BotW: End of Watch

Good Sunday Morning lovelies!!! Did you miss me? I hope so!  It's Sunday, and we all know what that means!!! Book of the Week! YAY! Beyond that, last week seriously made my week!! Why? Because a couple of hours after I posted my Bibliophile Wish List post....I got an email alert from my local library...my digital hold for End of Watch came in!!! HAPPY DANCE!  I just started reading it this morning (mainly because I have a strict no Stephen King in the dark policy). 

So, guess what this week's book of the week is?! 

YUP! 

END OF WATCH

Stephen King

LOOK at that cover?! Isn't it so pretty?  Seriously! I love it!  It's creepy and yet not all at the same time!  I'm definitely enjoying this one so far!  

Halloween Countdown: 24 Days

This month is by far one of my absolute favorite!  It is the month of Halloween, and probably my absolute favorite holiday (well aside from Christmas of course!).  This month I will be sharing with you some of my favorite spooky stories, movies, and various other things! Why? Because it makes my heart happy and I'm all about Halloween and things that go bump in the night!

Over the next few weeks I'll be featuring my top five favorite authors in this genre, and these are in absolutely no particular order, they are just my absolute favorites: 

Stephen King

Joe Hill

Paul Wigmore

Griffin Hayes

Ted Dekkar 

Who doesn't love a good Stephen King book? I mean really! Something that makes your skin crawl, makes you look over your shoulder, worry about who is knock, knock, knocking on your door! 

I have several favorites by this author, and I'll just share a few of these titles with you as recommendations for this ghoulish season!  Just remember, just don't read them before bed!  You've been warned! 

Redrum! Redrum! This book, coupled with the paranormal event hosted at The Stanley Hotel where this book is centered absolutely top my list of Stephen King favorites.  This is a book that I constantly re-read and immerse myself in the terror  that builds within the pages.  I'm also a fan of the movie, as well as the sequel to this book Doctor Sleep. 

As if clowns were terrifying enough, we venture into Derry, Maine and meet Pennywise the Dancing Clown.  Terrifying.  This book is another one of my favorites, and it pretty much solidified my fear of clowns all over again in the thousand pages of this book.  It also makes me never, ever, ever visit Derry, Maine! This movie is again, right up there with my absolute favorites when it comes to spine-tingling, hide under the blanket thrillers! It also is pretty much the only role, where Tim Curry absolutely terrifies me. 

Okay, I've mentioned before my absolute lack of desire to visit Derry, Maine.  This book, revisits the boys from It, twenty-five years later. Things in Derry are no different than they were twenty-five years ago as those four boys, now men, reunite in the woods for their annual hunting trip.  This time, it's to deal with a creature from another world! As if we needed a second warning not to visit Derry, Maine.

What are some of your favorite Stephen King reads? 

BPC: Imagination

Book Photo Challenge information can be found here: Just One More Page Book Photo Challenge

July 8th: Imagination

Okay, seriously...who doesn't have to reign in their imagination when it comes to Stephen King's books? Really? If you don't there is seriously something wrong with you! 

Books featured: 

Misery
Just After Sunset

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

What's On My Kindle? Stephen King Edition

Welcome to Episode Thirteen of "What's On My Kindle?" Today, I'm featuring the few books I have from the master of horror, making you fear the things that go bump in the night, fear the "Men in the Yellow Coats" coming to get you, and other things - Stephen King.

I am a sucker for a good horror which is why I absolutely love Griffin Hayes as well.  However, he's going to be saved for a later episode I think.  Currently I have 6 books from Stephen King on my kindle and I adore each and every one of them - however I won't read any of them close to bedtime...just no.

1. Doctor Sleep - Book 2 in the Shining Series

The Shining is by far one of my favorite Stephen King books and the return to this world simply made me absolutely thrilled.  THe combination of Danny Torrence and Abra Stone is one of my absolute favorite combinations as they fight for Abra's soul and survival against The True Knot.  It is a truly epic battle between good and evil and a great return to the world of The Shining.  It is good to see how things have gone with Danny Torrence since that horrific year spent at The Overlook hotel, which of course would still haunt him to this day.









2. Under the Dome

Everyone for the most part is familiar with this particular story, and the fact that much like most of King's stories has become a series adapted for TV (or a major motion picture, etc).  What would you do if you were faced with the fact that your town was for no apparent reason cut off from the rest of the world?  A dome sealing you off from the rest of society?

There are good guys, Dale Barbara.  There are bad guys, Big Jim Rennie.  However, something has to be done, because not only is their time beneath the dome short - it is running out.  This one is an epic page turner from start to finish (and it's a long way to the finish on this one), and personally - I like the book better than the TV series (shocking I know).

3. UR 

This was published in 2009, and was honestly the first book that was ever bought for the Kindles in my house (I've one, my roommate has one, and her husband has one).  Honestly, after we read this one, and had to order replacement Kindle keyboards (before they stopped making them) we were terrified that it would show up and be pink.

If the Pink Kindle EVER showed up at my house, it would immediately be returned to sender.  Simply because I do not want a visit from the Man in the Yellow Coats.  NOW or EVER.

Everything about this short story is perfect, and just proves how good Stephen King is at making you terrified of everyday objects.  Because no one wants to cause a paradox, that's just not a good thing to do.

4. Mile 81

In this story, we are once more given reason to be afraid of strange cars parked on the side of the road.  Being a Good Samaritan apparently has its dark side, and unfortunately for Doug Clayton his King James Bible won't be able to save him for what awaits him at the broken down wagon at the Mile 81 marker.

How many people will be gone by the time Pete Simmons wakes from his vodka induced nap? How many living things will be around by the time he wakes?

Thriller Thursday!

Welcome to Thriller Thursday!

Today's reviews are a pair of horror books one by Todd Russell titled Fresh Flesh and the other is Malice by Griffin Hayes.  If you love scary stories then these books are for you.  They will get your imagination flowing and have you jumping at things that go bump in the night.

Review: Fresh Flesh by Todd Russell
Review: Malice by Griffin Hayes

Scary stories and movies have always been around.  We've all come into contact with them at some point in our lives - summer camp, ghost stories at slumber parties, urban legends that we just had to try out and various other things.  These things for me have always been a guilty pleasure, especially the psychological thrillers that get in your head and completely mess with you.  I've been hooked on authors such as Stephen King and even as far back as reading the Goosebumps and Fear Street Saga series by R.L. Stein.  I've been a horror junkie for as long as I can remember.

I love things that get into your head and make you almost afraid to turn off the lights at night because well, there just may be something out there that can and will eat you! *insert evil laugh here!*

In all seriousness, some of my favorite movies are psychological thrillers such as The Cell staring Jennifer Lopez (I realize most people thought this movie was crap, but I ABSOLUTELY adored it!).  I also am so entirely a pathetically drooling fangirl of the original Silence of the Lambs movie (not so much the movies of the other books in this series).  Anthony Hopkins can be my boogie man any day...just like Tim Curry can be my nightmare inspiring clown whenever his little heart desires.

We are all afraid of something, no matter how hard we try and deny it.  Clowns, bees, wasps, insects in general, thunder, lightning, the dark.  Something terrifies us and makes us wish that we could be cuddled and coddled until it goes away, or makes us want to do something to remove said fear inspiring thing from the general vicinity.

What makes you tremble? What are you most afraid of?

What are your favorite horror stories? Your favorite urban legends? What is your favorite scary movie?