HORROR TROPES

Creaky Doors

Lighting

Shifting bookcase

Cemetery

Foggy night

Rainy night

Violin – creepy music

Rising trumpet

Sleeping alone at night

Separated 

Character stepping out of the dark 

Walking down mysterious stairways

Creepy house owner

Jump scares

Abandoned houses

Stupid victims

The hunch

Startled by an image of yourself in the mirror

Fake scares 

Dracula inspiration; Bela Lugosi

Touching you’re not supposed to

Damsel in distress

Never show the monster – tell them about a bomb don’t show them 

Creepy kids 

Chair at the window

Rituals (scientific or cultish)