Because nothing is scarier than racism, here is my short story, Melting Pot John 13:34 ~ “Don’t punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what’s going on?” -Marvin Gaye It was the spring of 1977 in Somerville, Massachusetts. April 13th. Some of my brothers recall this day with levity mastered…
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#day9 #31daysofhorror. The Next Great Horror Novelist.
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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#day8 #31daysofhorror ‘Till Death’ Movie Review
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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#day7 #31daysofhorror Sisters (1972) Movie Review
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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#Day6 #31daysofHorror “Velocity” By Dean Koontz
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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#day5 #31daysofhorror “Final Girls” by Riley Sager
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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#Day4 #31daysofhorror A Review of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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…
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#Day2 #31daysofhorror Review of “The Light House” (2019)
#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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An M. J. Cross Movie Review: Hungry Wives
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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Who’s Watching American Horror Stories?
The creators of American Horror Story have decided that the fad of episodes confined to a season’s theme was so yesterday. Usher in American Horror Stories (#ahstories or #AHSs), one off stories connected to the bigger FXmultiverse. I’m glad American Horror Story is back. It’s absent during this pandemic was felt. The original anthology series…
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