Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

Favourite Scary Monster?

Oooh! This is a tricky question, and it took some serious consideration. Like I said in last week’s post, my siblings and I grew up loving Halloween and scaring ourselves silly whenever we could. We’d love to sit around telling scary stories, with my younger brother and sister preferring stories involving vampires and werewolves, whilst I favoured spooky stories about ghosts and ghouls.

We’d often rent horror movies from the video store or beg to stay up late to watch whichever scary film happened to be on that week. I even convinced my parents to let me stay up and watch the original miniseries version of Stephen King’s IT when I was seven. They did try their best to warn me against it, but I wore them down and gave myself clown-related nightmares for the rest of the week.

I love a great ghost story, and I always have, whether they be ‘true accounts’ or fiction, though stories based on supposedly true accounts have the added thrill of ‘possibility’.

Though I know there are potentially scarier monsters, there is something fantastic about a suspenseful, creepy tale that sends chills down your spine. I love it. I love scaring myself silly.

I especially love to read ghost stories in bed, which, admittedly, is not always conducive to a restful night’s sleep, but they sure make for interesting dreams.

Some of my favourite ghost stories are:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (which, if you read me often, will not surprise you at all)
A Christmas Carol is the classic tale in which the cantankerous Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve – the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come, who endeavour to nudge him into correcting his uncharitable ways.

The Signalman by Charles Dickens
The Signalman is a spooky tale about a Signalman who is haunted by an apparition that appears to him seemingly as a warning before tragedy.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw is about a governess who starts to experience some ghostly goings on when she begins work looking after two children at Bly, an old country home.

Something else I enjoy is watching ghost-hunting shows and documentaries about the paranormal alone in the dark. I don’t believe in ghosts, though I love creeping myself out.

Well, that’s me for post 42. I’m intrigued to discover and learn about all your favourite scary monsters. Knowing some of you who partake in this challenge, this week’s topic should provide fascinating answers.

As ever, thanks for reading my post this week. I really appreciate you!

Until next time,

George

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