Halloween 2025

[Statius]

Well he did say "a pumpkin queen". So probably made up in which case all kinds of shenanigans can happen. Could play off the Great Pumpkin from the Peanuts, or something else. Like a corn maze thing. Make it creepy or comical

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Pumpkin Head?

 

[Rob_Royale]

scuse ... some of us are unfamiliar with the Pumpkin Queen (and how it fits a Lit story).

Could play off the Great Pumpkin from the Peanuts, or something else. Like a corn maze thing. Make it creepy or comical

Sorry about that. And yes, some sort of female eldritch goddess that rises up out of the pumpkin patch but only on the very rare occurrence when Halloween night falls during a full moon. 2020 was the last and and next one is in 2039. On this night she can enter our world from the world of the Fae and she brings with her the dark and mischievous creatures of fairie. Goblins, redcaps, spriggans and night hags, all the dark things that children feared when the legend of All Hallows Eve first began.

Each time she appears she finds a newly wed couple and seduces them, enjoying her own little night of mischief before dawn's first light. Her night in 2020 is told as a memory, as the moon rises on Halloween night in 2039 and with her rises her 19 year old son or daughter, the Prince(ess) of Autumn, the product of her 2020 visit. Such a conception has not happened in three millennia and the Queen must find the father to figure out how and why, it happened.

In her haste to begin her search, she leaves her child alone in the human world. What sort of shenanigans does this powerful fey get up to from moonrise to sunrise? And what is the secret of the father, for surely he is no mere mortal?

I think this would fit very nicely into my Wellspring world from my story Wilbur and the Elf. Perhaps for the next Halloween contest.

Artwork by Amy Brown and found via a Google search of 'Pumpkin Queen'.

 

[Statius]

Sorry about that. And yes, some sort of female eldritch goddess that rises up out of the pumpkin patch but only on the very rare occurrence when Halloween night falls during a full moon. 2020 was the last and and next one is in 2039. On this night she can enter our world from the world of the Fae and she brings with her the dark and mischievous creatures of fairie. Goblins, redcaps, spriggans and night hags, all the dark things that children feared when the legend of All Hallows Eve first began.

Each time she appears she finds a newly wed couple and seduces them, enjoying her own little night of mischief before dawn's first light. Her night in 2020 is told as a memory, as the moon rises on Halloween night in 2039 and with her rises her 19 year old son or daughter, the Prince(ess) of Autumn, the product of her 2020 visit. Such a conception has not happened in three millennia and the Queen must find the father to figure out how and why, it happened.

In her haste to begin her search, she leaves her child alone in the human world. What sort of shenanigans does this powerful fey get up to from moonrise to sunrise? And what is the secret of the father, for surely he is no mere mortal?

I think this would fit very nicely into my Wellspring world from my story Wilbur and the Elf. Perhaps for the next Halloween contest.

Artwork by Amy Brown and found via a Google search of 'Pumpkin Queen'.
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That would be fantastic!

 

[Carnevil9]

Jack Skellington (from Nightmare Before Christmas) was known as the Pumpkin King, so I suppose his girlfriend Sally could be the Queen.

But I love @Rob_Royale 's take on it.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The Corn Man.


Combine a cornfield maze, The Wickerman and the Twilight Zone corn kid thing.


Play by play on KORN News with Charlie Farquharson

 

[sirhugs]

The Corn Man.


Combine a cornfield maze, The Wickerman and the Twilight Zone corn kid thing.


Play by play on KORN News with Charlie Farquharson

gotta love Charlie (RIP)