🔪🫦 Feast of Fright: Draco Tops the Scream King 🫦🔪
1. Prompting: September 10th 2025 - October 10th 2025
2. Claiming: October 13th 2025 - December 7th 2025
3. Submissions due: January 11th 2026
4. Posting begins: February 13th 2026
5. Reveals: Mid March 2026
Hello everyone! Welcome to the inaugural Feast of Fright: Draco Tops the Scream King fest! This anonymous, 18+ fest will be dedicated to creating art and fics about Draco and Harry—all the frightening, funny, weird horror art and fics of your imagination!
There will be a particular focus on Dead Dove: Do Not Eat art and fics, but all types of horror creations are welcome! Maybe you want to write a classic 80s slasher? Or perhaps werewolves tickle your fancy? Or have you been dying to write about how ridiculous and funny the horror genre can be? Let your mind go wild! We want it all!
The second part of the fest is the smut element. Smut is not a requirement, works can be of any rating. However, if you do create smut, top Draco is mandatory. As you may have guessed from the title, Harry is the aforementioned Scream King.
Traditionally in Horror, the Scream Queen or the Final Girl is the character who lives until the end—the survivor if you will. A particular emphasis on Harry being the survivor is nice, but that does not mean it is required. He can be anything really, the first to die, the ghost haunting Draco, or maybe even the killer if you so desire. Or perhaps no one dies in your creation? Maybe the real monster was the existential dread we’ve felt along the way? All this to say, the title is a general idea—a guideline—but in no way is it a hard rule.
We hope that this first year will be a success and most importantly, fun! Horror is such a versatile genre, and it’ll be fun to see what everyone comes up with!
Come and join us at the Draco Tops Harry Discord Server if you have any questions or if you just want to talk!
Prompting is from September 10th to October 10th 2025.
Prompting form is available here.
Anyone can submit a prompt, and there is no limit to the amount of prompts you can submit. Self-prompting is also allowed.
When submitting a prompt, you may choose to remain anonymous, or you can share your AO3 name, or any other account handle.
A horror genre must be chosen, and the prompt must realistically fit into that chosen genre. You are free to share any details you absolutely want, or things you do not want in the art or fic that will be created for you. You may also choose multiple genres, and leave the choice up to the creator, if you can’t decide which one you’d prefer.
You will be able to choose whether the prompt will be:
Claiming is from October 13th 2025 to December 7th 2025
You can see available prompts here.
Upon signing up, you agree to the Rules and Guidelines of the fest. This fest is reserved to 18+, minors are to abstain.
When claiming a prompt, you must fill in your first, second and third choices—in case your first choice has already been claimed.
To be fair to everyone, only one claim per person to begin with. However, if you complete and submit your prompt before the deadline, you will be free to claim a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) prompt.
If multiple people are working together on one prompt, just submit one claim, making sure to include each person in the claiming form.
You are also free to claim your own prompt.
There are five principle rules:
AI art or fics are strictly forbidden.
The main pairing is Drarry, but other pairings/threesomes, etc, are welcome as long as it stays mainly Drarry.
The creation must fit into its chosen horror genre.
This is an anonymous fest and thus your creation should not be shared outside of your alpha/beta readers until reveals in March.
Feel free to reach out to the mods of the fest for any questions, or if you need help understanding your genre, at: [email protected].
The minimum fic length is 1k, and the maximum is 75k.
Fics should be beta read before submitting, if you need further assistance, feel free to reach out.
For Art, there are no particular rules, signing your art is allowed.
The mods will periodically check in on you before submissions, if you need help, an extension, or you’ve changed your mind about participating, feel free to contact us at any time. It happens to everyone, sometimes the muse isn’t showing up, or maybe real life decided to do too much. No judgement, we understand.
Submissions are due January 11th 2026.
However, feel free to submit your creation earlier, especially if you want to claim another prompt!
Submissions must be complete, and tagged appropriately. Mods will be reading each fic before posting, and we might reach out with any issues or questions we might have.
All creations must be posted here: to the AO3 collection: Feast of Fright: Draco Tops the Scream King 2026, and with Mad_Eye_Moddy added as co-creator so that we may make any necessary changes (it will be removed before posting).
Contact us if for whatever reason you can’t post your work.
Once your creation has been posted to the Feast of Fright: Draco Tops the Scream King 2026 collection, you must send an email with the filled header to this email address: [email protected].
Title:
Creator(s):
Pairing(s): Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, <any additional pairings>
Rating:
Word count/Art Medium:
Warnings/Tags:
Summary:
Author’s note:
Link to work:
Posting will begin February 13th 2026, 11pm CET: Friday the thirteenth!
Depending on the number of submissions we have, more than one creation may be posted per day. If Art and Fic are created for the same prompt, then they will be posted together.
A posting schedule will be shared with each creator and they will know when their works will be published.
During the posting period, please be careful not to reveal yourself. However, once reveals in March, you are free to publicise your creation anywhere you want!
That’s it! We hope that this was clear, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us here [email protected], or in the Draco Tops Harry Discord Server.
We hope that this fest will be a great way to share your creations, and to meet other people in the fandom and make friends!
