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Halloween Movies Extravaganza!

October 24, 2008

It’s that time of year again! If you’re anything like me, it’s the time when you start to seek out the old Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff movies>>> to get you in the Halloween mood! And look what I found!!! I am so excited about some of these old movies!

Every year I end up watching the same horror movies from the (+/-) 1940s, and I have yet to tire of them. I know it would be easier to buy or tape the movies, but with this search and seek mode, I get a wider variety of the old scary movies.

Here is a list of the movies that both TCM and AMC are showing this year. I have only included the old movies… not the more recent movies that I cannot sit through… much too realistic/scary for me! (I did notice that AMC is showing a lot of the more modern movies… but they simply aren’t “cozy enough” for me!)

I am going to go right now to set up a few of these movies on my Replay machine (like a TIVO)… Hopefully you will be able to find a movie or two that you want to watch!

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) “48 Hours of Horror”
Friday, October 30: 
Mad Love     6:15 a
The Beast with Five Fingers   7:30 a
I Walked With a Zombie   9:00 a
Curse of the Demon  10:15 a
The Gorgon   12:00 p
Mr. Sardonicus    1:30 p
The Tomb of Ligeia   3:15 p
The Tingler    5:00 p
House of Usher    6:30 p
Dead of Night    8:00 p
Torture Garden   10:00 p
Twice-Told Tales  11:45 p
Kwaidan     2:00 a
Spirits of the Dead   4:45 a
Saturday, October 31:
Tell-Tale Heart    7:00 a
Cat People    7:30 a
Freaks     9:00 a
The Devil Doll    10:15 a
Mark of the Vampire   11:45 a
The Devil Bat    1:00 p
White Zombie    2:15 p
The Body Snatcher   3:30 p
Bedlam     5:00 p
The Ghoul    6:30 p
The Haunted Palace   8:00 p  
Die, Monster, Die!   9:30 p
The Shuttered Room  11:00 p
The Dunwich Horror  12:45 a
Blood Feast    2:30 a

AMC (American Movie Classics)
Saturday, October 25:  
The Curse of Frankenstein  6:15 a 
Son of Frankenstein 8:15 a  
House of Frankenstein 10:30 a  
Sunday, October 26:  
Jack the Ripper 5:00 a
Monday, October 27:
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte 4:00 a
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Invisible Man 6:00 a
Bride of Frankenstein 7:45 a
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman 9:30 a
Wednesday, October 29: 
The Mummy’s Hand 6:00 a 
Thursday, October 30:
The Mummy 6:00 a
Friday, October 31:
The Fly 2:30 a
House of Dracula 4:30 a
House of Frankenstein 6:00 a
Horror of Dracula 7:30 a

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Not To Read OR To Read…

October 22, 2008

Getting back to the point of my previous blog…

I am not quite sure what fostered my love for books. I suspect that it was my paternal grandmother. Every time she visited us she brought at least one book in tow. Every time we visited her, she would let me go through her built-in book shelves in the living room, and pick which ever book I fancied at the time.

I read my first Louisa May Alcott after having picked it from her shelves. I also had my first taste of William Shakespeare, as well as Edgar Allen Poe from those shelves.

I attended Iowa State University so that I could be close to my beloved grandmother. She lived in a little town in the northern part of Iowa which I was able to visit while attending college… via the Greyhound bus lines. While visiting my grandmother, I remember going to her small town’s library on many occasions. That was probably where I first was introduced to Agatha Christie, Victoria Holt, and Mary Rinehart Roberts.

When I look back at those times, and my grandmother’s absolute love for books, I can see where I possibly came by my love for the printed word… and hope that I have passed that love along to both of my children. (Actually, I know my husband and I have>>> They are both voracious readers.)

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Even More Historical Themed Mystery Authors…

October 20, 2008

I seem to be on a roll! Here are four new (to the Cozy Mystery Site) authors who write mystery novels with a historical theme. (These four authors were recommended by readers of the site.)

Caroline Roe  (aka Medora Sale): The Chronicles of Isaac of Girona Mystery Series are set in the mid 1300s, and feature a blind doctor in Spain (written as Roe) AND the John Sanders Mystery Series (written as Sale) features a detective in Canada…

P. B. Ryan: The Gilded Age Mystery Series features a governess from Ireland, and is set in Boston after the Civil War…

Kate Sedley: The Roger the Chapman Mystery Series takes place in medieval England and features a peddler/sleuth…

Sarah Stewart Taylor: The Sweeney St. George Mystery Series features a history professor in Vermont, who happens to be particularly interested in funerary art…

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To Read, OR Not To Read…

October 18, 2008

You know, it’s sort of interesting to take a look at your life and figure out why you do the things you do. I don’t mean why we do crazy, idiotic things… Those are just freakish mistakes that we make. I mean, for example, why do we… let’s say… READ?!?

I grew up in a household where reading was NOT important. It was not something that was pushed, emphasized, cajoled, expected… (You probably get my drift!) Yet, whenever my father was stationed at a new location, one of the first things that I did was to ask my mother to drive me to the local library. To my knowledge, I am the only one of the four children who showed the least bit of interest in reading.

I remember making my way through Edna Ferber’s classics (So Big was a particular favorite of mine) and Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth was another favorite.) Followed by classics like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. I also went through a “reading stage” where I couldn’t get enough Greek/Roman mythology.

When I lived in Chile, since I spoke English (rather!) fluently, the English teacher let me read mythology during the regular English class time. (My parents sent all four of us to Chilean schools, where we were the only native English speakers.) Little did I know that Sister Serena was starting me on a path that would include a love for all television shows that deal with ancient civilizations!

(More on these ramblings later…)

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