Fluttershy buys a painting from a new stall in Ponyville markets. It's a quaint picture of a rural cottage surrounded by grasslands and farm animals. It fills her with a curious feeling of longing that she hasn't felt before. Why should she? Her life is already like it.
But new animals start appearing around her home, and her own animals begin disappearing. Why and how she doesn't know, but she has to save them. She has to save all of them.
Total Words: 187,511
Estimated Reading: 12 hours
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One day, Twilight finds a stallion staring at a hole in the wall. He seems strangely fascinated with it.
After weeks of searching, Rarity had just about accepted that Opalescence was gone for good.
Until one night, her feline companion returns.
And she's not quite the same as when she left.
The feline monstrosity you see in the background of the cover art comes from here:
https://almanegra.deviantart.com/art/creature-wip-1-664968505
Applejack is cleaning her attic and finds an ugly mask. She offers it to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, because they enjoy pranking ponies. Rainbow is first to arrive to check it out, and finds out there seems to be more to the mask than Applejack knew.
She has to have it, and she can't wait to try it out.
Twilight had no idea of where the door had come from. It was there, and that was a fact. When it was there, at least, which wasn't always the case. But she would find out what was behind it sooner or later. It was just a matter of time. The door was always there, after all.
Stay off the path that is twisted and worn...
Where stalks all grow tattered and torn...
For all those who do stay lost and forlorn...
Singing forever the Rhyme of the Corn...
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A little something to send summer out with a scream and usher in the Season of the Witch.
Inspired by the scarezone of the same name from Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights XIV.
Spectacular reading by ThelifeonCloud9
The Oldest and Strongest Emotion is Fear
-Lovecraft
The town is engulfed in fog. A pony sits in his cabin, fearful of what lurks outside. It wants inside, and it scratches at his door.
Twilight was never one to break the rules, but she has an unexpected experience when she enters...the door.
A short fic written for Halloween in the spirit of the season. :)