#Haunted Zine Series

[enchi-elm]

Inception Fanzine - "I Go Wild" by Apfelessig

Based on text from the song "Wild" by Poe and the shooting script for Inception by Christopher Nolan.

This is a fan-made zine that is not to be redistributed for profit or reproduced without permission! That bit's really important because I don't want to get sued for copyright infringement and neither do you! *thumbs up*

Also, if you want a PDF of this, come find me on Discord!

Read the whole “Haunted” Zine series on AO3!

[ilaw-at-panitik]

In 2024, I managed to finish 14 Filipino-written books; among them, I can recommend seven:

Lucia Dreaming by Lucia Asul—This is a dream diary written and illustrated by Lucia Asul. It has a very cool art style, and dreams range from creepy to horrific to cosmic. The smell of this book is also unbeatable, IMO. It's the best-smelling book I've ever read.

Isabela by Kaisa Aquino—I have a review for this one here. I hesitate to call this a novel; it reads like a short story collection featuring women and men with similar names, all surrounding armed resistance and agrarian strife in Isabela to Manila. Very literary in the way it was written.

The Three-Cornered Sun by Linda-Ty Casper—Another one that I've written a review on. This historical fiction chronicles the Philippine revolution and features a family who found themselves on different sides of the war. Many beautiful and existential passages as the war went on. This book also features some of my favorite passages on rivers.

Love Without a Heart (May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso) by Inigo Ed Regalado tr by Soledad Reyes—A romp. I had such a good time with this book. It's a romance novel written in 1921, and the melodrama is so fun to read. Nothing hits like this anymore, I swear.

Tiempo Muerto by Caroline Hau—Is yet another one I've written more about. This is set on the fictional island of Banwa but tells the history of Negros, in an ancestral Bahay Na Bato House, where the protagonist's mother was lost in the aftermath of a typhoon that hit the island. Has a gothic, haunted house vibe in places but is ultimately about agrarian strife and the connection of resistance with our mountains. A really great read.

Tao sa Prowa: Mga Tala, Mga Taon ni Allan Popa—This is a series of vignettes featuring mundane things, then the author's reflections springing from them. This is a beautiful, well-curated collection. A bit pricey for a zine, but whatever. There are plenty of nuggets of gold in here.

Manansala by Enrique Villasis—Speaking of beautiful collections, this poetry collection features, converses with, meditates, reacts to and reimagines some of the works of the legendary cubist Vicente Manansala. As a nature writing fan, I especially loved the nature-adjacent works, but what I love most is the concept of this poetry collection. Auto-buy author sakin si En Villasis after reading this.

There you have it, my recommended Filipino-written works! Tell me if you've read books from this list and what you thought about them!

[chiropteracupola]

list of most of my projects and what mediums I really think they should exist in (not necessarily what they're going to be)

haunted by your hand: mysteryromance visual novel, audiobook narrated by vincent price on vinyl, decemberists rock opera

marian mantle: zine series, performance art installation on cliff, silent film

moth and compass: puzzle video game, john bellairs-esque ya gothic novel series, whatever that meow wolf artifact artbook is*

blood of the ash-tree: romance novel, ballet

⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬𐂂 - series of murals that wrap around an entire building. the building is maybe a shoe store.

[underpaid-paragon]

Sharing the full piece from the WoD Halloween Zine out of Gallery Noir! The theme was "Haunting/Haunted", and there's lots of angst to be had in the zine!

For my piece, I focused on my sweet '70s bae Circe (to the shock of no one who's been following me for more than a week, I know). She DOES have an origin story that I'm slowly chipping away (when the words are willing). Girl had a rough time for a while post-Embrace, and at some point winds up working in an illegal massage parlour to get by until getting scooped up by a certain Ventrue and having a series of misadventures that end in LA (for the time being).

[if EVER your curiosity is piqued about an OC, plllleeeeease do not hesitate to jump in and ask, I love to share]

[sandypuggames]

Sandy Pug's Halloween Sale!

