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thegoodplacey · 6 months

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OH MY GOD!!! I finally found a pdf version of the Clue the movie the novelization!!! This is my white whale of literature thank you thank you thank you to whoever finally uploaded this to the internet!!! I am in your debt!!! 😭😭😭

I found it on archive . org if you’re interested in downloading it for yourself. I would put the link but I think tumblr still doesn’t like that. Just send me a message if you want the direct link to it

#Clue #Clue 1985 #Clue the Movie #Cluedo #Michael McDowell #book #novel #novelization #Clue the movie the book #I am so happy right now guys you dont understand #kissing the person who uploaded this on the mouth right now

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derangedrhythms · 6 months

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In the waves one could hear anything: the sirens’ call or the scraping tread of the dead on the sand.

Michael McDowell, from 'The Elementals'

#michael mcdowell #the elementals #prose #death #~

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phaedraismyusername · 8 months

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It's September and we're in a heatwave so instead of choosing violence here's some oppressive summer gothics to match the abysmal autumn vibes

The criteria - they have to be hot and humid, they have to be gothic in nature, dark in content, and they have to at least flirt with the paranormal

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

This follows Andrew as he moves to a college across the country to step into his dead best friend Eddie's old life as he desperately tries to prove that he must've been murdered. Haunted, both figuratively and literally, angry and grieving, Andrew sets off on a path that leads him to question everything he ever thought he knew about himself and their history together as he fights to accept who he is, who Eddie was, and maybe tries to learn how to live without him. Fast-paced, dark, and super gay.

Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

After the death of her little sister, teenager Nif and her family move to rural Wales for the summer in an attempt to escape their grief. Set in the 1970s during a heatwave the isolation and oppressive weather quickly start to take their toll. With an emotionally absent mother, a father with a wandering eye and a needy younger brother, Nif becomes convinced she's stumbled across her own kind of magic, before catching the attention of the strange boy across the street. Think Shirley Jackson, definitely not YA.

Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

Now, this is YA. We follow 17 year old Grey as she returns back to her tiny hometown in the Louisiana Bayou for the summer 6 months after her best friends mysterious disappearance. In a town that claims to be the 'psychic capitol of the world', someone must know something, right? Full of secrets, lies, and a boy who steps out of the forest with storm-bright eyes, this was a quick and twisty atmospheric read.

The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

When political upheaval gets her father executed and his family is left in shame and destitution, Beatriz decides she'll do whatever it takes to find security in her life again. When a handsome Don proposes, Beatriz jumps at the chance to accept and move out to his countryside estate with big plans for the future, but it doesn't take long before she's spending her nights terrorised by a mysterious entity inside her new home, forcing her to seek help from the strangest of places. The imagery is creepy, the tone is tense, there's a hot priest, what more do you want?

Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell

Probably the darkest book on this list, and definitely the oldest. When a young girl is brutally murdered within sight of her home, it starts a chain of events that will see a family destroyed, secrets and lies exposed, and a vengeful creature that looks almost human to rise from the river as the town that surrounds it starts to crumble. The people are unlikeable, the book is old, the content is Dark - you've been warned.

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Also YA but this time for the bisexuals. Shady Grove can call ghosts from the grave with her music, just like her daddy could, but everyone knows that only trouble comes from playing for the dead. When her brother is accused of murder, Shady decides to embrace her birthright and use any power she can to clear his name. It's sweet, it's sad, it's lyrical, and there's a little bi love triangle sprinkled in to sweeten the sorrows. It's also a debut!

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driveintheaterofthemind · 10 months

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Vintage Paperback - Clue by Michael McDowell

Fawcett (1985)

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90smovies · 2 months

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#Tales from the Darkside The Movie #John Harrison #Michael McDowell #Arthur Conan Doyle #Stephen King #George A. Romero #90s

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rhetthammersmithhorror · 2 years

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Tales from the Darkside ▪︎ Inside the Closet ▪︎ S1.E7 ▪︎ 1984

#Tales from the Darkside #Inside the Closet #Tom Savini #Fritz Weaver #Michael McDowell #Hammersmith Horror #horror #horror anthology #practical effects #hug #i love you #80s horror

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brokehorrorfan · 4 months

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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Thinner Blu-ray, which releases on January 23. Based on Stephen King’s 1984 novel, the 1996 horror film is directed by Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Fright Night).

