Quickstart guide & FAQ
Seven steps from blank page to model-ready prompt. Takes about two minutes once you've done it once.
The dropdown at the top of panel 1 sets the wording style of your prompt — ChatGPT, Meta AI, Nano Banana, Gemini, Midjourney (experimental), or Generic. It never changes your creative choices, only how the prompt talks to the model.
Choose an aspect ratio (1:1, 16:9, 9:16), tap an artistic style pill (Cinematic horror still, Gothic oil painting, …), and leave High Resolution on unless you want a lighter touch.
Flip on Use Reference Image(s) if you'll attach images in your image AI — the tool never sees or uploads them; it just adds wording telling the AI to use your attachments. Add Strict Feature Lock to ask the AI to preserve recognizable identity — with anatomy guidance written for monsters and apparitions as well as people.
New here? Hit ✦ Surprise Me first for a fresh combinatorial pick — see what the tool can do, then tweak any choice. Or pick one of 14 scenes (haunted house, vampire tale, cosmic horror, slasher night, …) and the focus, subject, setting, wardrobe, mood, treatment, palette, and signature detail refine themselves around it. Your custom text, target AI, and toggles are never overwritten.
An untouched ingredient adds nothing to the prompt. If you want the image AI to decide something, check Random — let the AI decide explicitly. Blank and Random are different choices.
Type title or rune wording exactly as it should appear — spelling, caps, everything. The prompt will demand that exact text and forbid the AI from inventing other headlines.
Copy Prompt grabs the model-ready text; Copy Title + Prompt adds the creative title on top. Paste into your image AI (and attach any reference images there). The title is yours for browsing and sharing — it's never printed on the image.
The engine is written for chills, not gore — fear through atmosphere, lighting, shadow, and suggestion, never graphic violence. That keeps prompts inside image-AI safety bounds, so generations don't get refused. Human figures are always written with sympathy: terror in their eyes, never harm to their bodies.
The prompt always carries your ratio choice — 16:9 is the default, and switching to Square or Portrait updates the wording. But the ratio is a request in the prompt text, not a command: your image AI's own size setting has the final word, and some models ignore prompt-text ratios entirely. For a guaranteed ratio, also set the size/aspect control inside your image AI to match.
No. It's a prompt generator — it writes copyable plain text you paste into your own image AI (ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gemini, whatever you use). No images are uploaded, processed, or generated here.
No. The reference toggle only inserts wording instructing the receiving AI to use images you attach over there. Nothing leaves your browser except the prompt text itself.
Identity and anatomy — recognizable faces, defining markings, and creature-appropriate bodies. Dragons keep their wings, tails, and claws; people keep credible hands and proportions. It does not freeze the pose, outfit, expression, or camera angle; those stay free unless you specifically ask for them.
No. The anatomy guidance is written per-being: humans get human-coherent bodies, and monsters, ghosts, and unnatural beings are explicitly described with the translucency, extra limbs, fangs, and impossible joints their horror calls for — while keeping every form structurally sound.
Blank means the ingredient is skipped entirely. Random is a deliberate instruction telling the image AI to choose that ingredient itself. Use blank to keep prompts short, Random to invite serendipity.
Each scene carries its own curated banks — the focus list, and often the subject, wardrobe, and detail choices, follow the scene so you never get impossible combos (like a cosmic horror scene offering carnival performer costumes).
Never. It re-rolls scene, focus, and the creative ingredient checkboxes, but your exact lettering, additional directions, target AI, aspect ratio, style, and toggles are preserved.
Browsing, organizing, and sharing. It's generated from your selections but is not an instruction to put that text on the image. Want words on the image? Use the exact lettering field.
Midjourney interprets structured prompts, reference details, lettering, and aspect-ratio directions differently from the chat-style image AIs. The wording is a starting point — expect to adjust parameters inside Midjourney.
Yes, but expect more scrolling. Best experienced on desktop or tablet.
Freely. Your prompts are yours — inspect them, edit them, post them, no credit needed.
The tool's fine — your image AI is repeating itself. When you generate several images in the same chat, the model starts copying its own earlier work. Open a fresh chat window, or try the prompt in a different image AI, and you'll get fresh results.
Your image AI stopped reading. After several images in the same chat, the model can latch onto a picture it made earlier and keep re-rendering that scene — even when your new prompt describes something completely different. Open a fresh chat, paste the same prompt, and you'll get the image you actually asked for.