Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I was scrolling to the message box in order to relate Talisman freaking me out about seagulls, but that's reasonably easy to avoid. The TV movie of Langoliers has made fog convince me that the rest of the world has disappeared, and that seems to be retroactive to the book. However, The Mist plays into that too.
I guess I'm a child of Stephen King, because it was most often him freaking me out, and I stopped reading him more than ten years ago.
Every time it's really foggy and I'm driving, I half expect to see a giant foot appear and smash things.
sj brought up Silence of the Lambs before I could. I'm not a horror reader so those aren't my scary. But Silence of the Lambs freaked me out. As did the memoir Wasted by Mayra Hornbacher.
A friend and I read a book about Ted Bundy while I was living in Florida, and we were both completely freaked out. I think it was The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Well, I know it was by Ann Rule, even if I got the title wrong.
Is that the woman who worked the crisis hotline with Bundy? That's a freaky story.
She went to law school with him is what I remember.
In not-scary book news, Lizzie Skurnick is getting her own imprint to resissue out-of-print and forgotten YA titles.
In not-scary book news, Lizzie Skurnick is getting her own imprint to resissue out-of-print and forgotten YA titles.
Somebody should tell her to do Sinbad and Me!
Yeah, Ann Rule and Bundy worked at a rape crisis hotline together.
I remember Ann's stories of him walking her to her car late at night and telling her to be careful because of the dangerous people out there. And she always felt very safe with him.