Trevor Collins

and then I could slap them all in a book, say I wrote them, and voila, instant cash.

My first prompt was pretty vague.

Write a horror story.

ChatGPT spit out something pretty generic, but it was actually better than I expected it to be.

On a dark and stormy night, Sarah was sitting home alone.

Suddenly, she heard a knock at the door.

She opened it to find a man standing on the porch.

Something about him looked off, and she realized it was because he was smiling too wide.

I won't bore you with the rest of the story, but basically, the lights went out in a conveniently timed blackout, and then he killed her.

Not good enough, but also not terrible.

So I decided to try again, and be a little bit more specific with my prompt.

Write a horror story about a doppelganger.

On a dark and stormy night, a young woman named Emily was watching TV home alone.

She heard a footstep outside the window.

When she looked up, she saw a woman looking in the window.

However, the woman looked just like her, except the bloody gash on her head.

I read on and began to smile.

It wasn't just good.

It was great.

Heart-raising scenes with the doppelganger stalking her through the house, a final twist where the injured doppelganger was actually coming to warn the main character about her impending death?