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  1. CAW SOP

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    Okay ramblers, let's get rambling.

    The theme of this latest challenge will be to write a story inspired by one of a selection of paintings. Yes, I said a selection of paintings; Fuseli's "Nightmare" won in the preliminary voting but I thought, why not offer a small suite of Fuseli paintings so that those who liked "Nightmare" can write on it but those who did not might find something more to their liking? Since the reading period will doubtless take us close to Halloween these selections all have a certain morbid and spectral bent to them, a little something to keep you glancing over your shoulder as you write.

    Remember that your story need not literally be about the painting you choose; rather, examine the painting, consider how it makes you feel and try to write something that inspires the same reaction, something that matches the mood and theme of the painting. Of course, you can make the story literally about the work (either painting itself or the scene it depicts or even the artist) if you want to, but don't feel like that's the only way to stay on-topic. There are no other requirements or restrictions, just make a selection from one of the five images below and write to it.

    You can begin posting submissions as early as Midnight October 5th, and the cutoff date is October 8th, 12 Noon, Pacific Standard Time. I may accept late entries within reason, but best not to bank on it. To be considered an official entry you must send a private message to this account with a link to the story on either the forum or the main site, and you must have received a confirmation message back. If you don't get confirmation within twelve hours, ping me again.

    The subject of our study is Henry Fuseli, an 18th century painter with a taste for the classics and the classically supernatural. Even the most benign of Mr. Fuseli's offerings have something of a haunting quality—and here to introduce you to our relevant hauntings is our very special host. Take it away, Rod:



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    "Good evening. I'm your little old curator in this museum we call the Night Gallery. I offer the salutations of our entire staff, most of whom are out and about at this moment since they tend to be…night people. Several are attending funerals and would have been here if it weren't so difficult to get out of the box.

    "Nevertheless we're truly delighted that you've come. Anyone can go to the movies or night doubleheader or a discotheque or what have you, but only the tasteful visit a place like this. Their taste of course must by necessity run toward the slightly odd or at the very least the bizarre. That's what we deal with here, the expected unexpected, if you will, a display of canvasses from what you might call the mausoleum school of art; pictures, paintings, and portraits rendered onto canvas with brush and with pencil but also sometimes with claw.

    "Our first offering captures on a canvas, suspended in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare. You'll be pleased to know that our subject is a beautiful woman, a lovely lady in a strange house also inhabited, alas, by roommates of a particularly unusual fashion. Better a wakeful night than an unwelcome dawn in company like that. We might call this scene an enigma or we might call it a puzzle but perhaps it would simply be more accurate to call it like we see it, namely to call it:



    "The Nightmare."

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    Sample plots for this painting:
    -A woman starts a relationship with the perfect man but there's one problem: For reasons she doesn't understand, she's afraid to sleep in the same room with him.
    -A woman about to be married has troubling dreams about her wedding day. Cold feet, or prophetic vision?
    -A couple meet at an art museum and enjoy increasingly steamy talk about this painting's Freudian subtext, soon bringing a whole new definition to the term "art lovers."



    "Next we offer for your approval a still life, if you will, of noise, a soundless canvas suggestive of sound departed, a small gothic item in blacks and grays, a piece of the past, and obviously a lady most disturbed. A painting suggesting solitude, or at least solemnity, as viewed during the midnight hour, of a figure burdened, or perhaps gifted, with an abundance of:


    "Silence."

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    Sample plots for this painting:
    -A man falls for a woman who can't speak, although there's no medical reason for her affliction. Does she have some troubling secret or is she just waiting for someone worth talking to?
    -A heartbroken woman in the midst of depression ponders heartbreaks past.
    -A man constantly glimpses the half-seen, silent image of a departed loved one; is he seeing things, being haunted, or just reliving the past?



