YOU LIKE ZELAZNY? Awesomesauce!
Read his stuff way back when I was a teen, cos brother was reading it.
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Oh yeah, heâs my partnerâs favorite author.
My favorites are Creatures of Light and Darkness, and Lord of Light. I also really like A Night in the Lonesome October, itâs such a weird one, and very Halloween relevant.
Iâd only read Creatures of Light and Darkness before meeting my partner.
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I think my favorite was Roadsigns.
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What I read was Chronicles of Amber.
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I loved those. My first noire fantasy anti-hero. But his family were assholes.
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omg, donât get me started! iâve loved Zelazny since i was about 10-12. Amber series of course, but also Eye of Cat, To Die in Italbar, and especially Lord of Light. why they havenât made the Amber series into a Game of Thrones-like miniseries, i have no idea. itâs so aggravating. itâs perfect for it!
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omg, thanks for reminding me! itâs time to read âA Night In The Lonesome Octoberâ! iâm only 3 days behind!
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You just reminded me that I dunno where my copy of Ray Bradburyâs âThe Halloween Treeâ is! I do have a copy of âSomething Wicked This Way Comesâ, though.
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Another scary, though not necessarily Halloween-themed trilogy is Koko, Mystery, and The Throat, all by Peter Straub. He to me is the white-collar king of horror writing, lol.
(sick of typing quote marks, lol)
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Return to Glennascaul aka Orson Wellesâ Ghost Story (1953)
Dir: Hilton Edwards
During one of the breaks in filming Othello, Welles appeared in this charming little Irish ghost story. Nothing groundbreaking cinematically, Welles isnât credited as director, but merely narrates and cameos as himself. (Although the opening sequence, set in the studio where Welles is filming Othello does seem to bear his mark.) Good old fashioned fun.
The video starts with an introduction by Peter Bogdanovich which gives more background info.
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omg, âSomething Wickedâ is one of my favorites, too â i need to haul that out and watch it. the movie wasnât perfect by any means, but Jonathan Pryce is fantastic and worth watching for him alone. Plus, itâs an interesting addition to the Disney canon, when they were trying to move away from the kid movies and animation, and were willing to try other stuff. (see also The Black Hole)
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Jason Robards was goodâŠand Pam Grier, too, for what she had to do. But I remember the atmosphere of it, more than anything; the sets, the lighting, the music.
Eee, Gene Kelly was Rayâs pick when he wrote in 1958 - now THATâS SCARY! I donât think too much of his dramatic skills, except maybe in âInherit the Windâ.
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Gene Kelly was Rayâs pick to direct, so his acting skills need not have entered into it. Although itâs true, I donât recall him directing anything like Something Wicked.
I liked the movie of SWTWC, but I thought it was merely pretty good as compared to the greatness of the novel. Too long since Iâve seen it to go into great detail, although for one thing, I recall it being pretty obvious that there was some re-shooting involved, which may have made the film a bit unfocused, the directorâs vision conflicting with the studioâs. (Disney, at the time, periodically produced films with darker, more mature content, but then somewhere during production would feel squeamish or insecure about this content, often hobbling the films before release. See also, The Black Hole and The Watcher in the Woods.)
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OOPS, misread it.
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oh yeah - i didnât mean it as a slight to anyone else in the film at all â itâs just that Pryceâs acting is really just SO good, it makes the movie for me. i really wish someone would attempt to make this one again, and do the book justice. give it more time, really get into just how sad, creepy, and lost the Autumn People really are.
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I didnât like the animated âThe Halloween Treeâ, though.
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Dio lead Black Sabbath from 1980.
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I donât have a reason to make them, but I still kind of want to make them.
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