Captain Black and the Cat - by Chris Bishop
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UPDATES NOVEMBER 13, 2024: 2024 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE: NEW STORY POSTED - CHALLENGE ENDS! So this is it, Captain Scarlet fans: The 2024 Edition of the Halloween Challenge has reached its end! And this week, there is one last story for you to enjoy: by Sharn. When Captain Scarlet vanishes without a trace after vacationing with his parents, Ochre and Magenta come up with a far-fetched theory that might just be more fact than fey. Halloween Challenge. ff 773. For this last week of the Challenge, we also have some pics added to the Halloween Pictures page. I decided this year to update the pages with pictures from previous years, as well as pics sent especially for this year's Challenge (courtesy of the previously mentioned Sharn (thanks, Sharn!). However, if you should realise I miss some pictures used in stories or sent to me and lost something in the webverse, please inform me. This brings this year's Challenge to ten stories - nine brand-new stories and one reposted and revised story. Thanks to all those who participated this year, by submitting their works, and to all that came to check these stories and read them! And so the Challenge is finished - but wait... In a few months, Christmas is coming, and there comes our Christmas Challenge as well! So come back soon on these pages for the big announcement! And start writing to participate! UPDATES NOVEMBER 3rd, 2024: 2024 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE: NEW STORY POSTED! On this week-end following Halloween, the Challenge continues, with the posting of another entertaining story: by Shades. On the way back from a secret global security conference in Manitoba, Canada, Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Rhapsody Angel stumble across a secret from the days of the British Civil War... or perhaps more accurately the secret stumbles across them. Halloween Challenge. ff 772. UPDATES OCTOBER 26, 2024: 2024 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE: NEW STORIES POSTED! The Halloween Challenge continues. On this third week, two brand we have again new brand new stories to offer you! by Clya Brown. Destiny Angel and Doctor Venus struggle to survive in each other's alternate reality after a freak accident transposes their consciousnesses, forcing them both to come to terms with very different prevailing attitudes to women and their place in the Universe. A Fireball XL5 crossover story, Halloween Challenge and Multiverse Challenge. ff 770. by Cwissy. Spectrum finds an ally in a woman of years past recreated by the Mysterons, and who seems to have an odd affinity with wolves - and Doctor Fawn. ff 771 Halloween Challenge. There's only a few days left in October, before we reach Halloween night. But the Challenge is NOT finished! We still have a couple of stories waiting to be posted, so stay tuned to this page to see what's coming! In the meantime, if you want to send your own story, or perhaps a picture, you might still have a little time to do so! Just check the rules for the Challenge below and write us a line! UPDATES OCTOBER 8, 2024: 2024 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE: FIRST STORIES POSTED! This is it, people! We're starting to post the first stories submitted for this year's Halloween Challenge! And this year, we start with THREE brandnew stories! by Shades. A vague threat sees multiple teams being sent out to Tokyo... and Captain Scarlet and Rhapsody Angel walking straight into a trap… ff 765. by Shades. An investigation by Scarlet, Blue and Ochre into a smuggling ring supplying Bereznik goes terribly, terribly wrong... ff 766. by Jim Murdock. In this story written for the Halloween Challenge, the Spectrum captains are all trapped in nightmares which can claim their lives. ff 767. UPDATES JULY 4, 2024: 2024 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE EDITION NOW LAUNCHED!
Drum rolls now... On this July 4, 2024, Spectrum HQ launches its Halloween Challenge! You do know what this is all about, right? Unless you JUST stumbled on this page and are wondering... 'Now what the hell is this exactly? Stick with us and read on. We will explain it all to you. If you're here, we can assume that it is because you love Captain Scarlet (classic series or CGI series). And maybe, you also like Captain Scarlet fan fiction. If so, you'll be in for a treat! As per our tradition, this time of year is the period for Spectrum HQ to launch its Annual Halloween Challenge! Annual as in... this is the 23rd year for this Challenge! The Halloween Challenge is a Fan Fiction Writing Challenge, in which YOU, the fans, the visitors, the authors or aspiring authors, are invited to participate, by writing your own story and submitting it to the Spectrum Headquarters website. Any fan, from anywhere around the world, whether already known on this website, or known by his or her works in other websites or fanzines, newcomers or even totally unknown, can join in the celebration. Started in 2002, the Halloween Challenge became, straight from the beginning, and without a single doubt, the favourite of both writers and readers alike (closely followed by the Christmas Challenge). For the last years, many great stories were submitted during this challenge, and many of these stories remained, to this day, amongst readers' favourite. Some of these stories can even be said to have achieved the rank of 'classics', amongst all the stories to be presented on this website, either during a challenge or not. But... WHY do we launch the Halloween Challenge in the middle of the summer, you're asking? Quite simply, it's because it takes time to write a story, and the best way to insure that there will be enough time to do so for Halloween, is to launch the Challenge early in summer! We want to give every writer as much time as he or she needs to plan and write a story. Who knows what you can dream up, while relaxing by the pool, under a scorching sun? And what is there to do, when it's been raining cats and dogs, and you're stuck inside the house or at a café? Maybe a few of you already started their Halloween story! And who knows, you might have more than one story to offer! Taking inspiration from either of the two Captain Scarlet TV series, the comic strips, the audio adventures, the novels and short stories, any other materials, even other fan fiction, you can create your own story abour your favourite hero... be it Captain Scarlet himself, Captain Blue, the Angels, or anyone else from the cast. Or maybe you prefer to write about villains (after all, this is Halloween), so Captain Black, the Mysterons themselves or any other characters are fair game! You can put your character(s) in adventures that range from fantasy to fantastic, strange, completely weird, even wicked and totally horrific... Every