SPN fic recs, theme: Spooks and Haints and Halloweeny scary things
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Reposting my recs from spngenlove week 11. I actually stuck mostly to the theme this week. This rec set includes the single scariest story I have read in quite a while.
Theme: Spooks and Haints, in honour of Halloween
[ First day of posting] and [spooks and haints tag]
Rec Category: on theme, fic, early seasons, casefic
Title: Grass Don't Grow. on FF.net or on LJ
Author: LithiumDoll (halcyon_shift)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 7200
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Summary: ...in Aggie's shadow
Reccer's Comments: This story reminds me of the sort of tales told around Halloween. Which I suppose makes sense, as it is based on an actual folk tale.
Rec Category: picspam/graphic story/comic, crack, humour, sort of on-theme,
Title: Puppy vs The Tall Things [remix]
Author/Artist: gigglingkat and nadiafox
Rating: same as show.
Word Count: N/A as is a graphic novel/picspam/comics type thing. Image-heavy.
Warnings/Spoilers: Season 1.
Summary: This is the saga of Puppy versus the Tall Things - in which Puppy learns that all things taller than he is are a crime against nature and should not be tolerated.
Reccer's Comments: It's on-theme because poor Sammy is being haunted by things which are taller than him! Oh noes! But utterly off-theme because this is a cracky humour piece. A fun bit of silliness.
Reccer's Caveats: Passing references to wincest in a breaking-the-fourth-wall sort of way.
Rec Category: fic, on-theme, one-shot
Title: Crooked Legs
Author: hkath
Rating: PG
Length: 1 lj post
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Summary: Sam goes through some changes.
Reccer's Comments: The requester (this was written for this year's spn_summergen) asked for "a classic horror story" and the author drew inspiration from the Twilight Zone. I found this story interesting and not too creepy (for me) and yet I could easily see the creepiness for Dean. In true TZ fashion, there isn't a tidy resolution provided by the author, but one may draw ones own conclusions if one wishes. Plotline for those who would prefer to have spoilers: Dean thinks Sam is transforming. No one else seems to ever notice anything odd about Sam. Is it all in his head or not?
Rec Category: fic, only tangentially on-theme, one-shot
Title: You Know Who You Are
Author: apocalypsos
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 1100 words
Warnings/Spoilers: Domestic abuse, 4.01
Summary: Thoughts from a meat suit.
Reccer's Comments: This fic is always slightly unsettling. It's a good reminder that even while Ruby may have been helping Sam, she still was a demon and demons aren't very nice.
Reccer's Caveats: Author says 'some Sam/Ruby'. It's there but very minor and not at all a thrust of the story.
Rec Category: fic, future-fic, AU, on-theme, longish
Title: Disinterment
Author: gekizetsu
Rating: R for language, violence and gore.
Length/Word Count: 22K words
Warnings/Spoilers: None given by the author, see reccer's comments.
Summary: Dean's current and former lives collide a little too hard and jeopardize everything - his career, his family, and his life.
Reccer's Comments: The genre the author lists for this story is 'horror, drama', which is entirely accurate. It is a very well-told tale but it creeped me out so very, very much that I spent the next two hours with the fluffiest things (both blankets and stories) that I could find. This is possibly somewhat of a personal thing, so you might not find the monster as creepy as I do but I found it utterly frightening. Details of the monster: The monster kills a person and then takes over their flesh, leaving behind only the skeleton. The monster has to move on to new victims periodically as the flesh-suits decay. OMFG, CREEPY!
Reccer's Caveats: Future-fic, both boys have children and have a wife/girlfriend/ex-wife sort of person. But as far as I remember, the focus of the story is not romantic in nature and thus qualifies as gen. (NB: I did not reread this story before making this rec.)
Series: This is part of [Salvation] future-fic AU, but it can be read without knowledge of the verse. The masterverse page has a number of codas for this particular story. The verse itself is great (and has a truly epic number of stories in it), with well-fleshed out OCs and a comparatively happy post-hunting (well, mostly post-hunting) life for Sam and Dean. Stories are marked with pairings as needed.
As usual, if I've got inaccuracies, broken links, or missing info (especially podfics, DVD commentaries, and sequels/prequels), please let me know.
