Rosemary’s Baby, the renowned 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin which was adapted into a film directed by Roman Polanski, takes place in New York City as a young married couple, Rosemary and Guy, move into an apartment building and their relationship to an elderly couple living in the building evolves in horrific ways in parallel to Rosemary’s pregnancy. All the action and suspense takes place in Manhattan, a departure from the settings of rural and small-town environments often used in horror stories, taking advantage of people’s fears of silence, darkness, and potentially foreboding nature. Write a horror story that takes place in a big city. How might the stresses of a busy, densely populated locale, with streets overly crowded with unknown faces and irritatingly intrusive neighbors, create a sense of alienation?
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