Spook Me!

[sholio]

spook_me is back! I just looked at their LJ account creation date and this fest first ran in 2006, which makes this their unbelievable SIXTEENTH YEAR, especially unbelievable given that I participated in the first year - it was the John and Rodney time-looping through the Stargate fic - and have signed up nearly every year since. (Not that I always managed to finish anything, or even manage to finish anything a majority of times, but it's a low-pressure fest in which not finishing anything is perfectly fine.) Other things I've written for it over the years include Ward being haunted by his dead dad's ghost; the Agent Carter lake monster fic which I still maintain had the best prompt pic I've ever gotten; and Ghost Stories in the Van for White Collar, which I literally creeped myself out writing. (One of the bookmark notes says "creepy as fuck and now im never sleeping again." Quality feedback.)

So I signed up.

Sign-up post and instructions here! Basically you sign up with a fandom (this can change later and can also be original fiction) and pick a horror monster/threat from the list, and after signups close, they email you two related pictures, one or both of which can be used as prompts in addition to the monsters.

It's an incredibly fun fest for me because it's just a little bit different from everything else that's out there, and even when I don't finish anything, which is frequently, I still get a lot of autumn/Halloween feelings and inspiration out of it.

SIXTEEN YEARS, YOU GUYS. I don't know if there's anything other than Yuletide that's been running so long.

Comments

[yalumesse]

Oh hey now THIS sounds like a low-pressure thing I can do! :D

[pauraque]

hp_halloween started in 2004 and is still going; that's the longest-running one I know of besides Yuletide. But 16 years is certainly venerable and worth celebrating! Maybe spookytime themes generate extra staying power. :)

[blackrook]

Sentinel Thurs was started in 2003 and still runs, though they moved the actual stories to A03 collections and TS Secret Santa still runs from 2005 (with the same mod since 2006) :).

[booksarelife]

I am so happy this fest exists just so it could give us the Ward being haunted fic and the lake monster fic, both of which are just so good!! And that really is an amazing prompt pic

And wow, 16 years

[cornerofmadness]

That's pretty amazing. I've lost track of how many years I've been doing spook me I just love it

[skeddy_kat]

I just went and read Ghost in the Machine. Great story!