Flash Fiction Challenge: It’s X Meets Y, The Horror Edition!

It’s that time again for the challenge I love so much –

You take two pre-existing pop culture properties, randomly mash them up, and then write a piece of fiction inspired by and utilizing that mash-up. You’re not writing fan-fiction in those worlds — you’re capturing the essence of them for a new story. (So it’s like, when you pitch an original novel to an editor and you say, IT’S LIKE DANCES WITH WOLVES MEETS BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. And they’re like, what? And then you both laugh uncomfortably.)

Here, we’re gonna do a horror-flavored edition

One table is PURE HORROR.

The second table is not at all horror.

You will mix these up for maximum awesome.

Roll a d20 or use a random number generator once on each table.

Then, write a story — we’ll say up to 3000 – 5000 words in length — and post it at your blog and give us a link back here so we can all read it and go ooh and ahh.

(I know, technically not a flash fiction challenge. DON’T SASS ME.)

Given that this challenge is a bit longer, we’ll make it two weeks for your timeframe, which will finish this out right on October 30th, the day before HALLOWEEN.

*crash of thunder*

*cackling ravens*

*Jack-o-Lantern smokes a cigarette and leers at you*

Go forth and write.

The Horror Table

The Exorcist
The Walking Dead
Interview With A Vampire
Frankenstein
The Babadook
Poltergeist
Gremlins
It
Rosemary’s Baby
It Follows
Hellraiser
Psycho
Evil Dead
The Shining
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Descent
The Thing
Nightmare On Elm Street
The Ring
Carrie

The Not Horror Table

Harry Potter
House of Cards
Back to the Future
The Marvel Universe
Mad Men
Scooby Doo
Scandal
Planet of the Apes
Transformers
Sex and the City
The Muppets
Die Hard
Star Trek
Pitch Perfect
50 Shades of Grey
Fast and the Furious
The Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Doctor Who
The Martian