Hallowe'en Meme - day one

As created by the lovely ratherbsailing,

Friday- Scariest Book/Story You've Ever Read
Saturday- Scariest/Creepiest Place That You Have Either Been or Don't Want to Go
Sunday- Creepiest/Scariest Halloween/Samhain Songs
Monday- Scariest Movie You've Ever Seen


And to start -

Scariest Book/Story You've Ever Read - Elidor by Alan Garner. There's a section in the book when the people trying to come over from the other (mythical) land to ours pour heaps of energy into the one point that the two worlds meet. This causes the place in our world to have horrific static. There's one scene where one of the children in our world is looking at a wall, and the static makes the dust make shapes.

And the child can't look away.

And the shapes become clearer, like a radio being tuned in. And the dust starts making firm edges to the shadow-shapes...

This scene freaked me out at age 10, and I had to read the story with the lights on and my back to the wall and music playing - and that in the daytime.

I saw Alan Garner about 10 years after reading that book. Only in passing. He looked normal. I don't know how...

hallow-Me'em

Stolen from writingvixen who borrowed it from lucida

In honor of Halloween/All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and you'll get... something. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, short fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.).

By the way: the more "houses" to visit the more fun it'll be, so go ahead, open your journal and help spread the fun!

I've overdone it again.

I wanted to write a short drabbly poem for a friend. Ten 8-line verses later...

To Find a Wife - SSHG, G rated (Sorry, but that does happen), Severus thinks he needs a wife, and Lucius is trying to help...