b2mem | Entries tagged with genre:horror

This is a slightly unusual rec list; certain prompts brought to mind specific fics and that's what I'm posting here, whether I love them or just kinda like them or literally haven't read them in years.

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kimaracretak

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Setting as Character N44 - underground, Legendarium Curiosities O64 - Tom Bombadil, Horror O68 - Footsteps and whispers
Format: Short story
Genre: Horror
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied character death, definite animal death, minor body horror
Characters: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, Old Man Willow
Creator’s Notes: Yknow the nonsensicality is the point of Tom's song but it can take on a slightly more eerie cast when you consider that dol means going in Gaidhlig and I'm obsessed.
Summary: Tom Bombadil goes adventuring a few steps too far.

( hey dol merry dol )

octopus_fool

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O75 – Beans (Card 25 - Botany), Tombs and Crypts (Card 103 - Horror), cheese (Card 175 - Smells)
Format: ficlet
Genre: Horror, Drama
Rating: Mature
Warnings: cannibalism, mentions of child death
Characters: Other characters from Cardolan
Pairings: none
Creator’s Notes (optional): none
Summary: It spoke of the horrors above ground that they preferred starvation over trying to reach supplies outside of the barrows.

Also on AO3.
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fadesintothewest

B2MeM Prompt, Cards and Numbers: Card: 67. Emotions 2, G51 Solemnity, O75 fear
Format: ficlet
Genre: Dark
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Descriptions of torture
Characters: The King's Men, The Faithful,
Summary: A snippet into the decay of the Númenóreans under the influence of Sauron as seen through the eyes of the King's Men and the Faithful. Second Age. Tribute to Victor Jara.

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kimaracretak

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Setting as character B7 - getting lost, Legendarium Curiosities B11: Shapeshifting
Format: Short story
Genre: Horror
Rating: T
Warnings: Major character death
Characters: Sigrid, arguably Tauriel and Smaug
Pairings: Sigrid/Tauriel
Summary: The world under the lake is more foreign than any land she could ever hope to travel, airless and full of dancing lights and grasping plant-life. She has seen caves, she has seen jewels, and yet, no matter how she turned, silt stinging her eyes, she has never seen the rise of the dragon's body.

Also on AO3

( misadventures under the long lake and also under the cut )

octopus_fool

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B11 – Madder (Card 25 - Botany), Ladybug (Card 30 - Color Burst 1 - Red), Body Horror (Card 103 - Horror)
Format: Short Story
Genre: Horror
Rating: Mature
Warnings: body horror, emetophobia tw, character death
Characters: Hobbit OC, Pimpernel Took
Pairings: background OFC/OMC
Creator’s Notes (optional): none
Summary: Ruby had always been fascinated by the colour red. She wished for clothes of the most beautiful vibrant shade. But wishes have consequences...

Also on AO3.

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mybluerose

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Horror & Darkness, Darkness cards; Horror Crossover & Slavery prompt – N42
Format: Double Drabble
Genre: Horror
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Body Horror
Characters: Morgoth
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional):crossover with H.P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror works (cause Melkor is totally Cthulhu).
Summary: an unfortunate Elf sees the Dark Rider in another of his forms.

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octopus_fool

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O72: Thuringwethil and other vampires (Card 103 - Horror); "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads." (Card 134 - Movie Quotes), Target (Card 30 - Color Burst 1 - Red)
Format: Double Double
Genre: Femslash, Horror
Rating: Teens
Warnings: chose not to use warnings
Characters: Thuringwethil, Female Edain character
Pairings: Thuringwethil/OFC
Creator’s Notes (optional): none
Summary: Wedding feasts like this were a rare occasion for cheer and good food.

Also on AO3.

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erulissedances

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number:B11: 30, ladybug, 34, rivers, 103, body horror
Format: ficlet
Genre: horror
Rating: PG
Warnings: small mention of death
Creator’s Notes (optional):what could be better on a hot day than a day at the shores of a river?
Summary:an unexpected find on a hot summer day.

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octopus_fool

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: N42: Horror Crossover (Card 103 - Horror); River (145 - Person vs. Nature)
Format: Short Story
Genre: Horror(ish)
Rating: Teens
Warnings: near drowning
Characters: Tauriel
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): I went with a more literal meaning of the first prompt rather than the fandom one.
Summary: The Forest is less than welcoming when Tauriel returns.

Also on AO3.

