The good lady still cannot watch it, for that scene with Ralphie scraping at his brothers window scared her to the core. She was a kid herself at the time.klr wrote:I remember watching the TV adaptation of Salem's Lot when I was young myself. Frightening Saturday night viewing.Audley Strange wrote:Salem's Lot. It's not great, but is the prime for the rest of his horror work. A writer in Maine, creepy childhood memories, and a small town driven crazy by supernatural events.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
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"What started as a legitimate effort by the townspeople of Salem to identify, capture and kill those who did Satan's bidding quickly deteriorated into a witch hunt" Army Man
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Yup, that's the one. Absolutely freaked me out at the time as well.Audley Strange wrote:The good lady still cannot watch it, for that scene with Ralphie scraping at his brothers window scared her to the core. She was a kid herself at the time.klr wrote:I remember watching the TV adaptation of Salem's Lot when I was young myself. Frightening Saturday night viewing.Audley Strange wrote:Salem's Lot. It's not great, but is the prime for the rest of his horror work. A writer in Maine, creepy childhood memories, and a small town driven crazy by supernatural events.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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It's interesting, the effect of being scared by something as a kid. My mum use to read "Little Golden Books" to me, not sure if they're still around...
Anyway, there was one called, I think "Sooty the Sheepdog", which contained a whole page picturing a slavering wolf with red eyes (whom Sooty, of course, bravely drove off)
I had nightmares about wolves for years...
Anyway, there was one called, I think "Sooty the Sheepdog", which contained a whole page picturing a slavering wolf with red eyes (whom Sooty, of course, bravely drove off)
I had nightmares about wolves for years...
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I had a nightmare about a perfectly harmless crow in a picture book.
Also had a Terminator related dream when I was kid. Basically, evil Terminator Arnie (from the first movie) forced my mom into a way too hot shower and my mom melts because the water is so hot and Arnie doesn't because his skin is not really skin. Then he leaves the shower with steam surrounding him and I'm outside of the bathroom and watch him walking toward me. Then the dream ends.
Oh yeah...
I'm reading John Grisham's The Litigators. It's about what you would expect.
Also had a Terminator related dream when I was kid. Basically, evil Terminator Arnie (from the first movie) forced my mom into a way too hot shower and my mom melts because the water is so hot and Arnie doesn't because his skin is not really skin. Then he leaves the shower with steam surrounding him and I'm outside of the bathroom and watch him walking toward me. Then the dream ends.
Oh yeah...
I'm reading John Grisham's The Litigators. It's about what you would expect.
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It's been a while since I read King, although I have an enormous hard cover version of Insomnia on my shelf. I just finished Cricket on the Hearth by Dickens. At least I think I did. I may have fallen asleep 3/5ths of the way through and dreamt the rest. I woke to find myself reading Battle of Life. 0_oAudley Strange wrote:Salem's Lot. It's not great, but is the prime for the rest of his horror work. A writer in Maine, creepy childhood memories, and a small town driven crazy by supernatural events.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
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I used to have dreams where the water was replaced with something extremely corrosive, like hydrofluoric acid or something similar, and my flesh melted away in glops as I washed. Compound that with a 'Norman Bates' phobia of being attacked just after I put soap in my hair and you know why I'm so filthy.SteveB wrote:Also had a Terminator related dream when I was kid. Basically, evil Terminator Arnie (from the first movie) forced my mom into a way too hot shower and my mom melts because the water is so hot and Arnie doesn't because his skin is not really skin. Then he leaves the shower with steam surrounding him and I'm outside of the bathroom and watch him walking toward me. Then the dream ends.
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Any excuse to not shower, eh?Făkünamę wrote:I used to have dreams where the water was replaced with something extremely corrosive, like hydrofluoric acid or something similar, and my flesh melted away in glops as I washed. Compound that with a 'Norman Bates' phobia of being attacked just after I put soap in my hair and you know why I'm so filthy.SteveB wrote:Also had a Terminator related dream when I was kid. Basically, evil Terminator Arnie (from the first movie) forced my mom into a way too hot shower and my mom melts because the water is so hot and Arnie doesn't because his skin is not really skin. Then he leaves the shower with steam surrounding him and I'm outside of the bathroom and watch him walking toward me. Then the dream ends.
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Just finished this. It is well worth a read
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Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll. Won a prize for the best Pop-Sci book of the year. An excellent mix of the science and history of the search for the Higgs Boson. The guy can seriously write too - a genuine page-turner. 
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Half way thru Tune In.
Waiting for Turn On and Drop Out. Years from now.
Halfway done: books on Mbuti and Piraha.
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The Clean Coder - Interesting, but not worth the cover price.
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The Immortal Circus
riff on Mab and The Hunt....kinda fun. 99 cent deal on Kindle
riff on Mab and The Hunt....kinda fun. 99 cent deal on Kindle
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Mastering Regular Expressions
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Interrupt ....another dystopian novel.
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Careful - that way lies Scrumpleland...macdoc wrote:Interrupt ....another dystopian novel.
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