The Great Hallowe'en Fanfic List

by Dan Ness

Holidays have a feeling. Watch "Miracle on 34th Street" in July, and you'll see what I mean. It's something that can have you longing for Easter, or Hallowe'en, July 4th or Guy Fawkes Night any time of the year. Just the sight of a snow globe can have you humming "Rocking around the Christmas Tree" all day, even all week long, despite it being the middle of August.

When the end of October trundles around, the chances are that some of you will be browsing the InterWeb for Hallowe'en goodies, whether it's some classic gothic horror or a recipe for that perfect pumpkin pie. I live in the UK, where Hallowe'en was a television only event until a few years back, when an ambitious television play (Ghostwatch, and if anyone has any information on it, could they please mail it to me) gained notoriety due to a suicide linked to its screening, and all four TV channels clamped down on Hallowe'en. That was *really* annoying to horror movie fans country wide. So this Hallowe'en, I'll be deprived my horror fix, and I'll have to stick on a certain John Carpenter soundtrack and act all moody. Unless . . .

What I'm going to attempt to do is compile the definitive list of *all* the Hallowe'en related fan fictions currently floating around the InterWeb. I want to be able to provide a resource from which fanfic readers like your good selves can plunder a treasure trove of fan written Hallowe'en fiction. This way, it doesn't matter whether we are holding a costume party or begging enough cash to see Jamie Lee Curtis in "H2O", we can *all* have that Hallowe'en feeling.

Okay, here are the criteria. At least one of the below rules must apply to the fanfic:

-the fanfic is set on or around Hallowe'en, and makes reference to this fact.

-the fanfic is a horror, and makes refers to Hallowe'en.

-the fanfic is set in, or uses characters from a Hallowe'en related source(eg The Nightmare Before Christmas, John Carpenter's Hallowe'en)

Got that? Good. Now please send the TITLE, AUTHOR, SOURCE upon which it is based, and the URL of the ARCHIVE upon which the fanfic is based to me, along with any comments you have to make. All contributors will have their name and email address printed at the end of the list, unless otherwise requested. The final draft of the list will be uploaded on October 31st, although the list itself will be updated every fortnight between now and then.

Note: Start foraging around for those Christmas fanfics as well, because come October, The Great Christmas Fanfic List will start to be compiled.

Mail me at 113131.1265@compuserve.com. Thanks!

The Great Hallowe'en Fanfic List

Web Fiction Halloween Special - Not fanfiction per se, but a links page to some of the Web's horror fiction.
Halloween '98A good, solid, back to basics slasher script that'll soon be oudated.
A Halloween Carol by Ethan/Playground Psychotic/JinikatoThree cheers for the LKGs for this piece of festive cheer.

The Great Hallowe'en Music List

This Is Halloween Frightening stuff from the Elfman.
The Addams Family Creepy, Kooky, and Christina Ricci. What more could you possibly want?
Beetlejuice Another outing for one of the best composers in the world.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (sequenced by Me!) Chick in kneehighs fights the undead. Show of the year.
Tubular Bells/The Exorcist Mike Oldfield's most famous (only?) tune, and just in time for the re-release.
Ghostbusters I take great pride in knowing that the Green Ghost (or Slimer) was originally to be called Onion Head.
Gremlins Jerry Goldsmith pre empts Danny Elfman with the theme from one of the best Christmas films ever. All this *plus* Joe Dante, Phoebe Cates and a host of great character actors.
Halloween John Carpenter does the biz on the greatest horror movie of all time.
In The Hall Of The Mountain King Ooh, scary classical stuff. As used by Alton Towers
Halloween Better version of the Halloween theme.
Haunted Mansion Apparantly something to do with Disney.
Laurie's Theme More Halloween music from John Carpenter. The tune I bought the soundtrack for.
The Monster Mash Alternately, a great Christmas song, right Simpsons fans?
The Munsters The erstwhile Grey-Haired Kid from Eerie, Indiana and Draal from Babylon 5 were in the follow up show The Munsters Today. It still stunk, though.
The New Outer Limits After 'A Stitch In Time', the best thing about the new Outer Limits
Phantasm Brilliant theme from a mad film (watch it!)
Tocatta And Fugue In D minor Fully orchestrated scariness of the song we all can play the beginning of.
Tocatta & Fugue In D Minor Organ version for the phantom types among us.
Twilight Zone More famous, but not as good Twilight Zone theme. The original one was better.
Mystery Song! A MIDI file so horrific, even I dare not listen to it!

Many Thanks To: Playground Psychotic

© Dan Ness, 1998. So you want to redistribute this, huh? Well tough! This is my work, and it stays here. Link to the title page.

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