Initial pinch hits are now available!

If you want to claim a pinch hit, please comment here (comments will be screened) or email summerofhorrorex at gmail dot com. Make sure to include your AO3 username when claiming a pinch hit.

Minimums are 500 words or a piece of original art (no manips), either digital or on unlined paper. Please note: these are character groupings, not necessarily gen relationships. Recipients may opt into ships in their optional details.

These are due at 8:00 PM EDT on July 6.

( CLAIMED - PH 1 - The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023), Heroes (TV 2006) )

( PH 2 - NoPixel (Web Series) )

( PH 3 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020) )

( CLAIMED - PH 4 - Star Trek: Enterprise, Venom (Marvel Movies), The Passenger (Movie 2023) )

( CLAIMED - PH 5 - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, From (TV 2022) )

( PH 6 - Felvidek (Video Game), Dracula Rising (webseries 2013), Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )

( CLAIMED - PH 7 - Our Flag Means Death (TV), The Pitt (TV) )

( CLAIMED - PH 8 - Project Wingman (Video Game), Ace Combat (Video Games), Ace Combat (Video Games), Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Dishonored (Video Games) )

( CLAIMED - PH 9 - Star Wars Original Trilogy )

( CLAIMED - PH 10 - The Passenger (Movie 2023), Jaws (Movies), Poppy Playtime (Video Game) )

( CLAIMED - PH 11 - Crossover Fandom, DC's Arrowverse, The Defenders (Marvel TV), The Fall Guy (2024), Hawkeye (TV 2021), Highlander: The Series, Murder by Numbers (2002), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Sometimes They Come Back (1991), Twilight (Movies) )

Don't forget to sign up before 8pm EDT on May 14! Here is a countdown.

Thank you to everyone who nominated! The tagset is in the process of being finalized.

Nomination queries

• Transformers - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom? If not, we will approve these under The Transformers (IDW Generation One.
  
• Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms - We have a nomination for The Frog Prince & Iron Henry. Nominator, can you clarify if these two ever appeared in the same fairy tale? If not, are you okay with it being approved under Crossover Fandom?
  
• Die schöne Müllerin - Franz Schubert (Songs) - Nominator(s), is the River a character, a setting, or a setting being used as a character?
  
• Les Misérables - All Media Types - Nominator, do you have a specific versio nof the canon you want? If not, for Anyone who dies at the barricade & any barricade survivor(s), we will approve this under the book version of the canon.
  
• The Last Unicorn - All Media Types - Nominator, do you have a specific version of the canon you want? If not, we will approve this under the 1982 film, since that seems to be the canon people usually reference with regard to the Drunk Skeleton.
  
• Tomie - All Media Types - Nominator(s), do you have a specific version of the canon in mind?
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022): Nominator, our understanding is that Sauron and Annatar are the same character. We generally do not distinguish between different eras of a character's canon. We have already accepted Celebrimor & Sauron for Rings of Power, so this nomination will be rejected.

If any of these are tags you've nominated, please reply here or email us at summerofhorrorex at gmail to let us know how you'd like us to handle them.

Nominations close in about 2.5 hours. Get yer noms in while the getting's good!

Nomination guidelines and link to tagset.

Nomination reminders

• We DO NOT accept nominations with "/" ships. All character groupings must be nominated with "&". For example, we will not accept "Timon/Pumbaa (The Lion King 1994)"; please nominate "Timon & Pumbaa (The Lion King 1994)" instead. If you have nominated a "/" ship, please edit it to have "&". (You can still request ships as part of the optional details of your request.)
  
• Please disambiguate your nominations. This means putting the fandom after your nomination in parentheses, as in the example above.
  
• If your nominations are lingering, you should also doublecheck the nomination guidelines to be sure you're using the correct format.

We may reject incorrect nominations at any time to make it easier to approve correctly formatted nominations.

Nomination queries

• Transformers - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?
  
• Mortal Kombat - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?
  
• The Hobbit - All Media Types: Nominator(s), since you've nominated Tauriel, who only appears in the Peter Jackson movies and not the novel, we would like to change this fandom to The Hobbit (Jackson Movies). Please let us know if you intended something else instead.
  
• The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?

This is just to confirm that Summer of Horror is coming back for another round! Nominations open on April 28. See the full schedule here.

