Fandom Promos

[galerian_ash]

Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing a little promoting? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

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[sweetsorcery]

I'm still weighing up a few options, but here's something I'll almost certainly tackle, because no one else ever will. I love my niche vintage horror fandoms to bits! :)

The Attic is a 1926 ghost story by A. M. Burrage.
Burrage has written some fantastic supernatural stories, as well as young adult fiction, and this story is kind of what might happen if P. G. Wodehouse had ventured into the horror genre. It has moments of humour, but it's also rather touching in parts, most notably in its portrayal of the relationship between two of the characters: Stanley Forbes visits a newly married friend in his country house, where both the friend and his wife firmly tell themselves the odd sounds they sometimes hear from the attic are quite natural. Also coming for a visit is the wife's younger brother, Derek Wilson, who's rather more sensitive than that but also courageous enough to investigate in the dead of night. This is something Forbes figures out after the fact, suitably impressed with the boy, because he himself is rather spooked by it all.

It turns out there's reason to be spooked when the house party starts to investigate into the past of the house as a school, run by a rather nasty character.

What strikes me most in this story is the lovely rapport Stanley and Derek have with each other, and Stanley's concern for Derek's feelings while everyone else thinks he's being rather difficult about staying in the house. (Derek does a temporary bunk.) There's a lot of hurt/comfort potential here, as well as post-canon possibilities, especially as Derek is only 15 in the canon.

This story is available in print and on Kindle, or you could do what's my favourite way to consume vintage horror and listen to this excellent audio reading of it! :)