Spirit Walks Challenge

Ten groups have come together in a challenge to welcome All Hallow’s Eve/Samhain/Halloween, the beginning of winter, for the southern hemisphere.

The participating groups are Practising the Dark Arts; Blood Red – All things vampiric; Monsters, Ink; THE PHANTASMAGORICAL; Short stories – Spherical Scriptings; 1 In The Beginning – Ancient Practices; Fantasy Art; The Art of 3D; Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales and Flash Fiction.

Background and Inspiration

All Hallow’s Eve is the day when the worlds merge, that of Spirit and flesh, where the veils are at their thinnest, and the Ancestors can freely roam between the two membranes of time and existence. We can communicate more clearly with them, communing together in dreams and shadows.

Samhain corresponds to the Wisdom Cycle of life, the Winter Deities, and thus ensures that our communing with the Ancestors is clear and well grounded.
Samhain is when the Wild Hunt emerges from Faerie to roam the winter countryside. Mortals getting in the path of the Hunt could be kidnapped and brought to the land of the dead.

How to be a part of it

Create an image and/or written work that captures the essence of an aspect of the above information in a way relevant to the monster/horror theme of the group. Add your work to the group, and paste a link to it in the forum topic here, so the hosts know it’s an entry! The challenge is open to the whole world, not just people in the southern hemisphere :)

How it will work

• Enter your work to the challenge as above.
• Your hosts will judge a winning image and written work for the group.
• The group winners will then be open to a public vote to pick the overall winners across all ten groups!

Entries close midnight (your time) April 28th.
Group winners will be announced April 30th, and public voting will run for a week (voting details will be provided at that time) to decide the overall winning image and written work (and winning group!) Prizes are yet to be confirmed by RedBubble, but don’t let that hold you back from this record breaking, group collaborative challenge!

Written works need to be 1000 words or less. Poems and stories welcome.

This challenge is in the spirit of fun and group interaction, and is not about determining if one group is better than another :)

So what are you waiting for?? Get busy! Let’s see some of that dark passion I know courses through your veins…

Here’s my entry. Lucifer’s Ballad for the Damned

Ok I will post Back Sabbath once I work out how to link it.

In the meantime

http://www.redbubble.com/people/oneillstudios/art/837509-1-black-sabbath

Here is my entry:

O Cruel Nature