Writing an Asian Horror Novel

I'll be honest, guys. I enjoy horror stuff in a weird way. I get terrified by them; yet, I find a lot of them clever and pretty fascinating at the same time.

I'm currently writing a small story for fun that tries its best to try being original. It's loosely based on a ghost story that my mom told me about when I was pretty young. It's also based slightly on a Korean myth/legend. As you probably know (if you watched Spirited Away), most Asian spirit tales are highly original. The Japanese spirits are known for having frog and other animal spirits. Despite this heavily opposing Christian belief (as these spirits are from ancient Asian religions), I thought it would be interesting to add in a story based on a Korean spirit. While Japanese spirits tend to be focuse around animals, Korea's were a bit different and revolved around humanly spirits, often children.

My ghost is based on a Korean ghost known as the "egg-faced ghost." It's an ancient ghost tale that explains of a young Korean girl spirit with no face. I found my mom's own creative story with this ghost in it largely inspirational towards my own short story.

I already wrote a script for it when I was in high school. I've been wanting to create this story, but I also found it a cliche with the Ring and Grudge. So rather than a video-based work, I moved on towards writing a story. The ability to use words to terrify readers is a unique thing that I have personally never experienced.

I currently need to look for my script again (it's stored in my old computer. I never reopened it yet D. I'll be sure to post up the script online once I manage to find it again. I found the story to be quite nicely written, with scare tactics based on its own creepy feel of it. But again, I also found it to still be very similar with the Ring and Grudge.

This has been a story I've been working on for 3 years now, and I plan to continue improving it, so when I pursue my dream of actually becoming a screenwriter, I can create an independent film on it.

I'll update this thread as soon as I can retrieve that script.

P.S.- I never read horror novels before, but being that I have much time in my hand now that I have such privilege, can anyone give me some great classic horror novels? I plan on getting I Am Legend by Richard Matheson as soon as possible. Any other great horror novels that can give me some great read at night would be greatly appreciated. Thanks =)

This is the very first page of my story. I just recently started writing it.

It was raining. The dark brown clouds hovered gloomily on the black sky as they dropped thick water droplets the size of hail to the murky grounds below. The street was empty, as it was approaching midnight. The nearby street lamps were down, making it near impossible to see what was ahead or behind. But close to the lamps was a school equally as black as the skies. The walls of the building were soaked with dots of water, but a small ray of light shone from each window. Then, there was a low hum that was an attempt to make out a random song.

It was a Wednesday night, and the janitor had much work to do. Despite the cold mist spraying within the school’s windows, the man was sweating. He was a man of age. Wiping his brows with his dirt-covered clothes, he looked around the classrooms. Inside each room, there was an identical manner of organization. The tables were neatly placed apart from each other, and the chairs on top of them. Room after room, the janitor turned off the lights. After this job was done, he prepared to leave. But then there was a minor noise coming from one of the classrooms.

Slowly walking past each room again, the janitor took his time. Finally, he stopped when he saw something different from one of the rooms. There was a girl in a ragged, white school dress writing on the desk in a classroom. Her long, black hair covered her face, while her pale arm was moving slowly as she wrote. The janitor called out to her.
“Hey. It’s really late. I think you should leave now.”
The girl did not look up or change her movement pattern.
“Little girl. Did you hear what I said?”
She continued her writing.
Annoyed and frustrated, the janitor approached her slowly and took a deep breath when he finally reached her desk. He made a motion to grab her arm and said,” Little girl..?”
Suddenly, the girl turned around. The janitor shrieked.
The girl had no face.

Wow, what you've written is awesome. A very interesting story! =)

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Though I dont read horro novels and stories, yours sounds good.

Can i get a signed copy when you get this awsome story published?

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if you want a Horror classick novel...um....wow I dont know one. But um...to get a feel of a horror based novel and how its made you may wanna look at clasick Horrror movies. That are REALLY good, Saw1-4 arent considered Horror but they are creepy, they`ve got a good plot, maybe you can get some idead off them