Dahlia DeWinters - Author

Quirky Heroines, Happy Endings

Blogtoberfest – Stories that make you go OOOO! Part 1

Books are frightening in a whole different way that movies, because your imagination has no boundaries.  With movies, once you see the “horror” manifested on screen, the mind tends to deflect the horror by trying to figure out how the special effects actually worked and wondering if they really used colored corn syrup for the blood. In addition, you can always look away from the horror on the screen.

But books…books make your imagination work overtime, taking the author’s words and twisting it into your personalized nightmare, images so horrifying that they may stay with you long after you’ve closed the book and [amazon-product align=”left;”]B004TPFNVI[/amazon-product]moved on with your real life.

And when/if you see the movie, that same scene is nothing like you imagined.  In fact, seeing the director’s interpretation of the scene may take all the “scare” out of it.

One of the scariest stories that I’ve ever read, and for some reason, they allowed us to read this horror in high school was “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe.  Even thinking about it gives me the shivers. I won’t go into details, but it is a tale of revenge.

It is free on Amazon.

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Blogtoberfest – Vampire Bite Mocktail Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cranberry juice, chilled
  • 1/2 cup apple juice, chilled
  • 1/4 cup grenadine
  • 1 1/2 cups seltzer water, chilled
  • 1 tube red candy gel
  • 4 gummy vampire teeth

Directions

In a pitcher combine the cranberry juice, apple juice and grenadine. Stir together then add the seltzer water.

Squeeze the candy gel onto a small plate. Rim the edges of 4 low-ball glasses in the candy gel. Pour in the drink evenly into the glasses. Garnish each glass with the gummy vampire teeth and serve.

 

Courtesy of the Food Network.

Blogtoberfest – 31 blog posts

OCTOBER….OCTOBER…OCTOBER!!
Hang with me for …..

Blogtoberfest!

 

Terrible, isn’t it? But fun, right?

The month of October is special to me. It’s not because of Halloween, although that’s part of it. October marks the month in which I had my first e-book published with Evernight Publishing.

In honor of this occasion as well as a personal challenge, I will be posting something Halloween related every single day of the month. In addition, I will be posting snippets of “Kitty Wishes”, that aforementioned published book.

I certainly hope that you will join me for Blogtoberfest – keep me honest with these posts!

Dahlia