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Let's Play: Create 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 shirt color 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!
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and shirt color 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 mystery title? Share it with us in the comments!
Check out the complete coverage of Mystery & Thriller Week:
Top 100 Mysteries & Thrillers on Goodreads
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Apr 05, 2019 07:50AM
The body at the abandoned amusement park
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Murder in the Emergency Room.Very cool - what better place to get away with a murder?!
"The Devil on Flight 42" lol That sounds like it could be a real title!
The Shadow in the Vitamin Aisle. Dun dun dunnnnn.
The Shadow in The Swamp...doesn't scream bestseller, but maybe an okay book to kill time ahahaha
the woman in the panic room . . . lmao goodreads really out here exposing every other mystery / thriller title
The Devil in the LandfillDemons.
Murder.
Garbage.
The Widow in the Wardrobe.(Mi mente ha volado a la imagen de un cadaver en el armario XD)
The Shadow in the elevator! I would read it
Dude.. who put the vitamin aisle there?
"Murder under the stairs" ... doesn't sound too bad
The Widow at the Car Wash. Can't wait for it to come out!
The Body in the Broom Closet!Well sounds interesting. lol
The Widow in the Cemetery.What I wore out today would be;
The body in the Cemetery.
Weird how well those turned out.
lol - The Liar in the Emergency Room - Sounds scary! Imagine, a nefarious doctor with evil intentions...
Konstantin wrote: "The Liar in the Swampa southern gothic mystery-lite"
Mine too! I can't imagine what there is to lie about in a swamp, can you?
*The Shadow At the Carwash.
Tagline: Something is getting clean but it can never lose its darkness. lol
