that serves everyone equally. But not everyone is happy.

14. The bees are actually fairies in disguise. Their hidden technology is beyond anything human. And they can convert humans to their cause (and form).

15. The world's most powerful mage runs the biggest international tech conglomerate, which has been rewriting human DNA, using vulnerable populations.

16. A girl dies and comes back but remains comatose for a year. When she wakes, she begins her physical transformation.

18. You've learned to communicate with ancient beings living in Earth's core, who can shape-shift. One of them responds to your call for help by appearing in human form.

19. You're the illegitimate child of a corrupt leader and the most powerful sorceress alive. Your exiled mother's apprentice offers to help you avenge her.

20. Fringe tech has made it possible for any human to become a shapeshifter. You become a dragon shifter and a member of the security detail for the new president.

21. After a unicorn impales your father, you join an elite team that seeks out dangerous mythical creatures and "harvests" them for science.

22. In your world, all non-magical humans are forcibly married to magical beings. Your 'match' is a practicing mage harboring fugitives and growing illegal plants.
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Time Travel Science Fiction Writing Prompts

23. Couch-surfing as a time-traveler has its downside.

24. You go back in time to stop your mother's murder and return to find your twin sister dead instead.

25. Your future child pays you a visit and begs you, "Don't go on the business trip," without explaining why.

26. You thought you were headed for a nice vacation in Renaissance Italy, but something went wrong, and now you're stuck in the 1980's.

27. Your time travel phone runs on carbon dioxide and can connect you to anyone in time and space. Someone out there keeps texting you puns.

29. Your life insurance doesn't cover time travel mishaps, which is unfortunate, because your time jumps rarely go according to plan.

30. You win an opportunity to go back in time and steer your own life in a different direction. You take it, and things start to look better before it all goes wrong.

31. You're an adopted child who grew up with abusive parents. You go back in time to make sure you end up with different parents and are surprised by who you become.

32. Time traveling is now illegal, except for a small government agency with an agenda. You discover you can teleport yourself to any point in time and space.

Alternate or Parallel Universe Science Fiction Writing Prompts

33. While your body remains in one universe, you visit another. In this one, your spouse survived the car crash that left you in your comatose state.

34. In your universe, the other candidate won the election in 2016. You accidentally get stuck in this one.

35. You're able to find and enter parallel universes where your family survived 9/11. You connect with family on social media, since you have the same login info as their version of you. An online conversation has unexpected consequences.

36. You're born with the ability to see objects and people from different but connected worlds. You can even reach out and take something, drawing it into your world.

37. "It all started when I had my first taste of alcohol, which turned into too many. I went to use the bathroom and walked into a wasteland - with zero toilets."

38. You were building a snowman when the tree to your left rippled, and out came a kid your age who had clearly never seen snow before - or other kids.

39. You're off on a tech-free retreat, and your roommate introduces you to psychedelic mushrooms, which allow you to see another world overlapping your own.

40. You're a "reality-jumper," and you meet someone who should be dead in the world you're visiting, but who was saved by a time-jumper. You're there to remove her.

41. "This reality doesn't have donuts. I mean, they've never existed! I'm about to change that."

42. You visit a reality where you stayed single and, in disguise, you spy on that version of you until you accidentally meet. Fortunately the single you doesn't see past the disguise, but they feel an immediate connection, which creates problems.

Alien Science Fiction Writing Prompts

43. A creature thought to be extinct (and pre-human) shows up at your back door and communicates with you, ultimately leading you to its damaged spacecraft.

44. Your parents die before they can tell you you're not from this planet. You find out on your wedding night.

45. You've kept your identity as an extraterrestrial secret to protect your family. But now, your alien abilities could save the life of your best friend.

46. Earth has been invaded by many extraterrestrial species and overrun by one of them. The peaceful ones have learned to blend in, but soon they won't be able to.

47. You fall for an alien who took refuge in your barn during a storm. She tells you something others have hidden from you.

49. You're on an extraterrestrial research team that comes to Earth and meets the president. "It's worse than we thought. Earth needs an intervention."

50. An extraterrestrial comes to your home and sees your grandmother's shrine to the Virgin Mary. Collapsing, they cry out, "They're already here!"

51. You invent a food source that satisfies the daily requirements of humans with one bite.

52. An alien civilization wants to trade something of value for it, but one of their own discovers the food has an unintended mind-altering effect on their species.

53. You're spying on your crush and discover they're actually an extraterrestrial with a special ability, which allows them to "see" you. Turns out, they always have.

