I love me Stephen King. Especially the old drug fueled shit. Make me want to move there.
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Lovecraft was from New England too and wrote about some pretty weird shit happening up there too.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote about ghouls, canine-human hybrid creatures that lived in tunnels underneath Providence and raided graves to devour dead human flesh and bones.
When I visited my uncle in Providence, he casually mentioned the native coyote population, which lives in burrows in the side of the hill under the old cemetery.
So there are literally dog creatures tunnelling under the graves in Providence, and I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if old Howard Phillips once saw one with a bone in its mouth, and immediately ran to his typewriter to write about the unspeakable horror of it all.
You think his writing is fucked up, you should see what he named his cat.
Someone made a game about that. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3912580/NECRONOMICAT/
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There's a scene at the start of 'Apocalypse Now' where Martin Sheen gets drunk in a Saigon hotel room and practices Tai-Chi.
When I saw it, I thought it was complete Hollywood bullshit.
They did a 20th Anniversary doc about the movie and interviewed a bunch of veterans.
One authentic CIA operator said that getting drunk and doing Tai-Chi was exactly the sort of thing Sheen's character would have done.
Also he was actually drunk, he actually punched a real mirror, and really cut himself.
Everyone in that movie was high as balls the entire time.
I've somehow made friends with a crow. It comes and sits outside the window in the morning, when I go to the bathroom first time. I haven't been nice. I guess I've said hello a couple of times, but only 2 or 3.
I'm working on making friends with a local murder. Four of them have gotten used to showing up in the mid-afternoon and cawing loudly until I come out and toss them some peanuts.
I'm trying to attract them closer, and it's working. I'm hoping to be hand feeding them in a few weeks.
If you've a fishing shop near you that'll sell you a tub of mealworms, then you could make a new best friend..?
I started a story recently about an animal lover who accidentally angers the mother crow living outside his apartment and gets blacklisted.
I guess someone needs to do this 🙄
A Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man. (wikipedia link)
Me coming here hoping someone in the comments would explain
Well that's no fun.
For reals! I'm already here, I don't want to have to go all the way over to there... I wanna stay reading comments from strange, wonderful people!
Plus a bunch of people will look at the thread, so one of them googling it and explaining saves a bunch of other people googling, and saves them all more time in total than the one person spent.
My parents live not too far away away from him. They always tell me when someone sees him at the supermarket. Apparently he is spooky.
Same. They also told me his neighbor was a prick, and when he pissed him off King would line up small rocks on is lawn and drive over them with his lawnmower to launch them towards the neighbor's house. Can't comment on the veracity, but it somehow feels like something he would do imo.
The writer John Connolly's "Charlie Parker" books are partly about how weird Maine is. Some of his descriptions can get your small hairs standing up.
Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook. Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never make up. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
As someone who has lived in New England for the last 30 years, I have to tell you that that description is bullshit.
The old man who runs the dump keeps his hand of glory in a Red Sox glass. The Bruins mug belongs to his son.
Welcome to our world. You might find, like me, that once you get here, you never leave.
The motel california
well, yeah... me being anal: song was Hotel California - an awesome song and my 10 yo brain had a completely different story to that then the band did :)
also from the same time period... roach motel - roaches check in, but don't check out!
I am reading It right now and is it only me that thinks the sexualization of the 11yo is kinda awkward?
It's the type of thing that worked better preInternet when you would have just kinda skipped past it then never brought it up in public.
While some may disagree and argue it was more of a train situation, a gangbang was a core plot of It.
I thought his thing was Maine?
Ohhh hand of glory reference; that's some solid old school necromantic wish magic. Ah fair New England, gotta have more damned men hung to turn them hands into candles of their own fats.
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