Our big annual sale is live! SPG doesn't do discounts very often, but the spooky season always inspires us. You can get just about everything from our catalog for 50% off, and there's a huge bundle discount if you buy everything all at once.

We've got Social Dungeons, we've got Dream Dungeons, we've got Impossible Dungeons. We got a haunted nightmare pirate adventure setting, a game about playing chess with full sized cards, a roguelike deck-based TTRPG, musical TTRPGs, Weird Fantasy LoTRs settings. We got a TTRPG about being on a submarine, we got a TTRPG about being showrunners on the last episode of a great series.

We made a solo TTRPG about talking to Adam Driver. We made a solo TTRPG about being a Streets of Rage beat-em-up hero. There's fiction zines, a game about killing a planet, expansions, smut, and more more more!!!!

It's all 50% off for the rest of October!

[mizjoely]

If I was creating a fanzine today...

These are the stories I'd put in a Sherlock & Molly (not necessarily Sherock/Molly, please note the difference) horror themed fanzine:

The Haunting of Molly Hooper by @sunken-standard

No Kiss Farewell by @justatrashpanda (morbidbydefault)

It's Not Too Late and The Curio Cabinet by yours truly (as editor of this imaginary zine, I reserve the right to pick my own stuff, lol!)

Ride Along by @petratodd

Universally Monstrous - Dracula by @darnedchild

The Ribbon by @mousedetective (afteriwake)

The Vanishing Hitchhiker by @escailyyy

The Undead Centre of Town (Victorian Dream Palace series) by @8minutehooper (3seconds)

When Does It End, Where Does It Begin by Purpleyin

The Feast of All Souls by @hobbitsdoitbetter

Bonus:

The Anatomist by rosa_acicularis

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Zinequest and ZiMo games Part 2

Alright I have some japanese pop, alternating with some doom in my ears. A perfect soundtract for this year Zine Month... So here another batch of 7 freshly cooked games :

Lost Phantosmia

By KeganExe

I don't usuallly go for system neutral modules. But this one is an urban dungeon crawl inside a haunted perfume factory. Some absurdism and I'm sold. Especially with terms like Perfume Lich and aromatic adversaries.

Not Funded as of writing, Ends around the 21 Feb

Last Sabbath

By Officina Meningi

An award winning game from italy. GMless ( with solo options), Journaling. Witches. Tarot. All Keywords for me.

And, as an european, one that I can actually take in physical version.

Already funded, ends around the 21 Feb

A Song for a Serpent King

By Ella Lim

On one sade, I hate snakes. On the other I love songs. So A solo songwriting and journaling game. Sing a lullaby so the serpent king keeps on sleeping. For if this god wake up, the world is doomed.

Funded, ends around 25 Feb

Sock Puppets

By Kurt Refling

A game about puppets and their problems. A failing children's television series. Ruin a perfectly good puppet show. Need I say more. I will make like the clip of Mastodon's "Deathbound". (yes I know this is not what the game is going for. but come on...)

Funded, ends around 25 Feb

Silver Age

By R. Rook Studio

I like games that do something a little different. We all know about werewolf ( come on this is Tumblr) and silver. No here. In Silver Gae, silver is the source of werewolves powers and mysticism, a sacred metal of ecstasy and euphoria. That also slows their healing, breaks their self control and sometimes kill them. Hmmm...

Funded, ends around 25 Feb

Bonds between

By Jonathon Boyle

To keep alternating between moods here is a cozy game. A game about cute dragons doing home improvement, restoring run downs domain like little libraries, vending machines, a pair of lonely stops. It is a keepsake game, because you will be altering a deck of cards and giving these cards to your bonded neighbor. It is only polite.

Not yet funded as of writing, ends around 27 Feb

Salt the Earth

By Quinn Blackwell

Salt as the last spark of magic in a broken world. The story of those who refuse to be forgotten. A game about Scars.

