Day Two of Spirit Shapes for .99 cents on Kindle
My love of horror movies has had a influence on my writing.
When my children were little and my husband was overseas, if a horror movie was on television, everyone piled into my bed to watch, which meant between 3 to 5 kids joined me. Because the movies were scary, often the whole bunch spent the rest of the night with me. Back during that time period, the horror movies that were on TV were pretty campy by today’s standards—Frankenstein, Dracula, and other mad scientist tales. But once in a while there was a really good (meaning really scary) like the Spiral Staircase. That was far scarier than any monster movie.
I’ve continued to enjoy watching scary movies, but I don’t like the slash and gash types that are more blood and gore than storytelling, or the ones about the group of young people stranded in a house, on an island, in a campground and are killed one by one.
I loved "The Woman in White" and other such movies set back in some early time period with lots of fog and atmosphere.
The best horror films are the ones that seem somewhat plausible—the latest one being the Conjuring. One of the scariest I can’t remember the name of, but it was about some people traveling in a motor home that were being pursued by witches. I still get goose bumps when I think about that one.
I’ve read most of Stephen King’s books and the one I though the scariest was It. The movie didn’t come close as far as the shiver factor is concerned. In fact, I laughed quite often during the movie and it the sequel.(That seems to be the problem with most of the movies made from his books though “The Shining” was scary, just not as much as the book.
That gives you a pretty good idea that I do love scary movies and books and that’s probably why I like to put the scare factor into my mysteries. If you like a bit of that too, do try Spirit Shapes.
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Blurb for Spirit Shapes: Ghost hunters stumble upon a murdered teen in a haunted house. Deputy Tempe Crabtree's investigation pulls her into a whirlwind of restless spirits, good and evil, intertwined with the past and the present, and demons and angels at war.
Marilyn
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