#event:halloween rec fest

[thetorchwoodarchive]

Welcome to the Torchwood Archive’s Second Annual Halloween Rec Fest! Below are spooky, scary, or otherwise Halloween themed Torchwood fics as recommended by our followers! While you're here also feel free to check out last year's Halloween Rec List for double the treats!

Our Fics That Haunt You list will be up later tonight!

Halfway Back by Sholio (Team Torchwood | complete | 13953 | T)

Team Torchwood run a sanctuary for magical creatures, and this time they've got a basilisk on their hands.

Caledfwlch by BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (JackIanto, GwenRhys, LisaIanto, OwenTosh, OwenKatie | complete | 48456 | Not Rated)

Jack has a lifetime ban from the afterlife for stealing, Owen's fiance is a right hag, Toshiko is playing children's games, Ianto has a vampire in the garden, and Gwen has a prophetic dog of death following her around for pets.

The Bad Neighbor by Firesnap (Gen | complete | 30576 | T)

Rhys Williams knows there's something wrong with his neighbor. It's a shame no one seems to be listening to him.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep by someawkwardprose (GwenSuzie, Gwen&Ianto, JackIanto | WIP | 6639 | T)

There's a witch in Roundstone Woods, and Gwen is going to make a deal with her.

When Did Your Heart Go Missing by Jackdaw816 (Gwen&John, JackJohnIanto | complete | 1488 | T)

Gwen Cooper has discovered the identity of the Excalibur killer (or has she?)

Binding and Chaining Me Tight by Jackdaw816 (JackJohn | complete | 588 | T)

John survived Canary Wharf, but is he really living?

Chirality by Beleriandings (JackIanto | complete | 2494 | T)

Ianto looks in a mirror.

Rebound by cupidsbow (JackIanto | complete | 1938 | T)

The first time Ianto feels it -- a creeping sense of not-quite déjà vu, making his nape prickle -- is when Jack asks him out on a date.

The Moon, The Laughs, and the Whispers by moonlightrhosyn (LisaIanto | complete | 9229 | T)

“Wow,” Gray breathed, a reverent look on his face, “It’s beautiful.” “Yes,” Agnes said, “it is. Now -” “So intricate, and it looks like it was handmade, too. The time this must have taken to complete… this is incredible!” He beamed. “This - this is really spectacular. Thank you,” he said softly, turning to look at her. “Early 51st century - right around the turn of the century. We’ll probably want to include late 50th in the Archive scan, but I’m confident that it's from the 51st century.”

When Gray is asked to help on a project identifying an object from the 51st century, he's thrilled. He's significantly less thrilled when all the files he brought up to help identify it start showing information about the Boeshane Peninsula; after all, if Yvonne finds out that one of her employees is secretly from the future, what's going happen to him?

sit in and watch the sunlight fade by violetmessages (Gwen&Owen&Tosh&Ianto, JackIanto | complete | 3049 | T)

Jack's gone, but the team still find themselves needing him, especially when a door appears that wasn't there the day before.

Without a Shadow of a Doubt by Beleriandings (JackIanto | complete | 2354 | T)

(AU: Just this once) After a bit of time apart, Jack misses Ianto, so he goes looking for a gift for him. He decides to start looking in as good a place as any: a library. But it's too quiet between the stacks, and Jack finds more than he bargained for.

when does a monster become one by princessoftheworlds (JackIanto, LisaIanto, Team | complete | 1991 | T)

Silver plates click and flex around the vague approximation of a chest. The blue light of a power source glows unblinkingly, steady. Servos whirr smoothly in their incessant movement. Behind the round eyes, with slits beneath to suggest crying tears, in a hollow cavern with gears and wires weaving a complex nest, is one small mass of pink — the lingering neurons that contain the consciousness of Jack Harkness.

when does a monster become one

Werewolf of Cardiff by Jackdaw816 (JackIanto | complete | 575 | T)

Ianto's a wolf in the bedroom. Literally

Let's Raise the Woof by princessoftheworlds (JackIanto | complete | 898 | T)

Jack takes his boyfriend to the park.

Don't Fear the Reaper by blipintiime (JackIanto, GwenRhys | complete | 4873 | G)

“Nothing good will come from this, Jack. The spirit here is angry and violent, he was a murderer once and I don’t think he wants his story out there for the world to know. I can feel him, Jack, and it’s like I want to hurt you. It scares me,” she warns, her voice low and eyes reflecting viridescent in the torch light as she looks from team member to team member, “it should scare you too.”

A silence follows that cannot be described, and Ianto wonders if Jack feels the same chill that raises his own flesh as he senses their fearless leader shift his weight beside him.

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What if instead of aliens, the Torchwood team investigated hauntings? Ghosts aren't that different from aliens, and a lot less dangerous - right?

Phantom of the Millennium Centre by Paycheckgurl (JackIanto | complete | 6047 | T)

There’s been a murder at the Welsh National Opera, right on Torchwood’s doorstep. The set up is a bit too familiar for the team’s liking.

