#fictional horror

I have rekindled my love for the horror genre so here is a horror good night!

Good night, sweet dreams, and sleep well to (in no paticularly order lol) (also, super self-indulgent this time cuz I am all of these and more so I am basically wishing myself good night lol):

People who love horror (double points if your fave subgenre is anolog)!

People who had or have an obsession over FNAF!

Those with poppy playtime kins!

Those who listened to the magnus archives from start to finish!

Alternates from the Mandela Catalogue!

Fans of Amanda the Adventurer!

Those who watched things like Coraline (you know, baby's first horror stuff) and found it scary at first but then fell in love with horror!

People who have played pony island!

People who read Steven King novels!

Garten of Banban fans!

Bendy and the Ink Machine kins!

Backrooms enjoyers!

Those who listen(ed) to SCP stories to fall asleep to!

Those who read/played Dokidoki Literature Club!

Those who think true crime and such DOESN'T belong in the horror genre (that's just (shitty) crime reports imo)!

Those who played Horror Tale 1 to 3!

Those who kin characters from Mr Hopp's Playhouse!

Story concept: #1

So I have a horror - romance concept I’d like to write about someone in her early 20’s, I’m still trying to decide the exact timeframe of the story, but has to be between 1920-1960, and her S/o is a serial killer and heir to a mafia family. So, FL from when she was young, lived in VERY dysfunctional home. I’m thinking her parents and her older brother. Her dad is abusive and while her brother tries to shelter her from it as her older brother, it doesn’t always work out. Deciding he’s had enough of his ‘stupid wife’ and ‘disgraceful’ son, he finds FL who is probably five at this point and attempts taking her with him, but intending to kill her as his final screw you before changing his name (because it’s fairly easy back then to do). It goes sideways because it was a rainy day that day and she ran. She kicked him when the one chance he had to get a grip back on her occurred and he fell down the muddy hill which becomes his end of days.

Personally, I was thinking he gets impaled on a tree OR a buck. I love the latter of the two best, but the tree sounds more realistic to happen.

Girl runs away and survives on pure adrenaline until she is found by the town over where he intended to kill her. A nanny and a boy, our ML to be, find her on an outing because we all know little boys like jumping in puddles. TBH any guy likes that… Anyway, our FL is taken by nanny to get cleaned up and of course the police are called because she is a missing child. She, however, doesn’t get far because we all know policemen back then weren’t as honest (or in other words these cops were in the mafia’s pocket). It could have been many things like distance or her lack of knowledge as she WAS ONLY FIVE, but it could also be the don, the big boss, noticed his little heir liked playing with FL.

Almost too many coincidences happen. Like how the nanny and her husband had been trying for years, but clearly one of them didn’t have the ability so fostering and later adopting FL is no issue. Furthermore since ML likes playing with FL it’s no issue with her work as his nanny. Was it a favor or just happenstance? Who would know, but that means ML will have known her since childhood. ((I’d keep this as either a prologue or a few first chapters before a timeskip.))

Now an adult, FL is now in courtship with ML. Despite her parents being only a fisherman and a nanny, she’s a decent bakery worker. She’s usually in the back in the kitchen, but she’s there. Picture it now, it’s break time for her and one of her co-workers, probably an older gentleman based on the period, and he is reading the newspaper since they have to wake so damn early. He looks over to our young adult FL “now see this in the paper, little lady? They found another one gone. You be careful if you’re out alone at night, or you might be next.” His hand knocks against the picture twice, inhaling his cigarette. “Another,” she’d mutter, concern laced with surprise. “Let me see.. oh no, I recognize that face. Didn’t know his name, but I met him at the bar when me and (ML) went out two nights ago. He tried shamelessly flirting with me when ML got us refills on our drinks.” The old geezer cackles, “The devil works harder they say. I’d say that’s karma. Little lady like you shouldn’t worry about punks like that bothering you on a date. (ML) is a lucky young man.”

Then, she heads home where her sweet ML is waiting in her living room. She makes sure her mama knows he’s there and he laughs it off, “Of course, I’d never just walk in, FL.” He winks and gives her a teddy bear. She remarks, “Ah, another one, he’s cute though, this time he had a little top hat!” She kisses his cheek before softly exclaiming, “Thank you, darling! You know how much I like teddy bears.”

There’s three other teddy bears in her room. All have a different accessories on them. She always loved teddy bears, but toys like teddy bears were always out of budget.

