Hello

[annabel lee]

I am a new member and just wanted to take a moment to say hello. I am a black female, in my mid-forties. I was first introduced to horror at the ripe age of four. There I sat next to my father watching the Twilight Zone (which, if I remember correctly was in black and white). It was an episode involving a scarab and a man's skin and organs slowly dissipate into dust, leaving only a skeleton. I was terrified, my mother was livid with my father but I was hooked. My Dad also had a box of horror comics. Does anyone remember the Witching Hour? Many of my best memories are of my father taking me to see horror movies: My Bloody Valentine, Horror Train and, of course, The Exorcist. I am an avid reader of Graham Masterton, James Hurbert, HP Lovecraft, Brian Lumly, Stephen King, and Peter Straub. I just finished a very interesting book by Gary A. Braunbeck, In Silent Graves. It was very different and very wonderful. I will no doubt spend most of my time on the book forum but hope to enter many interesting conversations with others on the various forums.

[Vodstok]

Sounds like you will fit right in, Annabel. Welcome to the forum and happy posting :)

[Stingy Jack]

Annabel, I, personally, am excited that you are a member. Believe or not, I am currently reading In Silent Graves by Braunbeck! I am a big fan of his, and subscribed to Cemetery Dance magazine simply because he does a lot of work for that publication. If you can, hunt down my Halloween III thread in the General Forum. In it, I provide a review of the film written by Braunbeck. I think you would like it.

By the way, don't tell me how the book ends. I think I may need to start it over, because I set it aside for too long and it is a pretty complex story. I was confused when I picked it up again, since I couldn't remember what had transpired.

Anyway, welcome!

Maybe you can breathe some life into that book forum. It is usually pretty dead.

[Sistinas]

Happy posting.

[massacre man]

welcome

[thepsychicfetus]

i also try to read books by stephen king and peter straub and the others you mentioned. its very nice to hear that someone has been a fan of horror since very young, i too was hooked very young. im only 18 now but i remember being 4 and 5 and watching the puppet master movies and the movie monkey shines, and of course all the friday movies. have fun here, but dont let anybody get you down. :)

[Hate_Breeder]

Welcome to the fuckin forums! :)

[ShankS]

Originally posted by Freddy Krueger.
You deserve a friendly, nice greeting, ******.



totaly uncalled for, you're gona make a lot more enemies around here.

[kpropain]

Originally posted by ShankS
totaly uncalled for, you're gona make a lot more enemies around here.

Agreed very much so....Sorry Freddy but that post was deleted..please no more stuff like that here it is just wrong...


After saying that welcome annabel lee hope you enjoy your stay here, and feel free to post as much as you like..the book forum could use some pepping up....And please excuse our current jack ass of the moment Freddy Krueger...

[annabel lee]

Thanks to everyone for the warm greetings. As for Freddy, well . . .

I post at work so I seem to be on a different schedule than most. I am going to have to access the site at night after I get home.

To Stingy Jack: You will have to pick up again if it has been awhile on In Silent Graves. Immediately upon finishing the novel, I had to re-read parts of it again. I will have to read Cemetary Dance, I am really impressed by Braunbeck's style of writing. Much different than some of the other horror writers I like to read.

[movieman64]

Hay, another over the hiller...we are few and far between on this forum.

[Vodstok]

Hey, i can see the hill in the disatnce, getting closer....

[ShankS]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Hey, i can see the hill in the disatnce, getting closer....


I'm already there mate, or feel Iam

see you over the other side. ;)

[nine9]

Welcome Anna Bell! Name from the Poe poem perhaps?

Glad to meet you............you will probably remember the same movies and TV as me YAHOO! Yes I know Witching hour, but just barely now. What aboput good old Dark Shadows? :)

[annabel lee]

I remember Dark Shadows. We would come home from school and it would be on the television. I must say I enjoy more now than when I was jr. high. This isn't horror but I will now really date my self. Remember Johnny Quest, and I don't mean on the Cartoon Channel.:p

[nine9]

Originally posted by annabel lee
I remember Dark Shadows. We would come home from school and it would be on the television. I must say I enjoy more now than when I was jr. high. This isn't horror but I will now really date my self. Remember Johnny Quest, and I don't mean on the Cartoon Channel.:p

Oh yes my brother's favorite show! You must be about his age.

Great to have you here! :)

[allmykids]

WELCOME, There are alot of youngins, Great people though, But it is nice to have some one closer to my Age. I am 39!! Hope to talk with you! :D :D

[newb]

Welcome to the site. Its good to have another 40ish person here.
When I was a tyke I could play Quentin's theme on the piano. That and jingle bells was the extent of my music career.

[massacre man]

Originally posted by allmykids
WELCOME, There are alot of youngins, Great people though, But it is nice to have some one closer to my Age. I am 39!! Hope to talk with you! :D :D im not A youngin im THE youngin