The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

[EmilyMiller]

At least Mantikeanu survives

To party on…

 

[Rob_Royale]

There's no prohibition to death in stories. The death just can't be sexualized or be snuff.

There-in lies the rub for me. I'll be very honest, Anne Rice's Lestat (first three only) series I really enjoyed. And are rather formative as to what a vampire story should be, IMO. In those stories the killing is often very sexualized.

I had a thought of a lesbian story, human woman and an immortal. They fall in love only to find the woman has been brutalized by a husband for years. In fact, the night they met, the woman was suicidal. So on the night she makes her lover a vampire, her about-to-be late-husband is arranged as her first victim, post-coitus.

I know the way I want to write it, would get flagged by Laurel.

 

[StillStunned]

There-in lies the rub for me. I'll be very honest, Anne Rice's Lestat (first three only) series I really enjoyed. And are rather formative as to what a vampire story should be, IMO. In those stories the killing is often very sexualized.

I had a thought of a lesbian story, human woman and an immortal. They fall in love only to find the woman has been brutalized by a husband for years. In fact, the night they met, the woman was suicidal. So on the night she makes her lover a vampire, her about-to-be late-husband is arranged as her first victim, post-coitus.

I know the way I want to write it, would get flagged by Laurel.

There's some wiggle room. I have a couple of stories with deaths that are sex-adjacent, but not sexualised.

 

[Voboy]

I've got a good one ready to go for this one. I wrote it some time ago, and it grew beyond my control (as all the best tales do) to link about seven of my other stories. I kinda like it. Werewolves vs witches, IIRC.

 

[Erozetta]

There-in lies the rub for me. I'll be very honest, Anne Rice's Lestat (first three only) series I really enjoyed. And are rather formative as to what a vampire story should be, IMO. In those stories the killing is often very sexualized.

I had a thought of a lesbian story, human woman and an immortal. They fall in love only to find the woman has been brutalized by a husband for years. In fact, the night they met, the woman was suicidal. So on the night she makes her lover a vampire, her about-to-be late-husband is arranged as her first victim, post-coitus.

I know the way I want to write it, would get flagged by Laurel.

The novel I wrote around ten or so years ago has a scene similar, though not lesbian.

A prostitute is turned and her sire brings her one of her first Johns, a man who nearly killed her, and offers him up to her as her first kill. It's highly sensual as she plays weak to him at first before literally ripping his chest open, gently nicking an artery, then lapping at his still beating heart like a kitten at a bowl of milk. Then she flirts with her best friend, who watches the scene horrified, while her sire holds him back so she doesn't kill him, too.

There's a reason I've never tried to post it here, lol.

 

[lovecraft68]

There-in lies the rub for me. I'll be very honest, Anne Rice's Lestat (first three only) series I really enjoyed. And are rather formative as to what a vampire story should be, IMO. In those stories the killing is often very sexualized.

I had a thought of a lesbian story, human woman and an immortal. They fall in love only to find the woman has been brutalized by a husband for years. In fact, the night they met, the woman was suicidal. So on the night she makes her lover a vampire, her about-to-be late-husband is arranged as her first victim, post-coitus.

I know the way I want to write it, would get flagged by Laurel.

I am so in the minority when it comes to Rice. Her whiny mopey vamps were the original sparkly simps before Twilight came out.

I like my vamps as nasty killing machines who revel in their immortality and death dealing.

Lumley's Wamphyrie from the Necroscope series are where it's at.

 

[lovecraft68]

The novel I wrote around ten or so years ago has a scene similar, though not lesbian.

A prostitute is turned and her sire brings her one of her first Johns, a man who nearly killed her, and offers him up to her as her first kill. It's highly sensual as she plays weak to him at first before literally ripping his chest open, gently nicking an artery, then lapping at his still beating heart like a kitten at a bowl of milk. Then she flirts with her best friend, who watches the scene horrified, while her sire holds him back so she doesn't kill him, too.

There's a reason I've never tried to post it here, lol.

Never know, I got away with a lot in Abigail and Every Dog Has It's Day when they were published here before being pulled to turn into novels.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m so well-organized this year, that my Halloween story is done (subject to approval) and I’m 2,000 words into my Winter Holidays story.

This is not me avoiding finishing my novel whatsoever

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've got a good one ready to go for this one. I wrote it some time ago, and it grew beyond my control (as all the best tales do) to link about seven of my other stories. I kinda like it. Werewolves vs witches, IIRC.

I look forward to reading it. Haven’t read your Summer Lovin’ one yet.

 

[Erozetta]

Never know, I got away with a lot in Abigail and Every Dog Has It's Day when they were published here before being pulled to turn into novels.

Nah, not gonna attempt with that one. My tamer story that involves a priestess of Eros hunting down and punishing (killing) people who conflate selfish desire with lust and love got sent back as snuff because she finds a serial killer who preys on couples.

