Need Ideas for a horror school story

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You know the basic idea in a horror school story terrible incidents occurred at school Mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders mostly the stuff of bad memories and ghost stories… our heroes think it's a good idea to test these stories and are dragged into an inner dimension of hell by the ruthless psychopathic ghost who's main goal in life was being her bullies sole murderer.(And killing other innocent people along the way) Eventually through her interactions within the protagonists she begins to show a kinder and sweeter side behind closed doors and frees them

I know it kind of sounds like corpse party
 

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Sounds like you have your basic idea right there. Are you looking for something specific? General advice is often less useful than specific, especially in relatively narrow cases like this. Are you looking for ideas to make the haunting "come to life" or for character sketches, or what?
 

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I was playing with the idea of a girl dying under horrific circumstances. Yet after that happens she becomes a ghost (or demon) and doesn't realize it at first. Instead, she's so strong that not even her parents noticed anything is off when she came home as usual and continues going about her daily life as usual. The reveal could then be that she has a violent reaction to having died, is in denial, or simply refuses to move on. Continuing from here, she could part-time take on the role of a school legend (the kind that leads to death or worse, yet trying to give it her own tune to this existence (maybe not being as deadly).
A reason why she= has to take on that role could be that she needs the faith of students to maintain her form as an energy source.
 

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Sounds like you have your basic idea right there. Are you looking for something specific? General advice is often less useful than specific, especially in relatively narrow cases like this. Are you looking for ideas to make the haunting "come to life" or for character sketches, or what?
More like the ghost is not some psycho killer but is specifically targeting only bullies...until the delinquent hero ends up telling her the news that the oppressive government has repurposed the school to selectively kill all trouble makers, delinquent etc and put the blame on the ghost

So in exchange of not getting killed he has to help her find a way to overthrow the government
I was playing with the idea of a girl dying under horrific circumstances. Yet after that happens she becomes a ghost (or demon) and doesn't realize it at first. Instead, she's so strong that not even her parents noticed anything is off when she came home as usual and continues going about her daily life as usual. The reveal could then be that she has a violent reaction to having died, is in denial, or simply refuses to move on. Continuing from here, she could part-time take on the role of a school legend (the kind that leads to death or worse, yet trying to give it her own tune to this existence (maybe not being as deadly).
A reason why she= has to take on that role could be that she needs the faith of students to maintain her form as an energy source.
Huh I was also using this idea well partially,she becomes a unstoppable pshyco killer until she accidentally attends her own funeral and is kind of moved by how much her family (most of them anyways) care about her and the unfairness of her death makes her trap herself in the school out of guilt (unfortunately it's kind of hard to study while killing bullies)

She is royally pissed off when she finds out that the government purposefully made her fail for 30 years to let her do their dirty job
 
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You know the basic idea in a horror school story terrible incidents occurred at school Mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders mostly the stuff of bad memories and ghost stories… our heroes think it's a good idea to test these stories and are dragged into an inner dimension of hell by the ruthless psychopathic ghost who's main goal in life was being her bullies sole murderer.(And killing other innocent people along the way) Eventually through her interactions within the protagonists she begins to show a kinder and sweeter side behind closed doors and frees them

I know it kind of sounds like corpse party
Ideas, ideas...
I have a few.

The Halls of Wood: a rather simple, unassuming name, any student who walks through these halls must make it to the end, or they turn into the bare pine that makes up the floors and walls. Slowly petrifying, starting at a random point and spreading out from there, they must hope they get there before their brain is turned to wood. You have to hope you get lucky, and that it starts near your toes, rather than going for the jugular or the head immediately. That can put a twisted dilemma in the hands of the protagonists, where one of their friends is unlucky. The wood petrification started on that friend's head. So they start to drag them around, desperately trying to find the entrance as their legs grow stiffer, and harden into whorls of plainly cut heart wood. Do they leave them behind or risk both of their lives to save their friend? And in these empty halls, near the end of this plainly built, rustic maze, they find all of the students who tried to save their friends instead of saving themselves have turned fully wooden. And are slowly, painfully, tunneled into by termites. Their eyes (those of the victims) are still moving flesh, though raw and reddened by splinters. The holes still leak blood. And there is nothing that can be done to help them.

Burning Ire and Eyes: The manifestation of the psychopath ghost whenever she passes by, black eyes with electronic white lines open and bulge out into the spaces of the school, swelling like pustules about to be popped. The invisible remnant that she is, she is fond of continuously and repeatedly waterboarding you... into the burning, molten juices of these eyeballs. Your head will crack through the hard outer layer of these eyeballs, which breaks like an alien shell. The insides of these eyes are like uncomfortably hot tar to the touch of your face. It sticks to you while searing your skin and gives you the feeling of drowning. It's a demented, surreal replica of the waterboarding her bullies gave to her.

Sock puppets: This is more of a twisted comedy more than anything, but ~Beware of the Laundry Baskets~ She left a few around, and those who touch them will be ambushed by smelly gym socks with googly eyes which will force themselves onto your hands and feet. These will puppet you into viscerally crushing your friends, breaking your hands in the process. Once no one is around, the socks will contort you until your bones crack and your limbs separate. Then they will force-feed your own limbs to you until your digestive system breaks. Boom. Fleshy rupture.
 