Reposting my recs from spngenlove week 11. I actually stuck mostly to the theme this week. This rec set includes the single scariest story I have read in quite a while.
Theme: Spooks and Haints, in honour of Halloween
[ First day of posting] and [spooks and haints tag]
Rec Category: on theme, fic, early seasons, casefic
Title: Grass Don't Grow. on FF.net or on LJ
Author: LithiumDoll (halcyon_shift)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 7200
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Summary: ...in Aggie's shadow
Reccer's Comments: This story reminds me of the sort of tales told around Halloween. Which I suppose makes sense, as it is based on an actual folk tale.
Rec Category: picspam/graphic story/comic, crack, humour, sort of on-theme,
Title: Puppy vs The Tall Things [remix]
Author/Artist: gigglingkat and nadiafox
Rating: same as show.
Word Count: N/A as is a graphic novel/picspam/comics type thing. Image-heavy.
Warnings/Spoilers: Season 1.
Summary: This is the saga of Puppy versus the Tall Things - in which Puppy learns that all things taller than he is are a crime against nature and should not be tolerated.
Reccer's Comments: It's on-theme because poor Sammy is being haunted by things which are taller than him! Oh noes! But utterly off-theme because this is a cracky humour piece. A fun bit of silliness.
Reccer's Caveats: Passing references to wincest in a breaking-the-fourth-wall sort of way.
Rec Category: fic, on-theme, one-shot
Title: Crooked Legs
Author: hkath
Rating: PG
Length: 1 lj post
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Summary: Sam goes through some changes.
Reccer's Comments: The requester (this was written for this year's spn_summergen) asked for "a classic horror story" and the author drew inspiration from the Twilight Zone. I found this story interesting and not too creepy (for me) and yet I could easily see the creepiness for Dean. In true TZ fashion, there isn't a tidy resolution provided by the author, but one may draw ones own conclusions if one wishes. Plotline for those who would prefer to have spoilers: Dean thinks Sam is transforming. No one else seems to ever notice anything odd about Sam. Is it all in his head or not?
Rec Category: fic, only tangentially on-theme, one-shot
Title: You Know Who You Are
Author: apocalypsos
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 1100 words
Warnings/Spoilers: Domestic abuse, 4.01
Summary: Thoughts from a meat suit.
Reccer's Comments: This fic is always slightly unsettling. It's a good reminder that even while Ruby may have been helping Sam, she still was a demon and demons aren't very nice.
Reccer's Caveats: Author says 'some Sam/Ruby'. It's there but very minor and not at all a thrust of the story.
Rec Category: fic, future-fic, AU, on-theme, longish
Title: Disinterment
Author: gekizetsu
Rating: R for language, violence and gore.
Length/Word Count: 22K words
Warnings/Spoilers: None given by the author, see reccer's comments.
Summary: Dean's current and former lives collide a little too hard and jeopardize everything - his career, his family, and his life.
Reccer's Comments: The genre the author lists for this story is 'horror, drama', which is entirely accurate. It is a very well-told tale but it creeped me out so very, very much that I spent the next two hours with the fluffiest things (both blankets and stories) that I could find. This is possibly somewhat of a personal thing, so you might not find the monster as creepy as I do but I found it utterly frightening. Details of the monster: The monster kills a person and then takes over their flesh, leaving behind only the skeleton. The monster has to move on to new victims periodically as the flesh-suits decay. OMFG, CREEPY!
Reccer's Caveats: Future-fic, both boys have children and have a wife/girlfriend/ex-wife sort of person. But as far as I remember, the focus of the story is not romantic in nature and thus qualifies as gen. (NB: I did not reread this story before making this rec.)
Series: This is part of [Salvation] future-fic AU, but it can be read without knowledge of the verse. The masterverse page has a number of codas for this particular story. The verse itself is great (and has a truly epic number of stories in it), with well-fleshed out OCs and a comparatively happy post-hunting (well, mostly post-hunting) life for Sam and Dean. Stories are marked with pairings as needed.
As usual, if I've got inaccuracies, broken links, or missing info (especially podfics, DVD commentaries, and sequels/prequels), please let me know.