We have a verrryyyyyy special birthday today. Today, we celebrate the birthday of our resident comic book reading, Twin Peak loving, Spiderman fiending, heavy metal rocking, video game crushing member, Brian LeTendre. We wanted to give you a few gifts, Brian. So please sit back, relax, and enjoy! You know I love to start out with some spirits, so Brian, here is my birthday drink for you. I give you, the Alien Brain Hemmorhage. Recipe: Fill a shot glass full of half peach schnapps, with Bailey’s Irish Cream poured on top. Once the shot is almo[...]
1 If you aren't a fan of fireworks, or you need to stay home with the pups so that they don't go insane with the noise, here's the perfect book for you to read... WELCOME TO THE DEAD HOUSE by R.L. Stine, is the first book published in the Goosebumps series. It was originally released in July 1992. Since then, it has been re-released 2 more times with new covers. There is also a TV episode you can watch! [...]
I have some many creepy reads that honestly, I probably couldn't keep track if it wasn't for Goodreads and its To-Read list feature. I thought I'd share some of my favorite books that are awaiting to be read. I know it's July but in my head, it's always autumn. Also, right now, most of these are on sale too, so I've included buy links. Lana used to know what was real. That was before when her life was small and quiet. Her golden step-brother, Ben, was alive, she could only dream about bonfiring with the populars, their wooded island home was[...]
The Yellow King Roleplaying Game may be my most anticipated game of all time. I grew up on Dungeons & Dragons, and I have collected roleplaying game books for years. Many of them I haven't even played, I just absolutely love reading about different world, game mechanics and adventure ideas. As a writer, roleplaying games have been a huge influence on me (just read my Parted Veil series), and writing for a roleplaying game is a bucket list item for me. In short--I love roleplaying games. I also love horror, and Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow (get it f[...]
I didn't get the chance to see Jordan Peele's movie, GET OUT, in the theater. There were a few other movies the BF and I were interested in, so we saved this one to either rent or buy from home. This week we had some time and got to finally see it. As a horror fan, I found this movie to be scary in the fact that racism is still so prevalent today. I don't want to go into much detail about the movie, because it will totally give away the plot, but just be prepared to think about horror in a different way. And BTW--there is a little political undertone to this piec[...]
To be clear, this post is not a review of My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. It is a love letter wrapped in infatuation and sealed with the blood of a unicorn because THIS PAPERBACK COVER IS MY GD PATRONUS: If this cover was a man, my husband and I would need to have a very long talk. This brilliant paperback release cover of My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix was designed by the talented Mr. Doogie Horner, with illustrations by the venerable Australian artist Hugh Fleming. And oh. My. Demon. Aunt. did these gents nail it. I cannot de[...]
As we come upon another session of Camp NaNoWriMo, I can't help but look back on all the projects I've worked on during these spring & summer writing retreats. My story ideas can come from anywhere. Strange snippets of conversation, weird news articles I read online, not to mention local places and faces that inspire. So, during my first attempt at writing a novel-in-a-month, I searched around for images to inspire one of my favorite places to set a story: the Creepy Small Town. Enter Ontario Abandoned Places, an online database of user-submitted photos o[...]
Creepshow is one of my all-time favorite '80s horror flicks, for a number of reasons. The movie was a love letter to the old EC horror comics. It was the brainchild of Stephen King and George Romero. And as I wrote about last year, it features one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. And the fact that Father's Day is this weekend gives me another great reason to revisit this classic, because the opening tale in this anthology is a little gem named after the holiday itself. https://youtu.be/1bO3gyT3Imc Father's Day features a family of rich, entitled dou[...]
I started a book, and I haven't finished it yet, but I have to tell you about a girl named Sunshine. The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is a young adult horror book by Paige McKenzie, the first in a series. You can find it on Amazon. Blurb: "Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother, Kat, move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. From the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. Something about their new house is just...creepy. In the days that fol[...]
Hello, lovelies! I'm sitting here, sipping a little brew I whipped up in the cauldron (spearmint AND peppermint tea - I'm crazyAF), researching witches. I was originally going to take things back a few hundred years but I decided to keep this post a bit more current this time around. Growing up in a predominately Christian home, I was raised thinking witches were Halloween costumes and the stars of my favourite spooky movies (Hellllllo, Grand High Witch!). As I delved deeper into the bowels of the library, and then the glorio[...]