The Conjuring

 

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The movie, “The Conjuring” a movie directed by the awesome James Wan, Written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes, starts off with paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren revealing to an auditorium of college students the story of two nurses who gave permission to a supposed spirit named Annabelle to possess their doll. This creepy little demon possessed Barbie doll redecorated their apartment with red crayon, totally freaking the nurses so bad they threw lil Annabelle in a dumpster. Did she stay there? Why heck NO!

The story then goes to moving day for the Perron Family.  Roger (Ron Livingston) and Carolyn (Lilli Taylor) move their family into a nice little farm house in Rhode Island for a little peace and quiet. So they thought. I knew something was up when Sadie, the family dog wouldn’t cross the front door threshold. Oh yay, the dawg knows.

 

The family gets busy with the unpacking and they settle into the farm house with its dingy walls, hey mom, mix up some bleach water and put them kids to work. They happily begin to settle into their new life.  It was all going well until daughter April (Kyla Deaver) finds a music box underneath a creepy old tree.  A hidden entrance to a dark and gloomy cellar is found during a fun game of hide and clap. Mom starts waking up with bruises. All the clocks in the house stop at 3:07, then, poor Sadie. Poor, poor Sadie. That’s all I have to say about that.

 

Then we are in Monroe, Connecticut, in the lovely home of the Warren family. Would be very lovely if not for their creepy little room of Horrors. Ain’t no way I would go to sleep in that house, I don’t care how many priest come bless that room.

 

Back at the Perron’s house, Ole Sadie is laid to rest and the clocks are reset. The family settle down for bed. All is good until something starts playing footsy with daughter Christine (Joey King).  Daughter Nancy (Hayley McFarland) accuses Christine of farting. Dad is awoken by strange knocking sounds. Mom still hasn’t washed them dingy walls, and doors start to open up all by themselves.

 

Come to find out the sounds are of Cindy (Mackenzie Foy) sleep walking repeatedly into an armoire in Andrea’s (Shanley Caswell) room. Carolyn continues to wake up with bruises. Roger has to go to work and birds start flying into the house. The bigger kids start school, leaving little April to make a new friend named Rory. April tries to introduce Carolyn to Rory. But he is being shy. They decide to play a game of hide and clap. Instead of playing mama really needs to wash them dingy walls. She follows the claps into Andrea’s room. Guess what? April isn’t the one clapping. Oh yay, it’s about to get good.

 

Nightfall comes again and the family settle down for another nights rest. Another game of footsy starts in Nancy and Christine’s room. Honestly that is when all hell breaks loose. Don’t look under the bed Christine! The hair is standing up on the back of my neck just thinking about it. Yikes! Christine see’s someone behind the door. Nancy wants to prove her wrong. Then someone farts again. The door slams shut and the screaming begins. To include my own girlish screams.

 

The next night mom is drawn down stairs by a noise. All the pictures fall off the dingy walls. Someone decides to play Hide and Clap. Door to the cellar opens all by itself. Mom is pushed down the cellar stairs and Cindy starts sleep walking again in Andrea’s room. Andrea lures Cindy back in bed when the Armoire takes on a life of its own. Cindy wakes up and screams as the houses hidden occupant makes herself known. Dad shows up to find the house in mayhem.

 

Sometime later, Carolyn attends a seminar given by the Warren’s and seeks out their help. Me, I would have moved. Forget getting help. I don’t care if there was a mortgage left to deal with. I don’t care if I had to live with my five kids in a tent on the side of the road. I woulda moved ASAP. But, Carolyn goes to find the Warren’s instead.

The Warren’s arrive and find the family camped out in the living room. The family was too scared to sleep upstairs. The Warren’s immediately know that something is henky with the house. Lorraine gets to see firsthand the entity that haunts the lives of this family. The Warren’s assemble a paranormal crew and invade the Perron home. They use cameras and other paranormal equipment to get to the heart of the haunting.  

 

Carolyin lays down for a nap and wakes up in a really bad mood. She is possessed by a witch haunting her house. She is convinced by this spirit to kill her children.

 

 

The Warrens undergo a vigilant battle to free Carolyn from the evil spirit.

 

 

I am not gonna lie to you, this movie scared the crap outta me.

On the Scare my booty off meter, I give this movie five outta five stars.

On the gruesome meter I give this movie five outta five stars.

On the acting level I give this movie five outta five stars.

This was a great movie, grab a bucket of popcorn and enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John E, Cother's Fear of Spiders

Fear Of Spiders

What if it was the summer of 1965, you were fourteen, and your father abandoned your family and your mother drank herself to death? What if during this one crazy summer you fell wildly in love with a girl?

From their tiny Mississippi hometown to the mountains of North Carolina, JT and his sister, Lesi begin a series of adventures, sometimes hilarious and other times frightening--and JT falls in love, but not before their lives take a dangerous and harrowing turn when brother and sister are attacked and seriously injured by an intruder when their aunt leaves them alone for a night to return to her job as a nurse.

 

On the journey to understanding their deceased mother and to finding the father who abandoned them, JT and Lesi discover much more--they find themselves and a new life in the process--and celebrate the miracle called the human spirit.

John's Biography

Mississippi born in 1947, John E. Cother is the oldest of three siblings. His parents were loving and hard working. His childhood was a very happy one. An early memory was his love for the Mississippi State University Bulldogs, a love and affection that continues to this day.

At age six, he discovered another love. He loved to write. He simply wrote things, everyday things, on crumpled pieces of notebook paper. As a teenager and young adult, he wrote poetry and short stories. None of this writing did he ever deem worthy of keeping, much less sharing with others.

Frequently, he told family and friends, that he had a novel in him. One day he would write this novel. He was sure of it.

Loving children, his career choice was easy. He became an Educator. He spent most of his 33 year career as a public school principal. Earning Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Education, he was well trained for his chosen profession. Looking back upon his career, he felt it was never a job, but a mission--his mission.

However, the novel inside of him would never go away. The love of writing and the desire to write was always present. Throughout his career, he spent time writing notes to himself on ideas for a novel. He wrote suggested book titles, character descriptions, and plot ideas. Being a teenager in the mid sixties, and still loving that time period and music; framing his novel in that era became a goal.

Upon his retirement in June, 2003, he began to write immediately. His first novel, FEAR OF SPIDERS, is the product of that writing.

Heevie Jeevie's interview with Dale Eldon

Dale Eldon

Dale Eldon's Bio
Dale works fast food to pay the pays as he tirelessly slings ink writing stories. He takes care of his sick mother, and has a small dog, part Terrier and Yorkshire. He is also the proud father of a hyper three-year-old, Reagan.

Heevie Jeevie's:  What compelled you to write your first book?

Dale Eldon: I have so many projects that I am either working on, or are in a file called: The Backburner, but I will go with my zombie novella, SMELL OF THE DEAD. It will be coming out early 2013 from Crowded Quarantine Publications.

A few years ago, before The Walking Dead was a hit TV series (and at this point I didn't know it was comic book series), I came up with an idea for a few zombie stories. From the very get go, it was based on one character who was trapped on a mountain with a psychotic, during a zombie apocalypse. It was a cool concept that I really liked as I fleshed it out. The story started out with the main character bitten, and he had to survive zombies, the man whom he believed to be responsible for the outbreak, and get to safety in hopes of getting cured before it's too late.

I shelved the idea and moved on. But then my Uncle John who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, said it would be awesome if I were to write a zombie story about zombies on a mountain. But this time around I had been reading up on how for the past fifteen years scientists have ended up dead, missing, in strange ways. And it has been getting worse in recent years. The scientists ranged form all types of fields, microbiology, nuclear physics, DNA resequencer, you name it. And all of the scientists were from around the world, and had ties with each other. So, I asked the question, what if a lot these scientists were turning up dead or missing because they were working on some kind of super-bug? Something that could give the control of the Earth to the conquering army? And as they started to catch on that their life was hanging in the balance, especially the more they learned about the project, what if they went on the run? And what if this time around the mountain I had from before was the biggest mountain in the world?

Heevie Jeevie's:  Have you always wanted to be a writer?

Dale Eldon: Yes. As a child I wanted to write stories. At this point mostly Sci-Fi. I wanted to write Star Trek fan fiction, super-hero stories, and the occasional monster tale. As I got older I didn't pursue it much until 2000, when I watched the first episode of Mutant X. Though it was kind of cheesy, I wanted to do my own story in the same vein. Off and on over the years I have went back to writing, but as of 2008, I started to get more serious about it. Each year that has went by, I have made significant headway, and now as of this year, I am published.

Heevie Jeevie's:   How did you come up with your title?

