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I got the hell scared out of me by a true story as well - Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me, about the crimes of Ted Bundy. There's a part where Rule describes how Bundy snatched one of his victims right outside a sorority house, even though it was a well-lit area and the only cover was a small...

Okay, a couple things... First off, I just found out a couple days ago that "The Mist" has been made into a movie that will be out in November. I even got to see the trailer tonight when we went to the new Halloween. Looks good. VERY good. And scary! Second, this thread has given me...

You hit it on the head, man. Some of Lovecraft's stuff is great. I describe it to people as the literary equivalent of hard liquor - you should only have a little at a time or you might start to go :eek: . But then there's some of his stories that are full of that prose of his - "the beings...

As I said in my other thread "Being SCARED by a book" I have a love-hate relationship with King. But I must beg to differ, Seven; I loved The Shining but found The Stand to be good but not great. The Shining really pulled me in. The characters were very interesting and the premise was very...

Well I'm plowing my way through this thing. "The Jaunt" was pretty freaky - I got off on telling the sci-fi fans at work what happens in it, and they were all "Wow! What a mindbender!" But yeah, I have to say that so far most of the stories are so-so (and some were just plain "huh?" :confused: )...

I haven't been on the board for a while but I just had to come back and ask this. Sometime back there was a thread asking when people have honestly been scared by something they read. (Actually maybe it wasn't on this board, but if not well why not start one here?) I ask because tonight...

I've decided to start reading the books and am going to read them in order of the story, so I just finished Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. Next I'm going to read in this order: Attack of the Clones Revenge of the Sith Vader Star Wars - A New Hope Splinter in a Mind's Eye The Empire...

I bought a big ol' collection of 8-10 Asimov paperbacks from a guy on eBay. Mainly I was looking for a cheap reading copy of I, Robot and bought this box from the guy - has a bunch of the Foundation ones, etc. Looking forward to them.

This could be the Julian Lennon of the publishing world - at first everyone will like him cause of his dad's name, but eventually they may dislike him for the same reason. I hope not. Secret of horror writer's lineage broken PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time...

I don't know if I'd go that far, but I agree that Brosnan looks the part much more than Craig. I'm not talking about the blond hair - Bond is supposed to be tall, which Brosnan is; Craig is short and stocky. Unfortunately, the producers probably thought that if people saw Brosnan in the ads...

The book I'm reading right now, Blood Farm by Sam Siciliano, has a rather interesting subtitle: An Iowa Gothic. Those are two words you don't see together very often. :confused: The book looks to be a fairly standard vampire novel. A guy drives his uncle's hearse to a remote farm in Iowa...

I have to agree also. When I saw Will Smith was cast in the new version, I cringed. I like Smith, but if he's in it you know that means they're going to turn it into a "hip" film. I refused to see the movie of I, Robot. However, I'm not sure this new version could be any worse then the first...

I remember when Tomorrow Never Dies came out, The Onion had a headline about it that read: "Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film". :D

As a long-time Bond fan (it all started when I watched For Your Eyes Only on broadcast TV one night when I was 10 or 11) I am not sure what to make of this new film. Watching it last night I got the sense I would have to see it in the theater at least once more before really forming an opinion...

Yes, for some time now I've been meaning to write an essay about whether or not slasher flicks should really be considered horror films.

Oh yeah! It's a classic. I'm pretty sure it's on DVD, it's at least on VHS because I have it on that format. Also, they made an album to go with the original special which should still be available on CD from Rhino Records. There was a second album called Archaeology that was made to...

That's pretty much how I feel. I'm not big into fantasy but if King wrote it, that probably makes me more willing to try them.

Absolutely... at least the Fleming novels. Colonel Sun isn't bad either. But the majority of Gardner's are trite and cliche, seemingly written more for fans of the films than of Fleming's books. I've clearly been away from the board too long. I'm a big Bond fan, particularly of the novels...

Being the horror enthusiast that I am, it isn't very often that I watch a horror movie that actually scares me. After a while, you just get conditioned to all of the little tricks, the rattles, the spooks that the filmmakers use to scare you - even if you don't want to, since being immune to the...

I know how exciting it is to learn that a favorite book is being made into a film. I hope you aren't disappointed. Unfortunately, the creative processes involved with the two different mediums are quite different. I just saw an author on TV the other day - he wrote the book Semi-Tough, which...