Holland co-wrote with Michael McDowell (Beeteljuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas). Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna star with Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wuhrer, and Bethany Joy Lenz.

Special features are listed below.

Audio commentary by producer Mitchell Galin and actor Joe Mantegna (new)

Audio commentary by film historians Lee Gambin and Aaron Dries (new)

Audio commentary by director Tom Holland and actor Joe Mantegna

Interview with director/co-writer Tom Holland (new)

Interview with actor Lucinda Jenney (new)

Interview with special make-up effects artist Vincent Guastini (new)

The Magic of Special Effects Make-Up featurette

Theatrical trailer

TV spot

Still gallery

Based on the riveting best seller, Stephen King’s Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror as one man faces a countdown to the ultimate excruciating payback. A 109-year-old Romani man (Michael Constantine), hell-bent on revenge for the death of his daughter, exacts a shocking curse that compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out from this bizarre and relentless torture, the accursed man must find a way to reverse his predicament, though death is quickly becoming his only option.

Pre-order Thinner.

#thinner #stephen king #horror #90s horror #1990s horror #scream factory #tom holland #dvd #gift #michael mcdowell #robert john burke #joe mantegna #michael constantine #kari wuhrer #bethany joy lenz

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vintagewarhol · 7 months

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#the nightmare before christmas #movies #henry selick #tim burton #michael mcdowell #caroline thompson #danny elfman #chris sarandon #catherine o'hara #illustration #vintage art #alternative movie posters

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haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll · 5 months

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Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty...except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid air. The McCrays and Savages, two fine Mobile families allied by marriage, have been coming to Beldame for years. This summer, with a terrible funeral behind them and a messy divorce coming up, even Luker McCray and little India down from New York are looking forward to being alone at Beldame. But they won't be alone. For something there, something they don't like to think about, is thinking about them...and about all the ways to make them die.

submit a horror book!

#The Elementals #Michael McDowell #horror books #horror #bookblr #books #polls #gothic horror #80s horror #horrorbookpoll

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80smovies · 1 year

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#BeetleJuice #Betelgeuse #Michael Keaton #Winona Ryder #Tim Burton #Michael McDowell #Larry Wilson #Warren Skaaren #80s

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ishootthelightsout · 2 months

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Daniel Suarez fighting Michael McDowell video you will always be famous

#NASCAR #Daniel Suarez #Michael Mcdowell #i love this video and i normally dont love fight videos

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misspecas · 4 days

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Tanto por leer y tan poco tiempo...

So much to read and so little time...

#me #fotos #libros #books #black water #michael mcdowell

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brigdh · 6 months

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I used to write weekly reviews of what I was reading and post them to tumblr, but then I fell out of the habit. However, I did manage to finish some books last month, and maybe you will enjoy reading my thoughts?

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. A thriller set in modern-day London. Anisa, a Pakistani immigrant from a wealthy family, dreams of translating great works of literature, but is stuck doing the subtitles on Bollywood movies. Her white boyfriend Adam speaks eight languages fluently, perfectly, like he was born to them. At first Anisa is only jealous, but then she learns that Adam is hiding a connection to the Centre, a mysterious organization that promises to teach anyone any language in only two weeks – for a price. And, well, who wouldn't be tempted? But visiting the Centre is only the beginning of Anisa's uncovering a whole host of secrets, as she meets and grows close to the Indian woman of her own age who runs the place; she and Anisa fall instantly into a close friendship which reveals some of Anisa's own missing pieces.

Anisa is a fabulous character – sympathetic and self-centered, unreliable and occasionally awful, trying her best but so often (like most of us) just justifying her own lack of action. The writing is fantastic, compelling and funny and sad and precise. Right from the first page, I had trouble putting it down.

