Here's a passel of Due South supernatural and horror recs! :D

Werewolves

ignazwisdom's Lycanthropy (http://ignazwisdom.livejournal.com/121253.html) Fraser/RayK. PG. Fraser has a hirsute reaction to arsenic licking.

3jane's Denser Still the Snow (http://3jane.livejournal.com/303938.html) Crossover - Buffy. Fraser/RayK, Fraser/RayK/Oz. Ray finds something that's not really an animal in one of their traps.

luzula's Shifting (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/618823.html) Fraser/RayK. R. Fraser was born a werewolf. Prequel is Running (http://luzula.livejournal.com/17264.html).

rispacooper's Wild Thing (http://rispacooper.livejournal.com/135323.html) 2 (http://rispacooper.livejournal.com/135517.html) Fraser/RayK. NC-17. Ray thinks it's just another uncomfortable night on a stakeout, but then Fraser confesses he's become a werewolf.

See also ds_fang_or_fur for all your werewolf and vampire needs. :-)


Zombies

aerye's I Was a Canadian Zombie (http://aerye.clubfen.com/Zombies.html) AU. Fraser/RayK. R. What happens when a small-town Canadian boy falls in love with a hot-blooded American who comes to town with a modern dance troupe? And things can only get worse as the town is attacked by ZOMBIES.

Lordess Renegade's When Night Falls on the City (http://www.geocities.com/lordess_renegade/whennightfalls.html) Fraser/RayK/RayV. R. Chicago doesn't need cops anymore. Chicago needs zombie hunters.

simplystars' Les Revenants (http://simplystars.livejournal.com/276360.html) Fraser/RayK. R. Angst. Horrifying tale of Chicago overrun by zombies. More in the remix Belle de Jour (http://bluebrocade.livejournal.com/189233.html) by bluebrocade.


B Movie Plots

MR's If Only In My Dreams (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/archive/8/fairytalesif.html) AU. Fraser/RayK. PG. In a post-apocalyptic world, Ray has been tranqed up in a hospital for months, but one day realizes he has a visitor.

pocketmouse's Context (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/388222.html) Fraser/RayK. R. Sometimes all you can do is get out of the way. Like when Chicago's overrun by dinosaurs.

spuffyduds' Call of the Weird (http://spuffyduds.livejournal.com/104956.html) Crossover - Kingdom of the Spiders. Gen. R. Fraser and Ray come across the survivors of a very bad horror movie spider infestation.

spuffyduds' In the Sewers He Lies Dreaming (http://spuffyduds.livejournal.com/56483.html) Crossover - H.P. Lovecraft. Gen. R. Fraser and Vecchio fight the rise of Cthulu.


Ghost Tales

Barb G's Bump In the Night (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/archive/challenge/bumpin.html) and The Hearse Goes By (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/archive/challenge/bumpin.html) Fraser/RayK. NC-17. Creepy ghost stories, with Fraser and Ray haunted by a particularly vicious shade.

buzzylittleb's Episodic Romance (http://hive.ckrweb.net/ds/rsgsnotes.html) Fraser/RayK. R. While investigating a shooting in a park and an old mobster's legacy, Ray begins seeing the haunts others are carrying with them.

cherryice's Like Some Strange Shadow (http://cherryice.livejournal.com/115181.html) Fraser/RayK. PG. Ray is haunted by a ghost of his own.

custardpringle's The Fraser Record (Excerpts) (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/513181.html) Fraser/RayK. R. Fusion with the book House of Leaves, written in the same "found documentation" style. Fraser and Ray investigate a house whose dimensions are different inside than outside. Very creepy!


Edited 2009-10-26 04:31 pm (UTC)

Oh, yeah, this doesn't even include the fics based on canon ghosts (or voudun). :-)

Zombie fan, eh? Here, have some more!

Merlin

Lassiter's Undead (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/84813.html) Gen-ish. The night the zombie apocalypse came to Camelot.

Mariana O'Connor's If You Were the Last Man on Earth (http://definewisdom.livejournal.com/20823.html) Merlin/Arthur. AU. Merlin and Arthur, stuck in a sewer, during the zombie apocalypse.


LOTR RPS

lord_alexander's Deathwatch (http://www.livejournal.com/users/serpentisfix/10175.html) and Twenty Eight Days Later (http://www.livejournal.com/users/serpentisfix/10733.html) Dom/Billy, Sean B./Andy. AU. Two separate stories. All does not end well when England is swept by zombification, and two unlikely pairs attempt to survive.


Die Hard 4

megyal's Who waits forever, anyway (http://megyal.livejournal.com/274447.html) John/Matt. AU. They met fighting the zombie apocalypse.


Stargate: Atlantis

Shaenie's Ancient Zombies, Brotherly Love, and Other Strange Tales (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/816495.html) John/Rodney. Just like the title says--delicious, delicious crack.

Edited 2009-10-28 02:24 am (UTC)

/o\ Sorry! I avoid bleak!

My 2 favorite monster fics come from the same author in the same fandom - astolat's American Idol RPS.

For the best zombie fic I've read in years, try House of the Living (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/idol/House%20of%20the%20Living.shtml). It's scary, horrifying and heartbreaking. Yum! The ultimate 'look-what-happened-on-tour' fic with a decidedly Stephen King twist. You don't have to be a RPS fan or heck, even an American Idol fan to enjoy this piece of the macabre. But oh, if you watched the show, it will chill ya'. Try it during the day.

