AtoZChallenge 2015: L is for Left Turn
It’s day 12 of the AtoZ Challenge, hope we all still have some energy left to make it to the end 🙂 . Today we are going down the spook road as Natasha Duncan-Drake talks about her book Face of the Dead.
I really enjoyed writing Face of the Dead, mainly because it freaked out anyone who read it 😉 . I love a good ghost story and that was what I was going for. Given the looks Soph gave me after she read it I scored myself a few points.
Of course everyone knows the best kind of ghost story had a twist in the tale, or rather a ‘left turn’ in the road.
Face of the Dead starts out as a regular haunted house story with Miles moving in to an old farmhouse to start over after some nastiness in his past. Of course, as soon as he moves in, strange things start to happen.
Is it a real ghost? Is it the locals? Is it Miles losing his marbles?
Well, you’ll have to read to find out and I can almost guarantee you won’t see the ending coming 😉 .
What is your favourite kind of horror story? Do you like psychological horror, or spooky horror, or slasher horror best, or are you not a fan of the genre at all?
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Old houses creak and groan and make noises. Miles had expected that when he bought the farmhouse, but the tapping on the windows is a bit of a shock the first night he moves in. Of course there has to be a rational explanation and Miles is determined to find it, which would be easier if things didn’t keep getting stranger. (male/male horror fiction)
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I do like a good ghost story, although I have to be in the mood to read them – when we lived in a rather remote house in a small hamlet (about 15 houses) with lots of dark corners (next to a graveyard) and old abandoned outbuildings for one lovely year… this place was not the time to watch or read ghost stories as I discovered my imagination is FAR too good and I used to scare myself for days!
Mars xx
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I can’t read or watch ghost stories if my husband is away because then I can’t sleep 🙂 I love them as long as I have someone to curl up with when it gets dark, so I totally feel you. Next to a graveyard – yep, I can see why it was not a good place for ghost stories 😉
Psychological Thrillers/Horrors are my personal favorites. Something about messing with your mind, I guess.
Much better than the slasher films/books IMHO – I’ve never really been fond of simple gore.
I love love LOVE ghost stories! Yours sounds definitely entertaining. I’m a fan of all kinds of horror, ghost stories, psychological horror, you name it.
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Ghost stories are so much fun – when you feel the cold on the back of your neck as you read them you know you’ve found a good one 🙂
Sounds intriguing.
Thank you 🙂
I’m not a huge fan of horror, I refuse to watch it, but something that I’m sorta okay reading (and by sorta okay I mean it’s a little fascinating how it’s done) is body horror.
I think you have managed to find the one horror that is not for me 🙂 When I was younger I loved horror in all its guises, but, ironically, the older I get the more squeamish I get.