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John Bladek
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Tons of scary stories I listened to and read growing up.
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I take a walk and run scenes/dialogue/plots through my head. That usually gives me something to put on the page.
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Having a constant stream of stories running through my head.
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Roll Up the Streets
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Lost in Ghostville (Middle-Grade Novels)
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Winterbay Abbey: A Ghost Story
Ghosts and ghouls, my co-author Davonna Juroe ("Scarlette", "Seeing Red"), and I are giving away a signed first-edition copy of our ghost-story novel, “Winterbay Abbey”. The plot follows a Seattle architect who travels to a small town in Maine where he becomes entangled in the terrifying past of a menacing ghost haunting an abandoned abbey. Inspired by classic gho Read more of this blog post »
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“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
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“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
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Thank you, John, for accepting my friend request on Goodreads.
I read that exerpt. I totally found my stories. They're mostly Dude with a problem.
Franny's not a long read, about half an hour each. But I've just kept adding books every day. I like updating.
Book Dork wrote: "Hey, what are some other good classic horror novels?"I haven't read that many that you don't know about. You could try H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, or maybe some H.P. Lovecraft.
Hey, what are some other good classic horror novels?
I am so glad that you are obsessed as me! It is so cool to see all the books that you have read and liked or not liked ;)! FUN!
I'd have to re-read that part, but it never made sense, and when they show it in the TV version is didn't make sense. It read like it had been badly edited--something was cut leaving it hard to understand.
Okay, so this is what I read in the commentary of the Cliffs Notes today (I really like their commentaries):"The evil presence of the vampire manages to "materialize" inside Lucy's room, where it drugs the four household maids, thus preventing their aiding Lucy."
But wait! The maids were downstairs getting drugged, I thought. Not in Lucy's room!
Then it says in the summary:
"Upon Lucy gaining consciousness a short time later, the four housemaids came in and were so frightened at the sight of Mrs. Westenra's body that Lucy instructed them to go into the dining room to fetch a glass of wine. Later, when Lucy checked on them, she found them all unconscious, and upon examining the decanter, she discovered that it reeked of laudanum."
Um, these two aren't matching up very well.
Then the annotated version says:
"Fred Saberhagen (The Dracula Tape) does not believe for one moment that Dracula drugged these servants. Dracula's hypnotic powers, later demonstrated on the "stuporous" Jonathan Harker, would have sufficed to remove them from the scene. Saberhagen points out that the only person with means and opportunity was Lucy- whose motive, he posits, was a desire to spend some uninterrupted time with the highly attractive Dracula."
Saberhagen makes a good point, but who knows!