Quicksilver in His Veins by Jackdaw816 (JackIanto | complete | 3771 | T)

John's back, but his smile is a little sharper this time around (and Ianto has to suffer the consequences)

The Faintest Restless Rustling Ran All Through by NancyBrown (Gen | complete | 5504 | T)

The haunting of the Hub.

Absent Friends by Beleriandings (JackIanto, Ten&Jack, Ten&Ianto | complete | 16121 | T)

“On a dark and stormy night in Cardiff, the city is in danger, and the Doctor’s put himself in charge of Torchwood in order to save it. In a sealed recording studio, the voices of the dead have been playing for 17 years. Was it the project of a madman, or is this the site of something terrible? Torchwood has been hunting for the Doctor since 1879. And now they’ve found him. They may regret it.”

Or: Absent Friends (my version)

house that eats and pleads and kills. by violetmessages (Gwen&Ianto, GwenRhys, JackIanto | complete | 4196 | T)

When investigating a reportedly "haunted" house, Gwen's past comes back to haunt her.

Trick Or Treat or Alien Defeat by BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (Gwen&Anwen, Owen&Anwen, Ianto&Anwen, Team | complete | G)

Anwen Williams goes Trick or Treating with an armed and dangerous Honour Guard.

[thetorchwoodarchive]

The Spooky Season is here, and with it comes two new Torchwood Archive Rec Fests!!!

The Torchwood Halloween Rec Fest is the second of our rec fests will be an updated version of last year's halloween rec list.

This will be a list of your favorite halloween and horror inspired Torchwood fics, as recommended by you, our followers. From tricks to treats, we want to see your favorite Halloween Torchwood content!

All fics will be posted on Halloween night (Oct 31st)! Since we are running two fests this month, please be sure to let us know which fest you are submitting for (Halloween or Fics That Haunt You).

We can't wait to share these frighteningly good fics with you!

[thetorchwoodarchive]

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The Spooky Season is here, and with it comes the Torchwood Archive’s Halloween Rec Fest!!! This will be a list of your favorite halloween and horror inspired Torchwood fics, as recommended by you, our followers. From tricks to treats, we want to see your favorite Halloween Torchwood content!

Submissions will be collected through Oct. 30 with the posting date being on Oct. 31st, Halloween. 

Any fic, new or old, that has scary themes or uses halloween as a setting qualifies for the list. 

We’d also like to take a moment to shout out our friends at @torchwoodfanfests​ who are currently running a halloween fan creation event. We encourage you to check out their prompt list (we’ll be reblogging their masterlist when it is posted at the end of their submission period as well)!

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[image id: text reading Torchwood Halloween Rec Fest in the Torchwood logo font. There is a jack-o-lantern with a sinster face surrounded by mist. In the mist are Tosh, Ianto, and Owen, appearing as ghostly figures, looking scared. The Jack-o-lantern’s face gives off a shadow. In the lower right hand corner Gwen looks frightened, holding the Ghost Machine.]

Thank you for your spooky, strange, and scary Torchwood Halloween Recs! Below you will find our favorite Halloween and/or Horror themed Torchwood Stories, full of tricks and treats.

As always please take note of additional tagging and warnings on each individual fic

A Lantern in the Dark of Autumn by NancyBrown (JackIanto | complete | 1144 | G)

“You'll go as a priest, I'll go as a pregnant nun."

Treats by NancyBrown (JackIanto, GwenRhys | complete | 3598 | G)

Jack and Ianto take their toddler out for Hallowe'en.

Bite Me by NancyBrown (GwenRhys, JackIanto | complete | 4050 | M)

Gwen is turned into a vampire. Because Torchwood.

Treat or Trick by NancyBrown (JackIanto | complete | 1067 | T)

Five unusual trick or treaters show up at the tourist office.

The Charm's Wound Up by NancyBrown (Gen | complete, series | 2405 | T)

Fire burning, check. Cauldron bubbling, ditto.

Rhyme Time by BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (Gen | complete | 116 | Not Rated)

Four short little poems for the Halloween season.

Tagline: I saw the VIDEO. Got the CALL? What Next??? By BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (JackIanto | complete | 2418 | Not Rated)

'Tagline: I saw the VIDEO. Got the CALL? What Next???

Bollocks. That’s just a myth. Some git showing off and claiming to be the one person alive who Samara doesn’t bump off. He’ll be boasting that he’s been chosen to kill Voldemort next.'

When another unsuspecting victim falls foul of the cursed tape, he is pointed towards Captain Jack Harkness as his only hope for salvation.

Broken Reflection by BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (GwenRhys, JackIanto | complete | 3348 | Not Rated)

A seemingly routine mission results in a week of hell for Gwen and the team.

