Tag: Halloween
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New and revisited horror trends – Happy Halloween
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft The Horror genre is having a moment – or several, if you consider its split personality. Some of it is old, a lot new, but all…
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Happy Halloween!
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Hope you have a fantastically eerie Halloween this year! If you’re not going out, reading books 1 & 2 of my trilogy would be a great way to spend a quieter evening.
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Happy Halloween!
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October needs to be longer than 31 days, IMHO, so we could enjoy more of it. After all the build-up of the season, I hope you have a marvelously eerie evening.
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Let there be wonder
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On my television as I write this post, intrepid Sinbad is battling a skeleton raised by the evil sorcerer Sokurah, inside a castle that’s a delightful amalgam of medieval walls, Arabic arches and bottomless stone caverns. There’s a massive green dragon, which, fortunately for Sinbad and the princess he’s to…
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An eerie poem for Halloween
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This poem has long been one of my favourites. Written by Walter de la Mare, an English poet who passed away 1956, it’s one of his best known works. He also wrote short stories and novels, many of them about the supernatural. You can find all kinds of analyses of…
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Oh the Horror!
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“If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that some one at the table may be tired of his or her nearest and dearest.”The Screaming Skull, F. Marion Crawford Do you love all the Halloween competitions…
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Orange, the colour of autumn, pumpkins and Halloween
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Tickled orange! I’m coining a new phrase to describe how I feel every September and October. Orange is one of my favourite colours, in small doses. That may sound contradictory, but a little orange goes a long way. A friend of mine loved the colour so much that she wore…