Category: Scary
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Haunted by “The Shining” and Scooby Doo
After finishing Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s newest novel which checks in on Danny Torrance 30 years after the horrors at The Overlook Hotel, I decided to go back and re-read The Shining. I saw Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining for the first time when I was five years old, the same age as Danny Torrance. Wisest choice…
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The Doll Returns: Patti Playpal in Williamsburg
It was an adventure. After both the J and the M trains denied us passage over the Williamsburg Bridge, we trekked our way through the slick sidewalks of Brooklyn to the L in an attempt to make it into midtown Manhattan in time to attend Carol Channing’s 93rd birthday celebration at Town Hall (hosted by…
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BOOK REVIEW: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Having seen both the original 1963 film and the 1999 remake, I was intrigued to read Shirley Jackson’s original novel. The novel, told almost entirely from Eleanor’s perspective, reads partly like a decent into madness and partly like a romance. Eleanor is broken. Her past, which is lightly looked at in all three forms (book,…
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PHOTO: #Our #homemade #Halloween decorations are up. #Brooklyn #NYC
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The Doll: Things That Should Not Be Found
I recently submitted this story, which happened to me back in the late 1990s, to the Anything Ghost Show. You can listen to it on the podcast here. It’s a great show and, if true tales of the supernatural are your thing, I encourage you to subscribe to it. Below is the text to the…
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Theme Songs that Terrified Me as a Chld
I’ve been busier than usual lately so I haven’t posted much, short of some Instagram moments here and there but I was listening to a podcast this morning and one of the panelists mentioned the theme to Unsolved Mysteries and it reminded me that, while I loved the show, the song itself terrified me! Something…
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Seriously, go read this damned book
John Dies at the End by David Wong My rating: 4 of 5 stars Having recently seen the trailer for the upcoming film I was intrigued to read the original novel and see what all the fuss was about. What I wasn’t prepared for was the onslaught of hilarity and gross. Gross what? Just gross.…
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Fear at Eighty Feet (approximately)
From my office’s conference room several of us noticed the scene across the street where several unsecured workers were building pipe scaffolding. I immediately got a sick stomach, imagining myself at that height (almost eight stories high) and just knowing that one slippery step or a slight wind would send me sailing down to 37th…
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Tennessee Homecoming… and the Thing on the Wall
I went home to visit family a few weeks ago and to help get the house in order, in the hope that we can sell it sometime in the next year or so. The trip was good… if not exhausting. But the house is looking great and just needs a little T.L.C. to get it…
Tommy Karr 