it's almost Halloween...I love Halloween, Samhain, mystical and magical. Cool, snapping leaves and rustling, dried grass, big abandoned houses with ghosties and ghoulies...fireplaces and glowing lights and things that go bump in the night.
I've been asked to tell a scary story...but I was thinking about it long before I was asked. My favorite, best remembered ghost story is The Monkey's Paw. Monkey's paw, monkey's paw, bring me.... Or the Brown Mountain lights - it's a mystery that's never been solved.
And that set me to thinking about the pacing of a really good ghost story, mostly short, vivid, tension building, and oh, so possibly real...so very, scarily real. A real ghost story...a novella of sorts. That might be a good topic for a November - cold and snapping and deeply darkly nightly.
1 comment:
Hi Chris - Nice to meetcha!
Post a Comment