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steamworksandshadows · 4 years ago

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Extremely Large Pile of Halloween Music Recs, 2020 Update!

(Reorganized a bit, and with a whole bunch more songs.)

Classical

Come Little Children - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestral classical)

A History of Horror (album) - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Double Trouble - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (classical)

Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens (eerie classical)

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens (dark classical ballet)

Uranus, the Magician - Gustav Holst (orchestral classical)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Paul Dukas (orchestral classical)

Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky (orchestral classical about witches)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (classical)

Dies Irae - Mozart (threatening choral/orchestral classical)

Don Giovanni, a cenar teco - Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera - the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (classical pipe organ)

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (III) - Shostakovich (classical string quartet)

Dance of the Knights - Sergei Prokofiev (classical)

Flowering Vines - Unwoman (ominous cello waltz)

The Carny of Mr Dark - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman (goth pipe organ)

Castlevania organ medley - Ulla Olsson (pipe organ)

This Is Halloween - Vitamin String Quartet (classical string quartet)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Nightmare Before Christmas (album)

The Vampire Masquerade - Peter Gundry (classical)

Waltz of the Bone King - Peter Gundry (classical)

Masquerade Suite: Waltz - Aram Khatchaturian (dark classical waltz)

The Comedians, Op. 26: Waltz - Kabalevsky (uneasy classical waltz)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - Myuu (instrumental piano)

Rock, alternative, rockabilly

Haunted - Ashcan Orchid (folk rock)

The Last Steampunk Waltz - Ghostfire (rock waltz)

Bad Moon Rising - Rasputina (cello metal)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Apocalyptica (metal cello)

Get Your Kicks on Route 666 - Exdevils (metal)

Shoot The Zombies - Andrew Huang / Songs To Wear Pants To (sing-along folk)

Something Wicked That Way Went - Vernian Process (circus rock)

Dark Carnivale - Frenchy and the Punk (indie rock)

Come Alive (War Of The Roses) - Janelle Monae (rock)

Gallows - Coco Rosie (goth indie/alternative)

My Favorite Things - Youn Sun Nah (creepy vocal)

Annabel Lee - Psyche Corporation (electronic alternative)

The Devil Wears a Suit - Kate Miller-Heidke (alternative)

Toxic - Yael Naim (neo-folk)

Crazy For You - Venus de Vilo (indie rock)

Witchy Woman - The Eagles (classic rock)

Goodnight Moon - Shivaree (alternative)

Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Nouvelle Vague (alternative)

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde (alternative)

Tombstone - Suzanne Vega (alternative)

Off With Your Head - Mz Ann Thropik (alternative)

Poison Apple - Charlene Kaye (rock)

This Is The Night - Harry Potter soundtrack (rock)

Look Out Young Son - Grand Ole Party (rock)

Painkiller - Birdeatsbaby (rock)

Haunted - Frantic Flintstones (rockabilly)

Freaked Out and Psyched Out - Frantic Flintstones (album)

Zombie Riot - Batmobile (rockabilly)

Alice in psycholand - Nekromantix (rockabilly)

She’s My Witch - The Radiacs (rockabilly)

Werewolf - Southern Culture on the Skids (rockabilly)

Human Fly - The Cramps (rockabilly)

Munster Beat! - Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket (‘60s pop remix?)

Circus punk, dark cabaret

Charmed, I’m Sure - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

We’re All Mad - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

Pink Elephants on Parade - Circus Contraption (dark cabaret)

The Last Waltz - The Magnificent Seven (dark cabaret waltz)

Tango de la Muerte - The Magnificent Seven (rock tango)

Bloody Bones - Beats Antique (dark circus waltz)

Monster Tango - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Rumanian Dance No. 1 - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

The Trouble - Birdeatsbaby (dark cabaret)

Theatre Noir - Robyn Cage (dark cabaret) (music video)

Jekyll and Hyde - Theoretics (hip-hop)

Lament for a Toy Factory - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Bogeyman Boogie - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Circus Apocalypse - Vermillion Lies (dark cabaret)

When You’re Evil - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

BRAINS! - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

Careless Whisper (cover) - Unwoman (electronic cabaret)

Katrinah Josephina - Universal Hall Pass (a capella)

Buried in Water - Dead Man’s Bones (dark waltz)

Metropolitan Waltz - Orpheum Bell (folk waltz)

The Buccaneers’ Waltz - GurdyBird (electronic folk?)

Black Waltz - Amber Asylum (electronic circus thing)

Creepy Clown Symphony - Myuu (self-explanatory)

Americana, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk

In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company - The Dead South (Americana)

Stranger - The Devil Makes Three (Americana)

First and Last Waltz - Nickel Creek (Americana)

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers (bluegrass)

7 Devils - The Goddamn Gallows (bluegrass, rock)

Old devils - William Elliot Whitmore (bluegrass)

Death Come Creeping - Stefan Grossman (bluegrass)

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall (Americana)

Shankill Butchers - Sarah Jarosz (Americana)

Hellhound - Shawn James (acoustic blues)

Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor (blues)

Your Hoodoo Man - Studebaker John & The Hawks (blues)

Voodoo - The Neville Brothers (New Orleans soul)

Voodoo - Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (soul, funk)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone (funk)

I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (rock ‘n roll)

Jazz, swing

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Duke Ellington (jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Morgan James (slow jazz)

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra (jazz)

Black Magic Woman - Janice Hagan and Kenny Vehkavaara (jazz)

I’d Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt (jazz)

Thriller (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady - Postmodern Jukebox (swing) (alternate link)

The Devil With The Devil - Larry Clinton Orchestra (swing)

Swingin’ at the Seance - Glenn Miller (big band swing)

Spooks - Louis Armstrong (swing)

The Headless Horseman - Bing Crosby (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band (swing)

Resurrection Waltz - Lee Presson and the Nails (big band waltz)

Spooky - Puppini Sisters (Andrews Sisters-style swing)

Headless Horseman - Kay Starr (swing)

Hell (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Memphis Exorcism (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Boogie Man - Lee Presson and the Nails (swing)

Rattlin’ Bones - Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans swing)

Save My Soul - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (New Orleans swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong (swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - The Moon-Rays (swing)

The Mack - Beat Circus (swing - doesn’t seem very Halloween at first, until the tuba player gets murdered in the middle of the song. I swear it makes sense.)

Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Voodoo Mon Amour - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

The House Is Haunted - Casa Loma Orchestra (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Viva La Rocca (swing)

Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer - Ella Fitzgerald (swing)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (barbershop)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (in person) (barbershop)

Halloween Medley - The Cadaver Dans (barbershop)

Pop

Full Moon Tonight - Silvastone feat. Bellsaint (pop)

Demons - Hayley Kiyoko (pop)

Season of the Witch - Lana del Rey (pop)

A Little Wicked - Valerie Broussard (pop)

Halloween - Aqua (pop)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - violin/cello/bass cover - Simply Three (electronic pop)

Shoot The Zombies (Pink Fluffy Unicorns Remix) - Andrew Huang (happy pop)

I Put a Spell on You (no movie dialogue) - Winifred Sanderson (pop musical)

Electro-swing

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents (electro-swing)

Midnight - Caravan Palace (electro-swing) (alternate link)

Midnight - Swingrowers (different electro-swing)

Old House - Dirty Honkers (electro-swing)

Devil’s Samba - Sim Gretina (Latin-flavored electro-swing)

Devil’s Got My Soul - Victor and the Bully (rock/electro-swing)

Cuphead: Railroad Wrath (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Cuphead: One Hell of a Time (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing - Fandroid (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (funk/glitch/chiptune)

Luigi’s Mansion (Remix) - Qumu Music (chiptune, electro-swing)

Undertale: Ghost Fight & Dummy (Peggy Suave Swing Remix) - Sim Gretina (electro-swing)

Electronica, EDM

Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse - Sim Gretina (uhhh…spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It’s very worth it, I promise.)

