Horror

Halloween is here..

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According to the Stephen King manual – there are 3 types of terror:

The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm.

The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one:

Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…

Source: Stephen King

Inky’s Take :  I think there is a fourth – The Angry Seven year old Kid. The one that looks at you with disdain when you drop a handful of taffy in his bag, a frown creasing his lips with a ‘really?’ sniff ‘that’s all you got?’  The self same one who conjours the TP Fairy late at night surrounded by his bubble gum pops, Hershey candy bars, and Snickers.

Ultimately the one that stands on the corner to watch your gaped mouth expression as you take in the rolls upon rolls of toilet paper blanketing every tall item on your lawn, including the 100 year old oak.  Laughing gleefully as you answer the ringing cell to find the homeowners association screaming at you though the phone.  Yup that one, he really gives me nightmares….. (shivers)

Have a really good All Hallow’s Eve, with lots of candy – the good kind, plenty of goosebumps and absolutely no visits from the toilet paper fairy!

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~ Inky

Francisco Farias Jr monster

‘It’s poor judgment’, said Grandpa ‘to call anything by a name. We don’t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can’t heave them into categories with labels and say they’ll act one way or another. That’d be silly. They’re people. People who do things. Yes, that’s the way to put it. People who *do* things.

Source: Ray Bradbury, The October Country

Photo:  Francisco Farias Jr.

Inky’s Take:  Halloween! I love the shivers from a good scream, the heavy ink of a moonless night, and scary stories…  utterly orgasmic!  Horror movies? Those I usually watch, all the lights on, peeking around a pillow screaming, ‘don’t go into that room’ or ‘why aren’t you running? Run! Now!’ but of course they never do.

Me?  Speedy Gonzales would be left –  In. The. Dust!   Arriba, Arriba… Andalay, Andalay.. you don’t have to tell me twice!

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