layne67: (spn saving people)
[personal profile] layne67
So, last Friday ( the 13th! ) LJ went MIA. I was without it for almost the whole day and I thought that it had suddenly been blocked in my country, except that my KL friends said that it was fine there ( and everywhere else apparently ). I was halfway through this story the day before, and it was driving me nuts because I was dying to know what happened next. Thank you [livejournal.com profile] ala_tariel for coming to my rescue!

Anyways. This is the story - a really excellent, spine-chilling, old-fashioned ghost story, and it's one of those that I wish my non-SPN flist will give a try, too, because it's great and engrossing and genuinelyly scary with amazingly written original characters.

Cross Creek by [livejournal.com profile] zoemathemata. SPN, gen, PG-13, 48000 words.

Summary : The Winchesters check in at the haunted Cross Creek Hotel to purge its ghostly guests. Thrill-seeking tourists came to experience the supernatural, but as far as the Winchesters are concerned, there’s no such thing as a happy haunted hotel.

Fay and Ollie are twins in charge of Cross Creek Hotel. Only it's not just the hotel and the resident ghosts that they're in charged of. Something darker is about to wake up, and It is waiting for Sam Winchester. Great writing, wonderful story-telling, incredible characterisations. I love the parallels between the two pairs of siblings, Fay and Ollie, Sam and Dean, and how they'd do anything to save the other.

”There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”

That children's rhyme will stay in my head for a long, long time.

Date: 2010-08-16 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ala-tariel.livejournal.com
Oh no! wonder what's wrong. But I only said that it's too bad that the girl had to die.

Date: 2010-08-16 07:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
Aha! I hope the ghost from Cross Creek has not gotten into the message and ate at it!

Date: 2010-08-16 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ala-tariel.livejournal.com
*giggles*

But those ghosts are really cool!

Date: 2010-08-16 07:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
I know, right? Quite Casper-like. Except for That One. Now that was really, really scary. It has been quite some time since I was this freaked out from reading fanfics!

And I'm glad neither Sam nor Dean fell for the girl heheh. Not that I don't like Fay, I love her, but a love side-plot would have spoiled the story :)

Date: 2010-08-16 07:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ala-tariel.livejournal.com
Oh yes, That One was scary! Can't imagine what is it exactly.

If one of the boys fell for the girl, I won't read the fic. :D

Date: 2010-08-16 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
Fay must have been quite intimidating for Dean not to hit on her at all! Or maybe because Ollie was there lol.

Date: 2010-08-16 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ala-tariel.livejournal.com
Either that or Dean didn't want to deal with another Sammy. :D

Profile

layne67: (Default)
layne67

November 2012

S M T W T F S
     123
456 78 910
1112 13 1415 1617
181920212223 24
252627282930 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Feb. 6th, 2026 04:58 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios