http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/scary-stories/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/scary-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-36815 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 21:15:12 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9364#comment-36815 I can sort of tell from the midlist-heavy client page that otherwordly stuff’s not your forte, so here’s a whole-damn-thing’s-too-real-and-in-the-present-tense offering for you: Hitler’s Furies by Wendy Lower. It’s eerily close to some elements in the YA project I’m shopping around (don’t worry, I won’t drop it on your doorstep) except I try to lighten the whole thing up by looking back on it all from the safety of a Thanksgiving holiday in the 21st Century. I know you probably don’t do scary movies either, so if you don’t have the nerve to look up the 1962 B&W version of THE HAUNTING, try DOWNFALL, which is sort of the German version of Saving Private Ryan about the last hours of the 3rd Reich. And honestly, I prefer stuff like Lovecraft or Poe to real-world horrors like cancer and despair which are stuff everyone has to face sooner or later; it baffles me why anyone would hang out there for fun. Check out the creepy moment in DOWNFALL where Magda Goebbels has her adorable kids sing a song for dear uncle Adolf right before she takes them in the next room and poisons them… You’ll never watch the SOUND OF MUSIC the same way again. Happy Dio De Los Muertos, and don’t put up any Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving!

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