Not yet funded as of writing, ends around 1 Mar

[cowboycorekimmi]

👻hey ghouls!! the boys are here!!

after a long writing period, my akeshuake paranormal investigators AU, that i wrote for the lovely @akeshuakeauzine, is finally up on ao3 - which will also home the next chapters of the fic whenever they come out! its loosely inspired by buzzfeed unsolved/watcher, phasmophobia (videogame), as well as john wolfe's work!

fandom: persona 5, persona series rating: teen and up audiences main pairing: akechi goro/persona 5 protagonist additional tags: alternate universe - ghost hunters, alternate universe - youtubers, fluff and humor, mild sexual humor, ghostly imagery chapter: 1/? wordcount: 8,432 words summary:

Akechi Goro, fellow youtuber and hardass skeptic, was not someone the Phantom Thieves were planning to work with. Their content was diametrically opposed: the Phantom Thieves investigated haunted locations, trying to collect evidence of ghostly activity and hopefully help bring those spirits to peace; meanwhile, Akechi’s channel was on the uprise thanks to his videos analyzing and debunking paranormal videos online.

Ren was aware of his channel for a while before they first interacted and really didn’t take any issue with Akechi’s content. On the contrary! Ren liked Akechi’s videos very much — Akechi was sharp, very knowledgeable on filmmaking and editing techniques, and his breakdowns of popular fake paranormal videos were pretty fascinating. He could get really sassy and even mean at times in his commentary, but in an amusing way. It was good content.

Also, Akechi was very attractive, which certainly played its part in retaining Ren’s viewership and his decision making in the events to come. Smugness looked so good on him.

you can read chapter 1 on the AkeShuake AU Zine or read and follow the fic on AO3 !!

[safety-pin-punk]

Man I have too many ongoing projects at the moment for this blog so heres a list (yes Im revealing secrets)

Building a Webbed Site on Neocities as a backup (no release date)

Working on compiling a Punk 101 Volume 2 (to be released in the next week or two)

Researching for a post about Alt Music Genres (no release date)

Attempting to put together a mini podcast/radio station type thing to share music (still deciding on format and if Im going to limit it to alt music or not) (within the next 6 months)

Desperately want to start a post series discussing bands but also I dont know how sustainable that is in the long run for me (not even confirmed happening)

Also desperately want to put together a second zine (not confirmed happening)

Need to update my masterlist (within the next month)

I have been trying to empty my inbox for over a year now. Im so sorry to the people who sent me stuff last July that I've just not gotten to yet. It haunts me every day I promise (I make no promises here)

[kinglazrus]

Beep boop hello to you! Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💚

I adore whoever made this ask game. Thank you for sending me one, Lexx! This was so hard to choose, so these aren't in any particular order.

The Moment It Breaks

Description: After months of lies and secrets, it finally happens. His identity is revealed in the worst of ways—in the middle of a ghost fight. Now everyone knows that Tucker Foley is the Tech Hunter

Reason: I made this AU for the Danny Phantom au zine, Reality Trip, and I have had so much fun playing with it. It started as a throwaway wondering "what if Vlad approached Tucker instead of Valerie?" and grew into something huge. I've always adored no one knows aus, and this one takes it a step further. I'll be posting the fic to Ao3 soon, and I've got big plans for the rest of this AU.

The Haunting of Danny Fenton

Description: Valerie knows Danny Fenton, everybody does. Youngest of the family, son and heir, future owner of Fenton Works. Notable for all those reasons and infamous for none of them. Where Maddie and Jack are the local quirks, Danny is the tragedy. And, for the next week, he's the Red Huntress' newest client.

Reason: I adore writing Valerie's point of view. She's my favourite character, so it's a bit criminal that I don't have more fics focused on her. I've also used some different narrative techniques in this fic playing with perspective, which has been a lot of fun.

The Punishment Fits the Crime

Description: Ghosts are naturally drawn to death. Danny, however, finds himself drawn to those who have wrongfully died. He always said he would never hurt someone who doesn't deserve it. It's not his fault that he keeps finding people who do. Or: Danny is a vengeful spirit.

Reason: My darkest fic, tonally. I got the idea to turn Danny into a vengeful spirit and immediately decided to push it as far as I could. There's only a couple of chapters up right now, but the tags tell you all you need to know about the direction this fic is going.

