Category: Scary Stories

When I was growing up, I spent a lot of time with my sister and our best friend Nan watching TV together. The TV would be on sometimes even when we were doing something else.  Many of the movies that the three of us came to know and love were ones that ran in the… Continue reading Why Joan Crawford Scares Me

When the movie “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” made it to theaters around where I lived in 1966, I was 4 and 1/2 years old. I don’t have that many memories of this time in my life but I do remember specifically wanting to see this movie. I remember seeing the ads on TV. I’m… Continue reading What Scares Don Knotts Scares Me

I saw Evil Dead when it first came out in 1981. I was in college at the time and there was a group of us called the Bad Cinema Club that went to see nearly every horror that was released at that time. This is not to say that all horror movies are bad. But there are… Continue reading Scary Happenings While Watching Evil Dead

I was a freshman in college when Friday the 13th Part II was released. By the time this one came out, I was more familiar with the jump scare techniques they used in the first Friday the 13th film. During my first semester of college, I had helped form a group called the Bad Cinema… Continue reading Seeing Friday the 13th Part II on Bargain Night is Scary

I didn’t jump on the modern horror movie bandwagon until the release of Friday the 13th. When it was released May 9, 1980, it had been about a year and half since Halloween had made its debut.  I had completely missed Halloween and never really paid much attention to it until Halloween II came out… Continue reading How Friday the 13th Scared Me and My Friends

I was in sixth grade in the spring of 1975 and television was becoming important.  This was when we could only get three channels and everyone was watching the same programs.  If you weren’t watching the same programs that everyone else did, you weren’t able to participate in the discussions of the “cool” programs.  It… Continue reading Why Karen Black is a Little Creepy

The Twilight Zone was in syndication when I was very young.   By the time I started watching it, I paid more was old enough to remember episodes of shows.  Because it was in syndication, I was likely to see the same episodes over and over even though there was a total of 156 shows.  The… Continue reading Why I don’t like Ventriloquist’s Dummies

Most of my earliest memories of watch TV relate to being scared.  Continuing with my October theme of scary TV shows and movies, I am reminded of a television show called Fantastic Features which aired on WHBQ-TV from Memphis.    I was born in 1962 and so was this show.  It was a showcase for horror… Continue reading Fear of Sivad

Since its October, I’ve decided to devote some of this month’s posts to things that have really scared me.  My first thoughts went to television programs and movies.  And I decided to start with one of my earliest memories of something scaring me.  And that is Dick Van Dyke. Maybe it’s not him.  Doesn’t everyone… Continue reading Why I Was Scared of Dick Van Dyke