The Picture of Javic Thane by thirteeninafez (JackIanto | complete | 22392 | T)

The painting was an old Victorian portrait, showing a man sitting in an almost throne-like chair, posture perfect and facial expression stoic. Deep colours swirled from brilliant brush strokes, perfectly capturing the image it was displaying. It took Ianto a second to realise that the figure in the maroon, nearly purple suit (and matching bow-tie) was in fact the same man that was currently holding the painting in the Hub.

“That’s what came through the Rift?” Ianto asked incredulously, trying to ignore the smile that was tugging at the corner of his mouth.

Ghost of My Present by Paycheckgurl (JackIanto, Ianto&Gwen, Ianto&Martha, Ianto&Rhiannon | Series | 5196 | T)

The chronicles of Ianto Jones’ afterlife as a ghost

Toil, Trouble, and Trick-or-Treating by moonlightrhosyn (JackIanto, GwenRhys, KathySuzie | complete | 2755 | T)

I know what this is. She planned this. She thinks I don’t spend enough time with the kids. That’s why she’s doing this.”

“Doing what, Ianto?” Gwen asked him. “What do your sister’s dinner plans have to do with you?”

Ianto heaved a sigh. “She just asked me to take David and Mica trick-or-treating so she ‘can go to dinner’ - she just wants me to spend more time with them, and she’s come up with this.”

“I can go too,” Jack offered as he joined them. He grinned. “I love kids!”

In which Jack and Ianto take Halloween night off to look after Rhiannon's kids, while Gwen and Suzie coordinate Halloween Watch (and Gwen tries to get Suzie a date, after two years of strategizing).

Blood on Steel by Sholio (Owen&Ianto, Team | complete | 12257 | T)

An alien booby trap turns the Hub into a deathtrap. Lucky thing it doesn't react to someone with no vital signs. Now Owen is their only hope. More specifically, he's Ianto's only hope.

The Edge of the World by Orinoco_II (JackIanto, Owen&Tosh | complete | 8448 | M)

When an Antarctic research team disappear without a trace, an old friend of Jack's enlists Torchwood to investigate. What could be lurking beneath the ice?

sink your feet into the mud (and I'll return) by violetmessages (Gwen&Ianto, GwenRhys, JackIanto | complete | 3404 | G)

What if she could bring Ianto back?

It’s a dangerous idea. It’s got the potential to be catastrophic. But Gwen is all out of options. She’s surrounded by the graves of the people she loves, abandoned, save for her husband, and she refuses to let her best friend go without a fight.

alone in my mind by princessoftheworlds (Gen | complete, series | 6224 | T)

3987. An abandoned spaceship drifting through deep space, sending out a distress signal to whomever encounters it. And one Ianto Jones who boards to find that all the hundreds of passengers have mysteriously vanished.

Erlkönig by engagemythrusters (JackIanto | complete | 5621 | T)

Something lurked in the darkness. It waited and watched, and it was coming for Ianto.

Empty, Unseen, and Preyed Upon by Engagemythrusters (JackIanto | complete | 6215 | T)

Torchwood ought to be more careful. Sometimes, things lurked in the darkness. And sometimes, those things bit back.

the woods are lovely, dark and deep by someawkwardprose (GwenSuzie, Gwen&Ianto, JackIanto | WIP | 6639 | T)

There's a witch in Roundstone Woods, and Gwen is going to make a deal with her.

I Am Not My Own by methylethyl (JackIanto | complete | 12518 | M)

Torchwood's disability pay is about this big--" Ianto held up his thumb and index finger, about two centimeters apart. "--and comes out of a gun at a thousand meters per second." [Or, the fic in which Ianto bleeds everywhere all the time.]

Statement #0041708 - Future Sight by Jackdaw816 (Gen | complete | 1690 | T)

Statement of Lisa Hallett regarding a peculiar mirror found at a car boot sale

Non Sum Qualis Eram (Known Some Call Is Air Am) by lookninjas (Gen | complete | 11829 | Not Rated)

When a ghost hunter vanishes in the haunted house that he was examining, the Torchwood team is called in to investigate. Once inside, they discover a mysterious hallway, a spiral staircase, and a strange series of connections to a childhood that Ianto can't remember.

The Zagrith's Claw by AVAAntares (JackIanto | complete | 7291 | T)

Changing fate always demands a price -- and sometimes, the cure can be worse than the disease.

(Written for Torchwood Halloween Fest 2020. Prompt: Cursed objects)

Midas by ShastaFirecracker (JackIanto | complete | 4559 | T)

Fiddling with unknown alien artifacts never ends well, and yet they never, ever learn.

(be)longing by MonsterMince (LisaJackIanto | complete | 11467 | E)

Jack's deaths in 1899 attract the attention of Torchwood Three, who are need of a man who can't die to deal with the vengeful ghost of Ianto Jones haunting their base. As Jack investigates the reasons behind Ianto's death with the help of another ghost, Lisa Hallett, he starts to find his place as part of a new trio.

AU of how Jack joins Torchwood, but really just an excuse to let Jack have ghost!sex.