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Elsinore by malkingrey (PG)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: gen
Length: ~23,700
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malkingrey
Author Website: writing journal atwaxingthecat
Why this must be read: It's Supernatural. And Hamlet. Sorta. No, wait, really.
It's not exactly Shakespeare's Hamlet that we see here, but rather a bit of an amalgam of several versions of the story, with bonus Sam ,Dean, and demons. What really makes it shine, though, is the way in which no one really doubts the reality of King Hamlet's ghost, but the Winchester boys are able to put a different perspective on the ghost's words. And, meanwhile, the familiar Winchester family drama is unfolding in the background.
Basically, if you like Shakespeare, check it out. If you like historical AUs, check it out. If you like well-written casefic, check it out. And if you don't like any of that... check it out anyway. Just because.
On the last Sunday of the third month of his search, Horats Axelson, known to his friends as Horatio, decided that Samuel Winchester and his older brother--whose name Horatio had not yet learned--had departed together from the Germanies without leaving a trail that he could follow. In the first hour of the Monday that came immediately after, he found them both in the taproom of the inn where he had already arranged to spend the night.
It was a stroke of luck, he decided. It didn't occur to him until some time afterward to wonder what kind of luck, and whose.
Elsinore
Pairing: gen
Length: ~23,700
Author on LJ:
malkingreyAuthor Website: writing journal at
waxingthecatWhy this must be read: It's Supernatural. And Hamlet. Sorta. No, wait, really.
It's not exactly Shakespeare's Hamlet that we see here, but rather a bit of an amalgam of several versions of the story, with bonus Sam ,Dean, and demons. What really makes it shine, though, is the way in which no one really doubts the reality of King Hamlet's ghost, but the Winchester boys are able to put a different perspective on the ghost's words. And, meanwhile, the familiar Winchester family drama is unfolding in the background.
Basically, if you like Shakespeare, check it out. If you like historical AUs, check it out. If you like well-written casefic, check it out. And if you don't like any of that... check it out anyway. Just because.
On the last Sunday of the third month of his search, Horats Axelson, known to his friends as Horatio, decided that Samuel Winchester and his older brother--whose name Horatio had not yet learned--had departed together from the Germanies without leaving a trail that he could follow. In the first hour of the Monday that came immediately after, he found them both in the taproom of the inn where he had already arranged to spend the night.
It was a stroke of luck, he decided. It didn't occur to him until some time afterward to wonder what kind of luck, and whose.
Elsinore