His first kill was a brother and sister who were not in an intimate relationship. Brother was freshly back from war sister was trying to help him acclimate back to civilian life, they were having a picnic by the lake. Killer thought they were a couple and they set his parameters for victims moving forward. (Extremely caring toward one another and comfortable with each other.)

But, yeah, priestess finds out this kill is the guy's cherished memory and essentially gives him a heart attack via adrenal overload by continuously edging him without allowing him to come.

And yeah, that scene was much less graphic than the vampire one. (I have issues, I'm aware of this.)

 

[lovecraft68]

Nah, not gonna attempt with that one. My tamer story that involves a priestess of Eros hunting down and punishing (killing) people who conflate selfish desire with lust and love got sent back as snuff because she finds a serial killer who preys on couples.

His first kill was a brother and sister who were not in an intimate relationship. Brother was freshly back from war sister was trying to help him acclimate back to civilian life, they were having a picnic by the lake. Killer thought they were a couple and they set his parameters for victims moving forward. (Extremely caring toward one another and comfortable with each other.)

But, yeah, priestess finds out this kill is the guy's cherished memory and essentially gives him a heart attack via adrenal overload by continuously edging him without allowing him to come.

And yeah, that scene was much less graphic than the vampire one. (I have issues, I'm aware of this.)

What issues? Takers take until they're taken, and the taking is the best part.

We need to collab at some point, then after we get thrown off the site we'll publish it for sale.

 

[Erozetta]

What issues? Takers take until they're taken, and the taking is the best part.

We need to collab at some point, then after we get thrown off the site we'll publish it for sale.

Personal note from Laurel:

What the fuck? Why?!

 

[Voboy]

I look forward to reading it. Haven’t read your Summer Lovin’ one yet.

It's a bit of a departure for me, but remember that it was written to a different theme and then shoehorned into the Summer contest because I got tired of sitting on it for years. I knew it was pretty good.

I'm working on my Holiday contest entry now too! It's slow going, but I want to make sure I get it right.

 

[nicksouth]

Man, I haven't started. I may be sitting this one out.

 

[GaryDickins]

There's some wiggle room. I have a couple of stories with deaths that are sex-adjacent, but not sexualised.

I think I'm going to finish it and submit it anyway. If it gets rejected, it gets rejected.

Fairy tales have all kinds of tropes, and among them are morality about the price paid for greed and the cost of extended youth and beauty. When you have two main characters that are each driven by one of those two costly goals, you know it's going to end badly for at least one of them.

There's a kind of inevitability to that ending, in the same way that you knew by the end of the pilot episode of Breaking Bad that Walter White had crossed a line that meant he couldn't get out of the series alive. So it's not a surprise when the inevitable comes. The challenge is trying to tell the story in a way that is entertaining enough to keep readers turning pages (and in a genre like this) to keep those pages stuck together as well...

 

[StillStunned]

@EmilyMiller You're official now!


Halloween Story Contest 2025 at Literotica

 

[Rustyoznail]

I've got a really short story based on a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song that I'll tweak for this. Problem is, it'll go in non-erotic...

 

[EmilyMiller]

@EmilyMiller You're official now!
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Halloween Story Contest 2025 at Literotica

Must update my resume

 

[Trionyx]

Why do the rules to the contests always say that they coexist with the usual monthly contests when there hasn’t been a monthly contest announced in many, many moons, at least that I’ve seen?

 

[BryanRichardson]

I’ve got three stories in the works, only one of which I have actually started writing. One of them will be in the crossdressing category; Halloween is the perfect backdrop for that category.

Mind Control, Erotic Horror and Crossdressing. Oh my!

 

[FrancesScott]

Why do the rules to the contests always say that they coexist with the usual monthly contests when there hasn’t been a monthly contest announced in many, many moons, at least that I’ve seen?

Yeah - I agree

 

[EmilyMiller]

Why do the rules to the contests always say that they coexist with the usual monthly contests when there hasn’t been a monthly contest announced in many, many moons, at least that I’ve seen?

That’s in Laurel’s notes, I’m happy to drop her a PM about this. Not sure where it sits with her other priorities .

 

[FrancesScott]

I’ve got a third story that I missed the Summer Lovin’ deadline for being reviewed. I don’t think I’ll be doing Halloween unless some idea hits me soon. I might target Winter Holidays, then my pool-based anthology series, for which I have other ideas, is pretty much Summer focused.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Must update my resume

One of the winners of Summer Lovin’ said placing was a major life achievement. I think I’m gonna claim this thread becoming official as one of those, ‘cause it’s not like I’ll ever win a comp .

 

[StillStunned]

One of the winners of Summer Lovin’ said placing was a major life achievement. I think I’m gonna claim this thread becoming official as one of those, ‘cause it’s not like I’ll ever win a comp .

I feel the same way about my stickied threads!