I love scary stories. Who doesn't? Well, there might be a few people, but what fun are they? Just kidding. There's nothing like feeling that chill race up your spine and tickle the back of your neck when you hear about a ghost wondering the woods, or when you're sitting in a dark movie theater watching witches, spirits from the other side coming over, or Anthony Hopkins wearing a human muzzle.
But there's nothing like sitting down in a comfy chair, the room is dark except for a single light next to you, and the pages of a thriller, suspense, or mystery are between your hands. You tune out the world around you as you get on the ride of your life through the story of a dead wife haunting the new one, (Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier,) or the curse of a town killing off members of a specific family, (The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,) or a woman locked up in an attic presumed dead, (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.) And let's not forget anything by Stephen King!
Which are your favorites? I loved to hear about them whether it's a book, film, or camp fire story. Post them here. Let's see who we can keep up at night!
Talk to you later...
I just finished reading the "Frankenstein" trilogy of books by Dean Koontz. More than just a reimagining of the Mary Shelly story, it is a continuation..what if the monster did not die at the end...in fact could not die because of how he was reanimated and was still around today.
ReplyDeleteFavorite campfire ghost story? It has to be the legend of Cropsey. My cousins terrified each other by telling and retelling of this story.
Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he wielded a bloody axe, but it didn’t matter, Cropsey was always out there, lurking in the shadows, waiting to get us. I just read they are making a horror movie out of the story too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKPvaNEVjs
Awesome stories, Scott! Thanks for sharing!
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