Macabre Rotting Girl Feat. Kathy-chan - Sim Gretina (adorable electro)

Sim Gretina feat. Kathy chan: Let The Monsters Free (µThunder Remix) - µThunder (EDM)

Ghost in the Machine - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Spooky Tune - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Nullifcation [Underground] (Legend of Zelda remix) - PrototypeRaptor (grimy EDM)

Grim Grinning Ghost (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Undertale: Megalovania (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Undertale: Spooktune (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London (Daheen Rmx) - Daheen (psytrance)

Interlude: Limbo - Yoshimasu Kamiya (ambient horror)

Bloodstone - Amon Tobin (atmospheric glitch)

Volk - Thom Yorke (ambient horror)

The Horror - RJD2 (instrumental hip-hop)

Crybaby - Drum & Lace (indescribable brooding atmospheric)

The Kid Who Drowned At Summer Camp - Hot Sugar (instrumental hip-hop)

The Darkest Evening of the Year - Emancipator (downtempo)

Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup - Pretty Lights (EDM)

HALLOWEEN Theme Song (DJ Deville Trap Remix) - DJ Deville (trap)

The Oogie Boogie (Man) - Duke Skellington (glitch-hop)

Stranger Things Theme Song (Michael Jobity & The Foreign Machine Remix) - Michael Jobity, The Foreign Machine (synthwave - my personal favorite remix of this theme)

Stranger Things Theme Song (C418 REMIX) - C418 (synthwave)

Stranger Things (Louis Futon Flip) - Louis Futon (chillstep)

Stranger Things Theme (Slicey Remix) - Slicey (trap)

Stranger Things - Theme Song (Oscar Wylde Trap Remix) - Oscar Wylde (trap)

Ghostbusters (Kill Paris Remix) - Kill Paris (EDM, future funk - by far my favorite remix of the Ghostbusters theme)

The Ghostbusters Theme (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Matheo (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Fat Noize (dubstep)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Starfuckers Remix) - Starfuckers (EDM)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Chew Fu Remix) - Chew Fu (electro-house)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (James Egbert Remix) - James Egbert (electro-house)

Michael Jackson - Thriller [The Reflex Halloween Disco Edit] - The Reflex (moody, indescribable IDM(?))

Beetlejuice (Dubstep Mix) - Figure (dubstep)

The Addams Family (Figure Remix) - Figure (dubstep)

Hedwig’s Theme (KE KRA’s Trap Remix) - KE KRA (trap)

Stress - Justice (French electronic…something)

Things I thought were funny

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock (parody novelty record)

A Hard Days Night of the Living Dead - The Zombeatles (zombie rock)

Schüttel deinen Speck - Peter Fox (witches’ dance video) (the track by itself)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Portsmouth Sinfonia (experimental orchestra from the ‘70s - google them, you absolutely will not regret it)

Gangnam Busters - FAROFF (Ghostbusters/Gangnam Style mashup - annoyingly, it works far better than you think it will)

#music #music rec #halloween #halloween music #spooky music

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theyearoftheking · 3 years ago

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Book Eighty-One: Billy Summers

“Maybe a chilly story needs a chilly writing room, he thinks. It’s as good an explanation as any, since the whole process is a mystery to him, anyway.”

Well hello there, Constant Readers! Have you missed me and my half-assed reviews of Steve books?

Crickets.

I know I’ve promised book reviews, television recaps... all the things. But I’m kind of busy living and enjoying life at the moment, without the need to take notes or screen grabs. That being said, I really did enjoy Billy Summers, and it took me almost a hundred pages to remember how this blogging thing worked. I was supposed to take notes? Dark Tower references? DePere, Wisconsin? Should I remember that for some reason? But don’t worry, it was like riding a bike. This blog is full of all the stuff you’ve come to know and love, as well as SPOILERS!!! So, if you have not finished the book yet, stop reading and come back once you’ve turned the last page.

SPOILERS!!! Consider yourselves adequately warned.

Billy Summers doesn’t really include anything supernatural, and it’s more suspenseful and plot driven than some of Steve’s other books. In other words, it’s another great recommendation for people who don’t claim they don’t like Stephen King.

Billy is an assassin who has mastered the art of “dumb like a fox”.

He’s hired for a new assignment, but something seems off. Billy has been in the assassin game long enough to know when something is foul in the state of Denmark. He doesn’t trust the people who hired him, and he has the distinct impression he’s going to end up as the patsy in the end. But, he plays along as Dave Lockridge, single man and writer. He moves onto a charming street in Midwood (I kept reading this as Midworld... thanks, Steve), makes friends with all the neighbors, and beats all the neighborhood kids at Monopoly on the weekends. This part of the book was so tender, it reminded me a lot of Ted Brautigan and the kids from Hearts in Atlantis. Of all the things Billy later regrets, it’s letting these kids down, and having them trust him when he was obviously so untrustworthy.

During the day, Billy writes at his office in Gerald Tower. There’s always a tower, isn’t there? And this tower takes on more significance, because it’s the spot from which Billy is supposed to shoot Joel Allen. Joel is due to be transferred to Midwood, and marched up the steps of the courthouse just like in The Outsider. Constant Readers remember how well that worked out...

Billy has an assassins creed: he only shoots bad guys. On the scale of bad guys, Joel Allen isn’t quite Ted Bundy, but he’s not Mr. Rodgers either. He had something of a “me too” moment when he accidentally mistook a feminist writer for a sex worker; and there was a gun fight outside of a poker game. It’s enough for Billy to work with.

Billy is waiting for Joel to be transferred to the Midworld Midwood county lock-up; and he bides his time by actually doing some writing. He covers his tragic childhood (his mom worked in a laundry facility, just like Steve’s mom), and his time in the military. This is where Steve really shines. Billy’s book is written in a childish tone that just WORKS. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a simple-minded assassin. But still waters, friends. As the story goes on, Billy’s voice grows and improves. Well done, Steve, it’s like two books for the price of one.

In between writing, Billy assumes another fake identity (Dalton Smith), and secures a bolt hole to hide out in once his job is complete. Believe it or not, the murder of Joel Allen is such an insignificant part of the book. Billy successfully takes him out, and makes it to his bolt hole undetected. And this is really where the second part of the book starts.

One rainy night, Billy hears random noises outside his apartment. He looks out the window in time to see a van full of guys dump a female body into a gutter. Billy should have just anonymously called the police... but if he had done that, we wouldn’t have a story. Instead, Billy goes full on Captain Save A Ho, and pulls the young woman from the gutter. It’s clear she had been drugged and assaulted, and she manages to puke all over Billy’s place.

Neat.

When Alice wakes up in the morning, she recognizes Billy from the police sketches, but promises not to rat him out for the Joel Allen murder. They form an unlikely friendship that includes watering the neighbor’s plants, watching Blacklist, and Alice reading Billy’s book. Basically, they were sheltering in place before that was even a thing; something Steve jokes about. Eventually, Billy knows he needs to get the rest of his money for the Joel Allen hit, and punish the guys who raped Alice.

Y’all. I’m still having nightmares over the most creative use of a hand mixer I have ever read. I thought the can-opener in Lisey’s Story was bad... this was worse. But the kind of worse you feel good about, if that makes sense.

After finding out the name of the guy behind the Joel Allen hit, killing a few bad dudes, and pissing off a bitch named Marge (fucking Marge if you’re nasty), Billy and Alice hunker down in Colorado with Billy’s assassin booking agent, Bucky.

As soon as Billy and Alice entered Colorado and the town of Sidewinder was mentioned, I knew where we were headed. Yeah buddy, Overlook time!

Billy takes to writing in a little shack behind Bucky’s house, and inside the shack is a Polaroid picture of the topiary animals at the Overlook. Every time Billy looks at the picture, the animals seem to have shifted. It gives him a cold sense of dread.

There’s a certain parallel I picked up on in Colorado: Jack Torrance and Billy Summers are both haunted men running away from things. The Overlook was where Jack went to dry out, and work on his writing. He wanted to work on his marriage, and become a better father to Danny. We all know he failed spectacularly. Then, we’ve got Billy. Billy actually gets writing accomplished, and becomes an unlikely father-figure to Alice. Despite having just as much, if not more baggage than Jack, Billy doesn’t let it define him. He acknowledges it, and moves past it. It’s almost like Billy accomplishes what Jack couldn’t. And it took the Overlook burning to the ground for that to happen.

While we’re on the topic of Billy and Alice, one of the things I love about Steve’s characters is he never forces romance where there doesn’t need to be any. While Billy acknowledges the age gap between him and Alice, nothing untoward ever happens between them. There’s obvious love, but never the romantic kind. Steve is one of the few contemporary writers to get this right.

The story ends with Billy killing the guy behind Joel’s hit, getting shot by Marge as he leaves the crime scene (fucking Marge), Alice nursing him back to health, and getting him back to Colorado where they all live happily ever after.

I wish.

I wish I had stopped reading twenty-three pages before the book ended, because the actual end was more realistic, but heartbreaking. In reality, fucking Marge shot Billy in the stomach, and he died of an infection in the back of a Walmart parking lot. Fucking Marge indeed. But this was the way the book should have ended. Needed to end. Anything else would have been unrealistic. But damn, I hated to see Billy go out like that.

There was one Wisconsin reference: after Billy kills Joel Allen, he’s supposed to be transferred to a safe house in De Pere. You know... where Steve lived when he was in a kid.

Other than Gerald Tower, we were also graced with “the world has moved on-” just to remind us that we all follow The Beam.

Total Wisconsin Mentions: 49

Total Dark Tower References: 78

Book Grade: A+

Rebecca’s Definitive Ranking of Stephen King Books

Doctor Sleep: A+

The Talisman: A+

Wizard and Glass: A+

11/22/63: A+

Mr. Mercedes: A+

Billy Summers: A+

End of Watch: A+

Under the Dome: A+

Needful Things: A+

On Writing: A+

The Green Mile: A+

Hearts in Atlantis: A+

Full Dark, No Stars: A+

The Outsider: A+

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: A+

If It Bleeds: A+

Just After Sunset: A+

Rose Madder: A+

Misery: A+

Different Seasons: A+

It: A+

Four Past Midnight: A+

Stephen King Goes to the Movies: A+

The Shining: A-

The Stand: A-

Finders Keepers: A-

Bag of Bones: A-

Duma Key: A-

Black House: A-

The Institute: A-

The Wastelands: A-

The Drawing of the Three: A-

The Dark Tower: A-

Dolores Claiborne: A-

Blaze: B+

Hard Listening: B+

Revival: B+

Nightmares in the Sky: B+

The Dark Half: B+

Joyland: B+

Skeleton Crew: B+

The Dead Zone: B+

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: B+

Wolves of the Calla: B+

‘Salem’s Lot: B+

Song of Susannah: B+

Carrie: B+

Creepshow: B+

Later: B+

From a Buick 8: B

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: B

Sleeping Beauties: B-

The Colorado Kid: B-

Storm of the Century: B-

Everything’s Eventual: B-

Cycle of the Werewolf: B-

The Wind Through the Keyhole: B-

Danse Macabre: B-

The Running Man: C+

Cell: C+

Thinner: C+

Dark Visions: C+

The Eyes of the Dragon: C+

The Long Walk: C+

The Gunslinger: C+

Pet Sematary: C+

Firestarter: C+

Rage: C

Desperation: C-

Insomnia: C-

Cujo: C-

Nightshift: C-

Faithful: D

Gerald’s Game: D

Roadwork: D

Lisey’s Story: D

Christine: D

Dreamcatcher: D

The Regulators: D

The Tommyknockers D

I’m not going to end this with any promises of upcoming posts. That way when I do randomly stumble on here one afternoon, it will be a delight for us all.

Until next time, Long Days & Pleasant Nights,

Rebecca

#constant reader #stephen king #the dark tower #the shining #billy summers #hearts in atlantis #lisey's story #the overlook #jack torrance

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lesjeunesmariees · 5 years ago

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Tu conseillerais quoi comme roman de S. King pour débuter ces œuvres ?

Oh ! La question très complexe que voilà !!!

Parce que, si tu veux une réponse brève, je dirais : “Ça dépend ! ”

Mais j'imagine que tu ne te contenteras pas de ça 😉

L'oeuvre de Stephen King est vaste et variée tant au niveau des sujets que de la longueur des récits (si tu veux une courte nouvelle qui fait peur, j'ai ! Un long roman qui ne fait pas peur, j'ai aussi ! Ainsi qu'une courte nouvelle qui ne fait pas peur ou un long roman qui fait peur !) et en même temps, elle fait partie d'un univers bien à lui, cohérent, addictif et hénaurme.

En fonction de ce que tu aimes ou cherches, il y a un livre pour chacune de tes attentes.

Tu aimes les romans d'initiation, lis Le Talisman ! Mon premier Stephen King, donc forcément le meilleur.Je ne suis pas très partiale pour le juger mais je prends le même plaisir à chaque fois que je le lis donc c’est qu’il est bon. CQFD ☺

Tu veux une héroïne forte, lis Rose Madder. C'est avec elle que ma maman et ma chérie ont commencé à lire du King. Et depuis, elles sont devenues accroc. Il y’a du fantastique mais pas trop. Juste ce qu’il faut pour rentrer progressivement dans l’univers de King.

Tu veux du qui fait peur. Tu peux commencer au choix par Danse Macabre (si tu préfères les nouvelles) ou directement par les cultissimes Ça ou Shinning. Ce sont des valeurs sûres et si cette ambiance te plaît, tu peux continuer avec les nouvelles de Brume, Minuit 2 et Minuit 4 et le roman Bazaar (moins bon mais bon quand même ).

Tu verras au fil de tes lectures (si tu accroches avec Stephen King) qu’on retrouve régulièrement des rérérences à d’autres livres dans ses histoires, des ponts. Si cette Concordance (!!!) te plaît et que tu en veux plus, tu pourras alors te lancer dans la lecture de La Tour Sombre, cycle de 7 romans geniallissimes dans on peut deviner les prémices dans Le Talisman et Le Fléau.

Je peux également te dire par lesquels NE PAS commencer parce que ce ne sont pas ses meilleurs : Dôme, Revival, Territoires (suite du Talisman mais beaucoup moins bon).