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octopus_fool

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G48: "Shelob" (81. Five Books, Five Characters), "Chains, Prison, and Torture" (103. Horror) and "A Mountain or Mountains" (145. Person vs. Nature)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Horror, Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Orcs being orcs
Characters: Gorbag
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): None
Summary: Gorbag has the worst morning of his life.

Also posted on AO3.

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senalishia

Prey, by Senalishia

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: “Women of the Silmarillion” - G48: Villainesses
Format: Double Drabble
Genre: Horror
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Violence
Characters: Thuringwethil, unfortunate elf OC
Pairings: None
Summary: Thuringwethil does a good job guarding the Orc camp, and that is its own reward.

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elwendell

B2MeM Prompt:G48. Card:195 Waters. Well
Format:drabble
Genre:horror
Rating:gen
Warnings:death
Characters:Frodo, Lotho
Pairings:none
Creator’s Notes (optional):none
Summary:They never did find Lotho.

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Current Mood: creative

kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Fanwork Prompt:
He [Eru] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else… (The Silmarillion, “Of the Beginning of Days”)
8. Then I thought in my heart that we drew near to the Sea; for wide was the water in the darkness, and sea-birds innumerable cried on its shores. (Return of the King, “The Last Debate”)
Format: Drabble (double drabble)
Genre: horror
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Death
Characters: Amras, Amrod, Ulwarth, Caranthir.
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): Yeah…okay. I have no idea what I’m doing. :P This is all the generator’s fault. All of it. Including the title, which is probably the funniest part.
Summary: During the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Ulwarth son of Ulfang betrays the Sons of Feanor. He is slain by the sons of Bor. After the battle, the Ambarussa look at the traitor’s body, and consider the cost.

'Because the truth was, and he knew it well, that he had terrible cows.' -William Goldman, 'The Princess Bride'

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven. (The Silmarillion, “Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor)

Daily Prompt: Fuoco “fiery”, Estinto “lifeless”.
Format: double drabble and a half (vignette?)
Genre: horror
Rating: PG-13, at least
Warnings: Mentions of torture, death, and orcs, though I don’t think anything’s terribly explicit.
Characters: Sauron, Tatië, Finwë, Melkor
Pairings: Tata/Tatië
Creator’s Notes (optional): The SWG prompt generator is crazy, you know that? XD
Summary: Oookay…Sauron and Tatië, I can work with that. Maybe. I’m not used to writing Cuiviénen – in fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever written anything this early before. Set during the time Oromë has taken the ambassadors for the Elves to Aman.

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nialoke

B2MeM Prompt and Path: "Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn." (Mahatma Ghandi). Green Path, Square Eight.
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Angst, horror
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Stream-of-consciousness, death-by-werewolf
Characters: Finrod
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): This got unexpectedly dark – I thought at first the prompt seemed rather upbeat, but… no. ~~Also: I have reached the end of my path now so I'm done with this fic-spam of today, I'm sorry - this happens when you work on everything at the same time~~
Summary: But foresight came upon Felagund…

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nialoke

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Complete any of the fanwork rec (yellow/triple dot path) prompts. Green Path, Square Seven.
Format: Rec list
Genre: Listed under each individual story.
Rating: Listed under each individual story.
Warnings: Listed under each individual story.
Characters: Listed under each individual story.
Pairings: Listed under each individual story.
Creator’s Notes (optional):
Summary: A rec collection that probably seems rather random to anyone but me - these are some of the stories that just seem to have stuck in my head over the years, for quite different reasons.

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fernstrike

Prompt and Path: Things that go bump in the night. Purple path.
Format: Double drabble/Poetry
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Implied character death.
Characters: Gollum; Woodsmen
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): Told in prose-poetry style (most difficult for a fixed-word drabble!)
Summary: The woodmen bar their doors, and hold their sons and daughters close.

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ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Things That Go Bump in the Night - Purple
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Horror
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Disturbing imagery
Characters: OCs (Men of Númenor, Wraiths, Wights), Ringwraiths
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): Probably not actually what happened in canon. Three of the Ringwraiths were supposed to be men of Númenor, though.
Summary: In Númenor, some men never return. Others do, but changed.

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just-jenni.livejournal.com

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Tyranny (purple path)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Slash, Horror
Rating: Adult, NC-17
Warnings: Torture, Explicit sex
Characters: Celebrimbor, Annatar
Pairings: Celebrimbor/Annatar
Creator’s Notes (optional):
Summary: Celebrimbor laments, in confession style, the part he played in creating the Rings of Power.

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