Zombies and Demons and Ghosts, Oh My!: A bandom horror fic list
You know what I love? Horror and supernatural fic. Ghosts! Zombies! Demons! Possession! Scary stories! Serial killers! Werewolves! General creepy shit! You know what there's not enough of in this fandom? All of the above. To that end, I have compiled a list of bandom fic about all things horror and/or supernatural. This list contains both serious and funny fic, and it covers a range of content. It skews heavily to MCR and FOB because that's what I read.
What's not on this list? Stories where the horror/supernatural elements are so marginally present as to not be there, magical realism/fantasy and non-ghost afterlife stories without any horror elements, and stories about only vampires (they get enough love already).
The Brandy of the Damned by nokomis305 - MCR gen, PG-13, 15k
An ill-advised detour leads My Chem to a town populated by the dead.
Clouds Across the Moon by carleton97 and rue_quercus - Bob/Frank, NC-17, 34k
What Bob had heard from the grapevine was that MCR's rhythm guitarist was small, hyper, and insane on the guitar. What the grapevine had obviously failed to mention was that Frank Iero was also a fucking vampire. Because normal people didn't actually believe things like vampires or werewolves or faeries or witches existed. Normal people were, in Bob's humble opinion, complete fucking idiots.
Gerard Way's (Vampire) Detective Agency by jjtaylor - Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey, R, 43k
Pete, in Decaydance Mansion, with a yarrow stake. Frank and Gerard, in the greenhouse, with a plant of questionable origin. Bob, everywhere you look, with a gang of assassins for justice. Vampires, valets, pamphlets, haunted furniture, dub-thrall, disembodied voices, zombie couriers, and sinister rituals.
Hand Of God by linzeestyle - Pete/Patrick, NR, FOB gen
Five things that never happened to Patrick Stump.
The House by rheakurokawa - MCR gen, R, 2k
"I got a message I can't read."
The House That Dripped Blood by figletofvenice - mostly MCR/PATD gen, slight Frank/Mikey, R, 11k
"“When do we leave?” Mikey asks, and Gerard steps back. “Two weeks,” he says, and Mikey sees flashes of empty hallways and open doors as Gerard pulls his fingers away."
I Just Love Your by proteinscollide - Pete/Patrick, R, 1.5k
“I like brains,” Pete says wistfully. He plants a sweet kiss on Patrick’s mouth, chaste, ending with a little bite of Patrick’s top lip. “I like you.”
If the World is Ending by redbrickrose - FOB/Cobra gen, PG-13, 3k
Cobra Starship is touring with Fall Out Boy when the zombie apocalypse begins. This ends up being fortuitous mostly because of the zombie survival shelter Pete set up in the basement under the New York Angels and Kings.
In The Walls by thesamefire - MCR gen, R, 73k
When My Chemical Romance move into the Paramour, they get a lot more than they bargained for. All they want to do is write an epic album, but Mikey is falling apart and Gerard isn't sure what to do about it-or about the fact that they're trapped inside the house with no escape from the increasingly strange and terrible things that are happening to them.
Las Almas Perdidas by clumsygyrl - MCR gen, R, 4k
They say that The Event changed everything. All living and non living things changed in that one instant.
The Last Famous International Playboy by bluejbird - FOB gen (Pete/Patrick if you squint), R, 6k
In our lifetime those who kill, the news world hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil- such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you. Have I failed? - The Last of the Famous International Playboys by Morrissey.
The Mansion (Not A Ghost Story) by fluffontop - Frank/Gerard, NC-17, 10k
Was meant to be a Halloween fic, but then it didn't turn out creepy enough. Takes place while they were recording at the Paramour mansion. [I would say this is plenty creepy enough. -ed]
A Name Long Unspoken by thesamefire - MCR gen, PG-13, 14k
The day after Elena dies, Mikey starts hearing voices.