Space Exploration Science Fiction Writing Prompts

54. You're chosen for the science team on the newest starship. You connect with the on-board tech and find a virus waiting to cripple the ship on a specific day.

55. Your crew's mission (on a fixer-upper starship) to an "abandoned" planet leads to a discovery about Earth's leadership and its endgame.

56. Your spaceship's radio picks up a distress call from a nearby planet. You investigate and find a resettlement camp for Earth's "rejects."

57. You're the child of an Earth human and a humanoid being from another galaxy; they had you without government permission. Now, you're searching for their prison on a hidden planet.

58. The government hires you and your ex-con crew to go on a search and rescue mission for a shapeshifting scientist marooned on a nearby planet.

59. On your planet, love is love, and people from all over the galaxy help each other and start families together. You meet with a peace delegation from Earth and recognize their leader, whom you overhear referring to your planet as "Fruitopia."

60. You're a space pirate, cruising at top speeds through space and teleporting onto cargo ships to steal from them. You steal a device that allows you to clone yourself, with ridiculous consequences for your crew.

61. You're the bartender on board the newest starship, and you collect cocktail recipes and ingredients from different worlds. One of these cocktails has a unique effect on humans: it reverses aging by a decade with every ounce.
Conclusion
Now that you've looked through this collection of imaginative science fiction writing prompts, which ones grabbed you right away and made you want to add something?

Don't worry if you're not sure you can make a novel out of it, or even if you can finish it. Just let yourself have the fun of playing with that idea. Get the words out.

Who knows where it could lead? That's half the joy of it.

Choose one of these prompts and free-write for at least five minutes. What you write could be the seed for a new bestseller.

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Need a good story idea quick? These fantasy writing prompts and plot ideas can be used as inspiration to write your next epic tale. You can use these story ideas and prompts for all types of creative works, whether it be a novel, screen play or other fictional short stories.

The Magic World of Writing Fantastical, Epic Tales

I've always loved writing fantasy, simply because in fantasy you can leave all your worries about the real world behind. Fantasy writing is your chance to explore your imagination and discover all sorts of magical and mysterious things.

One of the biggest perks of fantasy writing is unlike realistic fiction, there needs to be no logical sequence for how things happen. You can finally use magic as a reasonable and acceptable explanation for everything.

Like all of our writing prompts, these fantasy fiction prompts and plot ideas are varied on a number of different subjects that can fit into the fantasy genre. Many of these fiction writing prompts can be used for sub-genres of fantasy, such as paranormal romance, urban fantasy, magic realism and more.

Not a fan of the subject? Prefer to stick to medieval times? Any of these epic story ideas can be adapted easily simply by substituting the suggested character with your mythological creature of choice.

Don't forget, if you like some aspects of a prompt you can always change it for your own needs and what interests you most. The possibilities are endless, and I know there is a book idea here waiting for you to write and publish it.

Even if you don't have any intentions of writing a fantasy novel, there are many benefits of practicing creative writing with these fantasy writing prompts. Set a timer for 5 minutes and let your imagination run wild with one of these prompts - you never know where it may take you.

Fantasy Writing Prompts for Creative Fiction, Novels, Short Stories, Screenplays and More

These writing prompts are open to your own interpretation and imagination. Many are purposely open-ended to give you a lot of flexibility for the way they are used. Ready? Let the writing begin!

1. The Snow Dragon: You are in the mountain forest when you come face to face with the snow dragon: an adorable, furry, and surprisingly tiny creature who breathes fire.

2. Street Signs: After a young man is killed as an innocent bystander in the cross-fires of gang violence, you notice a mysterious symbol appear on the side of a building.

3. Lilies of the Valley: As the new housekeeper for a prominent wealthy family, one of your tasks is to water all of the house plants. You are watering the lilies in the entry way when one of the plants starts talking to warn you of a dark family secret.

4. The Coin Dealer: You are at a Coin Show when you meet a coin dealer who specializes in collecting mythical currencies.

5. The Fairies Next Door: Being new in town, you decided to introduce yourself to the neighbors. When you knock on the door, you are greeted by a small army of fairies who take you captive.

6. Water Vs. Dirt: There are two major groups of people who live on the planet. The water people, who use water for everything, and the dirt people, who use dirt for everything. Can they learn to co-exist peacefully, or will their entire world become mud?

7. Potions, Inc.: After centuries of a small occult family developing successful potions for love, fortune, and health, the oldest son decides to launch the family business of magic into the corporate world.

8. If Walls Could Talk: After moving to a new town, the Smith Family thinks they found the perfect home. That is, until the walls begin to talk and they learn the house is cursed.

