So, you want to write about the zombie apocalypse, but you don’t want to travel down the same beaten path as the ones before you. How many times can you tell the same story and still keep readers on the edge of their seats? You can do it several times as long as you change…
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Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Suspense/Thrillers, Television/Movies
The Turn of the Screw: the Book & the Movie – a Review
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• •A young governess travels to a secluded estate to care for two children. She discovers, much to her horror that a couple of ghosts are hanging around, and these children are communicating with them. The governess fears that these ghosts are evil and attempting to possess the children. The rather creepy children know about these…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Restoring the Scare Factor – Guest Post by Michael Bray
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• •The literary incarnation of the vampire has changed significantly over the last few years. Gone is the eerie, long shadow casting creeping of Max Scheck’s portrayal of Nosferatu, lost is the sophisticated charm and bloodlust evoked by greats such as Bela Lagosi and Christopher Lee to such great effect. It seems the current public image…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror
Meat – a Review
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• •Collective Nouns, Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
A Vexation of Zombies
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• •Have you ever dreamed that a liberty of mummies chased you through a museum? Has a prominence of dhampirs ever saved you from the a basement of vampires? Are you afraid your town will be invaded by a vexation of zombies? Mummies, golems, dhampirs, revenants, skeletons, vampires, wendigoes, and zombies are creatures of the night…
Audiobooks, Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Television/Movies, Words
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: the Book, the Audiobook, the Movie, & the Series – a Review
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• •Most everyone has heard of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its headless horseman that terrorizes a village. You have probably also heard about the movie and television series, both of which are loosely based on the classic by Washington Irving. First is a review of the book, favorite sentences, and new words learned. After…
Halloween Articles, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Holidays Associated with Halloween
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• •Will you dress up like Frankenstein on Frankenstein Friday? Are you brave enough to clean your refrigerator on Haunted Refrigerator Night? How many caramel apples will you eat on National Caramel Apple Day? Will you drive people crazy with your knock-knock jokes on National Knock-Knock Jokes Day? One of your characters could start a new…
Book Reviews, Horror, Television/Movies
The Amityville Horror: the House, the Book, and the Movie
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• •From December 18, 1975 to January 14, 1976, the house located at 112 Ocean Avenue in the Amityville Village of Long Island, New York, was occupied by George and Kathleen Lutz along with their children. The story of what they experienced during the twenty-eight days they resided in this house is told in The Amityville…
Fiction Writing, Halloween Articles, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Haunted Libraries in the U.S.A.
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• •Does the ghost of a librarian that just couldn’t bear to be parted from her books frequent the library in your hometown? Does she reside there peacefully unless disturbed? Does she react like the ghost librarian from Ghostbusters if you try to talk to her? Or is she more like the ghost librarian at the…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Bio-Chemical Electrical Discharge – Guest Post by Tegon Maus
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• •Are you a SLIder? Do you have H.V.S.? In my Sci-Fi series, The Eve Project, Ben Harris is and does. He destroys any unshielded electronics, sets fire to ATMs, coffee machines, and unwittingly sends devastating arcs of electricity to anything metal. He suffers from B.C.E.D. He has spent his entire life trying to hide his…