🎵🏚️ Thank you! Britney x Bridget x Folk Horror was NOT on my 2026 bingo card but here we are.

Right?! No sympathy for Dan whatsoever. The house chose Rachel and honestly, can you blame it?

The fake Reddit comments were SO fun to write. Might be my favorite part of this whole pitch event. 😂

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #UnhingedPit #A #H

🎵 To the tune of you-know-what 🎵

Oops, I screamed again
Down into the well
That echo wasn't mine
But it knows me well

Am I going crazy
Or is the house aware
It's not that innocent

Not a romance. But the house always gets the girl.

Epistolary gothic horror.

YTA.

You cannot simply “kill the ghosts of your past” without first reviewing the maritime custody agreement.

Have you tried mediation? A kraken is neutral.

And building her a tank and feeding her ethically sourced mer is not parenting. It’s boutique SeaWorld with a revenge agenda.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #UnhingedPit #A #H

AITA for keeping my wife in our dream home when she keeps saying the house is "replacing her" and "the well has children in it"?

UPDATE: The village says IATA but they ALSO say she should stay???

A gothic horror. Everyone's the asshole. Especially the house.

❤️🔑🏡🤿💀

Excellent! The house is always looking for new tenants. Previous occupants have "integrated seamlessly with the property." *side-eyes the well*

Dark manor at twilight with text overlay: "Historic Manor For Sale - A Timeless Tale, 3 Bathrooms, Where Echoes Wait"

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #UnhingedPit #A #H

CHARMING MANOR
- Original features (the screaming)
- Period details (1739-present)
- Great bones (previous owners')
- Must love: isolation, wells, gaslighting
- Women only. Men need not apply. Seriously.

Told entirely through documents the house left behind.

Open journal or diary on wooden surface in dramatic shaft of light, pages visible.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

Explores gaslighting and female rage through inherited houses, ancient covenants and unreliable records.

A narrator whose certainty becomes the most frightening thing of all.

The house has always needed someone. This time, it chose her.

#QuestPit

Thank you so much! ❤️

Ornate antique door lock and bolt on paneled wooden door, black and white.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

Last night I dreamt I went to Foxhole Manor. I realised too late I could never leave.

Her husband wants to go. The villagers want her to stay. The house wants her entirely.

#QuestPit

Gothic manor, watching eye, Cornish coast, ornate key, handwritten letter, locked door in 6-panel collage

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

Sarah Waters meets Shirley Jackson.

For readers of:
📖 MEXICAN GOTHIC
📖 THE LITTLE STRANGER
📖 REBECCA
📖 PIRANESI

A woman falls in love with a house. She cannot quite tell whether the feeling is mutual.

#QuestPit

The image is of a fake book cover, mocked up for the novel ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE by Bee Morris. The background is a mish-mash of gothic, suburban houses, all layered over one another in chaos, in monochromatic shadows. The text, written at a slanted angle, reads: ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE, a novel.

🪦 ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE 🪦 #QuestPit #Q

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...

...too bad 'chasing down a serial killer' wasn't part of the job spec 🔪

👻 paranormal mystery
🧠 autistic FMC
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🏡 found family (living & dead)

A mood board with a brown parchment top section bearing the text: "Reapers crept into everyone’s lore, sometimes taking the Black Plague’s macabre form and other times the shape of animals. They were male or female or neither. Death was a dog, a screaming spirit, a saint. Reapers completed a necessary task, were a necessary evil, and that’s what Eva thought this was: a necessary evil which might save both Archer and her. 'May rest come easy.'" Photographs below the excerpt include an image of black boots and the bottom of a long coat as someone walks on a rain soaked street, an old illustration of a skeleton and a fair woman to signify death and the grim reaper, a collection of human skulls, the black cat Binx from Hocus Pocus, Nancy from The Craft holding a dagger up to the sky, and a figure in a black hooded cloak silhouetted by a cathedral style window.

CHARMED X THE DEAD OF SUMMER

💀An Immersive Second World
💀Feminine Rage and Coming of Age
💀Ace FMC and Queer Ensemble
💀Long Lost Demigod Twins
💀The Power of Friendship ✨

#questpit #ya #f #q

Eva-core:

NOW QUERYING

THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTOR

💀 Teen monster horror
💀 Fast-paced, action-filled
💀 Small town mystery
💀 My job might be evil
💀 Bi-romantic asexual protagonist

#QuestPit #H #YA #Q

moodboard for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem showing plum blossoms; a man fighting in bamboo forest; a view of a Chinese palace through red gates; a woman with a death stare; a man with a serious displeased look; moon-gate looking into a Chinese garden with a pavillion on the pond; a man kissing a woman's neck intimately; Chinese calligraphy and brush pen

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS

She planned to be the terror in his life.
He planned to ignore her.
Neither planned on saving a crumbling empire from a tyrant—or falling in love.

91K-word adult fantasy romcom / Smoochpit '25 mentee
#questpit #A #RF #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

the (new) dedication of the book that will HOPEFULLY stay as it is unless it goes through another change <3

the book features my bangladeshi fmc, mahira and my puerto rican mmc, valentino !!

the tropes of the book, not including the various microtropes throughout !!

the comps of the book, though the third comp is a movie comp and has a book by the original author itself—i prefer the movie more over the book of the same name, hence i'm comping the movie adaptation instead of the original book <33

#questpit #NA #A #POC #R #DR #W

title: THE VILLAIN'S MUSE.

KING OF SLOTH x GOD OF FURY x PERFECT ADDICTION

She's healing a heart wrapped in silk carrying scars like armour.
He's a broken monster with blood on his hands and a hunger for chaos.

He thinks she killed her best friend, she's almost certain she didn't.

A burnt out candle & a tarot card were all that were left behind when her best friend disappeared from Black Mill 25 years ago. Now Victoria's determined to uncover the truth no matter the consequences

#QuestPit #Q #A #T

Newspaper headlines read: Sederwall pleads guilty to concealing death

In 1998, I was arrested for murder after a miscarriage.
A plea bargain was my only way out.
A world where women can be punished for what goes on with their bodies is a very scary place. It only gets worse.
#Questpit #Q #NF #M #OWN

Hot desert day, cooled off by hedges and a tree, from which a lonely swing hangs.

Woven through chillingly honest monologues, five disparate Queer men ride out the whims of a cold-blooded desert in a shabby Palm Springs apartment complex—where one man’s foolish scheme for survival leads to his ironic flameout on Election Day 2016.

#QUESTPIT #Q #A #LF #DR #LGBTQ

Dark stone well surrounded by overgrown ivy and moss, title WHERE ECHOES WAIT overlaid in white text.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins.

The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud.

Epistolary gothic horror.

#QUESTPIT

Yes please! I’m literary fiction/horror