And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


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.


DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 6:16:40 pm PDT #20629 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I've been listening to the companion album this evening while I work, and there are a couple songs that...make me uncomfortable. And a couple that make me wonder what's coming...


Dana - Apr 08, 2013 6:17:42 pm PDT #20630 of 28368
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, the Poe album? I haven't read House of Leaves, but that's a great album. That I can't remember the name of.


Beverly - Apr 08, 2013 8:46:23 pm PDT #20631 of 28368
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

The collection of King shorts, Night Shift, had some of the downright scariest stories. Grey Matter still gives me the wig.