The In-Laws

Description: Harriet and her son, Kwan, meet each other's boyfriends through a family dinner. Hopefully, Vlad Masters and Danny Fenton can get along for one meal.

Reason: Because it's fun! This is a very light-hearted, humorous fic, and I had a great time with it. I like to write all kinds of pairings, and this was a great way to explore two I hadn't yet: Vlad and Harriet, and Danny and Kwan. Bad News shippers come get your juice.

Blossoms On Her Tongue

Description: Years after Undergrowth’s attack, Sam’s ghost powers from that day are slowly returning. Sam is excited at first, both at the chance to grow closer with Danny, and the opportunity to use her own powers for good. But things aren’t as great as they seem. After all, plants don't mix well with the cold.

Reason: I can't actually say because that would be a spoiler! But there's a specific dynamic I wanted to explore for the trio and this fic was what came out of it. I've got three parts planned for this series, each one focused on a different member of the trio.

Honourable mentions that I almost picked for this:

The Survivalists (of course)

Prince Before King. Genius Before Fool.

Not Your Danny

Deep Wounds

Dead Man Walking

Until Death Do We Part

[enchi-elm]

Inception Fanzine - "wicked" by Apfelessig

Based on text from the song Hey Pretty by Poe and the shooting script for Inception by Christopher Nolan.

This is a fan-made zine that is not to be redistributed for profit or reproduced without permission! That bit’s really important because I don’t want to get sued for copyright infringement and neither do you! *thumbs up*

Also, if you want a PDF of this, come find me on Discord!

Read the whole “Haunted” Zine series on AO3!

[windywallflower]

Its a very late post into pride month here (we've been exercising sleep-month jk... we've been kinda scrambling to get back on top of everything after May. Idk what it is but every year is the same).

But HEY! If you don't know who we are yet, we're Tas & Winter and we run a small minipub called Windy & Wallflower where we write a bunch of fun stories featuring gaggles of queer characters.

Note: on our shop ALL of our PDFs are 5$ no matter if its comics, prose, zines, what have you (some of our older stuff is free/pwyw).

But here's a VERY quick run down of our series/titles!

AUGUSTINE - is our newest webcomic! A series we lovingly dub as our junkpunk meets greek mythology, borderlands meets hercules, mad max meets... uhhh uhhh t-troy?? ENOUGH COMPARISONS. You've got a found family of freaks who get into trouble pissing off local landlords in a crusty pit of desert lovingly called the Crater. Maybe the group relies on their leader a bit too much, maybe she DOESNT know what she's doing. Maaaaybe we'll find out what happens ... when she ... [spoilerspoilerpsoiler] (You CAN buy the PDF on our shop, the physical copy of Volume 1 OR you can also catch up and read it FOR FREE online!) (.....yes its coming back v soon we're almost done rebuilding the buffer i promise)

MYTH RETOLD - Is prose! Retelling Greek myths but with a queer twist. There are 3 in the series so far: Iphigenia (sapphic babes, Iphigenia gets to KISS Artemis? mmm~), Medusa (maybe she meets a transmasc Perseus... maybe its just bi af and Medusa DOES get a happy en-- wait spoilers--) & Atalanta (what can i say, im a sucker for sapphics... Atalanta x Dyktinna) with loose plans to make ... even More. (You can also get all of these as PDFs or as physical copies... im a sucker for the physical since I went pretty hard with the foil ANd spot gloss--)

PAINT THE TOWN RED - is our other major ongoing comic of the queer persuasion (are we... starting to notice a pattern--). This one with a main cast consisting of Vampires, Werewolves.... ... and other mysterious babes. Story opens up with a werewolf shelter, but what happens when a vampire shows up one night?? Hmmm. Looks like things are a lot messier in Merlot than we thought~ This one releases in volumes first so you can grab them all on our shop OR you can test it out for yourself and see if its your thing by reading the first 2 volumes for FREE online~!)

