Spooked!…in Soho

[moon_custafer]

OK, I’m usually more motivated to finish these things if they’re public, so here’s the first two chapters, complete with intro to the reissue of the 1986 script novelization. Posted under my “bayone” pseud that I’ve begun using for my sillier fics:

Spooked!…in Soho (3324 words) by moon_custafer, bayone
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Ghosts, ‘80s-style comedy, in the style of a movie script novelization, NYC, haunted antique shop, character death in the sense that one character is a ghost, Hijinks & Shenanigans
Summary:

Haunting an antiques shop… it’s a living!

Comments

[sovay]

Well, I’ve mentioned Oswald Bluff, even if he hasn’t yet appeared on-screen.

I was thinking of scenes that could usefully take up time on the way to Dudley Moore.

(Did your subconscious bother to cast anyone else for this thing, or who are you picturing?)

[moon_custafer]

My subconscious didn’t mention anyone else. Mr. Finster sort of looks like Christopher Plummer in my mind, although I’m not sure he’d have been old enough in 1986. Ellen is a Lea Thompson or Molly Ringwald type.

So far I don’t have specific actors in mind for the other characters, although my baseline image for Luce is “somebody who looks like Lou Reed but sounds like Little Edie Bouvier.”

Edit— I don’t know where Billy came from, but his bandmates crossed over from an earlier fic that stalled out a month or so back. I don’t know how big a role they’ll actually play, but they’ve evidently decided this story is where the action is.

[sovay]

Mr. Finster sort of looks like Christopher Plummer in my mind, although I’m not sure he’d have been old enough in 1986.

Roddy McDowall played a solid two decades older—with enough stage grey in his hair to supply a community theater—than his real age for Fright Night (1985). Christopher Plummer could pull it off.

my baseline image for Luce is “somebody who looks like Lou Reed but sounds like Little Edie Bouvier.”

He sounds great.

I don’t know how big a role they’ll actually play, but they’ve evidently decided this story is where the action is.

Good for them!