A Prosfic Challenge for Halloween

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since we've had a fic rec/review challenge, and since it's the 21st of October today and there are just 10 days until Halloween, I thought perhaps we could have a Halloween Prosfic Rec/Review challenge - please post to the comm to let us know your favourite (or non-favourite, or the one-you-just-read, or potentially-overlooked, or... anything, really *g*) spooky Prosfic. What Prosfic should we be reading at midnight on the 31st of October this year...? *g*

There are a couple of story lists over at Hatstand, and a couple of Halloween challenges at Discoveredinalj, if you'd like to start reading - and please come over and tell us what you thought of the stories you chose afterwards! Let's have a whole ten days worth of posts about Prosfic for All Hallow's eve... *g*

Some stories to get us started...
Supernatural Prosfic listed at Hatstand
Vampire Prosfic listed at Hatstand
Discovered on All Hallow's Eve 2006 at discoveredinalj (5 stories, including a couple of long ones!)
Discovered on All Hallow's Eve 2006 free downloadable zine
Discovered on All Hallow's Eve 2009 at discoveredinalj (7 stories, including a couple of long ones!)

All Hallow's Eve by The Hag
All Soul's Night by Ravenstone
All in a Name by Callisto
Black Cat by Verlaine
Bluebell Hill by Ravenstone
Bodie and Doyle Meet the Headless Horseman by PFL
A Double Portion of Spirit by Asymphototropic
Dust and Secrets by PJ
Death and the Magician by Ravenstone (Pros/Hellblazer crossover)
In the Pumpkin Interest by The Hag
The Informer by Enednoviel
Legacy by Mab
The Little Devil and the Vampire by MinoriK
New Beginnings at Burdock by Slantedlight
Nightmares by Ravenstone
Nuts and Bolts by Probodie
On Dartmoor by Ravenstone
A Picture of William Bodie by Ravenstone
Pwnco by Slantedlight
A Purple Cow by the Hag
The Same River by Helen Raven
The Tailormade Sequence by Helen Raven
Temple of Venus by Lizzie
Undercover by Erushi
Unhallowed Eve by Melanie Athene

(And if you can think of spooky Pros stories not on any of those lists already, do let me know and I'll add them here too!)

Comments

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

The Temple of Venus (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/9/thetemple.html) by Lizzie is a good spooky story!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It is! You know, I assumed that one was up on the Hatstand's list, but it's not at all - eep! There's probably more missing, then, than I thought - will have to remedy that up above! *g*

Be fab if you'd do a post about Temple of Venus and why it's good, you know... even if it was just saying to everyone "Here's a spooky story I like" and then giving the link... *g*

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

The Informer (http://archiveofourown.org/works/125494). I only wrote one piece of Pros fanfic, but that one was a ghost story. *G*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes, I remember that one! *g* (And hey - nice to see you wandering the Pros sites again! *vbg*)

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

Still in lurking mode (mostly), but I'm here. :D Thanks for adding it to the list!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Of course! *g*

[roven75.livejournal.com]

Maybe these which raven_rs posted not too long ago and which I found quite spooky and enjoyable: Halloween drabbles (http://community.livejournal.com/teaandswissroll/216197.html), On Dartmoor (http://community.livejournal.com/teaandswissroll/216365.html) and another supernatural themed one Death and the Magician (http://community.livejournal.com/teaandswissroll/215929.html).

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah well-spotted, thank you! And I found a couple more over at her own lj as well... *g* If you fancy writing a quick post to rec/review one or the other, that'd be fab too... *vbg*

[roven75.livejournal.com]

Will be happy to, later. Gotta hop to work now :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - I'll look forward to it! Have a good day... *g*

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

I've just read your New Beginnings at Burdock. Huge fun. 8-D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well thank you! *g* (And I'm so pleased you're still reading Pros, too... *g*)

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add, but thanks for posting this list of lists.

It's about time I let go of summer finally and embraced the cold and the dark, with the lads for company.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, come and embrace the dark and read some spooky-fic and then come back and post a review of it! *g*

[raven-rs.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the Temple of Venus. Lovely writing, so recognisable as Bodie and Doyle. And the last line - what a cliff hanger! Thanks for that.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes! I like that one too... *g* You know it'd be lovely if you could manage a week rec/review post for us - nice to see new faces around!

[raven-rs.livejournal.com]

Oh I wouldn't know where to start! I'm useless at navigating around LJ pages. I get hopelessly lost! I might have a bash when I get more confident though, thanks.

I loved the Blue Figurine as well. It's got a kind of Tales of the Unexpected thing about it.

There's a very strange couple of stories where Bodie is some kind of Angel of Death, who keeps seducing men who are about to die. It's very creepy, very explicit slash, and really intriguing. I can't remember what it's called.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, sounds like the brilliant Helen Raven's work... it's... erm... The Tailormade Sequence (http://www.kelper.co.uk/helenraven/tailor.html)! *g*

Have you read The Same River (http://www.kelper.co.uk/helenraven/sameriver.htm)? That's another gorgeously creepy one...

And yeay confidence - shall look forward to it! *g*

[raven-rs.livejournal.com]

*applause* That's the one! Bravo.

Doh. You'd think I'd remember a name like that, wouldn't you!

Oh yes - The Same River - brilliant. Spooky and Science Fiction. I loved that story.

[starlite876.livejournal.com]

Just arrived back home after spending a week away working in New Zealand to find a lovely selection of spooky Pros stories to read for the next couple days.

Here are a couple of my favourite ghosts / supernatural PROS stories:

Dust and Secrets (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/dustand.html) by PJ
A Double Portion of Spirit (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/17/adouble.html) by Asymphototropic

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Eep - you're not my brother, are you? He's just been away working in New Zealand for a week!

I've read Dust and Secrets, but not the Asymphototropic story - I tend to find that she's a clever writer, but doesn't write my lads, if you see what i mean. I shall give it a go though, and see!

And you know, if you fancy making an actual rec post to the comm, that'd be fab... *g*