The Old Straight Track by jjtaylor - Frank/Gerard, R, 30k
Death is weird, Frank thinks, though he suspects this is not the way it’s really supposed to go.
A Red So Deep by stereomer - Frank/Gerard, R, 14k
a constantine movie AU, with a watered down plot and lots of scenes that don't exist in the movie.
The Risen by adellyna - Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard, Tom/Butcher, ensemble cast, R, 22k
AU. They all work on a cruise ship. Shit starts to get bloody after a shore excursion brings something unnatural on board.
The Scene is Dead by synchronik - Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey, NC-17, 20k
...everybody knows that the scene is dead.
Shut Your Pretty Mouth by oxygen_losers - Pete/Patrick, Patrick/Brendon, Patrick/Gerard, Patrick/William, Patrick/Gabe, Patrick/Butcher, Patrick/Ryan, Patrick/Chris Faller, R, 5k
"As far back as Pete can remember-as far back as he knew Patrick, that skinny, shy little thing of sixteen-Patrick's never really liked Halloween. Which, okay, fine, he always tried so hard to be mature, like Pete could judge, seriously, but there's. There's something else to it, because Patrick's not afraid of anything. But he's fucking weird about Halloween."
So Deep and Down We Go by zeitheist - SPN crossover; pre-Frank/Bob, Sam/Dean, R, 6k
Bob is a demon hunter.
So Haunted by thesamefire - Frank/Gerard, NC-17, 18k
Gerard doesn't believe in this shit, not ghosts, not spirits, not Ouija boards or séances or talking to the goddamned dead, but Mikey doesn't look like he's fucking around and Gerard honestly can't come up with a better explanation for what's been happening to him.
Something I'd Never Lose (Something Somebody Stole) by megyal - Pete/Patrick, PG, 5k
After the van accident, Patrick isn't quite the same.
Under the Twinkle of a Fading Star by nokomis305 - MCR gen, PG-13, 2k
In certain parts of Paramour, Gerard sometimes feels as though he’s stepped out of the known universe. (Sandman crossover).
The Unholyverse by bexless - MCR/FOB gen, Frank/Gerard, R to NC-17, 177k total
The first and third parts in particular have really great horror elements.
A Waltz on All Soul's Night by megyal - Pete/Patrick, R, 6k
Patrick is a party planner stuck in a rut, and Pete is the Red Man, out to make Patrick's Halloween a lot more interesting.
We All Belong to the Earth in the End, But This is Just the Beginning by lazenby - SPN crossover; Pete/Patrick, R, 15k
“I’m not dead!” Patrick reiterates fiercely. “Do I look like I’m dead?!”
Welcome to Planet Motherfucker by nokomis305 - Gerard/Lyn-Z, Chantal/Jimmy, R, 34k
Twenty years after the first zombie apocalypse, MSI are spreading their message in the underground music scene. When they get to Monroeville they cross paths with their old friends in The Black Parade... and then shit gets real again. Is there any truth to the rumor of a mysterious cure hidden in a nearby government lab? Their lives may depend on the answer!
Well Tonight, Will it Ever Come? by dandy_fetish - MCR gsf, NC-17, 20k
Ray didn't ever lie to his band. Not telling them he was a werewolf technically wasn't a lie. Besides, having a werewolf in a rock band is hardly a big deal.
What We Become by emcay - Ray/Gerard, NC-17, 20k
Gerard is a werewolf. He just hasn't realized it yet.
Where Childhood's Dreams are Twined by jadedpen - Gerard/Lyn-Z (but mostly gen), R, 3k
Gerard has a secret.
Young Wild Things by xdearlin - Patrick/Joe, PG-13, 11k
When Joe dies, it changes his life forever - and sentences like that shouldn’t even exist because damn, how many people die and come back to life?
Your Grievance by iphignia939 - Pete/Patrick, R, 25k
In which we learn that the price of vengeance is, occasionally, worse than hell itself; or: your grievance shall be avenged. Just not in the way you were thinking. Has two prequels, all linked in the header.
