Topic Brainstorm

Ghost Stories: Horror is one of my favorite genres for film, television, and literature. In my opinion, ghosts and paranormal entities are the most iconic figures for this genre. Although I am not familiar with a lot of classic ghost stories, I am familiar with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Woman in Black. I actually re-watched the movie version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow the other day and it just had such a classic ghost story vibe the whole time. I would like to read other classic ghost stories and also research their origins because seeing the origin of those stories can be great reads as well. I think I would like to retell stories that have sinister entities in them because those are the ones that scare me the most. I would retell them like how remakes of horror movies these days do it and give it modern twists that make it more realistic for readers today. http://www.castleofspirits.com/classic.html

Urban Legends: This topic caught my eye because of my fascination with these types of stories. My previous knowledge of urban legends range from Slenderman to Bloody Mary. I have also watched the movie Urban Legend a long time ago which is a horror movie where the characters get killed in urban legend like ways, but it is actually just a serial killer that is making their deaths look like that. I would definitely like to read about more urban legends from the US and from different countries because I have seen some foreign ones before and those can be terrifying. I would like to retell some of the scarier urban legends because those are the ones that are most memorable to me. I think it would interesting to change the setting of these stories to make it more personal and ultimately more frightening for the reader. http://urbanlegendsonline.com/

Dante’s Inferno: I read Dante's Inferno when I was a senior in high school so I am very familiar with this topic. As I have said in previous posts, this story is one of my favorites due to how vivid it is and how it sticks with you. However, it has been some time since I last read it so some of the details are hazy. I would like to go back into more detail and especially research some of the people that were mentioned since it only gave small descriptions of the people in the version I had. I would ideally want to make this story more modern by incorporating historical figures that came after the original publishing since it is a very old story. I feel that having more recognizable individuals in the layers of Hell could make the story slightly more enjoyable for readers who might have not liked the original. http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html 

The Greek Titans: Honestly, this topic grabbed my attention mostly due to the fact that I do not know much about it and it has a cool name. The only name I recognize from the titans is Cronus. However, I think I would enjoy learning more about them and what role they played in Greek mythology. I think researching how they were overthrown would also be fun to learn about since I am familiar with the gods who did it like Zeus. The stories I would want to retell would most likely be related to the war of titans and how that all went down. Possibly creating a story of the Olympians and their dialogue and "behind the scenes" moves they made to overthrow the titans would be something that would be enjoyable in my opinion. https://www.greek-gods.org/titans.php

(Oceanus at Trevi: Wikimedia Commons)