Halloween likes

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So I was having a conversation with someone about Halloween stores and how gory some of the stuff in the Spirit Halloween chain is. I've only been in there a couple of times, or maybe just once, and I remember seeing this awful head or bust that had a knife stuck right through the face. Ick!

That sort of thing is definitely not my cup of tea. I like spooky things, like graveyards or spider webs, and am amused by talking or crawling skeletons and the like. But I don't like grotesque things like half-bodies or severed body parts or other things that seem to exist just to gross people out.

I think, aside from the high cost of admission, that's why I haven't ever tried going to a haunted house/castle/forest/etc., because while I might be able to find someone to go with me, I'm a little worried that it wouldn't just be spooky, since gross-out seems to be the order of the day. And if there was too much gross-out and too little spooky, I probably wouldn't like it and I might even be so grossed out that I'd throw up. So embarrassing. If I knew of a place that really was just spooky, though, I'd probably try to go.

I haven't ever said this before because I figured I was in a minority and that most people wanted Halloween as gory as possible. But thinking on it more, it's kind of the same principle that causes a lot of people to dislike modern horror films, saying they're just mindlessly gory and gross instead of creepy and spooky. So with that in mind, I'm surely not in such a small camp. And even if I am, oh well, I've never been conventional in my life.

So excited to start posting creepy stories! I'm debating whether to start my first octoberwriting fic now or wait until after midnight to start writing it. The mods are both MIA, so after trying and failing to contact them I decided to organize an unofficial October Writing challenge this year since I wanted to participate so bad and had been planning on it for months. Several people also expressed interest, so good luck to us! If anyone else wants to join in, feel free!

Comments

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Eww, oh dear, I certainly don't remember seeing anything that bad the one time I went to a Spirit Halloween store. The worst I saw was a normal-looking zombie trying to crawl out of the ground, and another in a cage in a tree, which probably fall under the "something you wouldn't mind" list.

I've been to a haunted house a couple of times. The ones I went to were actually spooky instead of gory, though, thankfully. So you're probably not in a minority at all (and if you are, well, then I am, too).

And yes, can't stand modern horror movies, at all. But, LOL, now I'm remembering that one Vincent Price movie where the "monster" was some kind of overgrown shrimp, and you could see the wires attached to the thing that were making it "crawl." Ah, B movies...

But yessss, creepy stories! :D I just posted chapter 1 of the DW Halloween fic

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, I don't think I'd mind those, unless they looked particularly gross with rotting flesh and visible innards.

That's cool! Were they local ones or part of a chain? (Though on the other hand, maybe haunted houses don't have national chains....)

**snerk.** B movies in all their classic strangeness.

Awesome! I have a first draft done for my first one, but it still needs an epilogue scene before it goes up.