There's no way this is anywhere near everything, so if you know of other stories that fit the theme, link them in the comments! I'd love to hear about other people's favourites and hopefully we can all find something new to read!
What's not on this list? Stories where the horror/supernatural elements are so marginally present as to not be there, magical realism/fantasy and non-ghost afterlife stories without any horror elements, and stories about only vampires (they get enough love already).
The Brandy of the Damned by nokomis305 - MCR gen, PG-13, 15k
An ill-advised detour leads My Chem to a town populated by the dead.
Clouds Across the Moon by carleton97 and rue_quercus - Bob/Frank, NC-17, 34k
What Bob had heard from the grapevine was that MCR's rhythm guitarist was small, hyper, and insane on the guitar. What the grapevine had obviously failed to mention was that Frank Iero was also a fucking vampire. Because normal people didn't actually believe things like vampires or werewolves or faeries or witches existed. Normal people were, in Bob's humble opinion, complete fucking idiots.
Gerard Way's (Vampire) Detective Agency by jjtaylor - Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey, R, 43k
Pete, in Decaydance Mansion, with a yarrow stake. Frank and Gerard, in the greenhouse, with a plant of questionable origin. Bob, everywhere you look, with a gang of assassins for justice. Vampires, valets, pamphlets, haunted furniture, dub-thrall, disembodied voices, zombie couriers, and sinister rituals.
Hand Of God by linzeestyle - Pete/Patrick, NR, FOB gen
Five things that never happened to Patrick Stump.
The House by rheakurokawa - MCR gen, R, 2k
"I got a message I can't read."
The House That Dripped Blood by figletofvenice - mostly MCR/PATD gen, slight Frank/Mikey, R, 11k
"“When do we leave?” Mikey asks, and Gerard steps back. “Two weeks,” he says, and Mikey sees flashes of empty hallways and open doors as Gerard pulls his fingers away."
I Just Love Your by proteinscollide - Pete/Patrick, R, 1.5k
“I like brains,” Pete says wistfully. He plants a sweet kiss on Patrick’s mouth, chaste, ending with a little bite of Patrick’s top lip. “I like you.”
If the World is Ending by redbrickrose - FOB/Cobra gen, PG-13, 3k
Cobra Starship is touring with Fall Out Boy when the zombie apocalypse begins. This ends up being fortuitous mostly because of the zombie survival shelter Pete set up in the basement under the New York Angels and Kings.
In The Walls by thesamefire - MCR gen, R, 73k
When My Chemical Romance move into the Paramour, they get a lot more than they bargained for. All they want to do is write an epic album, but Mikey is falling apart and Gerard isn't sure what to do about it-or about the fact that they're trapped inside the house with no escape from the increasingly strange and terrible things that are happening to them.
Las Almas Perdidas by clumsygyrl - MCR gen, R, 4k
They say that The Event changed everything. All living and non living things changed in that one instant.
The Last Famous International Playboy by bluejbird - FOB gen (Pete/Patrick if you squint), R, 6k
In our lifetime those who kill, the news world hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil- such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you. Have I failed? - The Last of the Famous International Playboys by Morrissey.
The Mansion (Not A Ghost Story) by fluffontop - Frank/Gerard, NC-17, 10k
Was meant to be a Halloween fic, but then it didn't turn out creepy enough. Takes place while they were recording at the Paramour mansion. [I would say this is plenty creepy enough. -ed]
A Name Long Unspoken by thesamefire - MCR gen, PG-13, 14k
The day after Elena dies, Mikey starts hearing voices.
The Old Straight Track by jjtaylor - Frank/Gerard, R, 30k
Death is weird, Frank thinks, though he suspects this is not the way it’s really supposed to go.
A Red So Deep by stereomer - Frank/Gerard, R, 14k
a constantine movie AU, with a watered down plot and lots of scenes that don't exist in the movie.
