AO3: skazka Letter:https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/176944.html Fandoms: The Black Phone 2022 (Finney Blake); Call For The Dead - Le Carre (George Smiley, Dieter Frey); Hell House - Richard Matheson (Ben Fischer); The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters (Caroline Ayres, Roderick Ayres); The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage (Peter Gordon) Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference. Wanted tropes: Ghosts and hauntings; claustrophobia; captivity; body horror; gothic horror; trauma and PTSD; surviving terrible stuff and being changed by it; major character death; murder; consent issues and noncon; psychological horror; trauma bonding; survivor guilt; big spooky decaying houses with lots of creepy rooms; characters coming back from the dead “wrong”; vampires. Unwanted tropes: noncon resulting in true love or the victim secretly wanting it all along; pregnancy; self-harm cutting; disordered eating; unrequested incest; unrequested CSA themes; explicit sex involving characters under 16, except as indicated. (CSA themes/underage noncon for The Black Phone or Hell House, a-okay; in Call For The Dead or Little Stranger fic, no thanks.)
Hell House, The Black Phone, and The Little Stranger are all horror canons of very different stripes and I love all of them, A++ would rec:
Hell House is an intense sleazy psychological horror novel about four people locked up for a week in the haunted mansion of an infamously depraved occultist and his brood of doped-up decadent hangers-on, seeking out the objective truth of life after death at the request of a rich eccentric. Shit goes off the rails fast. There’s lots of queer themes and trauma themes if that’s a draw, but they’re handled with all the delicacy of… a trashy horror novel from 1971.
The Little Stranger is a much more delicately-shaded and twisty psychological gothic novel set in post-WWII Britain, about a cool-headed country doctor’s lifelong fascination with a decaying country house and the upper-class family who live in it; I’m requesting Caroline, the daughter of the family who’s had her first taste of independence during the war, and Roderick, her brother who’s living with disfigurement and disability after his service in the RAF. This one’s also got queer themes out the waz, but handled with a lot more nuance.
The Black Phone is a 2022 period horror film about two young siblings in suburban Denver, 1978 — shy and sensitive 13-year-old Finney and his mouthy, courageous 9-year-old sister Gwen. When Finney’s abducted by a masked child-killer, Gwen’s racing against time trying to find him with the help of some troubling visions, but even locked in a soundproofed basement Finney isn’t alone, and the disconnected telephone on the wall starts to ring. (It’s ghosts. With me it’s always ghosts.) Lots of trauma, lots of ghosts, lots of fun.
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Letter: https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/176944.html
Fandoms: The Black Phone 2022 (Finney Blake); Call For The Dead - Le Carre (George Smiley, Dieter Frey); Hell House - Richard Matheson (Ben Fischer); The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters (Caroline Ayres, Roderick Ayres); The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage (Peter Gordon)
Happy Endings Preferred?: No preference.
Wanted tropes: Ghosts and hauntings; claustrophobia; captivity; body horror; gothic horror; trauma and PTSD; surviving terrible stuff and being changed by it; major character death; murder; consent issues and noncon; psychological horror; trauma bonding; survivor guilt; big spooky decaying houses with lots of creepy rooms; characters coming back from the dead “wrong”; vampires.
Unwanted tropes: noncon resulting in true love or the victim secretly wanting it all along; pregnancy; self-harm cutting; disordered eating; unrequested incest; unrequested CSA themes; explicit sex involving characters under 16, except as indicated. (CSA themes/underage noncon for The Black Phone or Hell House, a-okay; in Call For The Dead or Little Stranger fic, no thanks.)
Hell House, The Black Phone, and The Little Stranger are all horror canons of very different stripes and I love all of them, A++ would rec:
Hell House is an intense sleazy psychological horror novel about four people locked up for a week in the haunted mansion of an infamously depraved occultist and his brood of doped-up decadent hangers-on, seeking out the objective truth of life after death at the request of a rich eccentric. Shit goes off the rails fast. There’s lots of queer themes and trauma themes if that’s a draw, but they’re handled with all the delicacy of… a trashy horror novel from 1971.
The Little Stranger is a much more delicately-shaded and twisty psychological gothic novel set in post-WWII Britain, about a cool-headed country doctor’s lifelong fascination with a decaying country house and the upper-class family who live in it; I’m requesting Caroline, the daughter of the family who’s had her first taste of independence during the war, and Roderick, her brother who’s living with disfigurement and disability after his service in the RAF. This one’s also got queer themes out the waz, but handled with a lot more nuance.
The Black Phone is a 2022 period horror film about two young siblings in suburban Denver, 1978 — shy and sensitive 13-year-old Finney and his mouthy, courageous 9-year-old sister Gwen. When Finney’s abducted by a masked child-killer, Gwen’s racing against time trying to find him with the help of some troubling visions, but even locked in a soundproofed basement Finney isn’t alone, and the disconnected telephone on the wall starts to ring. (It’s ghosts. With me it’s always ghosts.) Lots of trauma, lots of ghosts, lots of fun.