Dale Eldon: For my novella, I always wondered in the midst of zombies, how people dealt with the smell. And how would they describe it? I mean anyone who has worked in Homicide, or the morgue knows the different kinds of smells of dead people, but a zombie which is reanimated might have a different odor. It's a small detail, but it spurred the idea for the title.

Heevie Jeevie's:  Tell us briefly about your latest book.

Dale Eldon:  It's about a team of scientists who worked on a top secret project that leave the field of science for their own safety once some of their colleagues come up dead.

The plan is, to enjoy the one adventure all of them have wanted to go while they were still young enough to do it, and to begin a new life by faking their own deaths. However, the adventure is to climb the deadly mountain, Everest.

But instead of trekking up the North side, and back down the South, and leaving their identities on the mountain, something goes wrong-terribly wrong.

Imagine being on the deadliest mountain of the world where one out of four people die every year, and to be trapped on that mountain with the living dead!

These zombies are not your run of the mill undeads either, they have some kind of fiber much like a cactus spine, protruding from their skin all over their bodies. The fibers are mostly green and black, they come out very easy into the skin of the living, and carry the disease with them. Being bitten is no longer the only spreading of the disease. Seriously, imagine zombie movies where the living are struggling with the zombies, kill those zombies, and live to tell the tale. Well, in this story you run a good chance of doing the same thing, and without getting bit, still becoming one of them. The fibers are based on a real disease called, Morgellons Disease, and when I heard of it, I just had to use it.

Heevie Jeevie's:  What are you working on at the moment?

Dale Eldon: Right now I'm putting the finishing touches on SMELL OF THE DEAD, but after that I will be writing the sequel, OASIS OF THE DEAD, for consideration for Crowded Quarantine Publications. Then I have two novels I am outling for CQ, also still for consideration, a vampire novel called, BY INVITATION ONLY, which is about a vampire who is shunned from his clan tries get back in but ends up at war with the new leader, who use to be his best friend. There's so much more to this one, but I'm still fleshing it out, and I will be updating fans on my Facebook Page on projects.

The second novel, ESCAPE FROM LIMBO, is about a man, Aaron Linwood, who died and his ghost is stuck at a nursing home, as he is forced to watch his ex-wife, Dianna, die. Throughout this experience he gets to watch his daughter, Marie, reveal to Dianna about the pain he had put her through, and her mother shares her side. But when his Dianna dies, he is shot back forty years into the past, and is now alive again, in his younger body. Before going back, he wanted to make things right, but now he has his second chance, he going back to old habits. However, his path will not let him, and he must do what it takes to fix the damage he caused, even at risk of his own life. This one is written as a short story, but I am working on expanding it into a novel.

Heevie Jeevie's: Do you have a favorite character? Why is s/he your favorite?
Dale Eldon: With every story I write, I always try to come up with an interesting character, I work to find ways of making that character different from the others. So it's hard to have a real favorite.

Heevie Jeevie's: How did you feel the day you held the copy of your first book in your hands?
Dale Eldon: Well at this point I don't have SMELL OF THE DEAD TO HOLD, but I do have an anthology with a short story by me called, POTATO MAN, and when I held the book it felt grrrrreat!

Heevie Jeevie's: The main characters of your stories – do you find that you put a little of yourself into each of them or do you create them to be completely different from you?

Dale Eldon: Both. Though my best writing comes when I put some of myself into them. It makes the writing fly by so smooth. But like I said before, I love to create a variety of characters, and make them different from each other.

Heevie Jeevie's:  When growing up, did you have a favorite author, book series, or book?

Dale Eldon: I really enjoyed R.L. Stein. Both his Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street novels. Believe it or not, except for very few books, I wasn't a big Stephen King fan until I was an adult.

Dale Eldon's short story, POTATO MAN, now out in the anthology, Grindhouse!

Here's an excerpt of POTATO MAN:

Excerpt from The Potato Man, of the Grindhouse Anthology:

“There's nothing like waking up naked, paralyzed from the neck down, on a cold steel slab to make you think about your life.” Trevor said with a cigarette pinched between his fingers. “Well usually people think about their life when they're about to lose it.” A pause. “At that point, I was thinking how the hell am I gonna to get the  #*@&  out of there?”

“So, how did you get out?” Geoff asked.

