Category: drama

Freaky Friday–M.R. James

Published on by Juli D. Revezzo

Doing something slightly different today in that I thought I’d introduce one of my favorites: Author M.R. James. I first read his Casting the Runes in college and never forgot its creepy vibe.

From Wikipedia:

M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James’s protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the “antiquarian ghost story”.

Spooky Isles recently celebrated this great’s birthday–back in August.

http://www.spookyisles.com/2012/08/happy-birthday-m-r-james/

James, along with Poe, and Shelley, and Lovecraft comprise my circle of favorite creepy authors. If you haven’t read Casting the Runes, you should.

Enjoy and have a freaky Friday. 😉

#gratitude

Published on by Juli D. Revezzo

It’s that month again. Time for some #gratitude. Needing coffee, but I wanted to say thanks! To all my readers: you guys (and gals) rock! Good news coming…wait for it…

*hugs*

In the meantime, we had winners for the Halloween shindig. I’m still waiting to hear from some though. but Sandy Rowland won Susan Macatee’s giveaway. *claps* Congrats!

Thanks for checking into that party. I hope y’all enjoyed it. Now for the Thanks for Books giveaway. The winner is:

Tara!

Congrats! I’ll be dropping you a line soon. Have a great day and enjoy the rest of the holidays!

The Ghostly Guardians of Korner’s Folly

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I ran across an interesting article Kala Ambrose wrote  for FATEMAG.COM . The thing that drew my attention was her mention of the famous Winchester House. There’s a house that holds some things that make one go “hmm…“, don’t you think? My dad was intrigued by it and it was a general joke that one day ours would look the same. That’s another story though….I’m not going to say it had any influence whatsoever on a certain little attic I wrote about in my novel but is it possible? *nodsnods* Maybe so.

I hope you enjoy Ms. Ambrose’s story on these ghostly guardians and mysterious houses as much as I did.

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The only political thing…

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….possibly that I’ll do for–well, the next four years.
Today is election day! Have you voted yet? No. Well, get out tomorrow then, and vote! Democrat? Republican? Doesn’t matter to me. I just want you to make your voices heard (god knows that’s hard enough in this life).

You know what they say, if you don’t vote, don’t…..gripe! 😉

from Public Domain Clip Art

Political advert done. Now, second most important thing. Go out there and…read and have fun!

Now for the real question: Lestat or…. Edward?

 

Show of hands, girls. 😉

Once Upon A Time

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What do you think of Once Upon a Time? What do you think of the new season so far? I spent the last couple weeks, prior to the debut rewatching the season with Mom (DVRs rock) I have a few faves, but a few niggle points still stick.

I think their definition of fairy tale’s a bit loose, however loved the Alice episode (are you surprised?), and Pinocchio’s an adorable kid.(and what in the world is happening to him now??? (no, no. No spoiler…You have to watch last night’s episode to learn that. I’m not telling.

Here’s the biggest question I had at the end of season one: if a character’s secret is revealed in the first season….(like several all throughout the first season–or page one in book terms), isn’t it a mite too soon? For instance the end of OUAT, season one! Did they just blow the mystery out of the rest of the (presumably) seasons to come?

Now that you know what the secret is, what’s to keep you watching?

I ask this because I’m of the camp that Melanie Rawn spawned: Don’t tell all your secrets until you have to. (In her case, it was the very end of book two of one of her series–when will book three come out?????) *ahem* and it’s a big thing in Mystery writing. You lay out your secrets gradually. You do NOT reveal everyone’s GMC immediately (sorry romance writers, you’ve been taught wrong).

If I tell you “My Character is Actually The Easter Bunny In Disguise” on page two what’s left to keep you reading (or in the case of OUAT, watching)? That the other characters don’t know, to me, seems ….a lame consolation (easily fixed by a conversation–and we don’t like that either).

Still, will I keep watching Once Upon A Time? You betcha.  Heck after that bang up season two open, even my hubby’s watching! 😉 And did you see Sunday night’s?

I also want to see who they’ll cover next (I’d kinda like to see them do the Swan Princess or Snow White and Rose Red) and how they’ll fix this mindF– that Mr. Gold caused. What about you? What fairy tale are you looking forward to this season?