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Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.
~ David Slade
It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.
~ Matthew Walker
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~ Herbert Gold
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
~ Lisa Gardner
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Do you have to know fear to be able to create it?
Bad job, bad life, bad choices. Most of us have that inner voice telling us what is right and what is wrong, that something we decided on isn't what we should be doing. It isn't always screaming in our head, but rather sending out warning signals, small punches to the gut we easily ignore. There are times where those small hints create nightmares within your subconscious in hopes that if you won't listen while awake, you might understand the point of the warning while sleeping.
My personal life's journey was littered with nightmares along the way. Every so often I'll get a nightmare about a random dog chasing me. It always leads to a similar ending. I would find a house to hide in, to protect myself. These dogs are not vicious, they don't look like they'd bite, but in my mind, they want something from me I'm not willing to give and it creates a fear so great that I start running. Each house I chose to hide in, after I close that front door, my mind will throw out a warning signal that there is a back door and the animal will get it. Needless to say, that's what happens. As I run to the back door, the animal is there and I'm having a hard time closing that door and keeping said animal out.
Most dreams have meaning, even nightmares. Interpretation for dreams isn't always easy to find. However, as nightmares go, it is your inner voice trying to tell you something. It's up to you to figure it out or turn it into a scary story. Those same stories speak a certain kind of truth.
As writers, we read other people's writing to learn, to improve our own, or to help them. But behind every single story is a bigger story not yet written, unless it's nonfiction. Even then, those who write it may not disclose all the information there is. To do so is to strip your soul of everything for everyone to see. It isn't easy. A birthday suit is one thing, to bring down all the walls to show your true colors is something else. It makes us completely vulnerable. That's why we write our stories. To share them, to get things off our chest, to shed bits and pieces but hardly ever all that we are.
After all, we are a deep well of emotions. We aren't animals. Or are we?
'til next time!
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Comments to my previous "Horror/Scary Newsletter (July 12, 2023)" :
oldgreywolf on wheels  wrote:
Feel free to read John CAMPBELL's "Who Goes There?"
I'm going to look into that. I need new reading material. Thank you!
Osirantinsel  wrote:
These days I listen to some songs I grew up with and go 'what the heck?' Themes or words I never really heard/listened to before and now I'm wondering how the hell those songs even passed censors. And some I'll now turn the sound down on! I've only ever put a 'song' once into a story - a Christmas carol, and one I had never heard myself before I had to use it for a prompt for Screams!!!. I read the story the other day and went 'hmm, I'm never listening to this carol ever again'. "Ash Christmas"
Yes! I completely understand. The song 'Oh, my darling Caroline' is definitely not a children's song! It's been a while since I listened to the Christmas carol but now I have to to see what's it about.
dragonwoman  wrote:
The theme from the horror classic, "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" still creeps me out.
Oh, I'll have to find it and listen to it!
Annette  wrote:
I never knew Ring Around the Rosy was supposed to be terrifying until I watched a scary movie that showed a lopsided, broken down and empty playground with a sorrowful version of the song playing in the background. I forgot the movie title, but I know that I never felt the same about that lullaby.
Yes, I know exactly the movie you're talking about! I don't know the name either, but that version of the song had nothing nice or sweet in it.
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