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Some of us love stories that leave us listening fearfully for shuffling footsteps in the dark, or movies that make us spray our popcorn about the room when the bogeyman leaps from the shadows, on reflection, we may wonder just what it is about scary stories that causes such fearful reactions. Those who scoff at the horror genre, who flinch at any mention of anything bad happening in a story and whose entertainment . . . → Read More: Review: Danse Macabre, by Stephen King 
Above is a boar located at the excellent Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia. Below is a potpouri of reading links. This week includes a space shuttle launch, someone fighting shadows with a sword, how to make a pan flute, and lots of recommended science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and authors. Oh, and Charlie Sheen. [ VIDEO ] Japanese sword fighter vs shadows [ VIDEO ] Space shuttle launch . . . → Read More: The Boar’s Head and weekend reading links 
WARNING: This is a special Halloween edition of my “weekend reading links”. If the Halloween season keeps you cowering safe inside your home, away from the dark and the scary, then it’s probably best to read no more of this page and please come back next week. You have been warned. We don’t really need to travel far to find the horrible and the scary. Just one step from my front door, the . . . → Read More: Halloween special: scary pic and weekend reading links 29 October 2010 
In a previous post I mentioned that my story “A Delicate Touch” won the Raw Dog Screaming Press 100 Jolts Retrospective Writing Contest, judged by Dr. Michael Arnzen. Today my prize pack arrived, and I’ll be in a state of spooky bliss surely through Halloween, if not longer into the dark of winter. First, I got a signed movie postcard from season one of the series . . . → Read More: Retrospective Writing Contest Prize Pack 
Just in time for Halloween, tonight we’re opening the crypt, so to speak, to start into Thriller, the acclaimed horror series from 1962, hosted by Boris Karloff. Says Sara Karloff, Boris Karloff’s daughter: Thriller was well written, beautifully directed, and had some of the finest actors performing these great shows. As if that were not enough, the episodes were not gory. They were suspenseful and intelligent. They invited the audience along on . . . → Read More: Boris Karloff’s Thriller |
 
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