The October, 2009 One Week Challenge.  The participants had one week to write a 12 page, properly formatted family horror script on the theme At this year's Halloween Festival, strange things are happening.  

Click on the title of the script to open the thread devoted to the particular script.  Once there, click the title to open the script.  


A Tale of Two Nuggets (Great Grandfather Wasn't Crazy) by Daniel Meade (ElectricSatori) - Short, Family Horror - Jeremy has lived his entire life with the legend of his Great Grandfather finding a gold nugget which fell from space. He never really believed it until one night a gold streak fills the sky. Will he find another gold nugget, or something else entirely?  12 pages - pdf, format

Untitled by Michael Cornetto - Short, Family Horror - Two people are drawn to attend their town's Halloween festival because a mysterious voice foretells that something will happen there.  What the voice has failed to tell them is whether that something will be good, or bad. 12 pages - pdf, format

Mayor Vamp by Steven Fletcherson (GoreGore84) - Short, Family Horror - A boy who's know to tell a lie or two tries to convince his two friends that their mayor is really a vampire. Is he telling the truth or is a simple case of boy cries wolf? 7 pages - pdf, format

Bloomb Thicket's Opera - The Xilon of Witch Racket by Sandra E. Watson - Short, Family Horror - In 1977 on Halloween night, SimplyEarth launched The Voyager Spacecraft with its Golden Record into space. What happened to it results in the birth of Xilon's new Messiah King. - pdf, format

A Measure of Silence by Simon Lewis (niles crane) - Short, Family Horror - A couple discover that even an empty room can be deadly at Halloween. - pdf, format

Pumpkin Pie by Sean Elwood (thedeadwalk2nite) - Short, Family Horror - Try some pie? You can't say "No" to these... - pdf, format

The Fixer by Jimmy Dean - Short, Family Horror - How far will one boy go to gain some friends? - pdf, format

Close Encounters of the Furred Kind by Matthew Chisholm - Short, Family Horror - The small outback town of Shiloh's Bend is celebrating Halloween with their annual festival, when something unimaginable happens. For a small family, a night of fun has just become a battle for survival. - pdf, format

Halo Wins by Khamanna Iskandarova - Short, Family Horror - A "scary" little girl helps a brainy little worm who has name and gender issues define himself. - pdf, format

The Boy Who Cried by Anthony Hudson (alffy) - Short, Family Horror - Kevin just wants to go trick or treating, but his brother first lays down the rules.  Will he listen? - pdf, format

Monster's Night Out by James McClung - Short, Family Horror - He doesn't need a costume and he's out for a treat... a treat named Chase. - pdf, format

The Mystery of the Haunted Hay Wagon by T. Joseph Fraser (blakkwolfe) - Short, Family Horror - A teenage girl and a security guard unravel a mystery that even the guys at the post office would not believe. - pdf, format

Creepville - A Halloween Tale by Steve McDonell - Short, Family Horror - The residents of Creepville, U.S.A. look forward to the Halloween festival. Will the new arrivals in town embrace the celebrations? - pdf, format

Spook Night by John Brooke (creativeamigo) - Short, Family Horror - A couple of school kids, Jack and his young sister Gillian are being coerced by their parents to get psyched up with fear of mythical  demons, monsters, and evil spirits on Halloween. Much to their parents dismay their kids don’t buy into the fright thing. The children perceive all that stuff about zombies, vampires, monsters and demons is in the same category of phony Santa Clause and Easter Bunny stuff. At their Grammar School’s All Hallows Eve Festival something happens that turns the family’s beliefs inside out and upside down.  - pdf, format

Cumbara by Gary Rademan - Short, Family Horror - A little girl strives to save the only talking pumpkin from a nasty scarecrow and his rat minions at the annual harvest festival. (Family agricultural horror) - pdf, format

Swine Lou by Phil Clarke Jr. - Short, Family Horror - A young boy suffers horrific side effects after receive a swine flu shot. Based on a true story. - pdf, format

