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A Sense of Doubt blog post #3544 - Halloween 2024 - A Collection of Creepy, Ghastly, Ghoulish Delights from Previous All Hallows' Eves
Halloween is always a special day because I am not enjoying myself and working the whole time.
This post collects lots of my past Halloween content, including music: Witchhouse, Italian Occult Psychedelia, and my classic Halloween mix that I played in class all week: Bereft in Deathly Bloom, named for a line in the Bauhaus classic: "Bela Lugosi is dead."
I also included my HUGE love letter to the great 1970s Marvel comic Tomb of Dracula, definitely one of my top five favorite comic stories of all time.
Lots of stuff here. I hope you enjoy exploring.
I was actually at this church, named for this day, or this day named after this church, which we found quite by accident: SERENDIPITY!
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3179 - Halloween 2023 - part two
I decided to split Halloween in two.
Thanks for tuning as always.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2447 - HALLOWEEN part one 2021 and VAMPIRES - Weekly HODGE PODGE FOR 2110.30
Various stuff for Halloween.
A special HODGE PODGE edition.
ENJOY.
Bela Lugosi, best known for his role as Dracula, was born 136 years ago. His role as Dracula is one of the most iconic in horror and pop culture history 🧛🏻♂️ #BelaLugosi #Dracula #horror pic.twitter.com/cCa33oYX9D
— Famous Monsters (@FamousMonsters) October 20, 2018
Vampira and Bela Lugosi on ‘The Red Skelton Show; 1954#retrohorror pic.twitter.com/8gIlfTj7Ak
— Retro Horror (@el_zombo) October 30, 2021
Glenn Strange -HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944) #scifi #monster #retrrohorror #40s pic.twitter.com/cxa0vv91T0
— Retro Horror (@el_zombo) October 30, 2021
Louise Allbritton / publicity photo for Robert Siodmak’s Son of Dracula (1943)#gothic #vampire #retrohorror pic.twitter.com/GOyEqznuuo
— Retro Horror (@el_zombo) October 29, 2021
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1127 - Throwback Halloween 1979
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #847 - Sense of Dread - Here comes the March of Octopuses - Happy Halloween
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #842 - My Parents The Pumpkins - Throwback Thursday 1710.26
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #481 - Lizzie Borden
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #478 - Halloween 1967
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1349 - Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2079 - HALLOWEEN STUFF FOR CLASS - poems, STEPHEN KING, and VAMPIRES
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The pre-Halloween class started as it always does with the Bauhaus classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
Shared via this mix:
As featured in the 1983 film by Top Gun director Tony Scott entitled The Hunger with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie.
BAUHAUS - "BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD"
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead
SO I ASKED MY STUDENTS, WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DRACULA??
Bela Lugosi - 1931 - Universal
Christopher Lee - 1958 - Hammer Horror Series
Gary Oldman - 1992 - Coppola Film
NOW - 2018 - from Warren Ellis' Netflix Castlevania
Which was the model for the vampire in Salem's Lot that I shared about next.
Onto books, as I shared the I reading Stephen King's 1998 novel Bag of Bones right now, which is a terrific ghost story. I went through my usual schtick about reacting negatively to hype (except for JK Rowling who lived up to it) and how Stephen King is the best (or one of the best) of the blockbuster, best seller, popular novelists. I also talked about his book On Writing, which I just re-read for like the dozenth time.
AS I shared, my favorite Stephen King novel is The Stand, and after reading it some time in the early 1980s after its 1978 publication, I read the expanded 1990 edition, which I think was a bit over done.
Though I love the book for the apocalyptic result of the super flu pandemic and the characters that King defines with such clarity and verisimilitude, I am not as crazy about the second half of the book and the "stand" against Randall Flagg. And yet, I read it.
Though the original mini-series was good (and had a great cast), I am very excited for the new series on the CBS streaming network starting in December.
I explained that the King book is very different than the Kubrick film, and so Stephen King wrote and produced a TV mini series that was more faithful to the novel in 1997. It won many critical accolades and two Emmy awards.
But the Kubrick films is one of the most frightening things I have ever seen, and I saw it for the first time, at midnight, the night I graduated from high school after drinking hard alcohol for the first time (gin and tonic).
Also, I use an image of that carpet pattern as my phone background.
ALSO ALSO, the exteriors for the Overlook Hotel were filmed at Mt Hood, near here in Oregon.
And then the poem. I tried reading Poe's "Ulalume" (which will be tomorrow's blog post), and so I switched to my favorite Emily Dickinson that is equally frightening.
THIS POEM -
“The Soul Has Bandaged Moments” - Emily Dickinson
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1112 - reprint - soul has bandaged
GOOD BUT NOT MY FAVORITE
“I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” - Emily Dickinson
TOO LONG TO READ IN CLASS
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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