“I was unable to move anything below my chin. I tried to see around the room. It was barely lit, there weren't any windows, metal tables everywhere. There must have been at least a dozen people down there. I was in some kind of basement.

“I saw blood spray onto the walls... The sound of a chainsaw blade... I-I heard it slice into the others.” Trevor inhaled hard on the cigarette, taking the cherry down by a third. “Bones cracked, and the only other sound that drowned out the buzzing... were the screams.

“The man with the chainsaw came for me.

“He came into my peripheral, the first thought that popped into my head, was that he looked like a walking baked potato. He had a plastic face mask, smothered in blood, with a silver apron. I don't know why I thought that, I think it was the apron. I wasn't exactly in right mind at that point.



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Ira Levin's Rosmary's Baby

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castevet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing her husband takes a special shine to them.

Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant, and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castevets’ circle is not what it seems…

In 1967, when Rosemary's Baby was first published, Ira Levin's masterpiece gave horror an innocent new face. It startled critics, stunned readers with its unique and deceptively calm voice, and caused a worldwide sensation. It found fear where we never thought to look before, and dared to bring it into the sunlight. To this day, Rosemary's Baby is as disquieting as shattering glass in an empty basement, and as unsettling as the cry of a newborn coming from behind a newly plastered wall.

Heevie Jeevies Interview with Jason Brannon

Jason Brannon

Jason Brannon’s stories are nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat reading that makes it hard to put his books down. His story telling embraces the dualistic nature of good and evil. You have to appreciate the skill Brannon has as his richly drawn characters come to life in his books. At times Brannon’s writing is full of slam-bang action and other times he makes you set back and ponder life.  Heevie Heevies is proud to interview this bright and upcoming author.

Heevie Jeevie's: What compelled you to write your first book?

Jason Brannon:My first book was actually a collection of short stories called Puzzles of Flesh. I developed the writing bug in high school, and I started writing short fiction because it didn't seem quite as daunting as a full-blown novel. Little by little, I started finding homes for my fiction in small magazines. That gave me confidence and motivated me to keep writing. Eventually, I got the idea to compile some of those stories into a collection. But the idea wasn't something I started out with. Originally, it was just a short story here and there sold to an online magazine or to a small print outfit.

Heevie Jeevie's: Have you always wanted to be a writer?

Jason Brannon:I'm not sure I've always wanted to be a writer but I've always been a reader. My mother taught me to read before I was two years old so literacy was engrained in me early. We used to go to the library frequently, and I read everything I could get my hands on. That sort of upbringing built the foundation for writing later on.

Heevie Jeevie's:  How did you come up with your titles?

Jason Brannon: Some titles evolve over time. For instance, the original title of my novel The Cage was Caged. The publisher thought The Cage would work better so we went with it. In other cases, the idea for the title comes at the same time as inspiration for the story. The title for Lake October came when I was sitting on my parents' deck and looking out over the small lake that flanks the back of their house. One of my favorite books of all time is Ray Bradbury's The October Country. When trying to come up with a name for the fictional lake in my novel, I decided to pay homage to the book's creator.

As is the case with most of my books or short stories, there isn't a hard and fast rule for anything. Sometimes, I just wing it.

Heevie Jeevie's: Tell us briefly about your latest book.

Jason Brannon: I've actually got three books which have been released recently. The first is Rusty Nails which is a supernatural detective novel. Think the Harry Dresden novels or the television show, Angel. The book has that sort of vibe. It's a story about a second war between fallen angels, a mystical street drug called Rusty Nails that erases guilt, and a young child who knows a secret that holds the key to everything. This book has been around in various incarnations for several years, been sold to a few different publishers, but never seen publication until now. The sequel, Resurrections, Inc., will be out next.

The second of my releases is Lake October. It's a story about a strange presence living in Lake October that demands offerings from local residents. Those who fail to make offerings to The Lady in the Lake learn all too quickly what it's like to feel the punishment of a god.

The third and final release is Quartet. Several years ago I had a novella collection published entitled Winds of Change. Quartet was the middle novella. The story is basically about a string quartet who become trapped inside a conservatory and held captive by a group of sea-dwelling denizens. The quartet's only defense is music which inflicts horrendous pain on the denizens. In order to survive, the quartet must play their instruments indefinitely...or die.

 

Heevie Jeevie's:  What are you working on at the moment?

