Fans have taken their fiction in amazing and surprisingly lucrative directions. Some have been modified and outsold their famous source material. There are now authorized distribution services for fan fiction derived from certain intellectual properties. Some mainstream authors have admitted they habitually write fan stories or got their start doing so. In short, fan fiction is proving a surprisingly legitimate art form. And like all art forms, it generates a lot of creepy content. It doesn't matter if the source material is horrifying itself or innocuous enough for children, some creep has come along and turned it into the stuff of nightmares. Usually he or she did it intentionally. In fact writers of this type that want to scare people seem to prefer using children's entertainment for their unsettling scenarios. The characters will be especially unsuited to function under horrific conditions and the creepiness stands out in sharper relief when put in a pleasant setting. Read on if you dare!
10. The Contract
Fanfic Of: House Plot: Dr. Gregory House is forced to sign a contract written in blood. It stipulates that he is to allow himself to be tortured however and whenever an anonymous villain chooses. Any attempt to tell anyone of the contract will result in the death of House or someone close to him (the other party ultimately turns out to be a wealthy politician with connections to the crime world as the reason he's able to pull this off). House's constant anxiety and anger at being a torture toy alienates all his coworkers and when his coworker Wilson is murdered, he is framed and sent to prison. Commentary: The Contract's 41,000 word obsession with seeing Gregory House suffer is itself quite disquieting, but writer DIYSheep's obsession with insisting the story is actually a profound piece of art by dressing it up with flowery language is truly unpleasant. But worse is that apparently The Contract managed to attract a devoted and active fanbase since it was written in 2006. So many spinoffs and expansions were written, all about House being tortured, that the "Contractverse" stretches out to a staggering million words. Sure, Gregory House was always meant to be a prickly character, but a surprising number of fans were apparently gleefully imagining Hugh Laurie being cut and beaten while watching the show. Read It Yourself (NSFW)