Ce poste est évidemment basé sur mes lectures. Et je n'ai pas lu tout King. Donc si vous souhaitez proposer d'autres lectures et apporter de nouveaux détails, je suis preneur aussi 😉

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stephenking-quotes · 5 years ago

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Il s’agissait de « Dead Zone » (Rep Tcheque), et « Danse Macabre » (Italie) 😅

— Club Stephen King 🎈 (@ClubSTEPHENKING) July 9, 2020

from Twitter https://twitter.com/ClubSTEPHENKING July 09, 2020 at 09:07AM via IFTTT

#IFTTT #Twitter

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meseszerelo · 6 years ago

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Véleményem szerint minden ember elmebeteg; de azok, akik nem elmegyógyintézetekben tengetik a napjaikat, kicsit ügyesebben titkolják ezt a tényt – habár lehet, hogy mégsem.

Stephen King: Danse Macabre

#elmebeteg #ember #titok #elmegyógyintézet #stephen king #danse macabre #könyv #idézet

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pop-sesivo · 4 years ago

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The Haunting of Bly Manor: Una inquietante historia de fantasmas

(Publicado originalmente el 5 de octubre de 2020)

Por Gonzalo Jiménez

Una historia de fantasmas se considera buena si te pega el susto de tu vida. The Haunting of Bly Manor tiene su buena dosis de momentos inquietantes y mantiene reservados algunos jump scares que te harán pegar un brinco. Pero también es justo reconocer que Bly Manor es menos terrorífica y perturbadora que su antecesora, The Haunting of Hill House (2018).

Hay una razón para ello: Mike Flanagan, creador de The Haunting of Bly Manor, ve los fantasmas como metáforas; en la serie, los espectros son la excusa para asustarnos pero también para explorar traumas personales. Los muertos increpan a los personajes sobre el valor de estas vivos.

CNET en Español tuvo acceso a los nueve episodios de The Haunting of Bly Manor, que se estrenará el 9 de octubre en Netflix. Es una serie antológica creada por Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game), en la que cada temporada contará una historia diferente con nuevos personajes, pero con un mismo hilo conductor: los fantasmas y los misterios que acechan en una casa embrujada. Así que no es necesario que hayas visto The Haunting of Hill House para entender de qué va Bly Manor.

Si The Haunting of Hill House se basó en la novela homónima de horror de Shirley Jackson, en The Haunting of Bly Manor Flanagan se inspiró en la obra del escritor Henry James (1843-1916) -- nacido en Estados Unidos pero naturalizado británico, pues vivió casi toda su vida en el Reino Unido --, específicamente en sus novelas y relatos de fantasmas.

James no se especializó en el género del horror pero escribió una de las novelas más famosas de esta temática, The Turn of Screw (Otra vuelta de tuerca, 1898), adaptada con gran éxito al cine en 1961 bajo el título de The Innocents, protagonizada por Deborah Kerr y dirigida por Jack Clayton. Stephen King, en su famoso ensayo Danse Macabre (1981), afirmó que The Haunting of Hill House y The Turn of the Screw son "las únicas dos novelas grandes novelas sobre lo sobrenatural de los últimos 100 años".

Flanagan no adaptó literalmente The Turn of the Screw, sino que tomó su argumento como eje central y lo ha expandido con referencias de otros relatos de Henry James, como The Jolly Corner y The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, por ejemplo.

Así que conocer estos textos no te arruinará la serie; en todo caso, te permitirá los guiños que Flanagan y su equipo hicieron tanto a la obra de James como a la película The Innocents. Por ejemplo, los títulos de los nueve episodios de la serie están tomados de los cuentos de Henry James.

Esta es una reseña sin spoilers, así que no revelaremos los giros narrativos ni el desenlace de los personajes. La mejor manera de disfrutar The Haunting of Bly Manor es conociendo lo menos posible. Solo podemos aventurar que, al igual que en The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan oculta en ciertas tomas las figuras de algunos de los fantasmas que recorren la casa.

Es un ejercicio divertido tratar de descubrirlos en el fondo de un pasillo o corredor, o comprobar que alguna imagen fuera de foco es la de un espectro que ha estado presente todo el tiempo en la escena. Netflix dio a conocer los títulos de crédito de la serie, que dan una idea de la propuesta visual de Bly Manor.

La historia se centra en Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti), una estadounidense que se muda a Inglaterra para rehacer su vida. En Londres es contratada por Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) para que sea institutriz de sus dos sobrinos huérfanos, Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) y Flora (Amelie Bea Smith), quienes viven en la Mansión Bly.

Dani -- su apellido es un guiño a Jack Clayton, director de The Innocents -- se muda a la Mansión Bly, en la que traba amistad con el ama de llaves Hannah Grose (T'Nia Miller), el cocinero Owen (Rahul Kohli) y la jardinera Jamie (Amelia Eve). La relación es cordial con todos los habitantes de la casa, pero Dani pronto descubre que Miles y Flora actúan de manera perturbadora, comportándose a veces como algo mayores de la edad que tienen.

Dos personajes pueden tener que ver con este clima extraño en la Mansión Bly: la anterior institutriz de los niños, Rebecca Jessel (Tahirah Sharif); y Peter Quint (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), un hombre de pocos escrúpulos morales que se desempeña como asistente de Henry Wingrave.

Ese es el cuadro de personajes principales de The Haunting of Bly Manor. Por supuesto, como en toda historia de fantasmas, hay espectros aterradores, cuya razón para deambular por la mansión es uno de los misterios de la trama. Pero, así como en The Haunting of Hill House el verdadero tema era el duelo, los traumas y las rencillas familiares, en Bly Manor Flanagan ha usado la historia de fantasmas para contar un gran romance gótico.

#The Haunting of Hill House #Review #Reseña

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sgkbyfgm · 4 years ago

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“Si vous jugez le livre, le livre vous juge aussi.”

De Stephen King / Danse macabre

@transparentgentlemenmarker

#books #livre #photography #repost #stephen king #auteur #écrivain #ecriture #citations #citation #lectures #text #roman #room #photographie #photos

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angelitam · 7 days ago

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Bilan de lectures en décembre 2024

Qu’ai-je lu en ce mois de décembre 2024 ? Des nouvelles de Stephen King. Le dernier Harlan Coben. Mon premier Viveca Sten qui fait partie d’une série. Le deuxième tome de Territoires. Le dernier Maxime Chattam Cela fait 6 livres. Pas eu forcément le temps de lire. Je vous les rappelle : Danse macabre de Stephen KingMéfie toi d'Harlan CobenChambre 505 de Viveca StenTerritoires de Stephen King et…

#Prix du Roman Fnac #Prix du Roman Fnac 2023

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littlewalken · 7 years ago

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What’s on my Kindle

Part of making a list of all the books I have be they analog, digital pdf, or digital Kindle (which is what the k means).

So, um, make your own jokes/assumptions about the kind of person I am based on my partial library. They’re all real books and quite a few are free public domain.

Adventures of an American Girl in Victorian London- Elizabeth Banks (k) Adventures of Pinocchio-Carlo Collodi (k) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (k) The Age Of Innocence- Edith Wharton (k) Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll (k) American on Purpose-Craig Ferguson (k) And the Universe So Big: Understanding Batman The Killing Joke-Julian Darius (k) Anne of Green Gables, Avonlea, The Island-LM Montgomery (k) Appropriate clothes for the High School Girl- Virginia M Alexander (k) The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression- Gary Faign (k) The Awakening and Selected Short Stories- Kate Chopin (k) Backstreet Mom-Denise McLean (k) Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight-Travis Langly (k) Batman at 45 part 1-4-Chris Gould (k) Batman a Celebration of 75 years-Bob Kane (k) Batman: Battle for the Cowl-Tony Daniel (k) Batman: Death in the Family (includes new Robin)- Jim Starlin (k) Batman: Under the Red Hood- Judd Winick (k) Becoming Batman- E Paul Zehr (k) Behind the Burley Q:The Story of Burlesque in America- Leslie Zmeckis (k) all colored fairy books Andrew Lang (k) The Bobsey Twind or Merry Days Indoors and Out- Laura Lee Hope (k) The Book of Hallowe’en- Ruth Edna Kelley (k) The Book of Household Management- Mrs Beeton (k) The Book of 1001 Nights v1&2 (k) Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context- Mary Borsellino (k) The Brain and Voice in Speech and Song- FW Mott (k) The Burlesque Handbook- Jo Weldon (k) The Call of The Wild- Jack London (k) Candidie- Voltaire (k) Carmilla- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (k) The Castle of Oranto-Horace Walpole (k) Celebrated Crimes-Alexandre Dumas (k) The Circus Age- Janet M Davis (k) Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo: AW Stencil (k) Circus Bodies: Cultrural Identity in Aerial Performance- Peta Tait (k) The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce vol 1&2 (k) Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex (k) The Complete Works of Nellie Bly (k) Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys- Lol Tolhurst (k) A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Ripley- Neal Thompson (k) Daily Life in Victorian London- Lee Jackson (k) Danse Macabre- Stephen King (k) Dark Places (Locations)- Barry Curtis (k) Dear Boy: The life of Keith Moon- Tony Fletcher (k) Death At SeaWorld- David Kirby (k) Demonology and Devil-lore- Daniel Conway Moncure (k) Depeche Mode: The Biography- Steve Malins corrected from analog version(k) Dick Greyson, Boy Wonder- Kristen L Geaman (k) The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History- Kathrine Ashenburg (k) The Discoverie of Witchcraft- Reginald Scot (k) The Discovery or Witches- Mathew Hopkins (k) Dolly and I: A Story for Little Folks- Oliver Optic (k) The Dominion in 1983- Ralph Centennius (k) Drawing Drapery from Head to Toe Dover- Cliff Young (k) Dyatlov Pass Keeps It’s Secrets- Irena Lobatcheva (k) Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity- Lauren Rabinovitz (k) Elizabethan Demonology- Thomas Alfred Spalding (k) Emma- Jane Austen (k) Enchanted Hunters: The Powers of Stories in Childhood (k) Famous Imposters- Bram Stocker (k) Fancies and Goodnights v1&2- John Collier (k) Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present- Alison Matthews David (k) Fashionably Fatal- Summer Strevons (k) Faust- Johan Wolfgang von Gothe (k) Female Masculinity- Judith Halberstam (k) Fetish, Fashion, Sex & Power- Valerie Steele (k) Fifty-Two Stories For Girls (k) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions- Edwin Abott (k) Forensic Sculpting Step by Step in Photographs- Seth Wolfson (k) Frankenstein- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (k) Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement- Robert Bogdan (k) The Freak-garde: Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art- Robin Blyn (k) Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others- Daniel P Mannix A General History of the Pyrates- Daniel Defoe (k) The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays vol1&2- Eliza Lynn Linton (k) Godey’s Lady Book 1851 vol 1&2 (k) The Golden Asse- Apuleius (k) The Great God Pan- Arthur Machen (k) Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift (k) Harper’s Monthly 1850 vol1&2 (k) The Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson (k) Heidi- Johanna Spyri (k) The History of the Devil- Daniel Defoe (k) Hold Up Your Head, Girls!- Annie H Ryder (k) Horrible Prettiness: Burlesques and American Culture- Robert C Allen (k) The House of Souls- Arthur Machen (k) The House of Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne (k) How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Victorian Life (k) Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes- Kirsta D Ball (k) Hysteria: The Disturbing History- Andrew Scull (k) If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home- Lucy Worsley (k) Illuminated Manuscripts- John William Bradley (k) In A Glas Darkly vol 1-3- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (k) Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse- Caseen Gaines (k) The Invisible Man- HG Wells (k) Irish Witchcraft and Demonology- ST John Seymour (k) The Island of Dr Moreau- HG Wells (k) Jane Eyre: AN Autobiography- Charlotte Bronte (k) Jim Henson: The Biography- Brian Jay Jones (k) Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man: An Unauthorized Biography (k) LaVie Electrique- Albert Robia (k) Ladies’ Clothing in the 1830s- Sarah E Mitchel (k) Lady Susan- Jane Austin (k) Lair of the White Worm- Bram Stoker (k) The League of Regrettable Superheroes- Jon Morris (k) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving (k) The LEGO Adventure Book vol 1-3- Megan H Rothrock (k) The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town!- Brian Lyles (k) Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft- Sir Walter Scott (k) Liberace Extravaganza!- Connie Furr Soloman (k) Liberace: AN American Boy- Darden Asbury Pyron (k) Life as a Victorian Lady- Pamela Horn (k) Life in a Victorian Household- Pamela Horn (k) The Life of PT Barnum- Joel Benton (k) Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us- Alexandra Morton (k) Little Lord Fauntleroy- Frances Hodgson Burnett (k) A Little Princess- Frances Hodgson Burnett (k) Little Women- Louisa May Alcott (k) Lock and Key k Kipling- My Own True Ghost Story, The Sending of Dana Da, In the House of Suddhoo, His Wedded Wife Doyle- A Case of Identity, A scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League Castle- The Baron’s Quarry Weyman- The Fowl in the Pot Stevenson- The Pavilion on the Links Collins- The Dream Woma Anonymous- The Lost Duchess, The Minor Canon, The Pipe, The Puzzle, The Great Valdez Sapphire Dickens- The Haunted House, No 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man Bulwer-Lyton- The Haunted and the Hunters, The incantation DeQuincey- The Avenger Maturin- Melmouth the Wanderer Sterne- A Mystery With A Moral Thackeray- On Being Found Out, The Notch on the Axe Anonymous- Bourgonef, The Closed Cabinet Crawford- By the Waters of Paradise Freeman- The Shadows on the Wall Post- The Corpus Delicti Bierce- The Oblong Box, The Gold-Bug Irving- Wolfert Webber, Adventure of the Black Fisherman Brown- Wieland’s Madness O’Brien- The Golden Ingot, My Wife’s Tempter Hawthorne- The Minister’s Black Veil Anonymous- Horror a True Tale Cherbuliez- Count Kostia Bourget- Andre Cornelius Anonymous- The Last of the Costellos, The Lady Betty’s Indiscretion Pushkin- The Queen of Spades Jelihovsky- The General’s Will Dostoyevsky- Crime and Punishment Checkoff- The Safety Match Krestovski- Knights of Industry Begsoe- The Amputated Arms Larssen- The Manuscript Ingemann- The Sealed ROom Blicher- The Rector of Veilbye Molnar- The Living Death Marus- 13 at Table Elck- The Tower Room Train- A flight in to Texas Woodward- Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post Office Department, An Erring Shepherd, An Aspirant for Congress, The Fortune of Seth Savage, A Wish Unexpectedly Granted, An Old Game Revived, A Formidable Weapon Lang- St Germaine the Deathless, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Legend, The Valet’s History, The Valet’s Master, Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly Houdin- A Conjurer’s Confession, Self Training, Second Sight, The Magician Who Became Ambassador, Facing the Arab’s Pistol Abbott- Fraudulent Spiritualism Revealed, A Doctor of the Occult, How the Tricks Succeeded, The Name of the Dead, Mind Reading in Public, Some Famous Exposures Carrington- More ticks of Spiritualism, Matter through Matter, Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology Anonymous- How Spirits Materialize The Lone Ranger Rides- Fran Striker (k) The Lost Prince- Frances Hodgson Burnett (k) Love and Frienship- Jane Austen (k) Lucy Maud Montgomery short stories (k) Madamoiselle de Maupin- Theophile Gautier (k) Maggie, a Girl of the Streets- Stephen Crane (k) Magic and Witchcraft- anonymous (k) Make Room for TV- Lynn Spigel (k) The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved- Colin Wilson (k) The Man in the Iron Mask-Alexandre Dumas (k) The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories- PG Wodehouse (k) Mansfield Park- Jane Austen (k) Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer- Peter Turchi (k) Mark of Zorro- Johnston McCulley (k) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch- Wilhelm Meinhold (k) Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th Century Paris- Asti Hustvedt (k) Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders- Susanne Alleyn (k) Memoirs of a Muppets Writer- Joseph A Bailey (k) Memoirs of Extraordinary popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds- Charles Mackay (k) Memoirs of Fanny Hill- John Cleland (k) Men in Bras, Panties, and Dresses- Dr Vernon Coleman (k) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood- Howard Pyle (k) Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka (k) Miss Lucy’s Victorian Scrapbook- Lucy Booker Roper (k) Modern Magic- Maximillian Schele de Vere (k) Modern Women and What is Said of Them- E Lynn Linton (k) The Monk; a romance- MG Lewis (k) Monkee Business- Eric Lefcowitz (k) The Monster and Other Stories- Stephen Crane (k) Monsters in America- W Scott Poole (k) Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors- David D Gilmore (k) The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London- Henry Mayhew (k) Movie-Made America:A Cultural History of American Movies- Robert Sklar (k) A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic- Peter Turchi (k) My Man Jeeves- PG Wodehouse (k) The Mysteries of Udolpho- And Ward Radcliffe (k) Mythical Monsters- Charles Gould (k) Neil Patrick Harris:Choose Your Own Autobiography (k) Never Done: A History of American Housework- Susan Strasser (k) Never Enough: The Story of The Cure- Jeff Apter (k) New Kids on the Block’s Hangin’ Tough (33 1/3)- Rebecca Wallwork (k) Night Shift- Stephen King (k) Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue- Joseph Maddrey (k) The North American Medical and Surgical Journal July 1826 (k) Northanger Abbey- Jane Austin (k) Orca: The Whale Called Killer0 Erich Hoyt (k) The Origin and Nature of the Emotions- George Washington Crile (k) The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (k) Out of Sync: A Memoir- Lance Bass (k) Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed Media Mapmaking- Jill K Berry (k) Persuasion- Jane Austin (k) Peter Pan- JM Barrie (k) The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux (k) The Philosophy of Horror- Thomas Fahy etc (k) The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition- James Kakailos (k) The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde (k) Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric- Robert Bogdan (k) Prester John- John Buchan (k) Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin (k) The Prisoner of Zenda- Anthony Hope (k) The Psychology of Beauty- Ethell Dench Puffer Howes (k) Queen Unseen- Peter Hince (k) Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History- Phil Sutcliffe (k) Raggedy Ann Stories- Johnny Gruelle (k) Right Ho, Jeeves- PG Wodehouse (k) Robin the Boy Wonder: A Celebration of 75 Years (k) A Room With A View- EM Forster (k) Salem Witchcraft v1&2- Charles Wentworth Upham (k) Sawdust and Spangles Stories and Secrets of the Circus- WC Coup (k) The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (k) The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Emmuska Orcsy (k) The Science of Monsters- Matt Kaplan (k) The Scrap Book vol 1 #1-6 from 1906 (k) The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett (k) The Secret History of Wonder Woman- Jill Lepore (k) Self Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man- Norah Vincent (k) Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen (k) Servants: A Downstairs history of Britain- Lucy Lethbridge (k) SheZow: Sleepless ’n’ She-Addled- Nils Erickson (k) Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters- Judith Haberstam (k) Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals- Stephen L Macknik (k) Steampunk For Simpletons: A Fun Primer- Travis Sivart (k) A Stitch In Time (ST DS9 #27)- Andrew J Robinson (k) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson (k) Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street- Michael Davis (k) Stripped: Depeche Mode- Jonathan Miller (k) Studies in the Psychology of Sex vol 1-6- Havelock Ellis (k) Supergods- Grant Morrison (k) Sybil Exposed- Debbie Nathan (k) The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons- Sam Kean (k) Tales of the Jazz Age- F Scott Fitzgerald (k) Tarzan of the Apes- Edgar Rice Burroghs (k) Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll (k) The Trial- Franz Kafka (k) Trilby- George Du Maurier (k) True Story of My Life- Hans Christian Andersen (k) The Turn of The Screw- Harry James (k) The Ultimate Biography of The Bee Gees:Tales of the Brothers Gibb (k) The Uses of Enchantment- Bruno Bettelheim (k) The Vampyre; a tale- John William Polidori (k) Varney the Vampire/Or the Feast of Blood- Thomas Presketts Prest (k) Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety- Marjorie Garber (k) Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey Dover (k) The Video Nasties Moment- Christopher A Brown (k) Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics- Mike Madrid (k) The Water Babies- Charles Kingsley (k) Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America- Andrea Stulman Dennett (k) Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend- Mark Wilkerson (k) Who Am I: A Memoir- Pete Townshend (k) Widdershins- Oliver Onions (k) Witch Stories- E Lynn Linton (k) The Witch-cult in Western Europe- Margaret Alice Murray (k) Woman’s Trials- TS Arthur (k) The Works of Aristotle (freaks) (k) Writing With Scissors:American Scrapbooks- Ellen Gruber Garvey (k) Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte (k) The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (k)

