"1, 2, Freddy's coming for you..." Every horror fan knows this rhyme. A Nightmare on Elm Street didn't begin the slasher craze of the 1970s and 1980s, but the titular character Freddy Krueger is one of the best slashers to ever be depicted on screen.  Released in 1980, Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street tells the story of Nancy and her friends. These teenagers being having nightmares about some guy with a burnt face and "Knives for fingers." As her friends die one by one in their sleep, Nancy learns that the scary guy who is hunting them is one Fred Krueger, a child murder wh ..read more

 "I've got her."  Imagine you receive this phone call a week after your child has disappeared. The caller does not identify himself, and hangs up after he says these words.  This is the first of several anonymous phone calls Dorothy Jane Scott's parents received beginning a week after she went missing. Dorothy Jane Scott attended an employee meeting at work in the spring of 1980. At around 9 pm, Dorothy noticed a co-worker had a pretty nasty spider bite and offered to take him to the hospital. Another co-worker offered to join them.  After the spider bite had been treated ..read more

It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's time for classic horror books and movies that give us that warm, tingly feeling. It's time for murder mysteries that are so obscure you can't help but want to go investigate.  I celebrate spooky all year, but when pumpkin patches open and leaves start to fall, everyone is on board with spooky. I like to share the fear with others. So, in honor of Halloween, I will be posting twice a week on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout the month of October. Monday's posts will be devoted to reviews of classic horror books and movies that we all love. Tuesd ..read more

 It's hard to keep up with these posts when I can only play this game once a week. But play it again I did.  Okay, so my first post on the subject was more of a game review and introducing some lingering questions I had about how the game works. The locations the app game me the first time I played it were spot on regarding the intention I had each time. I wanted to know how the game works. How could it have known what I was thinking? Well, this time around, I think I've found the answer to my question. It doesn't read your mind. If you say an intention out loud, it can't hear you. T ..read more

I'm going to do something a little bit different here. I'm going to review a game. Randonautica. Heard of it? I hadn't until last week. BackgroundRandonautica is billed as a "choose your own adventure reality game." It's an app that you can download for free onto your phone that generates random GPS coordinates in response to your "intention", or what you want to find. The idea is that you think about something you want to find, and the app will randomly generate a location for you to plug into your GPS and have an adventure. It's like one big random scavenger hunt where you may or may not ..read more

 Hi everyone! Just a reminder that the Amazon ebook giveaway in celebration of the release of Revelations: A Horror Anthology ends September 15. Don't miss out on this! Thanks for reading! For editing and writing coach services, please visit elizabethedits.com ..read more

I have been struggling with if Legend Tripping: A "Choose Your Own" Travel Guide will contain a story or be a true guide book. That's probably confusing for some, but that's the best way I can describe it. I began writing this book under the assumption that I would follow the structure of every "Choose Your Own Adventure" I've ever read. That is to tell a story and allow for the reader to become the protagonist. I began writing Legend Tripping as a fictional story, which allows for the reader to become the protagonist. I got four chapters in (complete with choices and paths) before ..read more

From September 11-15, 2020, I'll be hosting an Amazon giveaway of You're Next: A Short Novel Inspired by True Events in celebration of the launch of Revelations: A Horror Anthology. To read Revelations at half price before its scheduled release date, follow the link below. Revelations: A Horror Anthology on Smashwords  *Available until September 15. I really appreciate everyone's support and feedback. You all have been invaluable. Thank You! For editing and writing coach services, please visit elizabethedits.com ..read more

I have been looking for this movie everywhere. I found it two weeks ago online somewhere (I forget the website) for $2,000. Yeah. I didn't want to see it that bad. But then I found it later that same day on Shudder. I couldn't believe my luck. After a year of looking, I finally have easy access to it. When did that happen? "All right." I thought. "Let's go." In Search of Darkness is one of the few horror documentaries out there. Directed by David A. Weiner, this flick focuses on the horror movies of the 1980s. There are only a handful of others like it, such as Nightmares in Red, White, and ..read more

      Ah. Quarantine movies. They're everywhere now, aren't they? But this one... This movie combines the quarantine narrative with found footage to attempt to scare me. Color me intrigued.  Host is a 2020 found footage horror movie directed by Rob Savage. It is a story about five friends inviting a medium to join their Zoom meeting for a little seance excitement during COVID-19 quarantine. When Gemma claims she is touched by the spirit of a deceased friend named Jack, candles begin to flicker and strange noises can be heard.  When the paranormal activity increases t ..read more