Coming in November:
We honor our veterans for their service and we celebrate Thanksgiving and the contributions of Indigenous people.
It’s also harvest time and we’ll be talking about delicious fall vegetables, hardy fall soups and baked goods.
November 13 is World Kindness Day and we have a few ideas for making it a special day.
It’s Movember – we’ll be taking a look at all those mustaches out there and the Movember Foundation, a global organization committed to men’s health issues – prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. Look for our helpful guide about plants and foods that may be harmful if eaten by your pets.
We’ll have delicious recipes from Linda Cahill and the Pampered Chef and new craft ideas from Tanya Bashor and Gypsy Artistry. Orlando Bartro will be back with something brilliant and we hope to have one of Jim O’Brien’s heartwarming stories. Plus more interesting articles from guest contributors.
We’ll have book recommendations, beautiful free use photos and of course a quiz to keep you on your toes.
Until Next month!
Fran
Answers to the October 2019 Who Said That Quiz:
Author: Harlan Ellison wrote I Have no Mouth and I must Scream
Quote: “be careful of monsters with teeth”
Author: K.G. Petrone wrote Cycles of Time: Revenge is Mine
Quote: “I would much rather live among the monsters within books and on the big screen, than with the ones depicted on the ten o'clock news.”
Author: Clive Barker wrote Infernal Parade
Quote: “[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
Author: Asa Swift wrote The Devil's Cabin: Hell Hath No Pity
Quote: “Where evil walks, hell follows.”
Author: Neil Gaiman wrote The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Quote: “Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
Author: R.A. Horn wrote Haunting on East 48th Street
Quote: “Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.”
Author: Henry James wrote The Turn of the Screw
Quote: “Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.”
Author: R.L. Stine wrote Goosebumps: You Can’t Scare Me
Quote: “When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.”
Author: E. H. Night wrote The Four Before Me
Quote: “While some monsters are born, others are created. But, the worst monsters are those who believe themselves to be heroes.”
Author: Richard Matheson wrote I am Legend
Quote: “I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I’ve inspired a few people one way or another.”
Author: Pamela Morris wrote No Rest for the Wicked
Quote: “Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.”
Author: Stephen King wrote The Institute
Quote: “Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.”
Author: Barry Brickey wrote The Silence
Quote: “Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting…watching…haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it’s already too late.”
Author: Shirley Jackson wrote We have Always Lived in the Castle
Quote: “So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
Author: Chris Mentillo wrote Obliterated: Everything is about to Change
Quote: “I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.”
Author: Robert Bloch wrote Psycho
Quote: “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
Author: Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The New Prometheus
Quote: “I busied myself to think of a story, — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name.”
Author: Bram Stoker wrote Dracula
Quote: “Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”
Author: Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher
Quote: “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Author: Anne Rice wrote The Queen of the Damned
Quote: “I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.”