    "Now take a little trip with us to rural Scotland (or for those of you already there, just step outside). Yes, the moors, where belief in the supernatural is as natural as breathing, or not breathing, as the case may be, where hounds bay and witches ride brooms. In the area of the occult it's customary to preoccupy ourselves with witches, and on display here is a painting showing the natural habitat of that species of black arts practitioner. These of course are the same trio who gave some questionable career advice to Shakespeare's most ambitious of kings, dubbed by that unlucky Scotsman as:


    "The Weird Sisters."

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    Sample plots for this painting:
    -A woman gets romantic advice from her three elderly aunts, who are wise and worldly but possibly not quite right in the head.
    -Professional jealousy leads to blackmail and sultry scheming backstage on a production of "Macbeth."
    -A man who got ahead through black magic now finds strange parties have come to collect on their end of the deal.



    "Next a tribute to you wordsmiths, though perhaps not one you'll appreciate. Here the great poet takes dictation from the source of his mysterious inspiration and relays it to his progeny. Yes, this is a painting of the poet John Milton, who imagined that his poetry was a gift from invisible angels; but imagination can be a double-edged thing, taking you out of the humdrum realities but possibly flying you to a place much less pleasant. They say that genius and madness are not far removed; I wonder which side of the line the subject of this study is on?


    "Milton Dictating to his Daughter."

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    Sample plots for this painting:
    -A woman and her love interest struggle to finish her father's great masterpiece, which he died in the middle of composing.
    -A blind man believes the answers to all of his life's questions lie in a few lines of poetry, but where is the woman he'll trust enough to read them to him?
    -A man considers the conflicting advice of both an angel and a devil; but he can't figure out which is which.


    "And finally, something on a lighter note, just to show that we offer you both tricks and treats in this special realm. In a world inhabited by goblins, gremlins, ghouls, and the occasionally grotesque it is sometimes possible to put this sundry and myriad crew on canvas, and this we do in this arcade of the outrageous, this art house full of bogies, elves, pixies, bad fairies, and a few demoniac inhabitants, all put together for your pleasure and titillation.

    "From this picture one wouldn't necessarily conjure up the story of love, but that's precisely what it tells about. The emotion as old as man, but the object of the emotion? This is not quite as familiar. We have here a scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' to whit, a beautiful woman in love with an ass—surely a story as old as time, but never told quite so eloquently as in the case of:



    "Titania and Bottom."

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    Sample plots for this painting:
    -On the eve of a wedding between a charming woman and a boorish man, friends and family gossip together about what she could possibly see in him.
    -An unattractive man has incredible luck with the ladies and tries to puzzle out what the secret to his own bizarre success might be.
    -A fairy creature falls in love a hapless human being, incensing volatile romantic rivals on both sides.


     
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  2. Redlust

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    and now all the inner monologue in my head is in Rod Serling's voice. I look forward to this contest.
     
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  3. BlackRonin

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    You think you've got it bad? I had to write all that, after watching ten episodes of "Night Gallery" just to collect the material. I went around all day speaking long alliterative sentences littered with dramatic pauses and wry smiles. Probably freaked people out.
     
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  4. ejls

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    A most excellent challenge. Good luck everyone!
     
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  5. snowleopard3200

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    Black Ronin - first off, you have provided us a wonderfully rich list of ingredients to crafts our tales of horror with.

    A question though; my story depicts Nightmare as a warning from the past about a threat and a promise to the future; it is a foreshadowing of events by its painter. Is this allowed within the CAW 13 frame?
     
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  6. Daddycums

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    Yay! I get to write about The Nightmare! I get to write about The Nightmare! (Doing the happy dance)

    Perhaps my mood is a little too upbeat considering the CAW theme, but then, when you read my story you'll see that it's surprisingly appropriate.
     
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  7. thatcuriousone

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    I must admit, I'm intrigued.
    I may churn out something for this contest...just maybe.
     
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  8. snowleopard3200

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    TCO go for it; my entry is a little weird, but for me, honestly, what else is new?
     
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  9. snowleopard3200

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    DC first of all, glad to see you entering; the part of being 'too upbeat' can be taken two ways:

    You have taken the idea of 'nightmare' and turned it in a good way.

