Category Archives: Spooky Silly Contest

Lament of the ReDead

Artwork from Flickr User: Xela Ogerrob
Artwork from Flickr User: Xela Ogerrob

A series of four ReDead haiku. Enjoy.  If you dare…  Uwa-ha-hack cough!

Haiku #1

Wrinkled old zombies

They are really just Gibdos

Without the clothes on

Haiku #2

They may be dead, but

They know how to boogie when

They’re not eating you

Haiku #3

Eyes rotted away

Mouth never closed; quit screaming

You’ll wake the neighbors

Haiku #4

Or maybe they scream

‘Cause they’re more afraid of you

Bring fire, just in case

That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow

Image by Flickr user: NCSPhotography (cc)

October marches on and so does our Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest! I still may not be able to enter myself, playing the role of a poet-gamer has just been too enjoyable to stop just yet! With that in mind I’m psyched to present another work penned in honor of our little contest: That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow. Inspired by another game I’m looking forward to one day finishing: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem! Continue reading That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow

Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest: Week 3!

Image captured by Hatmonster

Our little contest is now firmly underway with three weeks to its name thus far! Just two more to go and then it will finally be time for us all to cast our votes and decide who shall be crowned the Spooky Champion of Silly Poetry! This week’s entry comes from Chip of Games I Made My Girlfriend Play and is titled: Vendetta . But first, a little intro from the poet themselves: Continue reading Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest: Week 3!

The First Encounter

Image by Flickr user Justin.
Image by Flickr user Justin.

With this post, I hereby submit another group of carefully worded…er, words that may be spooky and/or silly. I don’t think I’m spoiling too much when I say that in the game LIMBO is a spider. I knew that going in, and my first encounter with it was royally unpleasant; hence, the following.

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Engineering Survival

Image by Flickr User: brava_67 (cc)

Our month of Spooky-Silly Poetry continues! Like before, this isn’t part of the contest, but I can hardly hold back while everyone else is exercising their inner poet! That said,for your consideration I ecstatically present: Engineering Survival Continue reading Engineering Survival