Halloween: My top ten horror movies

It’s Halloween, my favorite time of the year when I love to watch my favorite horror movies. Here is a list of my favorite horror movies.

1. Halloween (I love the original by John Carpenter)

2. The Frighteners (This one mixes funny with the very scary)

3. Hellraisers (No one does it better than Pinhead. Tip: Don’t open the puzzle box!)

4. Amityville Horror (Again, the original with James Brolin, yes James, not Josh. LOL)

5. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (I loved Gary Oldman as Dracula)

6. Underworld trilogy (I loved all of these movies. Vamps vs. Lycans done very well)

7. Night of the Living Dead (The original black and white scared the hell out of me)

8. Hocus Pocus (Hilarious! The perfect Halloween movie. Loved the song used to enchant the children)

9. Van Helsing (Hugh Grant—need I say more?)

10. The Howling (I thought this was one of the first werewolf movies done well)

Well, that is my list. I’m sure I’m missing a lot of great movies, but that’s all I could think of right now.

I would like to add a television episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that is also one of my must watches for Halloween. Set on Halloween, Buffy and her Scooby gang run into trouble after putting on enchanted costumes that make them turn into the costume characters.

Happy Halloween everyone!

 

Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author

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LINES I WISH WERE MINE

Have you ever sighed with contentment, then shaken your head in despair, after reading or hearing a line you wish you'd written? Here are a few of my favorites:

"Lay your cuts and bruises upon my skin." - The Script, "You Won't Feel a Thing". Oh how I love this line - talk about romantic!

"I know I've left you in places of despair, oh I know I've loved you so please throw down your hair."
- Damien Rice, "The Animals Were Gone" I shiver every time I hear this confession coupled with need.

"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." - Frank McCourt, "Angela's Ashes" This set-up lets me know I'm in the company of a master speaker who is not going to hold back his thoughts.

"For over two hundred years the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town." - Alice Hoffman, "Practical Magic" Aren't these dames you want to hear about?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" With a set-up like that, who can resist?

"I didn't ask ... shouldn't have told me." - Gin Blossoms, "Til I Hear It from You" Who doesn't love someone who wants to be kept in the dark?

"It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz." - Bram Stoker, "Dracula The dark side of twilight? I'm in ....

These lines speak to me because of their honesty. I feel as though they're being whispered in my ear.

What about you? What are some of your favorite lines? Why?

Favorite paranormal creature?

I’m working on a new series and trying to decide which paranormal creature I want to use. Vampires have been really popular, but I hear they are on their way out, though I find this hard to believe. Vampires have fascinated humans since Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Then Ann Rice’s popular vampire novels changed the way people viewed the creatures of the night. She was the first author to write erotic vampires. And recently it was the Twilight series that became popular with women of all ages. I think vampires are here to stay. I have had a vampire, a Greek vampire, in one of my series so I’m not sure about vampires for this series I am working on now.

Werewolves have also been quite popular. I have to admit that I lean toward werewolves for the series I am working on. True werewolves, not shapeshifters that can change at will, but the ones cursed to change at the full moon. Bloodthirsty beasts. Killers. What fascinates me about this type of creature is that for the rest of the month, the werewolf is human. I think it’s that beast within theme that is so attractive to me—that mixture of innocence and danger.

Faeries and angels are also popular. I have written faeries before so I want to do something that I haven’t done before. There are so many types of paranormal creatures to choose from that I will have to do some more research and decide what is best for my series.

Do you have a favorite paranormal creature that you would like to see in stories?

 

Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author

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A Greek vampire, Celtic kings, vengeful goddesses, an ancient faery curse…

All three books of my Dark Goddess trilogy are available in Print and Ebook. Set in dark age Scotland, I mixed history with a Samhain/Beltaine myth that revolves around an Irish clan and the goddesses Brigit and Cailleach.