October 25, 2010
Culture
For me, the greatest form for the spooky story is, in fact, the story, the short story. I know there are exceptions (a recent good one was Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box), but in general I find the novel too long a form to sustain the subtle, delicate kind of scares I particularly like. Movies can [...]
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ghost stories,
halloween,
m.r. james,
stephen king
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October 4, 2010
Culture
Okay, it’s October, Halloween’s coming, I love ghost stories, here’s a list of ten of my favorite ghost movies. The list rules: movie has to be about ghosts, not zombies or vampires or something; and it has to be creepy – no whimsy or love stories like The Ghost & Mrs. Muir or A Christmas [...]
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ghost movies,
ghost stories,
ghosts,
the innocents
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