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steamworksandshadows · 6 years ago

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Extremely Large Pile of Halloween Music Recs!

Many of these are retro-futuristic (or just retro), but I figured there’d be at least a few appreciators of electronica among my followers as well. All of these links go to YouTube to make them easy to add to your playlists, but it’s not difficult to find them on pretty much any other streaming or purchasing platform. Enjoy!

Classical

Come Little Children - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestral classical)

A History of Horror (album) - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Double Trouble - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (classical)

Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens (eerie classical)

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens (dark classical ballet)

Uranus, the Magician - Gustav Holst (orchestral classical)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Paul Dukas (orchestral classical)

Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky (orchestral classical about witches)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (classical)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Apocalyptica (Metal cellos. Cello metal?)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Duke Ellington (jazz)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Portsmouth Sinfonia (experimental orchestra from the ‘70s - google them, you absolutely will not regret it)

Dies Irae - Mozart (threatening choral/orchestral classical)

Don Giovanni, a cenar teco - Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera - the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (classical pipe organ)

Flowering Vines - Unwoman (ominous cello waltz)

The Carny of Mr Dark - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman (goth pipe organ)

This Is Halloween - Vitamin String Quartet (classical string quartet)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Nightmare Before Christmas (album)

The Vampire Masquerade - Peter Gundry (classical)

Waltz of the Bone King - Peter Gundry (classical)

Masquerade Suite: Waltz - Aram Khatchaturian (dark classical waltz)

The Comedians, Op. 26: Waltz - Kabalevsky (uneasy waltz)

Rock, alternative, rockabilly

Haunted - Ashcan Orchid (folk rock)

The Last Steampunk Waltz - Ghostfire (rock waltz)

Shoot The Zombies - Andrew Huang / Songs To Wear Pants To (sing-along folk)

