SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS PART 10:

MONSTERS

SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS

MONSTERS
ZOMBIES

Corporations capture zombies and force them to work

retail
Every time they eat a human, they get smarter
As the zombie menace grows, the government begs the
scientific community for solutions. One scientist has an
unusual plan: bring back the dinosaurs. One
tyrannosaurus rex versus an army of the undead.
The members of a cult are rather disappointed by the
afterlife: eternity as a flesh-eating zombie
The zombies are all former celebrities
The government spends decades fighting the zombie
menace, but it just gets worse. One day, a telepathic
NSA agent discovers something horrifying: the zombies
are thinking.
Due to a food shortage, the zombies are captured and
eaten by the living
A tobacco company invents a new cigarette that doesnt
cause cancer or heart disease. It does make you one of
the undead, but at least you get to smoke

 As the number of zombies grows, the folks in

Washington wonder if they should be given the right to
vote.
When the government goes to war with a tiny, Middle
Eastern country, the soldiers run into a little problem: no
matter how many times they shoot the enemy, they
keep getting back up.
A pet store is exposed to chemical weapons, killing the
animals inside. The shop clerk is frightened to find that
the animals dont know theyre dead
A woman is forced to give up her baby for adoption.
Twenty years later, her son sets off in search of his birth
mother. Unfortunately, hes been dead for six months
Radiation brings the figures at a wax museum to life,
and they menace the surrounding town. Things get
much worse when the wax figures discover that
covering corpses in wax brings them to life, as well.
An actor in a low-budget zombie movie discovers that
his costars are actual zombies being controlled by the
director.
VAMPIRES

Vampirism is the latest sexually transmitted disease

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military releases
vampires into enemy territory
Vampires have their own religion if you convert, you
become one.

 Vampirism is spread by infected leeches, making surfing

and partying at the beach a very dangerous lifestyle.
When a vampire is elected to Congress, he introduces
some very controversial legislation
An immense spaceship hovers over New York, blocking
out the sun. The towns undead residents take
advantage of their day of darkness.
A vampire sneaks on board a spaceship bound for the
new colonies on Mars.
At a highschool in a wealthy suburb, the cool kids are
known to be vampires. When a shy, awkward girl wants
to join their clique, she has to go through a very painful
initiation.
At a hospital, a nurse is attacked by a vampire, turned
into one of the living dead. She cleans herself up and
returns to her job in the maternity ward
A man visits a brothel with an unusual question: would
any of the girls let him drink their blood?
A teenager becomes a vampire, which stops him from
aging. A few years later, the neighbors are wondering
why he doesnt age, but the vampire refuses to move
out of his parents house.
In the age of sexually transmitted diseases, vampires
must go to great lengths to make sure their victims are
healthy.

 In the distant future, pollution and natural disasters

destroy all of earths trees. The last remaining vampires
celebrate because no wood = no wooden stakes. As the
vampire menace spreads, archeologists search for the
last of the worlds wood.
WEREWOLVES

All women become werewolves for five days each

month.
The ultra-wealthy keep werewolves as exotic pets.
A young couple takes their infant son to a local park,
where he is bitten by what they think is just a dog
The werewolves are mistaken for dogs and accidentally
sold at a pet store.
The story of the photographer for Sexy Werewolves
Monthly, a fetish magazine.
A new babysitter for an unusual family discovers that
the kids can get cranky, especially during a full moon.
A few days each month, a werewolf goes from husband
& Dad to the family dog.
An astronaut crashes on the Planet of the Werewolves,
and its mating season.
A teenage werewolf suspects that her human boyfriend
is cheating on her every full moon.

 While walking home through the park, a stripper is

bitten by a strange, hairy beast. Twenty-eight days later,
she is dancing onstage, and she begins to change.
BIGFOOT

A hunter goes after Bigfoot but ends up falling in love

A reporter for a trashy tabloid goes camping, and
discovers that the Bigfoot creatures are controlling the
government
A reporter discovers that the reason no one has caught
a Bigfoot is that, like werewolves, they spend most of
their lives in human form.
A stressed, single mother struggles to hide the fact that
her son is half-Bigfoot.
The governments deadliest assassin is a giant man-ape
codenamed Bigfoot.
A teenage girls parents are very upset when they meet
their daughters new boyfriend
Sitting in limbo, a woman waits to be reincarnated.
Finally, after years of waiting, she gets to return to
earth as an eight-foot-tall, hairy beast.
LOCH NESS MONSTER

A fisherman tries to kill the monster, to get revenge for

the death of his wife, a mermaid
The Loch Ness Monster is abducted by aliens, and the
Air Force heads into space to bring her back.

 A group of scuba divers searches for the famous

monster, and discovers that it is guarding a cave filled
with pirate gold.
The Loch Ness Monster is caught and cut open. The
fishermen discover that the ancient beast is actually a
disguised Russian submarine.
When the Loch Ness Monster begins eating mermaids,
the government wonders which endangered species
they should save.
A woman visits Scotland, but returns to England without
seeing the monster. What she doesnt realize is that the
monster saw her and followed her home.
A pet store in Scotland begins selling tiny, adorable
lizards. The pets become so popular that they are sold
over the internet and shipped all over the world. Months
later, shocked parents discover that their childrens pets
are growing and growing and growing
NOT SO ORDINARY ANIMALS

Dolphins evolve thumbs, develop technology, and fight

humans for control of earth
Variation As part of the war on drugs, the
government arms thousands of sharks with torpedoes,
mines, and other weapons, training them to attack drugcarrying boats. However, the sharks have their own
ideas
Scientists create three-foot-long mosquitoes; a swarm
drains your blood in seconds.

 A group of monkeys discovers an abandoned cache of

hand grenades
A high school janitor struggles to defend the school
against giant sewer alligators
After ants evolve intelligence, humans are faced with a
startling revelation: they might not be the dominant
species after all.
In order to manufacture spider silk for industrial use,
scientists genetically engineer gigantic super spiders.
An industrial spy, looking for valuable information,
breaks into the lab. To his horror, he soon finds himself
surrounded by spiders the size of office furniture.
Scientists genetically engineer cats that stay kittens
forever, and dogs that remain puppies. They try to
genetically engineer living teddy bears from a mix of
grizzly and polar bear DNA, and things do not go
according to plan
The nations beeches become a very dangerous place to
be when a madman crossbreeds piranhas and flying
fish.
When chameleons begin mating with Komodo dragons, a
small island is menaced by nearly invisible, ten-foot
lizards.
Spinochordodes tellinii, a real parasitic worm that can
cause the grasshoppers it infects to commit suicide,
evolves to the point where it can infect humans. Across

the country, news headlines report thousands of

suicides via drowning.
OTHER

Only the Secret Society of Fire Fighters knows that

seemingly ordinary house fires are caused by Fire
Elementals. In order to put out the fires, the fire fighters
have to kill them.
In order to avoid a blizzard, the mayor of a small town
has to sacrifice to the Snow Demons
A holy man creates a golem but, as he doesnt have
enough clay, he builds it from biscuit dough
A new form of life evolves in the muck of a sewage plant
and travels through the water pipes wreaking havoc
A small child is unable to sleep, not because of what
lurks in the darkness, but because of the darkness itself
A cat burglar decides to steal a valuable collection of
paintings, but he is soon confronted by the museums
security system: thirteen hideous, stone gargoyles.
A gingerbread man attains sentience, learns to make
other gingerbread men, and leads a lynch mob to the
local bakery.
A bartender, attempting to create the next great
cocktail, instead creates a new form of life.

 A sculptor sells his soul to the devil, asking that his art
would outlive him. The sculptor soon discovers that the
devil likes to take things literally
A young boy, playing in his back yard, sees one of the
neighborhood children suddenly grabbed and devoured
by his mothers rose bushes. He knows he must
destroy them, even if it means being grounded for the
rest of the summer.