matrixrefugee | Spooky books and music... (Reply)

I simply can't put down "The Darkness Did Not"... I called the author G.K. Chesterton's mischievous American cousin last night: let's up the ante a little and add Ralph McInerny (he of the Father Dowling mysteries) to the mix. Will Biersach has the same sort of dryly tongue in cheek wit about him, though he's definately a traditionalist, while Ralph is more like the post-Vatican II crowd (though not of the deconstructionist/revisionist-beyond-all-recognizing variety, thank God). And considering the fact that I'm hating my bishop, I was very glad to see that the bishop in Biersach's fictitious version of Los Angeles is a smug prig you just *LOVE* to hate. Hm... wonder if Father John Baptist, the policeman-turned-priest at the center of the story has ever crossed paths with a certain rumpled, chain-smoking demon-hunter (yes, I've got a crossover fic nibbling at my brain already.).

Nipped out to the card shop with my mom before I went to work this afternoon: they were offering a Hallowe'en party music CD with every purchase of X number of cards, so we got one. Granted, the music is swing/elevator-music jazz covers of songs like "The Monster Mash" and "Spooky" and "Black Magic Woman" and -- of all things -- Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare", but I can't help liking it... and it's got a 20 minute cut of high-quality spooky sounds at the end of the disk. Hssss! Schweet! You can never, ever have too many scary sounds tapes/CDs, just not enough players to stick in strategic places for your house haunting.

Anyone got an MP3 of the original version of "Welcome to My Nightmare"? If you send it to me at: matrixrefugee@yahoo.com, I will love you forever.