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It’s a very visceral method of execution, and some movies (specifically The Lost Boys and Dracula: Dead and Loving It) have had fun with characters who weren’t expecting to end up covered in blood and facing a monster who thrashed violently as they died.  Because it is so up-close and brutal, it can be played any number of ( Read more... )

Title: Laura Dracul
Fandom: Monster High/Hammer horror films
Summary: Laura doesn't want to remember her life back in the castle, before she was taken in by the Van Helsings.
Challenge: 30 Day Dark Fandom Challenge
Prompt: Bad memories
Warnings: Childhood trauma
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Title: Feed
Fandom: Dracula
Characters/Pairings: Lucy/Arthur
Summary: Lucy inducts her betrothed into their new life.
Challenge: 30 Day Dark Fandom Challenge
Prompt: Cannibalism
Warnings: See above.
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Title: Feed
Fandom: Dracula
Characters/Pairings: Lucy/Arthur
Summary: Lucy inducts her betrothed into their new life.
Challenge: 30 Day Dark Fandom Challenge
Prompt: Cannibalism
Warnings: See above.

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Title: Hold Me Tight and Fear Me Not
Fandom: Dracula
Characters/Pairings: Mina/Jonathan
Summary: After he escapes from the castle, Mina protects Jonathan's soul, just as he asks her to. Drabble, inspired by Tam Lin.
Warnings: Trauma.
Challenge: 30 Day Dark Fandom Challenge
Prompt: Fairy tale-inspired horror.

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Title: Children of the Night
Fandom: Dracula
Prompt: Written for the 6impearfics prompt Penny Dreadful.  "Also called Gallows Literature. A dime novel rife with melodrama, horror, madness and cruelty; a ten cent analogy of vice and virtue in conflict. Soft perfume evocative of noir heroines over rich red grave loam."
Rating: T
Summary: The Harker, Seward and ( Read more... )

Title: Destroyer of Men
Fandom: Dracula
Prompt: Written for the 6impearfics prompt Bluebeard.  "A scent swirling with dark rage, unbridled jealousy, and murderous intent. Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver."
Rating: T
Summary: Arthur Holmwood died before his wedding, his blood drained in a strange illness. And when it came time to destroy the thing that ( Read more... )

Title: The Dream Journal of Lucy Westenra
Fandom: Dracula
Prompt: Written for the 6impearfics prompt Lurid.  "Shocking, horrific, fierce, savage, sensationalized, luminous and hazy: black currant, Bulgarian lavender and white musk with a dollop of thick resin and a voltaic charge of ozone notes."
Rating: M
Characters/Pairings: Lucy/Dracula, Lucy/Arthur
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