Bubble Bubble…
October! Time for fireside tales and ghost stories. I adore this month of suspense. Notice I said
suspense…not slasher stories.
I grew up in another age, when October meant hot chocolate
with marshmallows, fall festivals, and
harvest bonfires. When I was a child, station wagons filled with kids would
spend Halloween night driving throughout the county, from one teacher’s house
to another’s, getting scared by the high-schoolers dressed as ghosts, before
earning our mug of homemade cider for our bravery.
We would get out of
the car at the end of one street and knock on every door along the blocks,
until we reached the far end of the street, bags filled with candy and homemade
popcorn balls, or fudge. And since everyone knew someone who knew all the
people in the town, nobody ever had to worry about sabotaged sweets.
And when all was said and done, we would create spooky
stories that usually ended with “and when they looked again, it had
disappeared.”
So in honor of the things-that-go-bump-in-the-night fun,
here is a list of some of my favorite tales~books and movies.
Shows and Movies
Dracula (I prefer the PBS series with Louis Jourdan or ‘79 Frank Langella)
Dark Shadows Television Series.
Tales from the Dark Side
Medium
Anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The Lady in Black
The Haunting of Hill House
(Book by Shirley Jackson, as well as the Julie Harris Movie)
Young Frankentstein
MacBeth (Patrick Stewart…spookiest, ever)
Halloween~#3 This is
the only one I will watch. Completely not like all the others.
Hocus Pocus
Lost Boys
Sentinel
The Village
Lady in the Water
Harry Potter…the entire series
Books, stories, and
poems
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Sixth Sense
The Shining, by Stephen King
The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice
The Raven, by Edgar Alan Poe
Mask of the Red Death, by Edgar Alan Poe
Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Harry Potter…the entire series, of course!
Did I leave any out? I’m sure! Tell me, what are your favorites?
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