Fast Five Friday - 5 sci-fi/horror books/movies that scared you

Fast Five Friday is a weekly blog hop created here at Cover Girls. Its purpose is to connect with writers, readers, viewers, and bloggers. With that aim in mind, we would love for you to join us!

Oct 21st - Name 5 sci-fi/horror books/movies that scared the crap out of you

Jax:

The Fourth Kind (movie)

The Seed (book)

Salem's Lot (book and movie)

Jeepers Creepers (movie)

Paranormal Activity (movie)

Dani: 

The Babadook (movie)

The Fourth Kind (movie)

Wrong Turn (movie)

It (book & movie)

Mama (movie)

And don't forget to sign up for Spooktoberfest! We can't wait to read your flash fiction pieces and divvy out some prizes!

5th Annual Spooktoberfest 2016

It’s that time of year again - the 5^th Annual Spooktoberfest is here with your hosts from Cover Girls!

We cannot believe it’s been 5 years since we started this whole adventure of Spooktoberfest. And to celebrate, we're taking it back old school. If this seems familiar to you, it’s because we are bringing back the original Spooktoberfest requirements, with a few minor tweaks here and there.

Requirements:

1.) Follow Jax at Bouquet of Books, Dani at Entertaining Interests and Cover Girls if you don’t already. We do follow back, and if we've missed you, please let us know so we can follow your blog.


2.) Your Flash Fiction piece cannot be any longer than 400 words. Sorry… that’s part of the challenge.


3.) You must use the MANDATORY 5 words listed below or any version of it. Please highlight them in a way so we can locate them faster within your post.

Black

Machete

Magic

Skull

Tombstone

4.) Post your Flash Fiction piece any day from Monday Oct 24^th thru Friday, Oct. 28^th.

5.) You can tweet us, if you'd like, @Covergirlsdj to let us know when you've posted your entry.

6.) Display the Spooktoberfest badge on your blog.

7.) It’s a blog hop, so… hop around to other participating blogs and leave them some awesome comments.

8.) Have fun!

Your flash fiction piece can be scary, comical, romantic, or whatever you choose, just be creative! And, yes, this blogfest is International!!

The winners & runner-ups will be posted on HALLOWEEN! That’s right, Monday, Oct. 31^st.

PRIZES:
Winners - $20 Amazon e-giftcard

Runner-ups - A book of our choosing 

3rd Annual Spooktoberfest

Are you feeling spookerific?

It’s baaaaack! 

Welcome to the 3^rd annual  SPOOKTOBERFEST hosted by Cover Girls!

This year we are doing a bit of a rewind and using the original Spooktoberfest requirements.


Requirements:

1. Follow Cover Girls blog if you don’t already. It will be reciprocated!
          And on Twitter: @covergirlsdj
You can also follow our individual accounts: @jackiefel & @danibertrand
If you do have a Twitter account, please feel free to tweet using the hashtag #spooktoberfest14

2. Your Flash Fiction piece cannot be any longer than 300 words. Sorry… that’s part of the challenge.

3. You must use the 5 MANDATORY words listed below…
      (You may use any variation of these words as you like.)

            chill
            cocoon
            commotion
            curse
            virus

4. Post your Flash Fiction piece any day from Friday Oct 24^th thru Tuesday, Oct. 28^th.

5. It’s a blog hop, so… hop around to other participating blogs and leave them some awesome comments.

6. Have fun.

Your flash fiction piece can be scary, comical, romantic, or whatever you choose, just be creative! You can use pictures to set the scene and/or a song to set the mood.

The winners will be posted on HALLOWEEN, Oct. 31st!

We will each choose a winner. That’s right – two winners!


PRIZES: Each winner will receive a $25 e-giftcard of their choice.

Oh, and yes, this blogfest is international. 

So what are you ghouls waiting for? 
Sign up using the Linkie Thing below and please, help spread the word!