On Saturday 24th March, a new title would be launched which proclaimed itself to be “not for the nervous” and also “the creepiest comic ever”! Perfect! A thing of beauty, sadly no longer with us Then, in early spring of that year, a television advertisement aired between shows on Children’s ITV. With the internet at the time being the domain of teenage hackers in movies and real people with a tad more computing power than a ZX Spectrum and a Nintendo Game & Watch I wasn’t sure how I would satisfy this urge for stories. But the library was a long way to go, even on a BMX, and you could only borrow so many books in a month. One of those books in particular really captured my imagination so I yearned for more. After what felt like a lifetime scouring the shelves I ended up with a handful of books about ghosts, vampires and haunted houses. I headed to Corby library in search of more ghostly reading material. However, after finding myself scared yet exhilarated by the ghost stories that my headmaster Mr McGeown read in school assembly I decided to expand my horizons. Like many 9-year-olds in 1984, my reading habits did not extend much further than The Beano and Roald Dahl novels. This article, by our own Paul Childs, has been reprinted with permission from his horror story blog Badgers Crossing. First published 35 years ago this spring, Scream! inspired a generation of horror writers and fans.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |