Spooktober 2024

For Spooktober 2024, I chose to create articles presenting the world and characters of short stories I'm planing to write:

Predator

Short story: Squid Hunting

Generic article | Oct 6, 2024

The setting of an independent short story: An archipelago filled with sea monsters and a powerful man who loves to hunt them.

Armored

Short story: Mountaineering amidst Monsters

Generic article | Oct 9, 2024

To save her love interest from a curse, Aveline has no choice but to retrieve legendary artefacts from a newly-rediscovered sanctuary under an anti-magic ward at the top of one of the world tallest mountains.

Mutated

Short Story: Radioactive power

Generic article | Oct 25, 2024

In a sexist 1870s France invaded by Prussia, chemist MC's genius is finally recognised. Shame that it is by the enemy and that this place her in the center of both the Franco-Prussian war and the Prussians' own political conflicts.

Lair

Creature in the Mine

Generic article | Oct 21, 2024

A ragnogue monster has invaded one of Lady Fontenay's mines and eaten all of its miners. She has no choice but to go down inside the mine all by herself and kill it.

Depths

Short Story: Magical Tattoo

Generic article | Oct 22, 2024

A young woman has accepted to receive a magical tattoo at the hand of the most feared archimage of the country. This tattoo will grant her the ability to control magic, but comes at an unexpected price...

Teeth

Short Story: the Dark Lord and the Kitten

Generic article | Oct 26, 2024

When the Dark Lord get distracted from his world conquest by a tiny kitten, one of his top scientists Aurélie get dragged into a plot to assassinate him.

Scales

Short Story: Dragon Egg

Generic article | Oct 26, 2024

After her companions have killed a few dragons, a human woman is kidnapped by an angry dragon to take care of a surviving egg.

Ancient

Short Story: Modern-day Gods

Generic article | Oct 21, 2024

In a world where gods live among mortals, a young goddess hide her status so that she can infiltrate the research organisation of a powerful god and enjoy access to his state-of-the-art equipment.

Aberration

Short story: Faes

Generic article | Oct 26, 2024

After the fae and their hidden continent suddenly reappears in the modern world, Estelle becomes "infected" with their magic and is banished with them to serve as a unofficial diplomat.

Petrifying

Short story: Human Hibernation Society

Generic article | Oct 24, 2024

MC get caught by the leader of the serpent people with whom humans share the planet. In order to escape alives, she will have to turn the serpents' own deadly political games against them.

Otherworldly

Short Story: Soulmates

Generic article | Oct 24, 2024

MC bumps into the Dark Lord and upon contact they exchange thoughts and realise that they are each other's soulmate and that they had both decided to get rid of their soulmate when they would encounter them.

Horned

Short Story: Demon

Generic article | Oct 26, 2024

Eye

Short Story: Eldritch Being

Generic article | Oct 26, 2024

MC catches the attention of an Eldritch being...

Codex

Spooktober 2024

Table of Contents

Short story: Squid Hunting

Short story: Mountaineering amidst Monsters

Short Story: Radioactive power

Creature in the Mine

Short Story: Magical Tattoo

Short Story: the Dark Lord and the Kitten

Short Story: Dragon Egg

Short Story: Modern-day Gods

Short story: Faes

Short story: Human Hibernation Society

Short Story: Soulmates

Short Story: Demon

Short Story: Eldritch Being

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