Stories by @bethanyransom

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

NieR:Automata

Nier: Automata is a sequel to the 2010 video game Nier, a spin-off of the Drakengard series. Set in the midst of a proxy war between machines created by otherworldly invaders and the remnants of humanity, the story follows the battles of a combat android, her companion, and a fugitive prototype.

Grave of the Fireflies

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

The Swan Princess

A power hungry sorcerer transforms a princess into a swan by day in this tale of everlasting love.

Little Nemo

A young boy named Nemo travels to Slumberland in his dreams after receiving an invitation from Princess Camille. Based on an old comic strip.

Lady in White

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Reboot/Remake)

A young woman is forced to fulfill her destiny of fighting vampires and demons with the help of her friends all the while struggling to live a normal teenage life of heartbreak and drama.

Dearly Departed (Gone with the Respiration)

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria - a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible - until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.

Maniac Mansion & Day of the Tentacle

Maniac Mansion (1987) and its sequel Day of the Tentacle (1993) are classic point and click adventure games. Maniac Mansion follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist, whose mind has been enslaved by a sentient meteor. Day of the Tentacle follows Bernard Bernoulli from Maniac Mansion and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle—a sentient, disembodied tentacle—from taking over the world. The player takes control of the trio and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history. Both games take place at the Edison mansion.

Fray

A spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the 23rd century, Melaka Fray is the first Slayer to be called in a long time, when the Watchers Council is all but destroyed.

Don't Starve

Don't Starve. Don't Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic.

King's Quest

King's Quest is a graphic adventure game series. The King's Quest series chronicles the saga of the royal family of the Kingdom of Daventry through their various trials and adventures. The story takes place over two generations and across many lands as the heroes and heroines fight evil witches and wizards and other villains.

First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson Series)

Charlotte “Charley” Davidson, a part-time private investigator helping the police with her ability to contact the dead in her full-time role as the Grim Reaper, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a paranormal romantic suspense series.

The Night Circus

It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood for this purpose by their instructors

Uprooted

Every ten years the local wizard (known as "the Dragon") collects one teenage girl as payment for protecting the local valley from the magical forest (the Wood) that borders it.

Horizon Zero Dawn

A thousand years from now. Machines roam the land and mankind is no longer the dominant species. A young hunter embarks on a journey to discover her destiny.