9. Empire of Misfits: A secret society of misfits decides to take over the world, learning to use their greatest flaws as super powers to succeed.

10. The Invisible Castle: A group of friends decide to climb a tower near their home when they discover it leads to an invisible castle in the air that no one else knows exists.

11. Ghost Pirates: Legends claim a notorious pirate buried his treasure along the rocky shores of the cove. James and his girlfriend are at the beach one night when the ghost ship sails in.

12. Photographic Travel: You stare at the man in the photo and wonder what his life might have been like. Next thing you know, you and the person in the photograph have swapped places.

13. The Benevolent Beast: On the edge of town is a giant and fierce looking beast but is actually quite friendly. When strange occurrences start happening in the town, the beast is a prime suspect. Can you protect the beast and clear its name?

14. Gilbert The Giant Goldfish: Life in the koi pond only appears to be peaceful...

15. The Magic Key: After failing in his career and marriage, Will discovers a magic key that unlocks doors that open into a new world.

16. Island in the Clouds: The Great War left the people of her kingdom stranded on a tethered island in the clouds...

17. Dancing Fever: As the townspeople are overcome with a feverish desire to dance, it's up to you to find the cause and cure.

18. Paranormal Detective: He has a knack for solving mysteries with the help of a ghost who gives him clues.

19. Darkness Made Daily: The factory you work at is frequently rated "Top 10 Places to Work" across the country. Workers have wonderful health benefits, generous salaries, and plenty of paid vacation time. When your co-worker at the assembly line mysteriously vanishes, it's up to you to uncover the evil truth of what the factory is manufacturing and put a stop to it.

20. The Arctic Mermaid: Living deep in the icy waters of the Northern Atlantic Ocean are the arctic mermaids, who rescue a child being held captive on a ship.

21. Ring of Storms: "It's just one those silly mood rings..." or is it?

22. No Words: Mike makes a promise to a mysterious vagrant on the street that leaves his wife speechless.

23. The Psychic Hospital: After being involuntarily committed into the psych ward for being delusional, a patient must somehow convince the doctors all she experiences is real. She is not crazy - and neither are the other patients.

24. Forever Beautiful: You are a cosmetologist at a local gossip-filled beauty salon when you accidentally stumble across a map that outlines the path to the legendary fountain of youth.

25. Out of Paradise: You just got kicked out of heaven. Now what?

26. The Crossing Guards: The crossing guards at a busy intersection of the city do more than just help the living humans walk across the street.

27. Second Chance at Life: At a hospital on one stormy night, the souls of two patients agree to swap places when it becomes obvious neither one will ever be able to return to the life they once knew.

28. The Cowboy and The Witch: He is an outlaw from the wild, wild west and she's a witch from the Old Country.

29. The False Light Gods: A group of evil entities attempt to trick people into believing they are the good guys by disguising themselves as saints, angels, gods, and goddesses.

30. Utopian Anarchist Society: Tired of the kingdom's latest . It's time to do something about it and so you begin your plans for creating the perfect utopian anarchist society.

31. Spirit Radio: After a few too many songs come on the radio at random coincidence, you realize you have a gift to communicate with spirits through music.

32. Flying Cupcakes: A little girl is visiting a busy bakery with her nanny when she enters the enchanted kitchen and is whisked away into the land of cupcakes.

33. Cosmic Address: You discover there's a reason the address of your childhood home is 382 Orion Way.

34. The Perfect People: On the outside, they appear to be perfect. Of course, things are never as they actually appear...

35. Soul Fragments: When something tragic happens, it's often said we lose a piece of ourselves. Your task is to travel through different lifetimes to find these lost parts of self to be whole again.

36. The VooDoo Queen: The fraudulent fortune teller makes her living by conning the local superstitious government officials. When they start to become suspicious, she decides to make a run for it through the bayou where she encounters the ghost of the real VooDoo Queen.

37. Ghost Train: Every night, you are awakened by the sound of a train, but the railroad closed down years ago.

38. Trash to Treasure: While exploring an abandoned trash dump location off the coast, a young boy discovers an ancient sword.

39. Planet of Sorrows: It is a place of suffering, brokenness and despair.

40. Reading the Heavens: Each person has a designated star in the sky above. When the stars align, they will be lifted to go home to their true planet.

41. Miners Cove: After a mining village is swallowed by a sinkhole, all traces on the surface disappear, but the civilization continues on in secret for centuries. When modern day explorers come to claim and develop the land, the underground colony must do what they can to protect themselves and their secret world.

42. The Mirror, Cup, and Candle: Legend has it, if you stand in front of a mirror holding a cup and a candle you can jump between dimensions.

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