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Jonathan Donahue recommended Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky in Music (curated)

 
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
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"Growing up I didn't have an older brother, so all my music was formed by my mother and father. The latter would play old Irish folk songs and outlaw music by Johnny Cash and the only thing my mother would play was heavy melancholy orchestral movements like Night On Bald Mountain. What my mother would make me do is sit on the floor and tell my father to tell a story while putting on this record. This was big for me. I was probably four years old at the time. It sounded eerie, spooky and epic. My dad would make up these ghost stories but what he was really doing was recreating these children's story soundtracks that I'd listened to! I was too young to understand what he was doing at the time, but he was just making his personalised version of The Little Prince or Tales of Witches, Ghosts And Goblins. So he'd be like [eerie voice]: ""The ghosts would move up the Catskill Mountains..."" and I'd just sit there freezing in fear of these ghost stories! It was like having a musical campfire in your living room. Also, this song featured on the film Fantasia, which was my whole life up until the age of ten. It stuck with me and it was embedded in there now you're mixing visuals. I wasn't into the Mickey Mouse aspect of it, but when you watch the eerie castle and spooky ghosts, this is just feeding a young boy's imagination and this is the world he's going to confront when he grows up. These were all the ingredients going into my soup."

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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Better Homes and Hauntings in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
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Better Homes and Hauntings
Molly Harper | 2014
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This was a quick, fun read. Deacon Whitney, heir to what remains of the Whitney fortune, assembles a group of people to help him revamp his family's ancestral home, located on its own island off the New England coast. His family has been plagued by bad luck and financial misfortune through the years, but Deacon is a successful software engineer and has the funds available to redo the old family home. Joined by a cousin who wants to find out who really killed their great-great grandmother years ago and hopes to break the family curse, an old friend, a landscaper, and an organizational expert, Deacon and his new found friends encounter ghostly presences and jealous ex-business partners. There are some spooky moments, some humor, and plenty of romance along the way.
  
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David McK (3721 KP) rated The Addams Family (2019) in Movies

Nov 7, 2019  
The Addams Family (2019)
The Addams Family (2019)
2019 | Animation, Comedy, Family
5
6.7 (35 Ratings)
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Altogether now:

"They're creepy and they're kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They're all together ooky
The Addams family …"

It's now over 20 years since the Addams Family last big-screen outing (in 1993), itself only 2 years after their previous outing in '91.

That means that there is an entrie generation that hasn't seen the Addams Family on the big screen: something that this (animated) film attempts to put right.

And, to damn somewhat with faint praise: this is OK, but doesn't do enough (in my opinion) to really stand out from the crowd, to really be all that memorable: there's no equivalent, say of Wednesday Addams creepy smile ("Stop it! She's scaring me!") in The Addams Family Values, say, or even of the amnesiac Lloyd Fester in the original.
  
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Kristy H (1252 KP) rated The Sun Down Motel in Books

Mar 19, 2020  
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James | 2020 | Horror, Paranormal
9
9.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
I actually read Simone St. James’ incredibly spooky ghost story—set in a creepy motel—in a rather drab hotel room and boy did it scare me! The tag line: The secrets lurking in a rundown motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before...

This was such a great book. It features a hard to put down mystery with excellent characters and some downright terrifying scenes! The book is packed with twists and turns, and it's absolutely captivating.

The parallelism between Viv’s story—set in the 1980s—and her niece, Carly’s, in present-day, is excellent. I was so attached to these tough women and their stories. The 1980s piece really grabbed me; St. James really captures the era so well.
  
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Brian Fallon recommended track Crime Scene Part One by The Afghan Whigs in Black Love by The Afghan Whigs in Music (curated)

 
Black Love by The Afghan Whigs
Black Love by The Afghan Whigs
1996 | Alternative, Indie, Rock
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Crime Scene Part One by The Afghan Whigs

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"I heard The Afghan Whigs real early on and I was like, ‘Alright, this is like soul music but it’s played by white guys from Cincinnati, and I don’t even know if they can play that well.’ They eventually could play really well, and they turned me on to this whole other way of thinking that showed me you could mix all these things together without ever crossing over into pop music, which I felt when I was younger was just not something that I related to. Crime Scene Part One was a huge song for me because it was like a movie. It was brooding and there was something spooky about it, and then when you find out what it’s about it’s really scary. From there I went straight into Tom Waits.”"

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    Halloween Chase

    Halloween Chase

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    RUN!!!! The zombies are chasing you! Can you outrun the hoards of zombies in this fun and cartoony...

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Debbiereadsbook (1664 KP) rated The Haunting of Emily Grace in Books

Dec 6, 2025  
The Haunting of Emily Grace
The Haunting of Emily Grace
Elena Taylor | 2025 | Horror, Mystery, Paranormal
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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not for me
Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

My review for this will be brief, because I'm not sure I got the whole point!

It gives ghostly vibes in the title (The HAUNTING of ) and the blurb does hint at ghosts (the ethereal specter in the window), but there are no ghosts in this book! It slightly lacks the spooky factor as well.

It was one of those n-i-c-e books, that some folks will gush and praise and love, and others, like myself, will think, what is all the fuss about.

It is well written, though and I did finish it. I'm just really sorry I didn't really get it.

3 stars

*same worded review will appear elsewhere