scary – Dahlia DeWinters

3 Scary Anthologies for Spooky Season

“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”–William Faulkner I’ve recommended books in the past, but I’m not sure if I’ve ever recommended anthologies. Why not, I asked myself…..Gee, Dahlia, I don’t know, I said back. So, I decided to make a change to be a better blogger and recommend some great spooky anthologies for your autumn spooky season reading. Why anthologies? Well, why not? Anthologies are a buffet for horror lovers, serving up an array of scary stories, each one a delectable small bite of terror. You’ll feast on everything from spooky ghost tales to those spine-tingling dates with the supernatural. And because each story is by a… Continued

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Three Halloween Books for Scary Reading

Yes, we like the movies, but there’s nothing like a scary book to curl up with on a dark, blustery night. When I lived alone, I used to scare myself to death with the sounds that I thought I heard when I was reading an especially scary book. And the dog didn’t help when she jump up and ran out of the room for no apparent reason. (Sometimes I think dogs do that on purpose to scare the mess out of us. Then they go drink out of the toilet and laugh at us.) Anyhoo, here’s my top five books to read around Halloween, or any time. These are presented in no particular order. Pet Sematary – Stephen King: I can’t tell you how much this book frightened me. I discuss this in more detail over at my blog, if you care to take a look. Suffice to say, while

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5 70s TV Horror Movies

The 70s was a interesting decade to grow up in. Ted Bundy, Jonestown, Elvis’s death, Kent State, Star Wars, The Godfather, Battle of the Sexes (Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs) etc. There was also a time when there was no cable and they ran almost anything on network TV….at least that how it seemed to me as a kid. Those in the New York area must remember the 4;30 movie, the Sunday Night Movie, the Monday Night Movie and Chiller theater. After shaking up my memory and a few calls to my sister, I’ve sussed out a few TV horror movies I remember watching as a child. Here they are, presented in no particular order. Duel: If you are a horror movie fan, surely you must have heard of this one. It’s Stephen Speilberg’s first movie about a killer truck with a grudge. It stars Dennis Weaver, who will

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Horror Movie Review – Wrecker

Title: WreckerGenre: HorrorDirector: Michael BafaroIMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4227282/ This movie almost WRECKED my marriage. (See what I did there?) My husband had the day off and I suggested we watch a movie. “Hey, we’ll watch this movie. It’s terrible, but it’ll be fun! We’ll have a few laughs!” Famous last words. I’ve seen some horror dreck in my lifetime. I’ve watched the Friday the 13th movies and stuff that I can’t even recall I’ve seen because it’s been so terrible. But I’ve been able to laugh and point and giggle about the director and/or writer being awful. Or awful acting. Sometimes, the movie is bad, but you can see the actors are having fun, so it makes up for it. This was not the case with this movie. This movie was just bad with no redeeming qualities. None. Wait. I did love the red Mustang and some of the shots were gorgeous.

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Five More Halloween Movie Favorites – Seventies Version

The seventies. A whole decade devoted to scaring the mess out of kids. If you were a child in the seventies, there was a lot of unsupervised bike riding, going over to other kids’ houses, the 4:30 movie on ABC and those channel 5 movies AND CHILLER Theatre on channel 9. How did we even sleep at night? Oh yeah, with a cigarette and a Michelob. Can you say “scarred for life”? Well, not really scarred, but whew, did those movies stay with you or what? To add the icing on the cake, many of these were made for TV movies, not theatrical releases. So you could pop in from bike riding, grab a soda, and be scared to death right in your living room. 5. Audrey Rose A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated. Director: Robert WiseWriter: Frank De

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Blogtoberfest: Vincent Price’s Rap Career

If you are a horror fan from way back, and lived in the New York area, certainly you remember the 4:30 movies on WABC, channel 7. They aired after The Edge of Night and were all those cheesy 70s movies we know and love. Oftentimes, they would have a “theme week:”, such as Godzilla week, Gamera week, Monster week, Planet of the Apes week etc. I always loved the Vincent Price/Edgar Allen Poe week. It was a fun, not too scary, kinda cheesy introduction for kids to horror films. From then on, whenever I saw Vincent Price, I knew something scary or sinister was about to happen on-screen. Michael Jackson must have had the same experience, because he tapped Mr. Price to do the “Thriller Rap”. Here, Mr. Price recreates his part on the Joan Rivers’ show, the first time he’s done it on television. And the laugh. The laugh.