Maybe I'm Just a Little Screwed up, but...

    Oh boy, aren't scary stories the best? They're like, the only place where you can put the most sick, twisted, messed up scenarios that your mind can come up with and it be socially acceptable. Maybe I might just take Mr. Thomas up on this challenge and actually write a scary story of my own hmmm...
    If I had to pick some of the things that Edgar Allen Poe used in The Fall of the House of Usher and implement them into my story, for one I would totally hint at subtle incest. Maybe even not so subtle, oops.You can't have a good story without a little family lovin', I mean, even Disney movies have it! (If you don't believe me, watch/re-watch Frozen and then try to tell me that there's no sexual tension between Elsa and Ana wow)

    I also would totally use some kind of mental illness on at least one of my characters. Something like Schizophrenia or Diogenes syndrome which causes one to neglect self health (most hoarders suffer from this), or Hybristophilia, where the person is attracted to criminals, yeah that one could work. Mental illnesses can be creepy, especially ones that cause physical defects. I mean watch a couple episodes of American Horror Story: Asylum and try and tell me otherwise.

     Another thing I liked was the setting, I would definitely make the main setting somewhere creepy and haunted. Like somewhere with a history of murders or next to a cemetery or a crematorium (like the one in The Return of the Living Dead, oh yeah) Maybe I'd make people start disappearing or MAYBE A BUNCH OF CREEPY GHOST CHILDREN SINGING IN MONOTONE WILL RANDOMLY APPEAR WHAT I MIGHT CRY THAT'S SCARY RIGHT THERE.

    Which brings me to another thing I'd borrow from Poe, the undead! Whether it's vampires, zombies, ghosts, spirits, there has to be some sort of connection with the other side. I think maybe a creepy seance scene will summon the creepy dead kids, led by an insane old woman who makes potions and does voodoo or something. (Sorry, I'm on season 3 of American Horror story and I'm really obsessed with it if you can't tell from the obscene amount of references that I make to it and ideas I take from it)

     One more thing I like that Edgar Allen Poe did was that the main character had to stick around. I've got to have some super important circumstance that forces our buddy to not leave the creepy haunted place with undead things and mentally unstable people and siblings gettin' it on.
     If I could change anything that Poe did, I'd modernize it a bit. Throw something in there about no cell service, that's pretty scary, right? Also blood. So much more blood. Buckets and buckets and bathtubs of blood, gallons of the stuff! (hehe, cue song reference)
    In all, Poe has some pretty solid ideas in his stories, good job, Poe! *claps* I feel like I could make a pretty legitimate scary story using his ideas and now I'm seriously contemplating this dang wow. Ok yes cue amazing ending statement.