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Review: Elevation

Elevation by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It's amazing to think Stephen King's career started in men's magazines and that he wrote his first stories on a child's table in the laundry room of his family's cramped trailer. Even more amazing that a man who was first dismissed as a hack, then only as a "horror writer," would eventually become someone who could write pretty much anything he pleased.

It may sound strange, but I think all of it - his entire career - has lead him to write a book like this. A book he wrote because he wanted to, because he could...and he did. Poignant, timely, funny, and fantastical. I'll be honest; I'd read the man's grocery list with rapt attention.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Theater Review

Saturday Night Horror Movie Club: Spiral, The Book of Saw

The Saturday Night Horror Movie club returns with a viewing and review of Spiral: The Book of Saw.

 

 

 

80s Trash Horror: Destroyer and Zombie Nightmare

Another quickie Into The Abyss Trashy 80s Horror Review of ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE and DESTROYER.

 

Book Review: THE COLORADO KID, by Stephen King

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An excellent, quick read, told as usual in King's very accessible, conversational style. It's really not about "The Colorado Kid" at all, but more about learning the power of story, and about newspaper reporting, and chasing down the story.

On a side-note, I can see what the TV series HAVEN (which I actually watched before reading this) did, and that was use the mystery of The Colorado Kid as a jump-off point. Having enjoyed the series, I thought it was a marvelous way of departing from source material.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

If you're looking for some epic #Thanksgiving #horror....this isn't it. But it will make you laugh, or cry, or maybe throw up in your mouth a little. But it's Thanksgiving! Watch it! For the children. Or something.

 

80s Trash Horror: The Brain and The Suckling

Into The Abyss has fallen into a bit of disuse. Trying to remedy that with quicker, more frequent live videos. Enjoy the 1st installment of #80shorror #trashhorror on Tubi and Amazon Prime Video #thesuckling #thebrain #lowbudgethorror

 

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Welcome! Feel free to poke around my home on the web. Visit the humble Adirondack town of Clifton Heights, NY. It's a nice enough town. Most of the time.  Looking for some free fiction? I've got you covered. Want to know my thoughts on writing, art, horror, faith? Here's some interviews.  Add me on Facebook, and follow me on Twitter. Thanks for stopping by! 

Advance Praise for OCTOBER NIGHTS

Wonderful blurb for October Nights this morning, from Charles Christian of WEIRD TALES RADIO:

"October Nights is a wonderful collection of long short-stories all linked around the Halloween season in a small American town where there's something unsettling lurking beneath the apple-pie homeliness. For some characters the town offers a chance for redemption, for others damnation. The feeling reminded me of Ray Bradbury at his Something Wicked This Way Comes best."

I had a great time chatting with Charles as the most recent guest on his show. Our interview starts 2:28.

Cover Reveal: October Nights, Coming October 22nd

Halloween is a night when anything seems possible. This is true everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the strange town of Clifton Heights, New York. October nights here are long and strange, filled with both dread and transformation, and in these four tales, you will encounter things both wondrous and terrifying, in equal measure.

"Kevin Lucia is a modern storyteller with a firm grounding in the classics." Bram Stoker Award Winning Author Norman PrentissComing October 22nd from Crystal Lake Publishing. Cover by Ben Baldwin