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i have a full book shelve of horror / thriller books"
@ josh. b – thriller by thom august – nine fingers "

I mean like vampire, zombies, ect. Stuff like animal man and swamp thing, i vampire, etc.
also May I request some horor graphic novels?

That exact gas mask seems to ring a bell from some graphic novel or horror movie I saw as a little kid but I can’t remember.

I love to write horror novels i’m writing one called "The Signs" about a girl named Kate Barnes who lives in the mysterious and dangerous town of Recman, Michigan. And "Manifestation" about a boy named Bobby Kagean who haves terrible night terrors and his family and psychologist encounters the same thing he does. I wanna be like Stephen King so do you think so if i keep writing books like these?

What if circumstances forced you to leave everything familiar in your life behind forever? To set out on a long, lonely life-threatening journey to a destination that had for you no real meaning, no name other than "escape?" What would YOU do in this situation? Can you even imagine?

Have you heard of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan and Dave Eggers’ new novel "What Is the What" based on their story?

The "Lost Boys" are tens of thousands of boys who fled their homes in southern Sudan during the Sudanese civil war of the 1980s after Arab militias attacked their villages. They walked hundreds of miles on a frightening journey to safety.

Many died from starvation, disease and attacks by humans and animals along the way. Those who survived made it to refugee camps in Ethiopia.

One of these "Lost Boys" and Dave Eggers have now collaborated in a novel blending fact and imagination called "What Is the What." In it Eggers describes the many traumas the children faced during their travels.
To read an excerpt from the book and hear a short conversation with Dave Eggers and the boy (now 25 ) with whom he collaborated see the following link.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6412768

For additional information on the Lost Boys of Sudan see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boys_of_Sudan
http://www.redcross.org/news/in/africa/0108lostboyspage.html
[ЭΩ∞] – For shame! The Darfur conflict and genocide continue even today though the world is not paying attention. Perhaps a novel like this can make at least a few people stand up and take notice where the news headlines did not. I’m curious about the stories you could tell that would make the (past) plight of the Lost Boys seem just a walk in the park. Care to elaborate. I can’t imagine many things worse. Also, if YA is not for spread of knowledge of important (albeit distasteful) events in our world, just exactly what IS its purpose? To dispense rubbish, ca-ca, and personal bias?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict
[ЭΩ∞] – (After reading the addenda):
See! NOW you’re speaking the mother tongue (English). I knew you could do it! LOL

See, I like writing stories as a hobby. Shirt stories, comics, novels. As long as it’s a story. I also do musical stuff… But anyway I’m going to write a story about horror. But I need horror movies to watch to get inspiration from. What are good ideas? Ones like Saw…

Here’s mine.

1. Creepshow
2. It
3. Carrie
4. Cujo
5. Dreamcatcher

If any one can top my list i’ll give you extra points.May the force be with you. Friday the 13th part 2, Hellraiser, Exorcist, evil dead, Nightmare on elm part 1 The shining..The novel to the shining is very dark, disturbing.

I remember back in1994,going to the movies to see this film.I was so excited that I was finally going to see my favorite horror novel come to life on the Big Screen.But after I watched it,I was so upset by how off the book it was.I mean with the scene with the two whores in the film they had it in such a way to make us feel sorry for them,but in the book,this scene was more comical,and even though the whore did sob in the novel her reason had almost entirely left her.And in The vampire Lestat,It was revealed that those two whores had been poisoning seamen and robbing their corpses,which clearly shows that they deserved their fate.And in the Theatre des vampires,in the book,the entire theatre was pitch black so the woman on stage had no way of knowing where she was,also the vampires had surrounded her in a full circle and when Santiago took off her top when she tried to cover up he grabbed her arms and held them at her side so she couldn’t cover up.She had no chance.But in this film she seem downright idiotic.The stage was fully illuminated so that anyone with an idiots i.q could have reckonized it as a theatre.She could have called out to the audience "This is not an act,they’re really trying to kill me"!Also they weren’t surrounding her at all times and sometimes they weren’t even paying attention to her.I wanted to scream at her "get off the stage you bi*ch"!There were even candle holders that had LIT candles in them that she could have used to defend herself.And when armand came and hugged her she tried to run away but he grabbed her hair,which she could have spun around and hit him in the eye and ran off,but she didn’t and therefore I had zero sympathy for her.The acting was melodramatic,and I also hated the choice of actors for the characters,Brad Pitt looked like an ugly woman,And the rest just weren’t right for the part.Who else feels the same way about this?

It was a TV series of short horror stories for kids, they used to run it when I was a kid.
one episode had a boy who came to live with him cousins, and they had this wooden doll that came to life; another was about a boy and a girl stuck in a scary ride, they were very popular back in the day… do you remember the name of the show?