The mystery of how the Centre does what it does is obvious from fairly early on, but I didn't feel like that was a problem. The drive of The Centre isn't so much about answering the question of "how?" but that of "what now?" Knowledge (of a language or of anything else) is power, but access to power is complicated by race, gender, sexuality, class, age, and so many other factors, all of which come into play. Anisa – and the other characters, and readers ourselves – want to remake the world for the better, but can she do so by using the tools of the powerful? Or would the act of using their tools change her into just another copy of them? The Centre doesn't answer these questions (and to be fair, how on earth could a single novel do so?), but the way it raises them and the dilemma it poses to Anisa is just so good.

Hugely recommended, and I can't wait for Siddiqi's next book.

Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell. A historical thriller set in 1880s New York City, focused on the rivalry between two families: the Stallworths and the Shanks. The Stallworths are upper-class, respectable, and include a judge, a preacher, a would-be politician, and a fashionable hostess of ladies' committees. The Shanks are sordid criminals, and include a fence, a prostitute, an abortionist (which, you know, I don't have much of a problem with, except that she cares less about her patients actually surviving the procedure and more about getting paid), opium addicts, and lesbians. They come to one another's attention when the Stallworths decide to lead a 'clean up the slum' operation to boost their own political prominence, which unfortunately happens to focus on the Shanks's neighborhood and ultimately causes the death of three of the Shanks. Black Lena, matriarch of the Shanks family, seeks revenge, and vows to kill three of the Stallworths in return.

This novel is better categorized as a thriller than as horror, which is unfortunate because I wanted something scary to read for Halloween. But despite that, it's hugely compelling, a real race of devious motives and sinister plots and squalid historical detail. Not a single character in the book is remotely likable, and despite their outward differences, the Shanks and the Stallworths are united in finding the very concept of morality irrelevant and laughable. The Shanks come out ahead as slightly easier to root for because at least they seem to like one another, whereas the Stallworths hate one another as much as they hate the poor, the unpopular, and the pathetic. Gilded Needles is a bit like watching a reality show, where everyone is terrible but you still have a great time throwing back popcorn as they tear the competition to bits.

A ton of trashy fun in a historical setting? My very favorite kind of book.

#book reviews #books #michael mcdowell #Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

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trans-neptunian-objects · 8 months

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Been reading the Blackwater series of Southern Gothic horror novels from the 80s and I'm obsessed with these serialized paperback covers.

Like seriously I need to own a set of these

#books #blackwater #michael mcdowell #cover art

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smalltownfae · 1 month

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Books read in 2024: Blackwater I: The Flood by Michael McDowell Rating: 3/5

The person that recommended this series to me told me that it is better as a whole. I believe that to be true since this entire first book feels like a beginning and there are still many questions at the end without an answer.

The book starts with two men finding a mysterious woman in a flooded hotel. No one knows how she survived for days without food and she states that she slept the entire time. What follows is a family drama involving a controlling mother, among others.

I still don't know what is Elinor's goal. It is clear from the start that she is some kind of water creature, but I have no idea why she is meddling with humans.

Even though it seems that not much happens in this book, the pacing is pretty fast. Suddenly, characters are already married and suddenly someone dies, etc.

I expected horror out of this book, but it reads more like a family drama. I wished that the characters were explored a little better because I often felt like I was being told what they were like instead of shown that through their actions and dialogue.

Somehow, I didn't expect this to be a story about a white family with only black servants. I wonder if that will be addressed more in depth in later books and I hope it is. This book also keeps mentioning how strong and clever the women are and how dumb the Caskey men are, which at times felt a little weird. I never like when a gender is put down in order to enhance the other and when it is a man doing that it can feel condescending. However, both Elinor and Mary-Love are the best characters in the book so the author got that right.

I will probably continue the series, but I will wait for the translation of the next books in portuguese. I read the translation by Francisca Cortesão and it seemed pretty good.

#blackwater #the flood #michael mcdowell #books read in 2024

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90smovies · 23 days

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#Thinner #Robert John Burke #Joe Mantegna #Kari Wuhrer #Tom Holland #Michael McDowell #Stephen King #Richard Bachman #VHS #90s

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