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April 2016

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Are You Keeping it #SpookyAllYear?

Welcome to #SpookyAllYear, a Midnight Society Blog Hop! You can find the introduction post here. It essentially tells you the blog hop takes place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. You post something Spooky on your blog, and submit the post to the linkup at the bottom of this post. You’re encouraged to visit around to the blogs listed there and enjoy the spooky fun. The ideas for posts are endless (review of a spooky movie you’ve seen, a picture of the mist in your backyard, a spooky book cover, a spooky story you wrote, a recipe for the best g[...]

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RT Book Lover Convention 2016

For those of you who don’t follow me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram you may have missed all of my crazy posts last week. Kathy Palm and I were roomies at RT Vegas!!! Yes, I understand that RT stands for Romantic Times and that we are a horror blog. But I have a confession…I am a closet romance reader. Alright, this isn’t necessarily true. What I do enjoy is romance with a side of horror, which it turns out—I write. Kathy has lovingly deemed this genre “romantic horror”. So many amazing authors joined in talks about pushing boundaries in YA and c[...]

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DIEmonds in the Rough: Maximum Overdrive (1986)

First off--RIP Prince. There will never be another. Welcome to another installment of DIEmonds in the Rough, where we search for the bloody nougat center of awesomeness inside a hard shell of mediocrity. This week’s installment In Maximum Overdrive, a comet passes by earth and the planet ends up in the tail of it for a little over a week. During that time, the machines of the world--everything from electric steak knives to gas-powered lawnmowers--become sentient, and rebel against mankind. The movie was written and directed by Stephen King himself, and was ins[...]

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Write for me….

Hello Kittens,   I want to play a game.     I've auditioned for a few IP projects lately. While none of them have panned out, writing something that was spawned in someone else's brain has resulted in a huge boost in my creativity. So much so, that I want to try it out with you. Yes, you, sitting there, idly reading this post, perhaps on the train on your way to work. I want you to create your own twisted, demented little story off the following prompt. I will think of something fantastic to send my favorite contributor. **Spoiler alert - i[...]

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The Horror House That is My Body

As Halfoween approaches, I'm thinking about the menu for my Halfoween Party and what I might do besides calling it "Potluck". I was looking up recipes, testing some things out... And then the horror house that is my body thought it would be great to give me an allergic reaction to-- --NO. Can't. I'm not ready for this. It's too hurtful to even type. Betrayed by my own flesh. If my hunch is correct--this is how my world ends. Mourn with me, dear Reader:  

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After the Attack: Horror Sequels

Happy Halfoween! Get out your now empty plastic eggs and fill them with fingers and eyeballs. Behead the Daffodils. Leave bloody footprints as you tiptoe through the red tulips. Keep watch for killer bunnies. As we're halfway to Halloween, I began to ponder how, in scary books and movies, we are given only half of the story. The demon has been defeated by rituals and symbols. The ghost vanquished. The insane killer with the chainsaw has been left to die in a rock quarry or lake. The vampire staked. The werewolf left breathless by the silver bullet. All the ev[...]

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#SpookyAllYear: The #BlogHop That Creeps You Out

  Welcome to #SpookyAllYear, a Midnight Society Blog Hop! You can find the introduction post here. It essentially tells you the blog hop takes place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. You post something Spooky on your blog, and submit the post to the linkup at the bottom of this post. You’re encouraged to visit around to the blogs listed there and enjoy the spooky fun. The ideas for posts are endless (review of a spooky movie you’ve seen, a picture of the mist in your backyard, a spooky book cover, a spooky story you wrote, a recipe for th[...]

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Halloween Murder: The True Story of The Candy Man

I love Halloween. And thanks to member Erica's genius brain, we're celebrating the build-up to Halfoween, the halfway point to Halloween this year. Faith made these awesome banners for Halfoween and I'm in love. I picture little Dracula bunnies with fangs, hopping around among happy Easter eggs.   Today's story is not a happy one but a true one nonetheless, about a horrific murder that took place on Halloween night in 1974. This story is the cause of many urban legends, parental fears and movie inspirations, to this day. This is the true story of The Ca[...]

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Tribeca Film Festival: How to Celebrate Halfoween Right

What up, loves. Yes, this post is a wee bit on the late side today, my apologies. I forgot to hit "post" instead of "save" and whatnot. BUT, as you probably already know if you follow the blog, it is HALFOWEEN! We are halfway to our holy holiday. How are you celebrating Halfoween? Me? I'm going to Tribeca Film Festival next weekend, with tickets to the horror movies. Because, well, it's me. And I live in New York, and I figured I should probably go to that 'cause I live here and all, and what other movies would I see but horror movies? Let's breakdown t[...]

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DIEmonds in the Rough (Halfoween Edition): Trick Or Treat (1986)

It’s Halfoween around here at the Midnight Society, so I decided to make this installment of DIEmonds in the Rough a Halloween-themed one, by discussing one of my all-time favorite '80s horror flicks, Trick or Treat. But let’s be honest--they’re all my favorites, aren’t they? Anyway, Trick or Treat is a 1986 film that combined my two favorite things in the world--horror and heavy metal. Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons and a soundtrack to die for ensured I would love this movie before even seeing a frame of it. In Trick or Treat, Eddie Weinbauer is a bulli[...]