Halloween Treats

To the Autumn People:

`Tis All Hallow’s Eve. The skies are grey and a chill wind blows.

I’ve come across a few Halloween treats to offer today and so I thought I’d combine them all into one post. Enjoy!

SKELETON FOUND IN OVERTURNED TREE

Hurricane Sandy blew an ancient oak tree over and workers found a skeleton intertwined within its roots.

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GHOST WATCH

In 1992, the BBC had over 30,000 phone calls thanks to an ultra-realistic fake news broadcast about a haunted house. Before BLAIR WITCH or PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, GHOST WATCH pioneered the faux-documentary horror movie. To add to its realism, it utilized actual BBC news anchors. If you’re looking for a nice creepy movie tonight, you’d do much worse…

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HALLOWEEN HAUNTS

The Horror Writers Association has been running a series of articles all month long on all things Halloween. Head on over and read Lisa Morton’s piece on the true history of Halloween, my own piece on the ghost stories of M.R. James, or one of dozens of other short yet brilliant articles.

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HELL MANOR

“Jack Lichtner is the genius behind Hell Manor, America’s most successful Halloween haunted house. Mazes, scare zones, live actors, special effects, crazy gore…Hell Manor’s got it all. But Jack gets in over his head when he hires Maeve, a mysterious woman with a penchant for bloody magic and murderous kin who want her back. This Halloween, Jack must use all his powers of illusion to fight off the real magic of the ancient tricksters who have invaded Hell Manor.”
Lisa Morton is a multiple Bram Stoker Award winner and one of the world’s leading Halloween experts. Her last book for Bad Moon Books, MONSTERS OF L.A., earned her a seventh Bram Stoker Award nomination, and the American Library Association’s READERS ADVISORY GUIDE TO HORROR recently named her one of the top five female horror writers. She lives in North Hollywood, California, and can be found online at http://www.lisamorton.com.

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COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS OF HORROR

Do you fall victim to one of the common misconceptions the public has about the horror genre?

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GOOGLE’S HAUNTED HOUSE

Google’s home page is a fun little haunted house. Try clicking on everything…

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WORLD’S CREEPIEST PLACES

Our friends at Cracked.com have compiled a list of the creepiest places in the world. Mass suicides, churches made of bone, and entire abandoned cities. And you thought Aunt Irma’s house was creepy.

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DUNGEON BRAIN

From Bram Stoker Award winning author Benjamin Kane Ethridge. June Nilman is a woman with thousands of personalities in her head and none of them are her own. Stricken with amnesia and trapped in a room in an abandoned hospital, her caretaker, Nurse Maggie, wants her to remain captive forever. At night June hears creatures patrolling in and out of the hospital, and in time discovers Maggie has mental control over them. In planning her escape, June has an extensive catalogue of minds to probe for help, but dipping into the minds of her mental prisoners is often a practice in psychological endurance. Escape seems impossible until June discovers a rat hole in the wall– the starting point of her freedom. But freedom in this war-torn world may be more dreadful than she ever imagined. Dungeon Brain is a locked room mystery of the body and mind that expands across the realms of science fiction and horror.

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THE GHOSTS OF M.R. JAMES

I am an unabashed fan of the classic ghost stories of M.R. James and feel that you should be, too. Check out this documentary on one of my favorite writers.

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13 BEST HAUNTED HOUSES IN THE WORLD

Looking to get scared out of your mind tonight? See if you’re close to one of the best Haunted Attractions in the world.

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THE HAUNTED LONDON UNDERGROUND

Ever been on London’s fantastic tube? Did you know it’s supposed to be one of the most haunted places in the world? Check out this excellent documentary:

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DARLING

Raynham Place has been home to a number of mysterious occurrences. From its start as a battlefield through its time as a tuberculosis hospital and even in its current incarnation as an apartment complex, the grounds here have been awash in blood and instability. When two friends decide to move in to Raynham together, a wound that they share opens wide and threatens their sanity. But they’re not alone. Something is off here at Raynham, something that goes beyond the local legends of ghosts and serial killers and Black Hounds, something that gets inside of everyone who ever lives here. When a sacrifice is made, the first freely given in ages, the truth behind Raynham’s legends finally surfaces and the building fills to bursting with all the dreams of Hell…

Check out this page devoted to my new novel DARLING, complete with a free preview chapter, a soundtrack, and the book trailer.

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March on.

Brad C. Hodson is a screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles. His new novel, DARLING, is available from Bad Moon Books.