    You have a concept for a true horror story to rival any of the masters of this site and shall not disappoint.

    Only time will tell us which it is.
     
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  10. Daddycums

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    You'll just have to read it and find out.:excited:

    I've written the opening and closing paragraphs and the final scene. Those are the most important parts of the story.

    I'm very happy with the final scene. The pacing is perfect. If it were any shorter, it would feel tacky, a sort of WTF! because it went by too quickly. Any longer and it would ruin the suspense of the rest of the story. I think I hit that sweet spot right in the middle.

    I'm even happier that the theme turned out to be "The Night Gallery" because the opening and closing paragraphs of my story would be perfect for a Rod Serling voiceover. Indeed, every time I read them over, they always seem to come out in his voice. In fact, when I read the last sentence, I feel like there should be one more: "A fitting destiny for a creature... of the Twilight Zone."

    Now I just have to finish the rest of the story. I'm so excited, I might even have the whole thing written by the end of the day.
     
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  11. JadeM

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    Well, this is going to be a challenge for me:)

    I have never seen Night Gallery and have no idea who Rod Sterling is... Google here I come lol.

    I just hope that what I write is not so far below the high standard of the stories I normally see in a CAW.

    Nervous... but excited. :)
     
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  12. BlackRonin

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    I'm sure you'll do fine. :)

    Yeah, of course.
     
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  13. Daddycums

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    FYI:

    Rod Serling was the creator (I think) and the narrator of both the Twilight Zone and Night Gallery TV shows.

    I'm not sure about Night Gallery because I never saw it either, but in the Twilight Zone, each episode began with Rod Serling introducing the episode, and ended with him commenting on it. If I recall correctly, sometimes the intro and comments were just a voiceover, and sometimes he himself appeared briefly in the scene though just as a narrator and not as a participant.
     
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  14. BlackRonin

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    For the first season of "The Twilight Zone" Serling did voice-over narration at the beginning and end of the episode. Starting in season two they began his signature bit of suddenly appearing in the scene and breaking the fourth wall to speak to the audience during his opening monologue (closing narration was still VO). For "Night Gallery" he appeared on-camera playing the curator of the museum, briefly introducing first the show and then each painting and the story that went with it as the framing device that held the various stories together (the first two seasons of "Night Gallery" were an hour long, so each episode featured between two and four stories). His monologues on "The Twilight Zone" were usually ironical, sometimes heavy-handed, now and then whimsical; on "Night Gallery" his material was more droll and sardonic, utilized a good degree of black humor, and featured a lot of alliteration, for some reason.

    Not that it's really all that important for the challenge, but there ya go.
     
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  15. JadeM

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    Wow...

    Thank you for helping me :) I did look it up and discovered he has a pretty creepy voice :eek: The music for Twilight Zone I had heard before, but did not know the source.

    Thank you both for all that information. Very kind ;):rose:
     
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  16. snowleopard3200

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    JadeM - if you are able to do so sometime, go to the site of You Tube and in the search section place the quere of "The Night Gallery full episodes." You can then watch the full lenght episodes.

    I was looking at some today, and they are interesting.
     
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  17. ejls

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    Three pages written. I have no idea where I'm going. I don't think it's going to be very long. But then, those shows were only 30 minutes.
     
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  18. snowleopard3200

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    Ejls - I'm on the other end of the spectrum with 28 written; I hope to be able to hack it down even more (it was 35). Looking forward to the story of yours and the others.
     
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    [YOUTUBE]F10re2ggUHw[/YOUTUBE]
    IIRC - each verse of this version described one of the vignettes from the movie
     
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  20. JayneyRedd

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    Oh, how splendid! :eek:



    What a superb challenge!

    We have The Nightmare (the most popular voted-for choice), but also a selection of other pictures, which opens up the compy to anyone, and will give a wide selection of entries.

    A pat on the back for Black Ronin for the compy - and good luck to all entrants! :)
     
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