to EVERNIGHT TEEN!!!
Evernight Teen turns two this month and we’re having a HUGE party to celebrate! It may be Evenight Teen’s birthday, but YOU get the presents. So, grab a piece of cake, hop from blog-to-blog and discover EVERNIGHT TEEN!
Be sure to visit every stop on the hop and answer each question. The more you blogs you hop, the more chances to win the GRAND PRIZE of an iPad Mini sponsored by Evernight Teen (one entry per blog). Plus, hop each blog for a host of other fabulous prizes.
Have your TBR list handy. We have lots of new titles for you to add, including my featured book DORIANNA, which just won 2014 Best Horror Book in the Kindle Hub Awards!
Here are two key songs from the Dorianna playlist to entertain you... or creep you out, followed by a mini-excerpt. Hey, this is dark fantasy, peeps.
Bring Me to Life by EvanescenceDemons by Imagine Dragons
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| Evanescence's Bring Me to Life |
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| Imagine Dragon's Demons |
This isn’t happening. I hunch over and clutch my ribs as I play the thing again. At least the YouTube verbal shit-storm isn’t as bad as the one on my DVD copy, I rationalize. What can I do? Each video is changing in its own way, at its own pace. It’s horrid not being able to control this. It’s as if some insidious spam keeps infiltrating no matter what.
Scrolling down to see the latest YouTube comments, I gasp.
The lady doth protest too much—cackle, cackle, cackle
u might b hella changin but u still shine big
Sungirl’s turning into a sun-witch. Bring it on, evil girl
Hangin’ out at sungirl.com to watch u turn b-b-bad to the bone
There's a huge amount of hits—over five thousand. Where do these flipping trolls come from? I can’t take my evil outburst, even if my viewers can. I make a beeline over to my bookshelf to get my aunt’s money. “I’ll return it,” I pledge, but my hand freezes in mid-stream. Finally, I understand the phrase “frozen in place”—more than I ever wanted to.
Wilson might’ve lied about not altering the YouTube beach scene, but this DVD copy? He had nothing to do with this. He was right after all. These consequences are unacceptable. I’ll have to work harder to thwart them. That revolting DVD cannot stay on my desk. No one can ever, ever see it. I hide it in my bookshelf, behind a row of novels.
Where does Wilson—the so-called Prince of Darkness—get his powers? How exactly has he transferred them to me? And who’s behind the whole operation? That question is almost the scariest part.
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| You could win the mug AND ebook! |
What book scared the bloody effing bejezus out of you, and WHY? (If you absolutely cannot think of a book you can say a film, but props go first to peeps who think of books).
The ET birthday blog hop continues here:
Great giveaway. Congratulations on winning that award.
ReplyDeleteCrap, can't think of a scary book...
Anything by Stephen King pops into my mind. I can't read his books after dark!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your newest one, Catherine. Loved the playlist.
Ooh- this does sound like a great book based on the excerpt! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Evernight Teen!
I have always been freaked out by The Shining. I read it back in high school and I was scared. Actually, all the Stephen King I have read scared me.
I was also petrified by the book Kiss the Girls. I saw the movie when it came out, but it wasn't nearly as terrifying as the book- which still makes me twitch!
~Jess
A Taint in the Blood There so much biting and blood in this book that I couldn't read it for a while. I had to have someone in the house after I read it.. lol grandmatinaof2(at)gmail.com
ReplyDeleteAnything by Stephen King.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win!
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com
Happy birthday to Evernight Teen! When I was ten, I read Cujo. It wasn't the dog that scared me. It was the monster in the closet.
ReplyDeleteThe book Amityville Horror scared me so much as a 13 year old. I think because it was based on a true story. As an adult, I can read any scary book after dark without problem. They don't scare me so much as creep me out a bit. One such, more recent book, is The Troop by Nick Cutter. I can't say too much about it for fear of ruining it, but suffice it to say, I couldn't look at a sculpture inspired by the book - which was just some camping coolers with white ropes twisting through and around them - without shuddering.
ReplyDeleteOops forgot to add my email address melissa {at} yabookshelf {dot} com
DeleteSeems as if almost anything by Stephen King is a frontrunner... I will have to check out Nick Cutter's book. And Kiss the Girls by... ?
ReplyDeleteAnything true paranormal spooks me! Love a ghost story! Reading Dorianna at the moment - loving it!
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for reading Dorianna! Hope you like it.
DeleteFlowers In The Attic by V.C. Andrews. I know it's not the blood, guts and gore, but the haunting creepiness of it scared the h&!! out of me. Thanks for the chance to win, Happy Birthday and your titles look wonderful! aberdeanblackwell@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteYay! You are the winner! I like your unusual book choice! Emailing you now.
DeleteDoctor Sleep by Stephen King! I couldn't sleep right for a week after finishing that one. Thanks for participating in the hop! saraannn912@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteSara, I LOVED DR Sleep. Wowie... and Aberdeen, more than a few people have told me about Flowers in the Attic. I must check that one out!
ReplyDeleteAmityville Horror. I glanced up from my reading and there were the red glowing eyes of Jodi. Lord did I scream. Scared my mother, too. It was just tail lights from a car. Every time i see two red lights like eyes, I think 'Jodi pig eyes'.
ReplyDeleteMy husband has been a pretty big fan of Evanescence for years.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Kit Cat!
Great songs and excerpts!! Okay, book that scared me to death? I can't think of the title and that's going to bother me, but the collection of short scary stories, with the white background line drawing on the cover. Only read a few of the tales in there and I can still get goosebumps thinking about them! (Which may or may not be related to be being a total wuss...)
ReplyDeleteMisery by Stephen King. The non-supernatural bad guy isn't even scarier because they could exist.
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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz scared me because those stories were chilling and stayed with as you tried to go to sleep. Those illustrations by Stephen Gammell only fueled my over active imagination.
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The Exorcist. I've read the book and watched the movie several times. Thank you for the giveaway. sharif(at)sharifwrites(dot)com
ReplyDeleteStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. It scared me because it showed me just how depraved humans can be, also I was only about ten at the time.
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Yes Dusty, good one! The depth to which human depravity can plunge scares me too!
DeleteSalem's Lot by Stephen King
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It's a toss up between It and Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
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Dropping by to show some love and support!! Go Catherine!!!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I LOVVVVE Evanescence!!!
Hey, Chris, Evanescence rocks. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteIT by Stephen King. Actually, most of his books scared the #$%^ out of me. :) Oh and I LUV Evanescence, too!
ReplyDeleteI agree with SA. It scared me to death as a kid. Book and movie both! I used to make my sister sit in the bathroom with me, i was so afraid hed come get me. lol Thanks for sharing! Have a great night!
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Yay! Aberdean Blackwell is the winner of the Dorianna coffee mug and signed Dorianna paperback!!!
ReplyDeleteStay tuned for who wins the grand prize of an iPad Mini...
Ooh! Fun excerpt. Dorianna is definitely on my list, but I'm not sure how soon I'll get to it with the expected changes in the next couple months. Perhaps October...
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