I have a story in the anthology called AN APPLE FOR THE CREATURE, edited by Charlaine Harris of Sookie Stackhouse fame and Toni L.P. Kelner. It's a book of school stories with a horror/fantasy twist to them. Some of them are funny, some scary, some mysterious. My story is called Low School.
Normally I shy away from horror because I'm too impressionable. I was the girl who watched a scary show on television and then had nightmares for a week. I managed to see movies in which giant ants or tomatoes take over the world, but not movies about haunted houses, possessed people. I still sleep with the light on in the hall. At my sister-in-law's 14th century manor house there is a haunted room. I slept in the room next to it once and lay awake all night watching for the ghost to come through the wall.
So you see I'm an absolute wuss. But Charlaine and Toni are good friends and I was honored to be asked, so I stretched my comfort zone a little and I'm glad I did. If you have a teenager complaining how bad her school is this year buy this book and say, "You think you've got it bad?"
As a child I had nightmares for weeks about giant ants, after seeing Them! I finally made myself watch it again a couple of years ago, just to get over it.
ReplyDeleteAs a child I watched 'The Beast With Five Fingers' and had nightmares about hands crawling everywhere for several years, that was about the only thing that ever really scared me, I'm scared of hands, what can I say? I think it was because the disembodied hand was so much like a spider and they terrified me when I was small.
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