It's Yuuuuuuuultide /spooky voice
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st_aurafina*switches flashlight on under chin*
Hello little children! Do you like scary stories? Doesn't matter, because scary stories like you!
Early this year, I was tooling around creepy pasta sites, as you do, and I realised that Candle Cove would make an awesome Yuletide fandom. So, for the first time in six Yuletides, I started a list in January, so I'd remember to nominate and request it.
(Candle Cove is a short story in chat log format, and you can read it at the author's website here.)
Fast forward to Yuletide 2012 and I have two Candle Cove stories of my own. Other people requested it, too! There are five Candle Cove fics for Yuletide this year. I love the Yuletide hive mind, and how they all took this short story to different and terrifying places.
My gifts:
Years Gone By (1591 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, Janice (Candle Cove)
Summary:
If a ghost story could be a postcard, this would be two deliciously scary pictures from the past. This one says a lot about the way that stories survive before we have TV to help us out. The format is two short vignettes, dealing with media other than television, and it gives the impression that Candle Cove has been here for a long time. It's gorgeous and thoughtful and eerie in the right measure.
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Between 'Outerscope' and the Sleestaks (9846 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Janice (Candle Cove), The Skin-Taker, Horace Horrible, Pirate Percy
Summary:
This is epic. And awesome. It merges true crime with urban legend, and it's so well put together. There's world building, a fantastically solid concept for the faux-TV show that people remember from the story, there's a thorough and riveting investigation, and there's a thrilling ending. Really engaging POV character. Really scary stuff going on.
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The other three fics that weren't for me but may as well have been because I love them:
On the Good Ship Laughingstock (1228 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Janice, Original Characters
Summary:
I can see this story unfolding on Reddit or somewhere like that. The scary stuff is scary because it's something you see happening online: people dropping off chats suddenly, family members showing up to explain what terrible thing had happened. Only, with eldritch horror.
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Subject: Tiffany? (2357 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary:
This one plays with formatting in a way that, even though you know what is happening, still gives you a shock. Emails between friends after a tragedy, wondering if their past has something to do with it.
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Bébé incassable (1654 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Major trigger warning for scary dolls. SCARY DOLLS OKAY? Not even joking about scary dolls. One of the characters in the supposed TV show has a baby doll for a head, and the author of this one takes it from there. Beautiful back and forth from the twenties to the seventies to 2012.
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Thank you to my two mystery authors! I loved the stories you wrote, and I love your vision of Candle Cove.
*switches off flashlight, leave you in the dark*
Hello little children! Do you like scary stories? Doesn't matter, because scary stories like you!
Early this year, I was tooling around creepy pasta sites, as you do, and I realised that Candle Cove would make an awesome Yuletide fandom. So, for the first time in six Yuletides, I started a list in January, so I'd remember to nominate and request it.
(Candle Cove is a short story in chat log format, and you can read it at the author's website here.)
Fast forward to Yuletide 2012 and I have two Candle Cove stories of my own. Other people requested it, too! There are five Candle Cove fics for Yuletide this year. I love the Yuletide hive mind, and how they all took this short story to different and terrifying places.
My gifts:
Years Gone By (1591 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, Janice (Candle Cove)
Summary:
Candle Cove's manifestation in two pre-television generations.
If a ghost story could be a postcard, this would be two deliciously scary pictures from the past. This one says a lot about the way that stories survive before we have TV to help us out. The format is two short vignettes, dealing with media other than television, and it gives the impression that Candle Cove has been here for a long time. It's gorgeous and thoughtful and eerie in the right measure.
---
Between 'Outerscope' and the Sleestaks (9846 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Janice (Candle Cove), The Skin-Taker, Horace Horrible, Pirate Percy
Summary:
You have to admit, some of those special effects were so scary-looking that you can understand why adults describe a great fondness for the shows of their childhood mixed with an overwhelming feeling of terror. In between discussions of the creepy puppets from "Outerscope" and the Sleestaks, "Candle Cove" comes up again and again.
This is epic. And awesome. It merges true crime with urban legend, and it's so well put together. There's world building, a fantastically solid concept for the faux-TV show that people remember from the story, there's a thorough and riveting investigation, and there's a thrilling ending. Really engaging POV character. Really scary stuff going on.
---
The other three fics that weren't for me but may as well have been because I love them:
On the Good Ship Laughingstock (1228 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Janice, Original Characters
Summary:
They tried to piece together the memories from the show that didn't exist. Then Janice started posting.
I can see this story unfolding on Reddit or somewhere like that. The scary stuff is scary because it's something you see happening online: people dropping off chats suddenly, family members showing up to explain what terrible thing had happened. Only, with eldritch horror.
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Subject: Tiffany? (2357 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary:
Hey, Maria. I know you hate talking on the phone. And hi, Pam. I don’t think I have your new number? It’s been years, so you must have changed it. I just got off the phone with Lori. I don’t know what to say. This is awful!
This one plays with formatting in a way that, even though you know what is happening, still gives you a shock. Emails between friends after a tragedy, wondering if their past has something to do with it.
---
Bébé incassable (1654 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Candle Cove
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Whatever Percy is made of, it has always sought the limelight.
(No graphic violence, but there is grossness not quite covered by available archive warnings.)
Major trigger warning for scary dolls. SCARY DOLLS OKAY? Not even joking about scary dolls. One of the characters in the supposed TV show has a baby doll for a head, and the author of this one takes it from there. Beautiful back and forth from the twenties to the seventies to 2012.
---
Thank you to my two mystery authors! I loved the stories you wrote, and I love your vision of Candle Cove.
*switches off flashlight, leave you in the dark*
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Date: 2012-12-25 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-27 02:32 am (UTC)*tucks you in* Now the monsters can't get your feet, yay!
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Date: 2012-12-26 04:49 am (UTC)THANKS, THANKS A LOT.
No, seriously, thanks, these are awesomesauce. :)
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Date: 2012-12-27 07:43 am (UTC)Got your mouth!
GOT YOUR SOUL!
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Date: 2012-12-28 09:28 pm (UTC)Can I link this rec post in a journal entry?
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Date: 2012-12-27 10:06 pm (UTC)It takes some ideas from Ichor Falls and some ideas from his own OCD rituals and some ideas from vintage horror canon. I really like it!
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