Every time it's really foggy and I'm driving, I half expect to see a giant foot appear and smash things.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 2:38:44 pm PDT #20619 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Kat - Apr 08, 2013 2:46:24 pm PDT #20620 of 28368
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Amy - Apr 08, 2013 2:49:31 pm PDT #20621 of 28368
Because books.
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.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2013 2:53:43 pm PDT #20622 of 28368
brillig
Is that the woman who worked the crisis hotline with Bundy? That's a freaky story.
Amy - Apr 08, 2013 2:57:22 pm PDT #20623 of 28368
Because books.
She went to law school with him is what I remember.
Amy - Apr 08, 2013 3:04:28 pm PDT #20624 of 28368
Because books.
In not-scary book news, Lizzie Skurnick is getting her own imprint to resissue out-of-print and forgotten YA titles.
DavidS - Apr 08, 2013 3:05:51 pm PDT #20625 of 28368
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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!
javachik - Apr 08, 2013 3:28:29 pm PDT #20626 of 28368
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, Ann Rule and Bundy worked at a rape crisis hotline together.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2013 3:32:16 pm PDT #20627 of 28368
brillig
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.
Ginger - Apr 08, 2013 3:41:56 pm PDT #20628 of 28368
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The fiction that freaked (and freaks) me out the most is the Ray Bradbury short story "Skeleton," about the man whose bones hurt.
King novels tend to be so overblown and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink that I don't find them scary.
I think one reason Salem's Lot is so frightening is that it dates back to when he was still being edited.