King Arthur Movie Tristan

Happy Halloween everyone. I'll be heading off to work today dressed as a witch.
Then i'll take the kiddies trick-or-treating later on in the evening. I'll be posting pics :) What are you up to? Dressing up?

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!

Let the bell toll! -a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river -

And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? -weep now or never more!

See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!

Come! let the burial rite be read -the funeral song be sung! -

An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young -

A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young.



"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,

And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her -that she died!

How shall the ritual, then, be read? -the requiem how be sung

By you -by yours, the evil eye, -by yours, the slanderous tongue

That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"



Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song

Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong!

The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,

Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride -

For her, the fair and debonnaire, that now so lowly lies,

The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes -

The life still there, upon her hair -the death upon her eyes.



Avaunt! tonight my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise,

But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!

Let no bell toll! -lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth,

Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth.

To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven -

From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven -

From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven."



-Edgar Allan Poe

movie title: Shutter


plot: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

rated: 4 out of 5



I rented Shutter because I was in the mood for a good scary movie. The previews looked really creepy. It deals with paranormal photography, pictures where you can see ghostly images. The plot was creepy, the cast was good and the movie was well done. I was scared, but I felt it could have been scarier. It is from the makers of The Ring and The Grudge, and Shutter does have that same feel as those movies do. If you're in the mood for a creepy movie, Shutter is a pretty good choice.

Scream is one of my favorites when it comes to cheesy horror films. How much fun was that first Scream movie? I watched the sequels, but this first one was the best one. It was scary and funny. And the cast was great. Plus it kept you guessing who the heck was the killer behind that mask.








movie title: Scream


release date: 20 December 1996

plot: A psychopathic serial killer is stalking a group of teens just like in the movies!

Don't Answer The Phone. Don't Open The Door. Don't Try To Escape.

rated: 5 out of 5 skulls











Have you seen Scream? Did you enjoy it?

I DWELL in a lonely house I know

That vanished many a summer ago,

And left no trace but the cellar walls,

And a cellar in which the daylight falls,

And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.



O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield

The woods come back to the mowing field;

The orchard tree has grown one copse

Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;

The footpath down to the well is healed.



I dwell with a strangely aching heart

In that vanished abode there far apart

On that disused and forgotten road

That has no dust-bath now for the toad.

Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;



The whippoorwill is coming to shout

And hush and cluck and flutter about:

I hear him begin far enough away

Full many a time to say his say

Before he arrives to say it out.



It is under the small, dim, summer star.

I know not who these mute folk are

Who share the unlit place with me--

Those stones out under the low-limbed tree

Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.



They are tireless folk, but slow and sad,

Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,--

With none among them that ever sings,

And yet, in view of how many things,

As sweet companions as might be had.

-Robert Frost


haunted posts

Feel free to play along!




Halloween Meme:

1. Do you watch scary films? Which are your favorites?

2. What is your favorite scary book?

3. What scary book to film adaptation is your favorite?

4. What type of scary films do you think are better...the older ones like Psycho or the newer ones like Saw?

5. What is your fav Halloween treat?


6. What is your favorite Halloween costume? Do you still dress up for Halloween?



Heres's my answers:

1. I love scary movies. A few of my favorites are Halloween, Scream, Psycho, The Grudge, The Ring and Sixth Sense.

2. I have a few, but I read 'The Shining' recently and really liked it.

3. I liked how they made Salem's Lot and Misery into films.

4. I like both, older and newer films. I'm not a fan of torture films, I barely got through Saw1 and 2.

5. Any kind of chocolate

6. I usually dress up every year with my kids...lol. Plus we all dress up at the office. A few years back I was an M&M, I think that's one of my favs.

Spirits of the Dead

Thy soul shall find itself alone

'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;

Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

Into thine hour of secrecy.



Be silent in that solitude,

Which is not loneliness- for then

The spirits of the dead, who stood

In life before thee, are again

In death around thee, and their will

Shall overshadow thee; be still.



The night, though clear, shall frown,

And the stars shall not look down

From their high thrones in the Heaven

With light like hope to mortals given,

But their red orbs, without beam,

To thy weariness shall seem

As a burning and a fever

Which would cling to thee for ever.



Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,

Now are visions ne'er to vanish;

From thy spirit shall they pass

No more, like dew-drop from the grass.



The breeze, the breath of God, is still,

And the mist upon the hill

Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,

Is a symbol and a token.

How it hangs upon the trees,

A mystery of mysteries!







art by w.waterhouse

this has been a haunted post

I first watched the original 'Halloween' when I was about 12. This film always scares me. So much so that I cannot get near the Michael Myers mask at the costume store.

The way Michael slowly follows his victims, the fact that he is wearing a mask,
the idea that this is all happening on Halloween night, all of it just creeps me out.
Add scary music to the background and you've got one scary movie.
I have seen every sequel to this film and even the re-make, but I still think the original is the best one.






Film title: 'Halloween'

release date: 25 October 1978

plot: A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.

rated: 5 out of 5 skulls

'The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?'-quoted from http://www.imdb.com/

The Official Website of Michael Myers

'These eyes will deceive you, they will destroy you. They will take from you, your innocence, your pride, and eventually your soul. These eyes do not see what you and I see. Behind these eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light, these are of a psychopath.'-Dr. Loomis, Halloween

Have you seen this one? What do you think of it?

about: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, plumbers by trade who head up The Atlantic Paranormal Society. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people — office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus — moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.

One of my favorite TV shows is Ghost Hunters. How cool is this show? I've been watching since the show began, and it quickly became a favorite of mine. My son and I watch it together. It's funny because no one that I know will watch this show with me, besides my son. As soon as I turn the show on, hubby will leave the room...lol...he's chicken.




The Ghost Hunters team visit different locations to investigate and see if they are haunted or not. One thing I really like about the show is that the two main guys, Jason and Grant, will investigate every detail before saying that a location is actually haunted. Many times, after their research is done, they will say that the place is not haunted, that there just wasn't enough paranormal activity to call it haunted.


These guys visit so many different places and get ghosts on film and on tape, it's very creepy to watch. And I never miss an episode! Play the youtube videos below and you will see what I mean.










This one is very creepy also:






Do you watch Ghost Hunters?

For the month of October, I'm doing to be doing 'Haunted Posts' a few times a week.

What the heck is a Haunted Post? Well, the basic idea is to post something that has to do with Halloween or something scary. It can be a book review, a movie review, a poem. It can be a post about the paranormal, ghosts, hauntings...etc....the only rule is it has to be related to something spooky.


Feel free to play along! You can grab the button above to link to this post.
http://thebookworm07.blogspot.com/2008/10/haunted-posts.html



You can do a Haunted Post whenever you feel like it, there's no set day.


Once you've got your Haunted Post set up, leave your link here.

Make sure to leave a link to your actual Haunted Post, not your blog link. Happy Haunting!







Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-

Only this, and nothing more."
-E.A.P.