Top 5 Creepy Stories
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buffyversetop5For Halloween!
It was difficult to narrow it down to five. Also, it made me realize that Willow is very often the star player when it comes to scary tales. Hope there are some on this list that you haven't read.
1. Here Comes a Candle , by wiseacress. Spike asks for a favor...on Halloween. The ultimate in creepy.
2. Always/Now, by amerella. Magic has consequences. Willow marks her forehead with the lifeblood of the fawn, and both cheeks. Tara will always remember her that way, later. Always and later and now and it will fill her with dread.
3. Red Apple Falls, by dellamore. Scary Spander. Break-ups are hard. Some are really, really hard.
4. Good Man, by huzzlewhat. Again, magic has consequences -- and someone has to deal with them. I found this story only recently, and it has been haunting me.
5. Perfect World, by sparrow2000. I debated including this, only because there's a deliberate ambiguity to it, and some readers may not find it creepy. But I do, so here it is.
It was difficult to narrow it down to five. Also, it made me realize that Willow is very often the star player when it comes to scary tales. Hope there are some on this list that you haven't read.
1. Here Comes a Candle , by wiseacress. Spike asks for a favor...on Halloween. The ultimate in creepy.
2. Always/Now, by amerella. Magic has consequences. Willow marks her forehead with the lifeblood of the fawn, and both cheeks. Tara will always remember her that way, later. Always and later and now and it will fill her with dread.
3. Red Apple Falls, by dellamore. Scary Spander. Break-ups are hard. Some are really, really hard.
4. Good Man, by huzzlewhat. Again, magic has consequences -- and someone has to deal with them. I found this story only recently, and it has been haunting me.
5. Perfect World, by sparrow2000. I debated including this, only because there's a deliberate ambiguity to it, and some readers may not find it creepy. But I do, so here it is.
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Date: 2013-10-31 03:08 pm (UTC)Nice and creepy. I particularly liked Red Apple Falls and Perfect World.
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Date: 2013-10-31 03:17 pm (UTC)Re: #5: I remember getting to the end of this story and thinking, Ooh, chilling. And then I looked at the comments and saw that many people read it very differently.
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Date: 2013-10-31 07:19 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-11-01 01:07 am (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-11-01 01:13 am (UTC)It was always meant to be ambiguous. I remember thinking before I wrote it that I wondered what would happen if Willow decided magic could help her get Xander so that she could have the perfect white picket fence life she'd envisaged growing up. Then when I started writing it, I realised that it could actually be interpreted a pile of different ways and that made me really happy! *g*
So whatever interpretation a reader wants to get out of it, is just fine by me! :)