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31 Days of Spooky Stuff, October 19: Poltergeist

19 Wednesday Oct 2016

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I’ve been thinking about spooky stuff (guess why) and happened across a still from the movie Poltergeist. It’s one of my all-time favorite horror films and can to this day give me the big-time creeps. Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper do a wonderful job of creating a scare-fest aimed at middle class America. And aren’t we always more afraid of what we know? Or what we think we know?

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A happy family living in a beautiful house in suburbia shouldn’t have to worry, right? Don’t bet on it. Where they live and how they came to be in that snug development spark a series of events not of this world, and it all begins when the younger daughter disappears into the great open eye of the television set. Much consternation and fright ensue, shown with fear and wit.

I think this is another movie I have to force my grandkids to see, just to get them in the mood for Halloween. I hope you’ll give it another look, in honor of the holiday. Heh-heh.

 

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31 Days of Spooky Stuff–October 4, Horror Story

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

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Denver author Douglas D. Hawk loves to scare his readers, and he’s really good at it. I still have the occasional nightmare from his work, Moonslasher,  http://amzn.to/2d0pvij moonslasher

And then there’s Graveyard Looters. You don’t sleep enough after reading that to worry about nightmares.  http://amzn.to/2cPX7kE     graveyardlooters

If hardcore horror is not your cup of poison, try Doug’s two Black Claw books, wonderful adventure tales set during WWII, with plenty of thrills but not quite so much blood.

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Denver Dreadful: The Ripper of Capitol Heights
is his latest, and not to be missed.

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And now, presenting a never-published flash fiction story from Mr. Hawk, just to make your day a little edgier.

 

 

MOONLIT DREAM GIRL

Watching from the moon night shadows, his dementia distorted her, remade her, morphed her into Dream Girl.
Standing in the small clearing, she was radiant, stunning. Dream Girl was a vision of love and adoration; a delusion of lust and wanton possession. Clinging to her thighs, the silky skirt molded around her and the sweater hugged her body tightly, amplifying her plentiful breasts.
She paused, her beautiful, moon-washed expression curious.
He knew that Dream Girl sensed him. And his smile was feral.
A figment of the night, he crept toward her. Dream Girl would know him. Again. Love him. Again. She would submit her body to him. Again. And her life.
Peering into the murky gloom beyond the moon-washed clearing, her eyes widened as he emerged into the silvery glow. But, she did not scream and she did not run.
She smiled. A toothsome smile; a smile filled with delight, appreciation and needle-pointed fangs.
Disconcerted, he stared.
Dream Girl again morphed…
…and sprang.
Lion became lamb and a torn throat spurted hot blood and Dream Girl drank deeply.

 

 

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Screw the confetti, anybody got a drink?

02 Wednesday May 2012

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I just finished the last dot-the-Ts, cross-the-Is revision.  320 pages of deathless prose.  EDGE OF THE SHADOW is a lovely pile of pages.  And the ongoing tradition I’ve always had was played out again today: every single time I’ve completed a book, something’s gone wrong with the printer during the last gasp.  This time it was the toner that ran out two chapters short of a complete print-out.  I have no idea why this should be so but I’m almost awed that something similar has occurred every damned time.  Continuity is a humbling force.

Now I will foist my literary child upon those kind souls who’ve agreed to read it and give me honest feedback, bless them.  I’ll have time to figure out my step-by-step plan to publication.  That means getting my two mysteries formatted for e-book phase, and determining how to go about getting the previously mentioned EOS into print, be it electrons or ink or both.  Research!

For right now, I’m quietly happy to have it done.  It’s taken a long time but I still love it, now more than ever.  I’ve had a lot of fun researching ghosts and their haunting ways.  Sitting in my third-story study, I’ve more than once heard strange sounds and found myself frightened by the words I’ve just typed.  Heh-heh.  Good times.