Please note our closing and reveals times have been moved to 8pm Eastern.

Fall Into Horror has now been revealed!

The collection is still open, so feel free to keep posting claims. And happy Halloween!

Nominator(s) for Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, can you choose a specific version of this canon?

This fest is for creating late treats for any past Summer of Horror request and for making/filling new prompts via the prompt meme. As always, we also welcome horror works that are not created for any specific individual but fit our basic horror theme.

You must be 18+ to participate in this fest.

LINKS
AO3 collection
Tagset
New prompts on the app for Fall Into Horror
2022 requests
2023 requests
2024 requests

SCHEDULE:
Tagset nominations/prompts open - August 25
Tagset nominations/prompts close - October 17, 11:59pm
Works due / collection reveals - Oct 31, 12:01am
Creator reveals - Nov 7, 12:01am

All times in Eastern US time.

NOMINATIONS:
- Please refer to our nominations guidelines!

- We are using the most recent Summer of Horror tagset, so you do not need to nominate anything that was already approved for that. We have cleared nominations for that tagset, which means any tags you submitted are still there, but you now have room to nominate a full new slate of tags if you want. :)

PROMPTS AND REQUESTS:
- You may make between 1-20 prompts. Each prompt must include fandom, medium (art and/or fic), requested character or character group, and horror subgenre.

- You may request the same fandom multiple times.

- You may choose to make your prompt anonymous.

- Your prompt must use fandoms and requested relationships from the tagset. If your tags aren't in the tagset, you can nominate them, up until when nominations close (see schedule above).

- If you have participated in a past round of Summer of Horror and want to emphasize that you still want to receive a particular fandom/ship/request, you are welcome to submit it as a prompt. However, someone may choose to write for a past request of yours either way.

PROMPT CLAIMS:
- Claiming a prompt does not mean you are committing to fulfill it.

- Multiple people can claim the same prompt.

- You are welcome to claim as many prompts as you want, whether or not you think you can make fills for them all. We recognize that AO3's prompt organization is not great and that claiming prompts is the easiest way to find them again.

POSTING:
- You can create for any new prompt or any request from any past round of Summer of Horror. Be aware that if you're creating for an older request, it's possible the recipient may no longer be interested or may not notice that you've created it for them. However, you are still welcome to create for any request that inspires you.

- As with the regular exchange, your work should match the requested fandom, medium, requested character or character group, and horror subgenre, and must respect the recipient's Do Not Wants (DNWs). All works should be complete at time of reveals. There is no wordcount minimum.

- To post to the collection, you must first claim a prompt. If your work is a treat for an older request, you can claim the top prompt on this page, which is a "dummy" prompt for all late treats. Once you have claimed a prompt and are ready to post a work, go to your prompt claims page and select "Fulfill." If the method you choose does not automatically gift your work to your intended recipient, be sure to put their username in the "gift to" field!

- Multiple people can create for the same prompt or request.

- You must create your work yourself. Your work may not contain computer-generated art or text, graphics from another source (such as photomanips, aesthetics/mood boards, or screen captures), substantial sections of material quoted or copied from canon, or plagiarized material.

- If you create a work based on a request for a group of characters (eg, Sidney Crosby & Evgeni Malkin (Men's Hockey RPF)), you may create either a gen or shippy gift for those characters, as long as the gift respects your recipient's DNWs. You must include all the characters in the group. If the characters were nominated as an ensemble group without their individual names listed, i.e., "The Avengers," then you must include at least two characters from that ensemble.

First, creators are revealed, which concludes our third round of Summer of Horror! Thanks so much to everyone who participated by signing up, checking out the collection, reccing, and leaving feedback for our creators. Special thanks to our pinch hitters who came through, you guessed it, in a pinch. <3 Thanks to them we were able to open right on time.

Second, we are planning a SPOOKY FALL EVENT sometime vaguely near Halloween. This will be a combination prompt fest and late treat fest. You can create for requests from past SoH rounds, and we’ll also have a prompt fest open where people can make new horror requests. We will post the schedule as soon as we get it finalized.

For that, we could use your feedback. trickortreatexchange always has their deadline on October 24 and their reveals on October 31, and this year the US has its presidential election on November 5. Given those dates, when would you like our late treat/prompt fest to have work reveals? (Anon comments are on if you want to vote that way.)