Trick or Treat 2022

My general preferences are here.

 

I have gifts enabled.  I will never say no to more gifts, more treats, more tricks!  Feel free to ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts. Feel free to give extra treats like you're at the house with full-size candy bars.

 

I am totally on board with a Halloween fic. #helptheHalloweenhamster #Hallowster maybe?

 

My blanket DNW: nominated character death, graphic/explicit/sexual violence, death/cruelty to cats/children, mundane AUs

 

So let’s talk about Halloween/spooky stuff I love.  Feel free to apply to any prompt as applicable.

 

I love Halloween like we experienced it in the 80s.  Dressing up, having fun, candy candy candy.

 

Phantom hitchhikers need rides home, Halloween or not.  I love their stories.  I’m also a fan of reverse hitchhikers (the car and driver are the ghost – think of The Ride or Phantom 309).  I’m also a big fan of phantom places (oh, that old diner outside of town burned down seven years ago last week).

 

I like urban legend classics like the psycho killer on the college campus, or the hook on the door, or the killer in the backseat.  However, please skip the babysitter getting the call from upstairs – that one actively bothers me.

 

In general, for scary I want less gore/jump scare and more “standing at the bottom of the stairs with all the lights on hesitating to go upstairs”.

 

If you want to fuse any of these with a Clue/House on Haunted Hill/And Then There Were None type setup, go ahead.

 

I love a good ghost story, and ghost stories where they don’t immediately realize they have encountered a ghost.  Helpful ghosts or ghosts who need help from us are my jam, not really into poltergeist type stuff.

 

Spooky pranks are good too.

 

 

( Tricks or Treats? )