Thank you to everyone who claimed a pinch hit! We have one left, and to give potential pinch hitters more time to work, we're announcing a one-week delay. The new pinch hit deadline is July 18 at 11:59pm EDT. Let us know if you're interested in the pinch hit but would need a little more time, and tell us how best to contact you (DW or email) so we can confirm that with you.

To claim a pinch hit, reply below (comments are screened), or email us at summerofhorrorex at gmail dot com. Be sure to include your AO3 username.

Please note: these requested tags are character groupings, not necessarily gen relationships. Check optional details to see whether someone has opted into those characters in a ship.

( CLAIMED - PH 3 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020) )

The deadline has passed, so we have some new pinch hits! To claim a pinch hit, reply below (comments are screened), or email us at summerofhorrorex at gmail dot com. Be sure to include your AO3 username.

Please note: these requested tags are character groupings, not necessarily gen relationships. Check optional details to see whether someone has opted into those characters in a ship.

The deadline for these pinch hits is July 10 at 11:59 PM EDT. Let us know if you're interested in one of the pinch hits but would need a little more time, and tell us how best to contact you (DW or email) so we can confirm that with you.

We've also given out some extensions, so don't worry if you don't have a gift yet and aren't on this list!

Update: New fandoms have been added for PH 2!

( CLAIMED - PH 2 - NoPixel (Web Series), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime) )

( PH 3 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020) )

( CLAIMED - PH 6 - Felvidek (Video Game), Dracula Rising (webseries 2013), Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )

( CLAIMED - PH 12 - 還願 | Devotion (Video Game), Chainsaw Man (Manga), Twin Peaks (TV 1990), Deadly Premonition | Red Seeds Profile, うずまき - 伊藤 潤二 | Uzumaki - Itou Junji (Manga), 마에스트라 | Maestra: Strings of Truth (TV), Charade Maniacs (Visual Novel), 7'Scarlet (Visual Novel), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Gundam Wing )

( CLAIMED - PH 13 - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Battlestar Galactica (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), Fringe (TV), The Strain (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin )

( CLAIMED - PH 14 - Sinners (2025), Original Work, Original Work )

( CLAIMED - PH 15 - Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Star Trek: The Original Series, The X-Files, Cult of the Lamb (Video Game), Mass Effect Trilogy )

( CLAIMED - PH 16 - From Beyond (1986), Doctor Mordrid (1992), The Lurking Fear (1994), Fallout 4, Fallout (TV 2024), Re-Animator (Movies - Combs), The Fog (1980), Sapphire & Steel (TV), Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), House on Haunted Hill (1999) )

Initial pinch hits are now available!

If you want to claim a pinch hit, please comment here (comments will be screened) or email summerofhorrorex at gmail dot com. Make sure to include your AO3 username when claiming a pinch hit.

Minimums are 500 words or a piece of original art (no manips), either digital or on unlined paper. Please note: these are character groupings, not necessarily gen relationships. Recipients may opt into ships in their optional details.

These are due at 8:00 PM EDT on July 6.

( CLAIMED - PH 1 - The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023), Heroes (TV 2006) )

( PH 2 - NoPixel (Web Series) )

( PH 3 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020) )

( CLAIMED - PH 4 - Star Trek: Enterprise, Venom (Marvel Movies), The Passenger (Movie 2023) )

( CLAIMED - PH 5 - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, From (TV 2022) )

( PH 6 - Felvidek (Video Game), Dracula Rising (webseries 2013), Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )

( CLAIMED - PH 7 - Our Flag Means Death (TV), The Pitt (TV) )

( CLAIMED - PH 8 - Project Wingman (Video Game), Ace Combat (Video Games), Ace Combat (Video Games), Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Dishonored (Video Games) )

( CLAIMED - PH 9 - Star Wars Original Trilogy )

( CLAIMED - PH 10 - The Passenger (Movie 2023), Jaws (Movies), Poppy Playtime (Video Game) )

( CLAIMED - PH 11 - Crossover Fandom, DC's Arrowverse, The Defenders (Marvel TV), The Fall Guy (2024), Hawkeye (TV 2021), Highlander: The Series, Murder by Numbers (2002), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Sometimes They Come Back (1991), Twilight (Movies) )

Don't forget to sign up before 8pm EDT on May 14! Here is a countdown.

Thank you to everyone who nominated! The tagset is in the process of being finalized.

Nomination queries

• Transformers - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom? If not, we will approve these under The Transformers (IDW Generation One.
  
• Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms - We have a nomination for The Frog Prince & Iron Henry. Nominator, can you clarify if these two ever appeared in the same fairy tale? If not, are you okay with it being approved under Crossover Fandom?
  
• Die schöne Müllerin - Franz Schubert (Songs) - Nominator(s), is the River a character, a setting, or a setting being used as a character?
  
• Les Misérables - All Media Types - Nominator, do you have a specific versio nof the canon you want? If not, for Anyone who dies at the barricade & any barricade survivor(s), we will approve this under the book version of the canon.
  
• The Last Unicorn - All Media Types - Nominator, do you have a specific version of the canon you want? If not, we will approve this under the 1982 film, since that seems to be the canon people usually reference with regard to the Drunk Skeleton.
  
• Tomie - All Media Types - Nominator(s), do you have a specific version of the canon in mind?
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022): Nominator, our understanding is that Sauron and Annatar are the same character. We generally do not distinguish between different eras of a character's canon. We have already accepted Celebrimor & Sauron for Rings of Power, so this nomination will be rejected.

If any of these are tags you've nominated, please reply here or email us at summerofhorrorex at gmail to let us know how you'd like us to handle them.

Nominations close in about 2.5 hours. Get yer noms in while the getting's good!

Nomination guidelines and link to tagset.

Nomination reminders

• We DO NOT accept nominations with "/" ships. All character groupings must be nominated with "&". For example, we will not accept "Timon/Pumbaa (The Lion King 1994)"; please nominate "Timon & Pumbaa (The Lion King 1994)" instead. If you have nominated a "/" ship, please edit it to have "&". (You can still request ships as part of the optional details of your request.)
  
• Please disambiguate your nominations. This means putting the fandom after your nomination in parentheses, as in the example above.
  
• If your nominations are lingering, you should also doublecheck the nomination guidelines to be sure you're using the correct format.

We may reject incorrect nominations at any time to make it easier to approve correctly formatted nominations.

Nomination queries

• Transformers - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?
  
• Mortal Kombat - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?
  
• The Hobbit - All Media Types: Nominator(s), since you've nominated Tauriel, who only appears in the Peter Jackson movies and not the novel, we would like to change this fandom to The Hobbit (Jackson Movies). Please let us know if you intended something else instead.
  
• The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types: Nominator(s), can you choose a more specific subfandom?

This is just to confirm that Summer of Horror is coming back for another round! Nominations open on April 28. See the full schedule here.

Please note our closing and reveals times have been moved to 8pm Eastern.

Fall Into Horror has now been revealed!

The collection is still open, so feel free to keep posting claims. And happy Halloween!

Nominator(s) for Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, can you choose a specific version of this canon?