Well, my own story has finally creeped me out.

Has anyone else been creeped out by their own story?

One particular part in my story involves a doll. My MC finds it in an old house, and is holding it and looking at it when it starts to say "Mama, mama." Because lots of dolls have that battery-powered setting where it talks. She flips out and tears out te battery pack. Guess what the doll keeps doing?
That along with a lot of other random things happening has seriously begun to creep me out. I'm easily scared by horror movies but I never thought that I'd be in the dark and I'd be scared of my own book. Jeez.

That's awesome! It means you're getting it right. You set the scene well, you created enough suspense, you built the terror to the point that the doll without batteries really does creep you out!

If you're creeped out, the reader will be too. Go for it! Keep going!

Want a similar story that's actually hilariously real? And hilarious?

When I was little, my brother was about 18, and we all lived in this super-creepy house. Late one night, he came in while everyone else was asleep. He was trying to be quiet, and was searching on the mantle for his cigarettes. His hand happened to touch a particular box which suddenly broke the night.

"MAMMA!! MAMMA!! MAMMA!!!"

My brother let out quite a colorful array of words THAT night! XD

(My mom had taken my doll's voice box out in order to wash her. It was just bad luck that my brother came across it. XD )

It took me a while, and I wouldn't say I was totally creeped out, as much as wondering where the heck the scene had come from. My main character was walking through the city looking for the rest of the group and I was talking about all the bodies she saw in the streets. After going into detail (with the MC imagining all this happening) about how they all died, she stepped on something that went crunch and it turned out it was a small child's finger. She was understandably horrified. It was a nice 500 words or so, too.

I like yours, though! Dolls are just inherently creepy, talking/moving ones even more so. I remember my sister had this talking Barney doll when we were younger and when the batteries started to die it would glitch and randomly start speaking. It was terrifying at night, even though he was saying stuff like 'I love you' and all that. Not something a kid wants to hear suddenly in a dark room late at night. o.O

Mine creeps me out because the antagonist is a poltergeist and when I mentioned it for the first time, the fan art my girlfriend did of it fell down from my wall without any kind of provocation. That very second.

So yes, that was rather spooky.

It's done. It's exploding with sequel potentials. The end, they all barely survived, all the dangers are still there, the only hope is a very fragile human hope when all the dangers are larger than life. I'm still coming down from the shivers of Method Writing feeling with my POV characters and recognizing the exhilaration of "It worked!"

Yeah at certain points. my story only has certain points of horror sadly. and one bit i meant to be scary every time i think of it it makes me laugh a lot. thats probably not good but theres no way i want to cut that. i wish there was more scariness and one huge things at the end but its not happening:(

Yeah, I have a scary part based on an actual experience where you think you are seeing someone out of the corner of your eye watching you, like peeking around a corner from the hallway, but then you realize it left, so you assume it was someone you live with and go ask what they were wanting, but they all swear they were not looking from the hall, had not been anywhere near the hall, and all have definite things they'd been doing in other rooms. You are left with an image from the visitor that is distinct, yet you didn't actually stare right at it and truly see it.

I'm used to a very ordinary reality that never has any bizarre supernatural stuff going on, so this was unsettling, but I sort of went on with life and didn't get bothered by it. Now that I've written a scene in my novel that is based on this eerie encounter, I have some uneasiness around that hallway and the dark there. I seem to be shrugging it off, trying to just think of the 99.9% of the time when day to day life is predictable and lacks even a hint of a ghost. I just can't quick keep from being creeped out once in a while.

I wrote a scene early on when the character had looking at herself in her mother's mirror, thinking about this and that, before going to bed. When she moves to blow out the candle she sees something move in her mother's mirror in the instant before the candle goes out, "plunging the room into darkness."

About two seconds after I wrote that my phone went off, scaring the bejesus out of me. I'm pretty sure I let out a yelp. Just my mom, calling to say goodnight.

I wrote a short story about a house filled with ragdolls; hanging from the ceiling, sitting on furniture, laying on the ground, etc.. I have no idea where it came from, I kinda just threw a character into the scene and wrote. It was seriously creeping me out, which is saying something.

I also wrote another short story a few days ago about a guy with paranoid schizophrenia, whom I trapped in the bathroom. He ended up breaking the mirror on account of seeing a deformed self, punched a few holes in the wall to let out frustration and anger, had a 1,223-word long panic attack, and ended up killing himself by bashing his head on the edge of the sink repeatedly. [The voices, man. The voices.]
^ Now that one had to have scared me the most...

Oh my god, I was finally creeped out by my story WHEN THE MC FOUND A CREEPY DOLL! It appeared under her pillow in fact. It's a Blair Witch style figurine, so not quite a doll, but still.

Shivers on the back of the neck, for sure. And turned on an extra light. I'm ridiculous. ;)

I've gotten really creeped out by my horror scenes. Right now I'm in the middle of (read: running away from) a really creepy scene, wherein my possessed FMC goes into a stiff catatonic state, all her joints bent in odd angles, mouth hanging open, eyes black. Her brother is shaking her and screaming at her to snap out of it, but instead of answering or waking up, she lets out these clicking noises and growls- mind you, her mouth isn't moving at all. Then he starts running away, scared, and my FMC turns only her head to look at him, and starts laughing and screaming like a banshee.

GAH I just scared myself again by writing that ^^

It does not help that it's the middle of the night and there's not one soul awake in my house.

Yeah, truly and honestly that's why I stopped writing my NaNo, it was so freaky ;-; and I don't scare easily.

I hate dolls. Anything doll is creepy to e(OK, except that time my sister's middle school drama class ripped off the head of the baby doll she brought in for a play. That was hilarious. Especially when we put "Jimmy" 's head in the back window of the car and it turned black.)

I have a realistic story of somethign similar to the original post happening. Anyone remember Furbys? Those stupid little furry creatures that talked and made weird noises? Yeah, we had an old one. My prents decided to turn it on one day, and it wouldn't shut up(No off buttons). eventually it got to the point where we decided just to let the battery burn out. 3 days, and it was still going, with really creepy dying nosies mixed in and smellign of overheated motor. We took the batteries out. That thing still spoke for about an hour o-o