kind of fantasy is permitted, every twisted little idea can be put into a story during the Halloween Challenge. Main characters can even die, permanently, or turned into Mysterons, as you can see by yourselves, from tales presented in the past years. Even the indestructible Captain Scarlet can fall victim to the might of the Halloween Challenge! You can write a crossover with whatever other fandom you want (Anderverse or otherwise). You can write a story about the end of the War of Nerves... and it can end with a win from our heroes... or the Mysterons may win! Oh yeah, they definitely can! All is fair game during the Halloween Challenge! The only limit is your imagination (however sick it may be...) ADDITIONALLY, there is also the possibility for people to also present special pictures during the Halloween Challenge, either to go with a story - or as a stand-alone presentation. See below for more information on that. And now, for the official launching: The 23rd Edition of the Halloween Challenge is now launched, on this year 2024, and you are again invited to participate in great number! The Spectrum Headquarters website offers you yet again the chance to write another story of the same eerie and creepy trade as described above! So to your pen and keyboard, writers and aspiring writers, those who had written one or more than one story in the past, and those who are simply waiting for that elusive plot idea to write your own Scarlet story... Search into the darkest place in your soul and your evil, sick and tortured mind, and start writing! Here's again your chance to enter the challenge! There's plenty of fun to have for everyone, and so, you are all welcomed to this yearly treat or trick event! The same rules as for the previous years apply in order to participate to the Challenge. So if you are a regular, you know what they're all about. For those of you who are new, and wish to try this challenge for the first time (come on, we DARE you!) you'll find below the rules you have to follow in order to participate! We are hoping that many stories will be submitted to us and that again, the Challenge will be the success it always was! And that can only be achieved if MANY OF YOU participate! TO PARTICIPATE:
All Captain Scarlet stories will have this in common that they will share an Halloween and/or horror/fantastic theme. Interested people can contact the webmaster at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com or scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com to announce their project, or to submit their story, or for further information, if needed be.
Remember, the Spectrum Headquarters website is not only a fan fiction archives site, it also contains a fountain of information about the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons television series. Its sister domain Skybase Central, although at the moment not as developed, is also built with the same idea in mind. Both can be used to help you write your story with better accuracy of the Scarlet mythos and backgrounds. Feel free to consult it! Hey, by the way, we ALSO have the S.I.D. Database website, where you can find fan fiction stories from other Gerry Anderson shows! Why not try your hand on a Thunderbirds Halloween story, or a Stingray one? Or better yet! Why not write a Thunderbirds or Stingray and Captain Scarlet crossover Halloween?! Hey, anything is fair game! So if you have a project for an Halloween story, contact the webmaster at scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com and tell us about it. All the announcements will be added to a list on the HALLOWEEN STORIES PAGE. Check it often to know what stories are coming our way in October! It will be fun to see how many people out there will came up with demented, crazy, thrilling and even scary stories all at once. A SPECIAL NOTE: Multi-parts stories , or stories out of theme, that are submitted to the website during the challenge won't be refused, but they will not be considered part of this project. As the Halloween Challenge is expected to be a busy time for the collaborators of this website, these stories might be posted only after November 10th, when the Challenge is completed. Remember that the End Credits Challenge, the Challenge of Five, and the Multiverse Challenge are year-long event, contrary to the Halloween Challenge (and in its time, the Christmas Challenge). And, additionally to this, you don't have to use any of these challenges anyway, in order to send us a story. A 'regular story' is most welcome! Which means that whenever you want, you can send a story to answer those other challenges. INSPIRATIONAL PICS: Do you need ideas? Are you looking for inspiration? Maybe we can provide some kind of a kick-start! During the previous years, many pictures and animations have been created to illustrate the Halloween page, or have been submitted during the Halloween Challenge. Most of these illustrations are "stand alone" and have not been attached to any story at all. So, if ever you need it, you can use any of them as inspiration for your own story. You can even use more than one pictures if you want! Take note that you have no obligation whatsoever to specifically base your Halloween story on any of these pictures. They're simply offered as a complement for those of you who might need or want some inspiration. Stories can be short or long, and you can elaborate all you want. It's for you to decide. Just click on the thumbnails below for a larger view of the picture.
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Halloween is still a few months away. However, it is now the time to think about Spectrum HQ Halloween Challenge. And here we go...
On the basis that
'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons', with its eerie atmosphere, is indeed
a perfect subject for Halloween-themed stories, to participate to this
challenge, you have to write a Captain Scarlet/Halloween story, that would be posted on
the Spectrum Headquarters website.
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DRAWINGS, PICTURES, MONTAGES, ETC.
In addition to the writing challenge, you can also contribute drawings or pictures - to be put with your story if you are a writer, or as a stand-alone artist rendition of an Halloween/Captain Scarlet action scene, that will then be put on the HALLOWEEN PICS page. I know there are talented people out there in the artistic field, and your contribution would make a nice addition to this project.
Accepted for this project will be original drawings, paintings, pictures, montages, collages, even one line comic strips that will all be sharing the same Halloween/Captain Scarlet theme. I hope a lot of you will be able to participate again , and will have the time to write and submit a story of your own. You will have until October 27 to submit your masterpiece(s).
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