Those teddy bears? Human remains. All the missing pieces of corpses. ML does it all. I’ll give more in depth motivation behind his actions once I make a proper character file, but ML basically finds his targets through FL. Every single one of his victims FL has met, sometimes she may know them, other times it’s just a stranger she’d never miss, but did something to gain ML’s attention. He takes their pieces and turns it into teddy bears for her and while he does have a way to make the bodies completely disappear, he likes them being found. Likes that FL knows they’re dead. And she has no idea he gifts her the trophies.

This story would be one of those stories that flips between two characters povs. I like this style because I remember seeing it in a few books I read in the past. It would give you a glimpse of the horror, but always hide a detail or cliffhanger before an important detail is shown. Pop right back to the other pov, making you wonder what happened. You won’t find out until this character finds out.

I have a few ideas on how to end it. Some end in FL’s death, specifically in the happenstance of her being killed. Have him pin all the murders on her killer…. Others have a happier end for her, die of old age as does he and have their child read the extra letter in the will and learn the truth. Have Dad tell their son “You must continue my work, perhaps your future lady will like a trinket made from dedication.”

Personally would call this either “Bloody Teddy’s” for a more obvious title OR “Bearings of Passion” for the wordplay, but less obvious of a title.

FICTIONAL STORY

TW: gore?

From Concept #1

Name: Lilian Chiles

Gender/Sex: Female, Cis

Age: first seen at age 5, seen as in her 20’s most of story

Looks: Pale skin, green eyes, red hair (curly), freckles on her face, 5’3”

Characterization(s): sweetheart, bakery girl, feisty, romantic at heart, survivor

Career(s): Bakery’s assistant

Family: Biological family — mother, father (t), and her older brother. Adoptive family – mother and father.

Motivations: she believes in the good in others. She is motivated by her adoptive parents and by Isaac who motivates her to enter the next chapter in her life. She has that sweet but ordinary dream of marriage and a few kids.

Hobbies: loves fishing, experimenting with recipes, sewing, and loves collecting bear stuff. It’s her favorite animal.

Language: English, intermediate Italian

High or low: Most of her life she hadn’t considered sex. Literally, her awakening is with Isaac. While it’s high because she associates it with affection, she is a rather clean girl in her interests. The few things she is into aren’t that crazy.

From concept #1

Name: Isaac Giovanni

Gender/sex: male, Cis

Age range: meet him as a 6 year old, but in his 20’s most of story

Looks: (20’s) 6’2”, healthy-muscle build, blue eyes, dark hair, facial hair (considered clean and well groomed), his hands have some scars, olive skin

Characterization(s): childhood friend, obsessive lover, clear sociopath, serial killer, mafia heir, ‘I love my wife’ guy

Career(s): Mafiaso and heir, appears to own a toy company as a front business

Family: aside from the mafia itself, he has a father, mother, and much later in life he gets a baby brother (that nearly took his mother’s life because of her age). He does have uncles and cousins, also in the mafia.

Motivations: His family’s business (aka mafia), his childhood sweetheart.

Serial murder motivations: He is deeply in love with his childhood sweetheart and has noticed how men generally treat her. He hates it. He can’t stand when they touch her, talk to her, even stare at her. Seeing as it’s not her fault as she’s just trying her best to be an honest woman, he believes the fault lies with the men. So any man who he finds ill-intentioned become his target.

Style of murder: He doesn’t like using his creative methods on ‘trash’ so usually he goes for the easy shot and will slice the man up for what he needs to make the teddy bear. Then he moves him to a more creative spot to be found.

Hobbies: toy making, the main reason he makes a front business really. He enjoys making toys, plushies, and dolls. He is also into taxidermy, hunting, and fishing. Toy making triumphs over all three, however.

Languages: English, Italian

High or low?: I’d consider is s** drive to be above average but not quite high. He lives in a time where he doesn’t have immediate access to pornography or other means of paraphilia. His ‘needs’ are often to the point but may be considered extreme by the time’s standards. His drive is not influenced or get influenced by his acts of murder.

Recently, I took a flight to the town of Summertown (Tennessee, USA). I’d heard of reports about a house that mysteriously only appears in the month of October. It sits on a nearby hill, typically surrounded by dead grass and perhaps a rabbit’s burrow or two.  It’s practically a wasteland of weeds and mud. However, come October 1st and overnight when no one’s watching, the field grows into a…