5 Spooky Commercials Staring Stephen King

5 Spooky Commercials Staring Stephen King

Stephen King once said, “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life,” which is a little strange seeing as he has starred in commercials. Oh well. Books are better, but these commercials starring the King himself are still gold.     5-Creepshow TV Spot Teaming up with the master of zombies, George Romero, Stephen King makes his screenwriting debut in this 1982 horror comedy anthology, Creepshow. With five stories, plus a prologue and epilogue, …

Top Picks: Romance Releases That’ll Get Your Heart Pounding

Top Picks: Romance Releases That’ll Get Your Heart Pounding

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Each week, Bookstr gives you a look at some of the best novels in a particular genre for your continued reading list. Sexy, steam, intense, those are the words that you’re going to see multiple times when you read this list, so be warned! But we don’t use them lightly. Each of these romance releases are heart-pounding to the extreme and might just leave you on the floor, crying, pounding for more!     5-The Stopover by T L Swan   Image Via Goodreads   We didn’t forget about this September 26th release! T L Swan worked in mental health …

11 of Literature’s Worst Monsters

11 of Literature’s Worst Monsters

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You read the title, now let’s get going! But first, let’s set up one rule: all of the monsters on this list have to be fictional. No non-fiction real people. No, “I read a book on Manson and he was evil so why is he not on this list?” No. All these people are fiction, figments of an author’s imagination. With that said, let’s start off with:     11-Carmelita Spats Image Via Lemony Snicket Wiki – Fandom   I have nothing against children (that’s a lie), but she’s just plain EVIL! From the first pages of A Series of Unfortunate …

11 Legendary James Patterson Book Commercials

11 Legendary James Patterson Book Commercials

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Having a bad day? Well, this will make you laugh. I guarantee that all you individuals with a heart of stone, who have your jaw wired shut, will drop dead laughing at these videos. I’ve compiled a collection of the funniest, craziest, book commercials that star James Patterson. In each of these commercials, James Patterson appeared on TV to tell everyone about his book. Did he get them hooked, or did he get them laughing? According to these commercials, the answer is both.     11-Patterson Has The Black Book!   My favorite part about this commercial is that the …

Check Out This Ghost Story Collection!

Check Out This Ghost Story Collection!

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The Amazon description for Southern Ghost Stories: Ghosts of Gallatin notes that, “Gallatin’s history is filled with fires, executions, cholera outbreaks and other terrible misfortunes,” and how the town has “a complicated history of the paranormal and mysterious.”   Image Via Amazon It might just be wishful-read fearful-thinking. The town thinks it’s haunted, ergo strange and paranormal sightings go up, nothing more than simple overthinking of the mundane, but ultimately that doesn’t matter.   “Literally every building I went to, somebody had a story”   That quote comes from Allen Sircy, an author and a middle Tennessee man who wanted …