* My guest today is one of my favorite people, prolific author Marilyn Meredith. She has more than thirty published novels to her credit, including the award-winning Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series. She borrows a lot from where she lives in the Southern Sierra for the town of Bear Creek and the surrounding area, including the nearby Tule River Indian Reservation.
She does like to remind everyone that she is writing fiction. Marilyn is a member of EPIC, three chapters of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and on the board of the Public Safety Writers of America.
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CONTEST!
The person who comments on the most blogs on this blog tour will have the opportunity to have a character named after him or her in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery. This is the last blog on my tour for SPIRIT SHAPES.She will wait a few days and make sure she has counted everyone who commented and on how many blogs--then will inform the winner, and announce who it is on my own blog:
Today she tells us abut her newest Crabtree mystery, and how such an otherwise sweet person is so in entranced with horror!
My Love of Horror Movies
When my children were little and my husband was overseas, if a horror movie was on television, everyone piled into my bed to watch,which meant between 3 to 5 kids joined me. Because the movies were scary, often the whole bunch spent the rest of the night with me. Back during that time period, the horror movies that were on TV were pretty campy by today's standards--Frankenstein, Dracula, and other mad scientist tales. But once in a while there was a really good (meaning really scary) like the Spiral Staircase. That was far scarier than any monster movie.
I've continued to enjoy watching scary movies, but I don't like the slash and gash types that are more blood and gore than storytelling, or the ones about the group of young people stranded in a house, on an island, in a campground and are killed one by one.
I loved the Woman in White and other such movies set back in some early time period with lots of fog and atmosphere.
The best horror films are the ones that seem somewhat plausible--the latest one beingThe Conjuring. One of the scariest I can't remember the name of, but it was about some people traveling in a motor home that were being pursued by witches. I still get goose bumps when I think about that one.
I've read most of Stephen King's books and the one I though the scariest was It. The movie didn't come close as far as the shiver factor is concerned. (That seems to be the problem with most of the movies made from his books though The Shining was scary, just not as much as the book.
That gives you a pretty good idea that I do love scary movies and books and that's probably why I like to put the scare factor into my mysteries. If you like a bit of that too, do try SPIRIT SHAPES: Ghost hunters stumble upon a murdered teen in a haunted house. Deputy Temp Crabtree's investigation pulls her into a whirlwind of restless spirits, good and evil, intertwined with the past and present, and demons and angels at war.
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