You can enter today to win one of two great books: A hardcover edition of Where the Wild Things Are, or a now out of print copy of H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. As you can see from how expensive the one used copy is, those of us who bought it at the time for $12 are quite happy.
Entering your name for the drawing to win one of the two books is easy: Write in the comments section and tell us what your favorite scary monster from any kind of scary books/movies is (vampire, werewolf, zombie, dementor, etc.), and why.
There is a way to increase your chances of winning: Advertise either or both of my books, Harry Potter & Imagination or Hog’s Head Conversations on your Facebook, Twitter, blog, or any other means of internet communication that you use. Please use the Amazon.com link for each. For every use of media, your name gets entered one more time. So, if you tell us your favorite scary monster and advertise one of my books on Facebook and Twitter, your name has been entered three times. If you advertise both books at the same places, your name has been entered a total of 5 times. You see how quickly you can increase your chances of winning! Make sure you come back here and tell me in the comments what book(s) you advertised and where, or I won’t know you did it! Here are the links to use:
- Harry Potter & Imagination: http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Imagination-Between-Worlds/dp/0982238517/
- Hog’s Head Conversations: http://www.amazon.com/Hogs-Head-Conversations-Essays-Potter/dp/0982238584/
You have until midnight (EST) on Friday, November 6th. Members of the Blogengamot are not eligible for entering. Good luck!
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My favorite scary story is always the original monkey’s paw tale.
The way the story only describes the dead son by the sounds being made behind the door, and the wife frantic screaming about how its not right and how the talk about how horrible the way he died was.
Its frightening without being blatant, uses words and mood to the best effect.
I have to say dementors are the scariest creatures!!
Hey Travis, I facebooked, Twittered and Myspaced both books. Oh and dementors are the scariest because I don’t have enough happiness left for them to suck out. Have a GREAT Halloween!!
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My favorite scary monster… hmm…. the idea of Bloody Mary still scares me! Darn mirrors!
Dementors are WAAAAAY scary, but so are the inferi…. But, probably the most scary for me are the zombies from Night of the Living Dead — you know, the original one….. SCARY!
Shannon
I’m gonna go with ghosts. You can’t stop a ghost. There’s no rules like there are for werewolves,vampires and zombies. If a ghost wants you, it’ll get you
Here’s a Cthulu link for everyone that my cousin sent me:
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Happy Halloween!
I think I’m gonna have to go with the Dementors. Not that they’re my “favorite,” but they’re the best approximation of the sorts of things that give me sleepless nights. Them, and the Nothing from the Neverending Story. Kinda comparable…
Not sure how to interpet the word “favorite”: most enjoyable? funniest? friendliest? scariest? spookiest? best conceptualized? best rendered (whether in words or pictures)?
I’m going to go with creepiest and go with Samara. Why? Because when she crawls out of the television set, she breaches the fourth wall.
Those-We-Don’t-Speak of definitely scared the bejezeers out of me the first time I saw The Village. I still jump at the trapdoor scene.
“Two by two; hands of blue”
The guys with the blue hands from Firefly are the scariest creatures to me, simply because we know nothing about them other than the terror and death they caused in the name of their unknown cause. They set out to capture River, and are single minded in that effort, destroying and discarding everyone they come into contact with along the way.
Any sort of figure like this freaks the bejezus outta me. It’s the unknown fear that accompanies Gothic tales. The idea of fear, carnage, and the fascination with the unknown that keeps us from running completely away… ya, that’s creepy.
Oh, and please believe Travis, i’m gonna be promoting the heck outta both your books.
the Zombies in “Night of the Living Dead” and the noises down the hall in the 1963 version of “the Haunting”
Dementors are VERY scary to me…I have to say as far as a favorite, I would go with GHOST! Would LOVE a copy of Where the Wild Things Are. I grew up reading that and would love to share it with my son and then see the movie. Great giveaway!
One movie that really made a profound impression on me was “Invaders From Mars-1953 my brother and I went to the show in the early 6o’s I was 10 and my brother was 8 years old. The boys parents started acting strange after being sucked below underground (where the space ship is under the field out back) The sense of “something’s not right” with Mom and Dad they are being controlled by the sinister aliens, no one believes the boy David MacLean not his teachers or the police his father has a mark on the bark of his neck. I am not going to tell you how it ends. I was gothic and didn’t know it. What do you really know when your ten? I never forgot how this movie made me feel.
Travis, I emailed several friends with links to the books and links back to the-Hogs-Head-org.
Hands down creepiest “monster” in a book was the forgotten wife in Jane Eyre. Well, not forgotten but crudely trapped. The scene in which Jane discovers her is really frightening and the fact that such a monstrosity could occur in present day is a contributing factor.
Bertha Mason Rochester was insane, and wasn’t responsible for her actions. Not so much her hubby. I think a case be made for Rochester himself as a metaphorical “monster”: he tries to trick Jane into a sham marriage. If the ceremony had gone through, Jane would have suffered the worse fate possible for a woman in those times: living with a man without marriage, ie. living in sin.
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The classic scares were okay, but I can’t do horror. Chuckie still freaks me out to no end- inanimate objects being possessed- ahh!!. I mean, its not supposed to move, talk, do anything, and that’s what its doing! And you can’t see the power that is making the doll do it! Thankfully, all of my dolls are still pretty, but I was traumatized for quite awhile.
I hate clowns. Worst thing in film or books. Pennywise is the creepiest thing have every seen in my life. Why do people need to hide behind smily make-up ? Because they are demons… Simple !
Also promo-ed both books bluntly on Twitter and Facebook.
I have to say reavers (of Firefly) are the most fear-inspiring creatures I can recall. I’m pretty sure being cannibalized and raped to death is about as bad as it gets.
I put both books on my facebook!
I would cherish the Lovecraft collection so..
I’m terribly sorry that wasn’t in time limit I suppose. 6 minutes late please forgive me!