The Risen by adellyna - Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard, Tom/Butcher, ensemble cast, R, 22k
AU. They all work on a cruise ship. Shit starts to get bloody after a shore excursion brings something unnatural on board.
The Scene is Dead by synchronik - Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey, NC-17, 20k
...everybody knows that the scene is dead.
Shut Your Pretty Mouth by oxygen_losers - Pete/Patrick, Patrick/Brendon, Patrick/Gerard, Patrick/William, Patrick/Gabe, Patrick/Butcher, Patrick/Ryan, Patrick/Chris Faller, R, 5k
"As far back as Pete can remember-as far back as he knew Patrick, that skinny, shy little thing of sixteen-Patrick's never really liked Halloween. Which, okay, fine, he always tried so hard to be mature, like Pete could judge, seriously, but there's. There's something else to it, because Patrick's not afraid of anything. But he's fucking weird about Halloween."
So Deep and Down We Go by zeitheist - SPN crossover; pre-Frank/Bob, Sam/Dean, R, 6k
Bob is a demon hunter.
So Haunted by thesamefire - Frank/Gerard, NC-17, 18k
Gerard doesn't believe in this shit, not ghosts, not spirits, not Ouija boards or séances or talking to the goddamned dead, but Mikey doesn't look like he's fucking around and Gerard honestly can't come up with a better explanation for what's been happening to him.
Something I'd Never Lose (Something Somebody Stole) by megyal - Pete/Patrick, PG, 5k
After the van accident, Patrick isn't quite the same.
Under the Twinkle of a Fading Star by nokomis305 - MCR gen, PG-13, 2k
In certain parts of Paramour, Gerard sometimes feels as though he’s stepped out of the known universe. (Sandman crossover).
The Unholyverse by bexless - MCR/FOB gen, Frank/Gerard, R to NC-17, 177k total
The first and third parts in particular have really great horror elements.
A Waltz on All Soul's Night by megyal - Pete/Patrick, R, 6k
Patrick is a party planner stuck in a rut, and Pete is the Red Man, out to make Patrick's Halloween a lot more interesting.
We All Belong to the Earth in the End, But This is Just the Beginning by lazenby - SPN crossover; Pete/Patrick, R, 15k
“I’m not dead!” Patrick reiterates fiercely. “Do I look like I’m dead?!”
Welcome to Planet Motherfucker by nokomis305 - Gerard/Lyn-Z, Chantal/Jimmy, R, 34k
Twenty years after the first zombie apocalypse, MSI are spreading their message in the underground music scene. When they get to Monroeville they cross paths with their old friends in The Black Parade... and then shit gets real again. Is there any truth to the rumor of a mysterious cure hidden in a nearby government lab? Their lives may depend on the answer!
Well Tonight, Will it Ever Come? by dandy_fetish - MCR gsf, NC-17, 20k
Ray didn't ever lie to his band. Not telling them he was a werewolf technically wasn't a lie. Besides, having a werewolf in a rock band is hardly a big deal.
What We Become by emcay - Ray/Gerard, NC-17, 20k
Gerard is a werewolf. He just hasn't realized it yet.
Where Childhood's Dreams are Twined by jadedpen - Gerard/Lyn-Z (but mostly gen), R, 3k
Gerard has a secret.
Young Wild Things by xdearlin - Patrick/Joe, PG-13, 11k
When Joe dies, it changes his life forever - and sentences like that shouldn’t even exist because damn, how many people die and come back to life?
Your Grievance by iphignia939 - Pete/Patrick, R, 25k
In which we learn that the price of vengeance is, occasionally, worse than hell itself; or: your grievance shall be avenged. Just not in the way you were thinking. Has two prequels, all linked in the header.
There's no way this is anywhere near everything, so if you know of other stories that fit the theme, link them in the comments! I'd love to hear about other people's favourites and hopefully we can all find something new to read!