Planning A Scary Story

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Planning a Scary Story

Use the basic structure of ‘The Curse of Cogston House’ to plan your own scary story. You can
choose whether to include a happy ending or a scary one!

The Curse of Cogston House Scary Story My Story:


Main characters are doing
Jack and Luca are in the
something quite normal
park. They venture into
but make a decision to do
Cogston House.
something differently.

The spooky setting is


They explore the house.
described in detail.

Jack tells Luca a story about A story is told about


a girl who was trapped by something mysterious which
the house. happened in the past.
The characters explore
The boys explore the house
the setting and find clues
further and find clocks,
which remind them of the
which remind them of
mysterious event from
the story.
their story.
Something happens which
Jack is mesmerised by one of
makes us think that the
the clocks and begins to act
mysterious event is going to
like the girl in the story.
happen again.

Happy ending: Happy ending:

The main characters manage


Luca hears a creak and
to escape the setting before
pulls Jack out of the
the mysterious event can
house. They both run home.
happen again.

Scary ending: Scary ending:

Luca is distracted and Jack


disappears. A hunched figure The mysterious event happens
shuffles down the stairs. again. The story ends with
Luca escapes. We can assume a final event which suggests
that the boys’ story will that this will keep on
end the same way as the happening again and again.
previous tale.

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