Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: children’s stories get the horror treatment

‘”Christmas won’t be Christmas without any victims,” grumbled Jo, baring her fangs’. Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 01 October 2022

In Competition No. 3268, you were invited to recast an extract from children’s literature in the horror genre.

In the forthcoming indie slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Bloody and Honey, the seed for this challenge, an unhinged Pooh and Piglet run amok in Hundred Acre Wood, indulging in some eye-gouging and decapitation before gorging themselves on honey.

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