PRISM KNIGHTS - A series of short stories (loosely based on fairytales) in the POV of queer knights! Each story is a 'different shade of queer'. You will be hearing a LOT about these two in the next month because we're funding the paperback print of the omnibus so here are the highlights:

Coquelicot: Evil lesbian knights.

Bronze: A nonbinary, ace knight caught in a time loop.

Lamplight: A haunted trans knight learns to love the beast within.

Juniper: A tragic gay knight meets his blacksmith boyfriend.

Sapphire: A polyship between a dragon, a knight and a royal.

Velvet: A sad bisexual knight overcoming grief.

You can snag ALL of the PDFs on our shop though a lot of the physical copies are out of stock because, as mentioned, we're hosting a campaign to reprint soon. You can follow along to be notified the second we launch! (We'll need a LOT of help pushing this one since... um... it IS a reprint).

THAT'S my schpeel. I know we try our best to offer our stories free/as cheap as we can possibly make them to keep them accessible so if you CAN afford to spend a bit this pride consider checking out our shop! You'd be doing us a real solid.

We have a TON of really cool stories in the works all of them extremely queer so any little bit goes a long way, boosting, sharing, buying, telling your libraries about us.... hinthint, everything helps!!

[zine-garden]

There are SO many types of zines, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of! Here is a list of common zine categories with links to either free to read zines, descriptions, or artist shops and zine distros to buy from!

art zine - Zines that are filled with art, photo, collage, etc. This could be a sketchbook zine, drawings under a singular theme, or a general compilation of art. This is the most common type of zine produced by artists!

Subject of Devotion, Sabrina Mellado (For Shortbox Comics Fair). This was a digital collection of sketchbook scans available for free, compiled on her website

comic zine - Writing and drawing a self produced and printed comic! Another popular category of zines for artists. Also: Diary comic zines, Auto-bio Comic Zines.

How to Survive a Haunting, Jade Zhang Duende, Elle Shivers

fanzine - Fan-drawings, comics, writing, meta, fiction, etc. compiled into a self-published work!

I know the internet has taken over what many people, especially in fandom, understand a zine to be, but anyone can make a zine and anyone can make a fanzine. At the zine library I used to help maintain, there was an 8 page mini that was just a bunch of Idris Elba pics with cute kaomoji’s saying “i love uwu idris elba <3”. The first media fanzine was published in 1967, for Star Trek called, “Spockanalia.” Seriously, all you need to do is be impassioned by a subject to write, collage, or draw something about it!

Stitching Together, Annie Mok (Available to read for free, but I encourage you to send her a tip as she has recently been in recovery from surgery and is also on food stamps https://ko-fi.com/heyanniemok/shop) Good Chicken, Natalie Mark (Me! Is self promo okay?)

info zine - A zine that shares information. This can be informational, or it can be an instructional zine such as a “DIY Zine” or a “Recipe Zine.”

Trans/Disabled Bibliography, Saul Freedman. I don’t have a link to this one, but it was a really wonderful and short zine of both citations and a love letter to the works cited. Instead, I have linked you to Saul’s zine page on his website 🤠 Patchwork Primer: how do we find what we’re not looking for?, kaythi and seiji. This info zine was created for an event I organized for people creating zines on the margins. I invited the two of them to co-program an activist book club for the event!

litzine - A “literary zine” can be a collection of fiction, poetry, prose, etc. that is self published and distributed as a zine. Also called “lit zine”, or “literary zine”. Some people prefer “chapbook”, or “poetry zine” for poetry.

My favourite litzines are not available anywhere online, so I will describe one of them for you? Todo Parecia de Cristal / “Everything Looked Like Crystal”, Laura Rojas is a collection of photos of the artist’s mom and her siblings growing up paired with journaling between 2015-18. They couldn’t bring photo albums with them when the moved to Canada from Colombia, and the photos had been mailed to her years prior to the making of the zine.

perzine - A “personal zine” focuses on the artist’s life, opinion, or thoughts in some capacity. A zine about yourself, your experiences, your life, a particular memory, your feelings, etc. This is my favourite type of zine!

