Adorable
ghosts and
witches on
Hallmark cards. Costume-party
Barbie dolls. Harvest festivals.
They're trying to kill off what Halloween is all about. They want to bury it deep beneath a mound of cartoon naiveté,
saccharine sweetness, and political correctness. They want to make
Halloween safe.
They're doomed to failure.
The darkened closet. The rotting skull.
Hot breath on an innocent throat. Low chuckles in shadowy attics. Open
graves.
Fear.
They can't kill that with purple plastic pumpkins,
Power Ranger costumes, or moralizing letters-to-the-editor. But they'll still try, won't they?
Fight back.
And earn
XP for it, too.
Halloween traditionally sees a horror story Quest here on E2 -- last year,
Rancid_Pickle gave us
Everything Quests: Scary Stories, and before that,
icicle put together
I can make you howl. And vice versa. Let's get down to business. Same thing now: write an original scary story or node a story that is in the public domain. It can be any length and any topic -- as long as it's scary. You can even node true stories, if you have them, but make sure they're
scary -- straight factual writeups won't cut it here.
Your reward? You mean other than upvotes? Other than any chings? Other than the bliss of scaring the pants off innocent readers?
Lucy-S is co-sponsoring this Quest, and she'll hand out treats of 13 XPs for every writeup you submit for the Quest. There is a limit of ten blessings per noder, but you're welcome to add more than ten writeups. (though I may participate in this Quest, none of my writeups will receive the 13-point blessing; however, I'm insisting that Lucy get the 13 XPs, 'cause her stuff's so damn good)
Be warned: if you cut-and-paste or plagiarize someone else's copyrighted work, your writeup will be deleted, and you'll be assessed a -13 XP penalty.
What's the runtime for the Quest? The entire month of October, plus November 1, server time. Yes, if you've already written a scary story this month, it can still count.
When you write a story for the Quest, just /msg me with the node title and softlink your writeup to this node. I'll include a list of all the Quest participants below.
Let the fear begin.
Numbers by
MALTP
My rotting sweetheart by
yours truly
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! by
kthejoker
Maud by
XWiz
today i clean her little fingerprints from my window by
etouffee
There's a certain silence driving me mad by
kthejoker
Pushing Flesh by
XWiz
At the Funeral by
borgo
death grip by
Rancid_Pickle
Day in the Life by
malcster
The Wreck of the Evangeline by
kthejoker
How to kill your mates on Everything2 by
shyHyena
Whelmed by the Bemming by
AnBolb
The Reenactment by
drownzsurf
Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased? by
allseeingeye
Chucky's vagina by
TheDeadGuy
My life may no longer be my own by
RPGeek
your dreams in a little box in the closet by
kthejoker
Enough of this Teacher by
Simulacron3
Viper by
Ereneta
Pale opaque bricks by
JohnnyGoodyear
Losing grip by
aionaever
In meinen Träumen kommt sie zu mir and verlässt mich gleich danach by
izubachi
Helpless to my own mistakes by
weasello
Live and Run and Hate by
Mukkachuk
beautiful and sick, like oak apples by
Narya
We were never really friends by
kthejoker
The child, she cannot sleep by
symptoma
The last vermin by
symptoma
Finest Hour by
PopeHypocriteIII
October 19, 2003 by
BuffcorePhil
White Hole by
PopeHypocriteIII
Stone Fox by
XWiz
Dead chicks rock the house by
pelsmith
Of Gingerbread Houses, and Happy Endings by
arcanamundi
Little Orphant Annie by
Lometa
Unwelcome visitors by
weasello
Decomposing by
kthejoker
What to do about trolls by
Rancid_Pickle
Fall of Darkness by
Lucy-S
Inside the gingerbread house, the witch is waiting by
icicle
October 21, 2003 by
randombit
A House Divided by
PopeHypocriteIII
Coyote/La Niña by
Lucy-S
Friends in Life and Death by
Sverre
The Park by
TanisNikana
Cut to the chase by
PopeHypocriteIII
I want you in my mouth by
lovejoyman
Delicious jams and jellies by
Servo5678
You're never alone by
kthejoker
Hot coals in inky night by
MoonBox
I want you in my mouth by
nota
I'm not what you think by
Servo5678
For what you wish by
Wiccanpiper
The Letter by
Photon Hills Pimp
This isn't a fairy tale by
Servo5678
Deadlines by
69lovesongs
Now that was a scary ending by
TehBesto
purple_curtain is an undead brain-eating zombie by
AnBolb
Occam's Revenge by
briglass
Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt by
yours truly
Just a collection of ones and zeroes by
Servo5678
Don't send me roses by
no_one
Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last by
BuffcorePhil
The Marching of the Ants by
GoodKingNerdnor
Tinkle by
Ouroboros
Seal of Solomon by
AriaMech
I've got the music in me by
Servo5678
Complex Massacre by
NickLandry
She runs by
Cornbread
With this plant I can take on the world by
Servo5678
The Giant Pumpkin Murders by
GrouchyOldMan
The Strangeness by
ac_hyper
Why there is no moloch13 by
moloch36
Murder in the Red Barn by
Timeshredder
The Rear-Guard by
epli_ellifu
Cursed vehicle by
Voodoo Chile
Bianca and the Little Blue Bear by
artman2003
Good fiction has a price by
Servo5678
A Death in the Nodegel by
allseeingeye
Marie by
Cinderella
Dream Log: October 31, 2003 by
Inflatable_Monk
A Death in the Nodegel by
kthejoker
In my spare time, I enjoy the occasional murder by
RMSzero
A Death in the Nodegel by
sam512
Quarantine by
Lord Brawl
Wink by
TenMinJoe
The Giant Pumpkin Murders by
Cinderella
The Birth by
isle
The Giant Pumpkin Murders by
yours truly
Bad fiction has a price by
isogolem
Prospecting the Oort by
smartalix
easier by
sid
Utopia by
XWiz
The Fear of the Vampire by
Simulacron3
The map of his purpose by
lovejoyman
The Quest is now over! Thanks to all who contributed scary stories this year!