Jason Brannon: At the moment, I've got a couple different projects going. I'm working on Resurrections Inc (the sequel to Rusty Nails) and Uncaged (the sequel to The Cage). I'm also thinking about revisiting Graffiti (the third novella from Winds of Change).

Heevie Jeevie's: Do you have a favorite character? Why is s/he your favorite?

Jason Brannon: Some of my favorites would be Leland Gaunt from Stephen King's Needful Things, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, John Taylor from Simon R. Green's Nightside series, Merrily Watkins from Phil Rickman's books, Randall Flagg from King's The Stand...honestly, there are a lot of great characters I love. I should probably stop now because there isn't room to list them all.

Of my own characters, I'd say Captain Jack Omaha from The Cage. Although his fate seemed a bit uncertain at the end of The Cage, we will be seeing more of him.

Heevie Jeevie's: How did you feel the day you held the copy of your first book in your hands? 

Jason Brannon: Disappointed, actually. The first version of Puzzles of Flesh featured a cover that the publisher did on her own. It was horrendous and not at all what I had hoped for. I suppose I should have been more focused on the fact that I had actually gotten a book published, but at the time, all I could focus on was how dreadful the cover art was and how I would have loved something different. Eventually, a second edition of the book was printed with a different cover. I was a little happier the second go 'round. Looking back now, that book was part of the learning process and a stepping stone toward where I am now.

Heevie Jeevie's:  The main characters of your stories – do you find that you put a little of yourself into each of them or do you create them to be completely different from you?

Jason Brannon:There are little bits and pieces of me in everything I do. Maybe it comes through in dialogue when a character uses a phrase that I'm known to use. Or possibly in the way a setting is described-this is particularly valid when reading my Southern horror novella, The Order of the Bull. I've even written entire stories based on small experiences that I've had-an early tale called The Pond was based on a small pond that I used to explore as a boy.

Heevie Jeevie's: When growing up, did you have a favorite author, book series, or book?

Jason Brannon: I never had an author that I called my favorite until I discovered Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles in high school. From there I read, The October Country, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, A is for Apple, and on and on. I read everything by him I could get my hands on. He was and still remains my favorite author. Everything he wrote had the ability to turn on a dime. One moment he could write something beautiful and poetic only to write something ugly and savage the next. The Martian Chronicles is still my favorite book.

JASON BRANNON'S "LAKE OCTOBER"

LAKE OCTOBER

BY

JASON BRANNON

Things that seem too good to be true usually are. That's what Chris Jackson and his wife, Heather, discover when they buy a house on the shores of Lake October for a fraction of its market value. Although meant to be a year-round idyll where they can raise their two sons without the encroaching dangers of the inner city, the house becomes more prison than sanctuary when the Jacksons begin hearing stories about a presence known only as The Lady that is said to inhabit Lake October.

Those stories take on new meaning when strange things start to happen around the Jackson household. Chris and Heather walk in their sleep after hearing a gentle song on the night air. The children, barely old enough to speak English, speak in foreign tongues during fits of incoherency. Even the family dog goes berserk, nearly killing the youngest son, Nicky, in a fit of uncharacteristic rage.

Dead Nations' Army Book One: CODE FLESH (The True Zombie War)

Dead Nations' Army Book One: CODE FLESH

 (The True Zombie War)



A  New World Order is now in place…ruling the planet…one that the populace allowed to get out of control…

The elite government officials, the most wealthy persons, those deemed ‘important’ now live in Utopias…waiting for the other 99 percent to die…

Originally the Order planned your demise via disease…yet, with the aid of a blessed ‘mistake’ they now have an army to do that for them…a vicious, desperate, hungry, army of zombies – or scrats - needing to eat human flesh in order to survive or die themselves…

The Dead Nations’ Army, or DNA, exists worldwide to aid those trapped in ‘Survivor Communities’ by fighting the Order and the scrats en route to providing medicine, sustenance, munitions, and whatever else they can find.
Two siblings torn apart by the rise of the NWO find themselves on both sides of the war and realize after all these years they will need each other once again to survive.

However, the Order have other plans and the scrats appear to have plans of their own. Both have one thing in common: the destruction of the people left behind to fend for themselves…

Alan Dale’s “DEAD NATIONS’ ARMY” trilogy kicks off with a bang as “CODE FLESH” introduces you to a world that is as dark as it is real. Look around, the Order is coming, your flesh is needed…

SPREAD OUR DNA!