Frightful Fiction: Season 9, Episode 4

McKenzie presents the contestants with a first: a Focus Challenge; much like a Spotlight Challenge, except they'll be focusing only on the face as they conjure characters inspired by mashup literature.

Stevie is a little nervous about her painting skills, but she's gonna give it her all!

Ricky is super-excited to be working on his first solo challenge.

Meg realizes that her paint job is falling flat. She tries to save it by the time she gets to the reveal stage …

Brittany went for an old-age makeup and a burn makeup. It's a lot to take on and lands her in Bottom Looks.

Jasmine takes her Sherlock Holmes: Bloodsucker makeup in a vampiric direction.

Who's that smiling face under that silver bob? Why, it's Lois Burwell!

Well, Meg's instincts were right: her purple ghost lands her in Bottom Looks.

Brittany's Miss Haversham from Great Expectations of a Serial Killer doesn't read as burned or old and sends her home.

Jason's Pearl character from The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Poltergeist takes him not to the third circle of Hell but to Bottom Looks.

The judges love Jasmine’s vamp character. It's exactly what this challenge called for, and a Top Look for sure!

Stevie makes it to Top Looks with her character from Don Quixote: Monster of La Mancha and gets a lesson in confidence from the judges.

Scott's Monster of La Mancha is a Sancho Panza/Frankenstein mashup that wins the challenge!