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You know the basic idea in a horror school story terrible incidents occurred at school Mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders mostly the stuff of bad memories and ghost stories… our heroes think it's a good idea to test these stories and are dragged into an inner dimension of hell by the ruthless psychopathic ghost who's main goal in life was being her bullies sole murderer.(And killing other innocent people along the way) Eventually through her interactions within the protagonists she begins to show a kinder and sweeter side behind closed doors and frees them

I know it kind of sounds like corpse party
Try reading “reincarnated as a ghost in a horror game”
 

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puberty but beneath the skin is an insect much larger than the host body
That sounds fun!
For fun, I'm going try to think of how the insect connects to her!
Would it be the psychopathic alienness of, say, an assassin bug?
Or maybe a symbolism of... well, a moth. Which would imply a very dark tone of prostitution.
I think a wasp would fit with her rage best though!

So in a hypothetical, the teens turn into wasps.
I wonder how that would work, story-wise. After all, there must be a cause in addition to it being caused by the unstoppable ghost girl. Maybe it works because of a locker she was locked in (Taylor Hebert/Skitter style?) releases bad vibes?
Horror story: Someone sits down on the toilet, poops, reaches for the toilet paper only to find an empty roll...
The horror!
 

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You know the basic idea in a horror school story terrible incidents occurred at school Mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders mostly the stuff of bad memories and ghost stories… our heroes think it's a good idea to test these stories and are dragged into an inner dimension of hell by the ruthless psychopathic ghost who's main goal in life was being her bullies sole murderer.(And killing other innocent people along the way) Eventually through her interactions within the protagonists she begins to show a kinder and sweeter side behind closed doors and frees them

I know it kind of sounds like corpse party

How about a ghost of the past WW2?

More likely, the ghost of a man, who had endured the unfairness the world had given to Germany till 1941 when he brutally murdered several Americans and Jews. He now stood there, up on the school roof built above the land of a manor in the past. The year is 20xx, and he's still being racist.

Sometimes, students heard gunshots ringing in the hallways. Sometimes, there was a loud scream spoken as if it came from an infuriated man. Sometimes, Jews were passing out in the restroom, with marks showing up on their neck, like they fainted because someone was choking them. And sometimes... A dead janitor carrying the Stripe & Star on was found next to the Headmaster's office.

And so... A good Christian boy named Niel and a Jewish boy Alreim stumbled upon a Luger in the school's yard.


That's when they started being stalked by a vengeful soldier.

That's when they knew they were going to be dead soon.


Hans will never rest...

Title (Who knows you need it): Unappreciated.
 

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A boy that get bully so bad he want to curse the school, and everyone in it, he start out by burry his body part one at a time each of the contain so much hatred that they themselves turn into an entities and you can't kill them for good because as long as one part exist they would return...
The only way to end the nightmare is to destroy them all in one day!
But mc don't know howmany part are burry or hidden!
It could be 5 it could be 100 it can be a nail, hair, a finger a hand an eye, a lung anything!!! Because the hatred so deep that the boy don't realize he himself already dead and that even though he become a ghost he still burry each part of his body until there is nothing left.
Each body part then have different effect on their environment, for example you can't breath near the lung, your heart will stop within a certain amount of time if you are close to the heart!
You can only smell blood if you close to the nose, you can't use your finger if they near by, and the area zone can overlap wandering around without care would end your life very fast!
But there is hint, near the body part there is diary just like any victim, the boy try to reach for help try to let someone know but he fail and each diary is an incident that give the body part it effect example the reason the nose only smell blood is because when he get beaten that all he smell, the lung can't breath... because it was destroy by one of the bully!!!
He give back the suffering, he want to share it!!
And the only way to end this is by suffer just like him and destroy all body part, they found gis body but it missing alot (this is up to you on how many ghost you want)
 

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What if the government and staff know the school is haunted so they are actively sending juvenile criminals, delinquents,at risk students etc to that school specifically so that they will be killed and the government doesn't need to deal with them

Note it's an oppressive government
 

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I was playing with the idea of a girl dying under horrific circumstances. Yet after that happens she becomes a ghost (or demon) and doesn't realize it at first. Instead, she's so strong that not even her parents noticed anything is off when she came home as usual and continues going about her daily life as usual. The reveal could then be that she has a violent reaction to having died, is in denial, or simply refuses to move on. Continuing from here, she could part-time take on the role of a school legend (the kind that leads to death or worse, yet trying to give it her own tune to this existence (maybe not being as deadly).
A reason why she= has to take on that role could be that she needs the faith of students to maintain her form as an energy source.
That's actually pretty cool. Permission to put this in my idea bank?
 

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You know the basic idea in a horror school story terrible incidents occurred at school Mysterious accidents, disappearances, and murders mostly the stuff of bad memories and ghost stories… our heroes think it's a good idea to test these stories and are dragged into an inner dimension of hell by the ruthless psychopathic ghost who's main goal in life was being her bullies sole murderer.(And killing other innocent people along the way) Eventually through her interactions within the protagonists she begins to show a kinder and sweeter side behind closed doors and frees them

I know it kind of sounds like corpse party
You can use the novel Ghost Story Club as a base, then go from there.
 
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