Shoot The Zombies (Pink Fluffy Unicorns Remix) - Andrew Huang (happy pop)

Something Wicked That Way Went - Vernian Process (circus rock)

Dark Carnivale - Frenchy and the Punk (indie rock)

Come Alive (War Of The Roses) - Janelle Monae (rock)

Gallows - Coco Rosie (goth indie/alternative)

The Devil Wears a Suit - Kate Miller-Heidke (alternative)

Toxic - Yael Naim (neo-folk)

Crazy For You - Venus de Vilo (indie rock)

Haunted - Frantic Flintstones (rockabilly)

Freaked Out and Psyched Out - Frantic Flintstones (album)

Zombie Riot - Batmobile (rockabilly)

Alice in psycholand - Nekromantix (rockabilly)

She's My Witch - The Radiacs (rockabilly)

Werewolf - Southern Culture on the Skids (rockabilly)

Circus punk, dark cabaret

Charmed, I'm Sure - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

We're All Mad - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

The Last Waltz - The Magnificent Seven (dark cabaret waltz)

Tango de la Muerte - The Magnificent Seven (rock tango)

Bloody Bones - Beats Antique (dark circus waltz)

Monster Tango - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Rumanian Dance No. 1 - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

The Trouble - Birdeatsbaby (dark cabaret)

Theatre Noir - Robyn Cage (dark cabaret) (music video)

Jekyll and Hyde - Theoretics (hip-hop)

Lament for a Toy Factory - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Bogeyman Boogie - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Circus Apocalypse - Vermillion Lies (dark cabaret)

When You're Evil - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

BRAINS! - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

Americana, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk

In Hell I'll Be In Good Company - The Dead South (Americana)

Stranger - The Devil Makes Three (Americana)

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers (bluegrass)

7 Devils - The Goddamn Gallows (bluegrass, rock)

Old devils - William Elliot Whitmore (bluegrass)

Death Come Creeping - Stefan Grossman (bluegrass)

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall (Americana)

Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor (blues)

Your Hoodoo Man - Studebaker John & The Hawks (blues)

Voodoo - The Neville Brothers (New Orleans soul)

Voodoo - Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (soul, funk)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone (funk)

I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (rock 'n roll)

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Morgan James (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You (no movie dialogue) - Winifred Sanderson (pop musical)

Jazz, swing

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra (jazz)

Black Magic Woman - Janice Hagan and Kenny Vehkavaara (jazz)

I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt (jazz)

Thriller (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady - Postmodern Jukebox (swing) (alternate link)

The Devil With The Devil - Larry Clinton Orchestra (swing)

Swingin' at the Seance - Glenn Miller (big band swing)

Spooks - Louis Armstrong (swing)

The Headless Horseman - Bing Crosby (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band (swing)

Resurrection Waltz - Lee Presson and the Nails (big band waltz)

Spooky - Puppini Sisters (Andrews Sisters-style swing)

Headless Horseman - Kay Starr (swing)

Hell (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Memphis Exorcism (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Boogie Man - Lee Presson and the Nails (swing)

Rattlin' Bones - Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans swing)

Save My Soul - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (New Orleans swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong

Skeletons in the Closet - The Moon-Rays (swing)

The Mack - Beat Circus (swing - doesn’t seem very Halloween at first, until the tuba player gets murdered in the middle of the song)

Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Voodoo Mon Amour - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Electro-swing

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents (electro-swing)

Midnight - Caravan Palace (electro-swing) (alternate link)

Midnight - Swingrowers (different electro-swing)

Old House - Dirty Honkers (electro-swing)

Devil’s Samba - Sim Gretina (Latin-flavored electro-swing)

Cuphead: Railroad Wrath (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Cuphead: One Hell of a Time (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil's Swing - Fandroid (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil's Swing (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (funk/glitch/chiptune)

Luigi's Mansion (Remix) - Qumu Music (chiptune, electro-swing)

Undertale: Ghost Fight & Dummy (Peggy Suave Swing Remix) - Sim Gretina (electro-swing)

Electronica, EDM

Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse - Sim Gretina (uhhh...spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It's very worth it, I promise.)

Macabre Rotting Girl Feat. Kathy-chan - Sim Gretina (adorable electro)

Sim Gretina feat. Kathy chan: Let The Monsters Free (µThunder Remix) - µThunder (EDM)

Grim Grinning Ghost (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Undertale: Megalovania (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Undertale: Spooktune (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London (Daheen Rmx) - Daheen (psytrance)

Interlude: Limbo - Yoshimasu Kamiya (ambient horror)

Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup - Pretty Lights (EDM)

HALLOWEEN Theme Song (DJ Deville Trap Remix) - DJ Deville (trap)

The Oogie Boogie (Man) - Duke Skellington (glitch-hop)

Stranger Things Theme Song (Michael Jobity & The Foreign Machine Remix) - Michael Jobity, The Foreign Machine (synthwave - my personal favorite remix of this theme)

Stranger Things Theme Song (C418 REMIX) - C418 (synthwave)

Stranger Things (Louis Futon Flip) - Louis Futon (chillstep)

Stranger Things Theme (Slicey Remix) - Slicey (trap)

Ghostbusters (Kill Paris Remix) - Kill Paris (EDM, future funk - by far my favorite remix of the Ghostbusters theme)

The Ghostbusters Theme (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Matheo (EDM)

Gangnam Busters - FAROFF (Ghostbusters/Gangnam Style mashup - annoyingly, it works far better than you think it will)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Starfuckers Remix) - Starfuckers (EDM)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Chew Fu Remix) - Chew Fu (electro-house)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (James Egbert Remix) - James Egbert (electro-house)

Michael Jackson - Thriller [The Reflex Halloween Disco Edit] - The Reflex (moody, indescribable IDM(?))

Beetlejuice (Dubstep Mix) - Figure (dubstep)

The Addams Family (Figure Remix) - Figure (dubstep)

Hedwig's Theme (KE KRA's Trap Remix) - KE KRA (trap)

Things I thought were funny

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock (parody novelty record)

A Hard Days Night of the Living Dead - The Zombeatles (zombie rock)

#halloween #halloween music #music #music rec

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Book Forty-Nine: Black House

“Here is a true American loner, an internal vagrant, a creature of shabby rooms and cheap diners, of aimless journeys resentfully taken, a collector of wounds and injuries lovingly fingered and refingered. Here is a spy with no cause higher than himself.”

After almost fifty books, The Talisman still stands at the top of the leader board as my favorite Steve book. It’s richly layered, full of memorable characters and horrible villains, with a satisfying conclusion. It’s the type of book fantasy and horror lovers alike are eager to escape into.

It’s sometimes hard to embrace the sequel to a book you love so much... I mean, I can be bought, but my criteria are stringent:

Consider setting the book in Wisconsin... perhaps the beautiful, sad, remote, desolate western part of the state right along the Mississippi river.

Maybe a Dahmer reference?

Scratch that. Instead, go with an old-school serial killer no one really talks about anymore. How about... Albert Fish? He’s pretty gross.

On second thought, reconsider a Dahmer reference. Maybe an evil spirit that links Dahmer and Fish together?

TONS of Dark Tower references.

If Steve and Pete were to consider writing a follow up to The Talisman with all these elements, I might consider reading it.

Spoiler!

Dark House contains all this goodness, and more.

It’s so fucking dark, y’all. I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to drive past a long-term care facility and NOT think about an old man inside wanting to eat the buttocks of small children.

Oh hey, trigger warnings for cannibalism, and violence against children.

