{"id":5441,"date":"2006-10-06T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2015-05-24T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T13:16:52","slug":"creepy-crawly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5441","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Crawly Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this from A High and Hidden Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. What is your favorite work of horror fiction? <\/b><\/p>\n

I have to say It<\/a>\"\"<\/i> although I’ve mentioned before that – putting a “genre” on that amazing book is kind of unfairly limiting. It’s a great novel PERIOD. But it sure as hell works as horror too. SHIVERS. I had to read sections of that book while covering my eyes<\/i>. It’s not a movie. It’s a book, mkay? But the mind-pictures he paints were so vivid that I had to cover my eyes.<\/p>\n

2. What is your favorite work of science fiction\/fantasy? <\/b><\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of that genre. I love Madeleine L’Engle’s stuff, I suppose that counts. Especially A Wrinkle in Time<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. Which is just one of my favorite books ever. But the others in her “Time” series are just as good. I am particularly in love with Many Waters<\/i>. Marvelous book.<\/p>\n

3. Who is your favorite monster? <\/b><\/p>\n

No contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. What horror movie gives you the most chills? <\/b><\/p>\n

Does Rosemary’s Baby<\/i> count as horror? I find that movie barely watchable<\/i>, due to the scariness of it. The atmosphere of dread and terror is suffocating.<\/p>\n

And Night of the Hunter<\/i> one of the most frightening movies I’ve ever seen, although it kind of transcends genre. But you haven’t felt fear until you’ve watched that creepy night-time duet between Lillian Gish and Robert Mitchum. I am all over goosebumps right now just thinking about it. (I wrote about that scene here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5. Freddy versus Jason?<\/b><\/p>\n

I never liked Freddy. He was too sexual – in a really really ikky way, too “clever” with the wordplay, too – his dumb puns, his rhyming couplets, whatever, I didn’t like Freddy. Jason was the terrifying one, for me.<\/p>\n

6. What is your favorite Halloween treat? <\/b><\/p>\n

No contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7. Ghosts or goblins? <\/b><\/p>\n

I prefer ghosts.<\/p>\n

8. What is your scariest encounter with the paranormal<\/b>?<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve had one.<\/p>\n

I’ve had crazy ESP moments. I’ve had dreams come true many many times. Psychedelic weird dreams that suddenly came true. There’s a blogger on my blog-roll (whom I have met, so I know what he looks like) – but anyway, I dreamt about him one night. The next day I wrote to him and said, “Hey, I dreamt last night that you were flying the Spruce Goose down the Hudson and crowds of people gathered on the cliffs to watch.” He emailed me back and said, “Uhm, don’t quite know how to say this but I had a dream last night that I was flying the Spruce Goose while crowds of people watched.” This is not a rare occurrence for me – it happens quite a bit.<\/p>\n

I YEARNED for an encounter with the paranormal here<\/a>, but was disappointed.<\/p>\n

A couple other things come to mind: I was in high school and I think lightning hit our house – we were all asleep, huge thunderstorm happening – and suddenly you could smell the fizzing horrific smell of burning electricity – I have never felt fear so immediate – so … primal – and then my dad’s voice barking up the stairs: “Girls. Come downstairs right now.<\/i>” And I swear to God – I swear on all that is holy – I leapt out of bed and literally – LITERALLY – my feet did not touch the floor<\/i> as I fled my room. I will go to my grave believing that the fear made me literally fly<\/i> out of my room, so that I could move as quickly as possible. I flew. Don’t argue.<\/p>\n

9. Do you believe in ghosts? <\/b><\/p>\n

I think I do, yeah. I’ve felt presences before.<\/p>\n

10. Favorite Halloween costume? <\/b><\/p>\n

Take your pick.<\/a> Sadly, there is no record of my Squeaky Fromme costume – when I spent Halloween in San Francisco. It was a good one. My boyfriend was Atlas. Halloween is like a HOLIDAY in San Francisco. But then I left my sign with Charlie Manson’s face on it in the chimney <\/a>… Scary to think of some unknowing stranger finding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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