Sonali Menzes/glittermagpie has some really awesome perzine and info zines about anxiety and mental illness. I have her zines, So you’re anxious as fuck, and You’re so Exotic. Keet Geniza/Make! Shift! Love! is another favourite zinester! I love Keet’s perzine series, Picking Bones, which are full of reflective auto-bio comics and prose. Your Whiteness is Boring: A Gender Perzine, Cleo Peterson.

political zine - Dealing with political topics, anarchy, communism, social justice, historical movements, and present day issues.

An Illustrated Struggle for Housing from Canada to the Philippines, Julie Guevara Autonomous Resistance To slavery and Colonialism, Russell Maroon Shoatz. (Note, the prices on Brown Recluse Distro are for BIPOC only, white people and institutions are asked to donate an extra $5 USD)

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Stay True

Author: Hua Hsu

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: nonfiction, memoir, biography, coming of age

Blurb: In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken - with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity - is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends - a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the textbook successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking not even three years after the day they first meet. Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends - his memories - Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since.

[anulithots]

Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "anulithots "?

Hello!!!! Thanks for the ask!!

First the name anulithots - yes, it does have a story... in fact, this blog was originally supposed to be just for the story/writeblr and then JJK took over my brain.

Here fae is:

The overthinking, morbid storytelling, extremely clingy houseplant. Faer name is Anuli and fae's technically the protagonist for the Land of the Fallen Fairies - a story about happiness chasing.

(Anuli in particular is about overthinking so much that reality happens in the background, losing the happy childhood to mistakes caused by aloof-ness, and trying to change yourself (quick fixes) so that way you actually deserve a happy ending).

Anuli is also supposed to be a character that thinks as much as I do and we're both hyperfixated on storytelling.

(copy and pasting from intro post):

The Land of the Fallen Fairies.

A nature-themed commentary on the pursuit of happiness and fixing yourself to deserve that happiness, told by an overthinking, unreliable, houseplant narrator.

Zine

TW: self-hatred, suicidal thoughts, and self-deprecation, self-harm. (mostly for Anuli, the others are fairly safe all around <3)

NOW FOR FICS-

Like Father, Like son, by @eternalglitch (rottmnt). The infamous rottmnt fic that I've read 3+ times.

Creation, haunted and holy by @greenglowsgold (rottmnt) (Walk inside the void is also really good)

When I say that Creation, haunted and Holy broke me, I mean that it changed the way I write, changed the way my brain works, changed the way I look at the world. It is so ridiculously good, and wholesome and wonderous. (Apparently I got that word from this fic, and it's my favorite)

carapace <- a fic that's really really accurate to Donnie's pov and has a cool concept and storyline! (rottmnt)

Things that ought to crawl (rottmnt)

@justrustandstardust's fics. All of them (... that I can read) (jjk)

Everything by @tangledinink and Cass's apocalypse series by @somerandomdudelmao (rottmnt)

There must be something in the water (rottmnt)

Every night the longest day (rottmnt)

Two-headed calf is also really sad and wholesome (jjk)

I'm open to recommendations for any wholesome JJK fics. Found family especially. Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles was my first fandom I read fanfic for, and I only read fanfic off of recs that people have on tumblr.

Thank you again for the ask!

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

10 years of Lockwood & Co.!

It’s crazy how much things have changed in that time, how much I personally have changed. I grew up through the books, surviving middle and then high school one year, one book, and one haunting at a time. They inspired me to write fanfiction again - to write again in general - back in the days when I was too tired and depressed to remember writing was something I enjoyed.

Now as an adult, the show brought a whole new group of people to the series, brought me back in again after a few years away. Stroud’s universe draws in people in need of comfort and community, and brings them together into our very own little virtual Portland Row. There is so much kindness and genuine happiness in this fandom; it makes enjoying the series all that much better, even 10 years on!

Between Big Bangs and Zine applications and wonderful fanart and breathtaking fanfiction and just a blindingly brilliant sense of community and belonging, Lockwood & Co. has become something beyond special. Y’all are amazing out there. Keep making this little corner of the internet wonderful.

Happy 10 years of Lockwood & Co.! Here’s to many more to come!