#yellowclockworkbox

[ddagent]

Hi! If it hasn’t been asked already, what would an Addams Family AU of Ineffable Husbands look like? 🖤

Mrs Henderson didn't really care to visit the Crowley-Fell residence - that vast, antiquated property with a cast iron gate, vines crawling around the outside. But, she needed another item for the charity auction and she had heard wonderful things about Mister Fell's library.

As she strode up the long, winding drive to the house, she noticed the black Bentley sitting in front. Mrs Chalke, three roads over, had claimed she'd seen it driving by itself. The postman, Mister Manning, had - over three pints at the pub - admitted that Mister Crowley's plants had once tried to eat him. There were the children, of course: Adam and Beatrice. Mrs Henderson had heard all about their attempts to re-enact the French revolution on an unsuspecting classmate.

It was, therefore, with trepidation, that Mrs Henderson knocked on the door. It groaned open, revealing a blond man with a tweed bowtie standing just so, as if he had been expecting her. How such a nice man had ended up in a house like this... "Are you Mister Fell?"

"I am. How may I help you, my dear?"

"I'm running the local charity auction to raise funds for the cricket club. I was wondering whether you would—" Mrs Henderson trailed off. A snake, black scales rippling in a slither of sunlight, had crawled across the ebony tile and was making its way up the trouser leg of Mister Fell. He crooned at the snake, who flicked its tongue in response. "—a book? Could we have a book? For the auction?"

"I'm afraid not, my dear. But good luck with your auction! Please don't let my husband's roses eat you on the way out."

The door swung close of its own accord; a scratch of vinyl and music ebbed into the cool autumn air. Then she heard the whisper of vines on the ground and Mrs Henderson thought she broke the land speed record leaving the property.

send me a classic Halloween movie (anything from Hocus Pocus to Dracula) and I’ll write you five sentences about how I would make it an Ineffable Husbands AU.