So, Dark House is set in fictional Coulee County, Wisconsin (not a place). But Steve and Pete (I need to start giving Peter Straub some shout outs as well) describe the western part of the state magnificently. Not too long ago I had a sales job that required me to travel the entire state, and I always loved my jaunts west. I’d park right along the Mississippi, eat my lunch and just soak up the isolation. I’d much rather make the drive to Pierce county than the Quad Cities, which my current employer is asking of me. *Silent scream for help*

Despite Coulee being fictional, the actual Wisconsin references are thick:

De Pere (where we recently found out Steve spent a few formative years)

The Brewers

Miller Park

Kingsland Ale- while fictional, it’s a nod to Wisconsin’s rich brewing history, and favorable climate for microbreweries

Dahmer (several times, actually)

Racine. Y’all. I have no idea what Steve’s obsession is with Racine... it comes up in multiple books. It’s really not that great. Take that from someone who spent a brief period of time working there. Honestly, my favorite thing about Racine is the authentic Thai restaurant right in downtown, Sticky Rice. If you find yourself in Racine, please go check them out... their red devil curry is amaze-balls.

So, yes... lots of Wisconsin. Also, lots of Dark Tower:

Eye of the King

Crimson King

The Tower

Red roses

Breakers

Little Sisters

Gunslingers and their weapons

Roland and the ka-tet

Monos! Blaine and Patricia

Chief Breaker Brautigan- who allegedly tells hilarious stories about his escapes. I miss him already.

I have questions about how Steve convinced Pete to include so many Dark Tower elements into this book...

Steve: “Pete, bud... I know you might have a different vision for how this book plays out. Buuut what about if we make it part of the Dark Tower universe?”

Pete: Stares for a long minute. “Um, I thought that series was dead in the water. Do we really need to use Dark House to resuscitate it?”

Steve: “Remember the car accident? You know, the one that almost took my leg?”

Pete *Oh fuck, he’s bringing up the car accident as a bid for sympathy, and to convince me to make this a Dark Tower book...* “Of course I remember!”

Steve: “Well, it shook some things loose. I’m about ready to finish the series. I just thought it might be fun if we make this book a lead-up to the finale”

Pete: “It’s intriguing, but I’m not really sure it’s the direction I want to go in. I was thinking more-”

Steve: “I ALMOST DIED IN THAT ACCIDENT!”

Pete: “Cool, Dark Tower book it is!”

I should write fan fiction. I’ve obviously got a gift.

Black House is told from a birds-eye narration view. Literally... there’s this fat, evil crow named Gorg flying all over town, giving us the lay of Coulee County. Bad stuff has been going on: little children have gone missing, and only a few of their bodies have turned back up mutilated and broken.

The chief of police, Dale Gilbertson, knows he’s in over his head, and keeps trying to convince his pal, retired police detective, Jack “Hollywood” Sawyer to come consult on the case.

Jack isn’t having it. He retired young and moved to Coulee County from Los Angeles after tracking down and arresting serial killer Thorny Kinderling. The majestic beauty of western Wisconsin caught him by surprise, and he happily invested in reasonably priced (read: cheap) real estate with a view.

Upon moving to Wisconsin, Jack befriended Dale’s blind uncle Henry Leydon; who voices several radio programs, including The Wisconsin Rat, which plays indy screamo bands and has plenty of shock-jock antics. The two hang out together, listen to jazz music, and sometimes Jack reads to Henry. Henry was able to use his elevated senses to study Jack’s speech pattern and figure out Jack’s mom was THE Lily Cavanaugh; the Queen of the B’s.

While Jack and Henry are reading Bleak House, Charles “Burny” Burnside is wandering around the Maxton Elder Care Facility, pretending to have dementia, and dragging children into The Territories for Lord Malshun to either use as Breakers, or for Burny to snack on if they have no Breaking skills. So, Burny’s a bad dude who did some suspicious things in Chicago; but an evil spirit (the same one who invaded Albert Fish and Jeffrey Dahmer’s bodies) is what’s causing his kidnapping and cannibalistic urges. I know I say this every ten books or so, but Burny might be the worst King villain ever. I was not upset later on when his intestines were violently ripped from his body.

A sweet little boy (with strong Breaker powers) named Tyler Marshall goes missing outside the Maxton Elder Care Facility. While he was being pulled into the bushes by Gorg who kept repeating his name; his mother, Judy receives a taunting package and letter from The Fisherman, which sends her over the brink, and she’s institutionalized.

Tyler’s disappearance really amps up the town outrage, and Jack agrees to help the police department out. He’s starting to suspect there’s some Territories nonsense going down, and he can help.

From here, the book goes at break-neck pace and includes everything from micro-brewing bikers, a dog bite that causes one to dissolve into a foamy puddle on the couch, our old friend Speedy Parker showing up as a gunslinger, the world’s most annoying newspaper reporter, plenty of flipping between worlds via the creepy old black house hidden in the woods, and a happy(ish) ending. Honestly, there’s a warning at the end of the book, which allows you to choose your own ending. You can stop reading five pages before the end, and enjoy a happy ending where the good guys win; or you can get the real world ending. Both are satisfying... I recommend reading all the way to the end.

So, just a few quotes for you...

“Wolf died of a disease called America.”

This line gutted me. I didn’t realize how much I loved Wolf as a character, until I had to read a follow-up that didn’t include him. His soul was too clean and beautiful for a fucked-up world like the one we currently live in.

“He doesn’t like the cell phone to begin with- twenty-first-century slave bracelets, he thinks them...”

No explanation needed.

“Why must life always demand so much and give so little? Parkus answers her question with a single word: ka.”

Again, no explanation needed.

Was this book as good as The Talisman?

No.

Did I want more?

Absolutely.

But was I satisfied with the end?

You bet your (un-chomped on) ass.

Total Wisconsin Mentions: 33

Total Dark Tower References: 50

Book Grade: A-

Rebecca’s Definitive Ranking of Stephen King Books

The Talisman: A+

Wizard and Glass: A+

Needful Things: A+

On Writing: A+

The Green Mile: A+

Hearts in Atlantis: A+

Rose Madder: A+

Misery: A+

Different Seasons: A+

It: A+

Four Past Midnight: A+

The Shining: A-

The Stand: A-

Bag of Bones: A-

Black House: A-

The Wastelands: A-

The Drawing of the Three: A-

Dolores Claiborne: A-

Nightmares in the Sky: B+

The Dark Half: B+

Skeleton Crew: B+

The Dead Zone: B+

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: B+

‘Salem’s Lot: B+

Carrie: B+

Creepshow: B+

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: B

Storm of the Century: B-

Cycle of the Werewolf: B-

Danse Macabre: B-

The Running Man: C+

Thinner: C+

Dark Visions: C+

The Eyes of the Dragon: C+

The Long Walk: C+

The Gunslinger: C+

Pet Sematary: C+

Firestarter: C+

Rage: C

Desperation: C-

Insomnia: C-

Cujo: C-

Nightshift: C-

Gerald’s Game: D

Roadwork: D

Christine: D

Dreamcatcher: D

The Regulators: D

The Tommyknockers: D-

Now I move onto From a Buick Eight. I’ve had an advanced reading copy since the book came out, but never had the urge to actually read it. That should tell you everything you need to know about my level of enthusiasm right now. I’m hoping it’s not a Christine 2.0.

Until next time, Long Days & Pleasant Nights, Rebecca

#black house #the talisman #the dark tower #stephen king #peter straub #constant readers #ka #wisconsin #albert fish #dahmer

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