I first watched The Shining when I was sixteen with a friend. Neither of us adored it. It was an okay movie with some humorous and creepy parts but had a boring slow-moving atmosphere to it. It wasn’t a particularly terrifying film. I’ve seen it a couple times since and […]
Tag: scary books
On Stephen King’s ‘It’
In 2015 I read a book called On Writing by Stephen King. I was aware that this man was one of the most prolific fiction writers out there. However, I was also aware he wrote horror, and being a scaredy-cat I was too afraid to read any of his books. […]
Scary Stuff
I’ve never been a fan of horror films and books. Growing up they always scared the shit out of me. I found the film The woman in black terrifying and hated it. Scary stuff aside, I don’t think horror is very interesting. The stories are usually the same; people being […]
Reviewing Stephen King
I’m a major fan of Stephen King, but not a fan of horror. I read On Writing in 2015 for writing tips and got so intrigued that I wanted to read his non-scary fiction, so began with 11/22/63 and haven’t looked back. I love his books. All of the ones […]