And then there is her creature feature American Idol RPS called City of A Thousand Wonders (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/idol/City%20of%20a%20Thousand%20Wonders.html). It reminds me of the old black and whites we used to watch so many years ago. Deliciously twisted with so many in-jokes, it can still be read by a non-viewer of AI with delight.

Even if you don't like RPS .. or American Idol ... give 'em a try. You won't regret it.

Edited 2009-10-26 06:36 pm (UTC)

This is what Astolat wants.... we will all be converted to Glambert/Kradam fans through her amazing fic!

[info]starlingthefool 's Rush Down Darkness

Part 1: http://starlingthefool.livejournal.com/49249.html
Part 2: http://starlingthefool.livejournal.com/51463.html
Part 3: http://starlingthefool.livejournal.com/56506.html

Fandom: House
Pairing: House & Wilson friendship
My summary: House and Wilson basically try to kill each other, over and over.

I don't see this story recommended much, but it's one of my absolute favorites in any fandom. There are so many moments where you'll be on the edge of your seat, biting your fingernails, wondering what will happen next, but it is still exciting to re-read. It's a crossover with World War Z, which I had never heard of before but I understood the story all the same.

Atonement (http://community.livejournal.com/cap_ironman/198274.html) by gekizetsu. A Supernatural/Avengers cross-over where Steve Rogers is possessed by a SPN-style demon. Rated R, around 25,000 words, Captain America/Iron Man, warnings for violence, non-con, and demonic possession (is it partner betrayal if you're assaulted by a demon in your lover's body?).

And one of my all-time my favorite SPN fics:

In Reverse (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2787883/1/) by sodakey (link is to ff.net).
Epic length, not rated, but I'd guess somewhere between PG-13 and R. No character death or rape, a little violence.
Sam and Dean get invited to spend a weekend at a mountain cabin with some of Sam's old college friends, and end up hunting down a vengeful ghost. (author's summary: "Ghosts are being blamed for 3 missing hikers. Sam worries it’s connected to what happened to Dean ten years ago—and Sam's Stanford friends make Dean wonder if Sam shouldn’t leave their life, and him, once and for all.").

I'm pretty sure I've recced etherati's Now as Before in the readers recs on here before, and I know I've already recced it on sequential_crack, but since it *is* a zombie fic:

Now As Before (http://etherati.livejournal.com/8531.html) by etherati. R, Nite Owl/Rorschach, around 20,000 words, warnings for violence, zombies created by handwavey science, and the offscreen death of a child.
Rorschach gets turned into a zombie by a zombie!virus. Nite Owl sees no reason why this should be allowed to disrupt their partnership, especially since they're each going to need someone to guard their back as they fight off the zombie apocalypse.
Breeding Lilacs (http://etherati.livejournal.com/22903.html). Follow-up/epilogue/sequal to NaB. NC-17. Don't be put off by the fact that it contains Daniel Dreiberg having sex with a zombie -- I swear it's hot and romantic and not disgusting at all.
Of Cats & Lizards (http://etherati.livejournal.com/25126.html). Another short sequal fic. G-rated fluff.
Little Things (http://etherati.livejournal.com/26090.html). Yet another short follow-up fic. Relationship negotiation fluff (R-ish).

There is also an AU dark ending that follows Breeding Lilacs, Dissolution (http://etherati.livejournal.com/26220.html) but it contains major character death and is really, really dark. If you do read it, I suggest reading it before Cats & Lizards and Little Things and then reading those to reassure yourself that *that's* what actually happened.

Edited 2009-10-27 11:33 pm (UTC)

Will I need to know any background/canon?

Um... It's hard to say -- the reading experience is certainy enriched if you do, because part of the impact of Now as Before's ending depends on knowing how it diverges from canon. But since this is set before the timeline of the graphic novel/movie, you don't actually have to know anything that happens in canon to understand what's going on (it also, because of that, doesn't have any real spoilers for the comic/movie).

There's a pretty good fandom/canon overview over at sequentialcrack, if you want some basic info on who these people are and what they look like (in a nutshell: Dan is the tall, cute one with glasses who likes owls, and Rorschach is the short, homely one with freckles who likes breaking people's fingers).

Well, there's no non-con in this one, and it ends more happily than the comic does -- but it is set in a pretty darkish world, compared to a lot of other fandoms, and the zombie outbreak doesn't pull many punches. I'd say, read at your own risk, because there is a relatively happy ending and no major character death or rape, but it's still Watchmen.

Or you could try just reading Cats & Lizards and Little Things, which are both pretty much entirely fluff.

amonitrate's tell your mother it wasn't i (http://amonitrate.livejournal.com/355645.html)
Fandom: Iron Man ( movieverse )
Pairing: None.
Rating: Unrated. I'd probably say PG/PG-13
Length : Short ( ~6000 words )

At first Rhodey thinks it's a toy.

It's not quite zombies, or ghosts, or even vampires, because in the Marvel verse we've managed to explain those sort of things away with a handy little thing called mutation. But it is a bump-in-the-night sort of fic, with a horribly creepy little tag line, and Tony's version of asking for help: calling up Rodney on Halloween, and asking what he does when the kids cry.

Somehow this author's stuff always sticks with me -- it's the sort of fic I copy onto my Kindle so I can keep reading over and over again If this were another fandom, I'd describe this as a great case-fic. But Iron Man doesn't have cases. He has creepy little missions and nursery rhymes.