Wesley by Kim Britt (screen dreamer) - Short, Family Horror - An autistic boy breaks his life-long silence with a warning -- something bad is going to happen at the Halloween Festival. - pdf, format

Old Ninety-nine Face by Cameron Mitchell (cam17) - Short, Family Horror - Evan, new to the neighborhood, hears the legend of Old Ninety-nine Face, a hermit whose ghost supposedly haunts a nearby house.  As the story goes, steal something from the house on Halloween night, and the ghost of Old Ninety-nine Face will come for you.  Evan doesn't believe it, but he soon will. - pdf, format

Demons by Jordan Weibe (theboywhocouldfly) - Short, Family Horror - A young teen believes he is being followed by a dark force. - pdf, format

Ghost in the Graveyard by Jeff Bush (dreamscale) - Short, Family Horror - Franklin, Tennessee’s annual Halloween Festival ain’t all fun and games, as old Jeb’s bones comes a callin’.   Family Horror – 12 pages - pdf, format

Bleeglebork by Marnie Mitchell-Lister - Short, Family Horror - At the Monteville Fright Fest, strange things happened. . . - pdf, format

A Goode Fall by Russell Davis - Short, Family Horror - A banker struggles to win a vacation for his family and has to foreclose on the haunted farm where they are camping. - pdf, format

Dear Boy by Bryan Mora - Short, Family Horror - Bobby, a rambunctious and sensitive boy feels misunderstood at home and escapes on Halloween. He soon finds that the world outside can be just as complicated.  - pdf, format

Welcome to Hale by Mike Harrop - Short, Family Horror - Halloween through the eyes of a six year old boy who is not allowed to trick-or-treat because of his religious mother.   - pdf, format

Halloween Heros by Lew Sherwood (big lew) - Short, Family Horror - Seven kids are imbued with the powers of their Halloween costumes to battle the man who wants to use the Halloween festival to kill people or drive them out of time. - pdf, format

The Ghostly Cut by Herman Chow (coding) - Short, Family Horror - On Halloween, three friends explore a house that is once owned by a kidnapper. - pdf, format

Who's Afraid of A Big Bad Bug by Kevin Carty - Short, Family Horror - A  carefully cautious young girl must conquer her fears if she is to save her friend's soul. - pdf, format

Scaregrounds by Morgan Cooper (MBCgirl) - Short, Family Horror - A young girl and her friends learn just how scary a haunted house can be, while outside, masked bandits take the loot and run.  - pdf, format

As has become common for the last few of these -- now that the OWC has grown so large -- a quick request:

Please let the Mods know if you spot inappropriate reviews -- or if another flame war starts brewing on one of these threads.

There are simply too many active and fast-growing threads during these challenges for the Mods to catch everything, so your help with stuff that slips beneath the radar is appreciated.  Thanks.

What's wrong with scripts that involve penguins?

Great job Don!  Thanks for posting all the scripts.  

Thank you Don for posting all of the scripts.  It has held me powerless to get anything else accomplished today...I'm sitting on my butt reading! lol *wink

We may not say it very much but we do appreciate all you do.

M

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I think it's better that so many were posted at the same time.... it makes sure that the reads for each script are more equal.

Great author names Don!

Too bad Ben Dover didn't enter anything.

Perhaps this is not the right thread - feel free to remove if so. I'm just curious that this OWC all entries were posted at once.

Is this specific to the Halloween themed OWC - oh, and no voting threads on this one (which I think is a good thing). New innovation? Btw, not a vested interest this time around - just plain ol' curiosity.

Thanks for your hard work Don. This site is one of a kind!

Thanks for taking those pesky Penguin stories out!!  They give me nightmares!

Com'on guys, what's wrong with the penguin scripts?

Quoted from coding Com'on guys, what's wrong with the penguin scripts?

That would be violation of penguin code - penguins and horror don't go togeher. And you have to agree on the code - we all seen penguins, they are far too adorable to go into a horror short.

No penguins. Thanks Don.

What's all this about penguins?

Penguins are noted for their lockstep conformity, with one noted exception...