I woke up cold, clutching the dress she was buried in. “I can’t sleep” she whispered, crawling into bed with me. –Author Unknown (reddit account deleted since posting)
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Unless it’s 3am, you’re alone in the house and you don’t have children. There’s nothing like the laughter of a child. As I adjusted to a new position, my arm brushed against my wife, sleeping next to me. I awoke to the sound of the baby monitor crackling with a voice comforting my firstborn child. As you are heading down the stairs you hear a whisper from the closet saying “Don’t go down there honey, I heard it too.” –0rvi_13, via Reddit You hear your mom calling you into the kitchen. So just for fun, I took some of my faves and produced them into short audio pieces! I figured some of these would make great sub-minute radio dramas. Now the internet seems to flooded with them and I absolutely love it! They’re probably some of the most creative pieces of writing I’ve ever read. Two Sentence Horror Stories airs Thursdays on The CW, and is also available to stream on-demand on The CW app.The creative trend of Two-Sentence Horror Stories spawned from a thread that was posted to Reddit over eight years ago. You really get to look into a lot of different worlds, and fears, all in one season.” It’s more like a short story collection where each is a standalone. “I think the show itself has its own vibe, based on the literary device, that is very distinguishing and defines the structure of the episodes themselves. “I think frankly a lot of our stories are so condensed, it’s a skill and a challenge - and a good one - to make sure we get to make complex characters, put them through their paces, and do it in a condensed time frame,” she explained. To make Two Sentence Horror Stories stand out from the Black Mirrors, Into the Darks, Twilight Zones and other anthology horror shows all on the air, Miao said they tried to lean into a shorter half-hour runtime (most anthologies typically run one-hour per episode) and literary premise (the show is literally based on two sentence horror stories, which are introduced and framed at the open and close of each episode). “When you acknowledge there are fears and dreads and horrors, external and internal, and when you combine those and make them very specific a lot of stories open up for you,” she explained. Looking back at the first season, Miao said they’ve tried to tackle some modern social issues through the lens of horror along the way - but first and foremost the goal has been to keep the story and characters at the forefront, then figure out how those elements intersect with the world we know. It’s our take on a contemporary fable, basically, set in an urban environment."Ĭheck out an exclusive first look at “Little Monsters” below: “When one of them is snared by this demon … the two friends go on a journey to try and rescue their friend.
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“It is a little bit inspired by the classic adventure tropes in horror, and it centers on three young kids who live in a housing project, which is essentially the hunting ground for a demon who eats children,” she explained. The new season wraps up on Thursday night with the episode “Little Monsters,” (next week’s episode will be a compilation of previously released online shorts) a story Miao told SYFY WIRE serves as an homage to adventure horror and the concept of a modern fable. The CW dipped its toe into the crowded anthology horror field this summer with the half-hour drama Two Sentence Horror Stories, and with the season coming to an end, we caught up with executive producer Vera Miao to show off a first look at the season’s final new horror story.