Low Carb Sweets

I have something I need to confess to you guys. I don't eat sugar. I don't eat bread. God help me, I don't even eat pasta anymore. This would be a massive challenge if I didn't like experimenting with recipes and had no ability to make my own food. This year I decided to share a pinterest board for the yearly October recipe finds and focus on the low carb stuff. From cookies to cake, please enjoy these wonderful recipes I've found across the web.

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Trust me, if I could just embed it here, I would.

Short Story Recommendations

So a couple of these might have been mentioned in previous posts, but I really can't stress enough how great they are. Today I'd like to give you guys a few recommendations for some simple, fun short stories to pass the haunting hours this month. Attached will be pictures of the books I've found them in for easy reference. So, without further ado, let's get into it!

W. S. by L. P. Hartley

Though that may be a mouthful of single letters, this short story was what inspired today's post. I think all of us who read, or who have grown up reading, are victims of our own need to buy more books even when we've got a shelf or two of the ones we still haven't managed to get around to. '11 Great Horror Stories' was one of the many, because I was familiar with more than half of the works in it (The Dunwich Horror, The Judge's House, The Shed, etc.) W.S. however, seems to be the ancestor of a very familiar trope (one especially popular with Stephen King) of a writer having a mental battle with one of his own creations. Sadly, this story was published posthumously, and I can only hope it wasn't autobiographical.

Fish Night by Joe R. Lansdale

Did you honestly think you'd get through an entry of mine about short stories without at least one Lansdale story sneaking in here? Fish Night is one of his more peculiar (though they've all sort of got that title) works about the phantoms of long dead sea creatures float about in the desert that used to be the ocean they lived in. It's such an interesting concept, I couldn't pass it up.

Drink My Blood by Richard Matheson

Throughout middle school, junior high, and high school - - this story was my white whale. I had read about it once in a small encyclopedia entry, and was obsessed with finding it. Now I may not be ancient, but it was a lot harder in the early to mid-2000s to find out of print books unless you dealt with certain vendors or were old enough to have a card and drop some cash online (which I was not). So when I finally stumbled on this book at a garage sale several years ago, and at long last got to read the story by Richard Matheson about a young boy obsessed with becoming a vampire, it was the best feeling in the world. Yes, it didn't live up to the hype, but I still highly recommend this story (if you can find it. It'll be a lot easier now than it was then...)

Sabrina by Don Wulffson

This one is not so much terrifying as a little upsetting (especially if you're an adult). A young boy falls in love with a beautiful performer, and things work out in the most twisted way possible thanks to a few nasty adults. For those of you who have somehow read this, I'm sure you'll understand why I had to keep it vague for that bizarre little twist.

A Grave Misunderstanding by Leon Garfield

There's no deep message behind this one, nothing beyond the whole 'man's best friend' concept wherein a dog keeps his master safe from a pretty ghost--and, well, a pretty living woman too. It's worth a read for the humor and the oddly poetic nature of a dog's point of view.

Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/Amazon Chiller Streaming List of 2019

Back in the saddle again for one last year (or so it appears) of the horror blog-a-thon, so let's make this a good one, gang! As it stands, it looks like the host is retiring, and unless someone takes up his helm, there will be no more daily October blog-a-thons. This year, rolling out a 2019 streaming list, I'm featuring a combination of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon/Shudder features to watch each day in October. Won't you join me?

1. What We Become (Hulu)
2. Phantom of the Paradise (Shudder)
3. Se7en (Hulu)
4. In the Tall Grass (Netflix)
5. Ghost Stories (Hulu)
6. The Last Kids on Earth (Netflix)
7. Tigers Are Not Afraid (Shudder)
8. Southbound (Hulu)
9. The Midnight Meat Train (Amazon)
10. Mom and Dad (Hulu)
11. The Gate (Amazon)
12. Viy (Shudder)
13. Marianne (Netflix)
14. We Have Always Lived in this Castle (Netflix)
15. Children of the Corn  (Hulu)
16.Next of Kin (Shudder)
17. The Hole in the Ground (Amazon)
18. Eli (Netflix)
19. Open Water (Hulu)
20. Frogs (Amazon)
21. In The Shadows of the Moon (Netflix)
22. Summer of 84 (Shudder)
23. Dan Curtis' Dracula (Amazon)
24. I Trapped the Devil (Hulu)
25. Head Count (Netflix)
26. Creep (Amazon)
27. The Clovehitch Killer (Hulu)
28. Daybreak (Netflix)
29. Sequence Break (Shudder)
30. Fractured (Netflix)
31. Rattlesnake (Netflix)

October 1st: Art Sherpa Inspired Painting

Am hurriedly trying to finish the streaming list for the year, I promise! In the meantime, enjoy my October 1st pick, What We Become (Hulu)

Today I'd like to feature a video by Art Sherpa who does fun acrylic tutorials throughout the year. Below is the painting I made from her video, and below THAT is the actual video if you want to try it yourself. Happy October!

Episode 69 - Off Topic Chatter

Getting warmed up for Rock-tober, Corey and Maddy discuss random horror adjacent topics today, including Youtube epic 'The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inneficient Weapon' and accompanying 'Ginosaji' series, alongside some fun fan films and music videos.

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Episode 68 - All Monsters, Big and Small

Whether you're defending a crystal that embodies all things good from Dracula, the Wolfman, Gillman, and the Mummy, making friends with Frankenstein's monster, or fighting miniature versions of all of them while a mad scientist tears a hole through reality - the Hallow-Holics are here to coach you through it. This week we discuss the 80s kids horror classic 'Monster Squad' and the 90s trashic 'Creeps'.

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Episode 67 - Tokyo Ghoul

Now hear me out. I know you've got a grudge spirit living in your bathroom, and yes maybe I'll admit it's super annoying to have hair pouring out of the spouts every time you try to wash dishes in your kitchen or turn the sprinklers on. Maybe this episode will help distract you in which we discuss the wonders of Maddy's trip to Japan, the epic classic love story to teen drama 'Akira' and a video game/film/anime powerhouse of violence called 'Corpse Party'.

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