Looking for something scary to read this fall. Here is an excerpt from my full length novel, Karnevel, available on Amazon. A whole week went by and another Sunday was upon the boys. Their father didn’t have a route to drive that weekend, and their mother didn’t drink the night before, so the boys were…
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Premise: Megan Fox is Emma, a woman trapped in a toxic marriage and feeling no way out. On their anniversary, Mark brings her to their secluded lake house frosted and snow-covered in an effort to rekindle their relationship. She wakes up chained to his corpse. What unravels is his revenge plot because he knows she’s…
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Premise: Sisters (released as Blood Sisters in the United Kingdom) is a 1972 American psychological slasher film[4] directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning. The plot focuses on a French Canadian model whose separated conjoined twin is suspected of a brutal murder witnessed by a newspaper reporter in…
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Premise: A bartender seemly content with his life of waiting- waiting for his love to wake out of a coma, waiting to move on with his mediocre life – is challenged by a note found on his car: An ultimatum that forces him to choose between the lives of two people he doesn’t know. The…
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Premise: The media labels female survivors of horrific massacres as Final Girls. Quincy, Sam and Lisa are different in every way except they each survived their own brush with death. When Lisa dies, Sam is unexpectedly impacted. When fellow survivor, Quincy, shows up out of the blue to shake up her world, Sam stills reliving…
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The Premise: The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody “Bod” Owens who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered. (Wikipedia) What I Like: I don’t know how this book was suggested to me. I don’t generally read Young Adult fiction, because some…
Read more#day3 #31daysofhorror Premise: Paralyzed by fear from shocking visions, a woman’s torment worsens as she discovers her waking dreams are terrifying realities. What I Liked: Have you even wondered what it’s like to walk backwards? Not just walk backwards. Climb things. Punch people. Kill scores of thems. All while moving backwards. The physics behind that…
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#day2 #31daysofhorror reviews. The Light House (2019) was produced by the studio (A24) that brought us the acclaimed The Witch and Hereditary. So the bar is set high. Premise: Two men must work at a light house. One clings to superstition and prone to soliloquies and story telling, and the second is treated like a…
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We start Day One of #31daysofhorror with Season of the Witch (1973) (originally released under the name Hungry Wives.) Either title was bound to grab attention. Premise: A disaffected house wife finds allure and horror as she dabbles with witchcraft. What I Liked: I really like horror films that adjacently tackles the horrors faced by…
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The premise: A group of misfit teens from the wrong side of town find themselves trying to survive a bloody night that has ties to a decades spanning town mystery. This NOT your PG-13 Goosebumps. Before I launch into what I liked and what I didn’t about this film, a massive shout out to R….
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