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Let's Play: How To Make An Ominous-Sounding Mystery Title
Mainstream mystery titles have the uncanny ability to turn the ordinary into the ominous. Like a macabre version of Mad Libs, sometimes all a title needs is a combination of a person and a place to achieve maximum foreboding. The Body in the Library, The Couple Next Door, and The Woman in the Window are all prime examples of this. And if you want to turn the terror up a notch, you can never go wrong with adding the word "girl" to let readers know that trouble isn't too far away.
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
What's your bestselling mystery title? Share it with us in the comments!
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
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The Stalker in the Swamp. It kind of sounds like a Goosebumps book or something of the sort.
Death in the Wardrobe.
Bum bum buuuuum.
Bum bum buuuuum.
The Devil in Room No. 8, the story of Lucy Ferre, who lived in a hotel, luring her prey to their gruesome but ironic fates, one of her victims ended up liking Ed Sheeran!
The stalker in the broom closet! Sounds like a classic.
evil at the car dealership-------sounds like an autobiography
The Imposter in the Wardrobe. Wowee:))):):))/&2/!
Murder in the Landfill.Already sounds a best selling novel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Widow at the DMV." Have you ever been there? Go in for a simple license renewal - a day later and you're still there; or I could be "The Corpse at the DMV". Either way, it's not looking good. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Dante's last words after passing through those doors.
With OUR DMV it should be "The Psychopath at the DMV"
The Devil at the DMV....so a typical visit, then.
Amy wrote: "The Devil at the DMV....so a typical visit, then."
Exactly!!
The Shadow in the Wardrobefunny, I used to go by Shadow online
Tahera wrote: "The Liar at the Farmer's Market.....Loll we all know who that would be :P" That is mine also!
Karainna wrote: "The slaughter at the farmer's market"Or the farmer at the slaughterhouse?
"Murder at the Farmer's Market" -- why is this so spot on. I can't. XD
The Devil in the Vitamin Aisle. Some kind of pharmacist slasher?? :')
Evil in the Wardrobe...Exactly what I think every time I put on a pair of jeans and have had to suck in my stomach to fasten them.
The Stalker at the DMV . . . kinda lame but funny.
Murder Under the Stairs - I like it, though it sounds like a Harry Potter book gone wrong!
The Stalker in the Emergency RoomSounds Interesting!
The widow in the elevator... I could make that work :D
The widow in the meat locker!Ooh now this feels lke one of those gory and gruesome ones!
Definitely would read this one.
Maybe it's like a C.S. Lewis wardrobe.