Hello, listeners, and welcome once again to the appropriately titled Mike Bennett Podcast
with me Mike Burnett. But I'm not alone this time. I'm joined by
my charming wife, Pauline. Hello, everyone, And in this episode,
I've got some questions. Actually, I was asking some questions by a listener
about what my favorite horror, this horror, that horror the other is.
So we'll be talking about that in a moment, pauling, and I'll be
asking you yours in return. All right, Okay, I'll have to think
about I don't know what you're gonna ask you. No, You'll just have
to just have to wing it, won't you, Okay, Unlike me,
I've had some time to prepare. God, if I pick a complete fool
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news? No strikes are still on, of course, and so everything is
static there. Unfortunately, I asked you last time listeners what your opinions were
on the Hollywood strikes, and a couple of you got back to me,
and we'll talk about those replies later. At first listener, Rob I Go
contacted me with some, as I said earlier, on some some questions about
my favorite horror this is and the horror that Rob said. Being a massive
horror fan since I was young, i'd love as with the listeners. I'm
sure to know your favorite horror films growing up, slash of all time?
Right, Okay, so he asks what's your favorite vampire film? Now?
My answer I would say, even though technically it's not a film because it
didn't get a cinema release to my knowledge, but it's you know, it's
it's it's film length. Yeah, and that would be the nineteen seventy nine
version of Salem's Lot with David Soul and James Mason. Yeah, because it's
absolutely brilliant. It scared me to death as a child, and I still
I still watch it. We watch it, yeah, yeah, every couple
of years, but we'll watch that again. And so that's my answer as
far as I'm concerned. It's a film, it's got film stars in it,
it was directed by a film director, Toby Hooper. So yeah,
for me, sal Slot, Yeah, I mean if you're if you're just
talking about a vampire film, I mean yeah, because obviously I didn't know
you when I was eleven or twelve years old and I saw that. Yeah,
it would be my favorite as well. Absolutely brilliant. Yeah, yeah,
just the most terrifying thing ever on TV to that point. Everything else
was kind of cozy. You know, there's always a coziness too, Yeah,
but there was nothing nothing cozy. Absolutely brilliant. What was your favorite
bit? Oh god, it's hard to know. I mean obviously, no,
no, it isn't hard to know. There's a lot of contenders,
but the number one scariest thing for me was, you know, the Click
Boys, Danny Glick, Danny Click at the window his brother's window. That
was just that nearly as you know, that actually did blow my mind.
Yeah, you know, I just thought that they can't be put that that
can't be on TV. That's just too terrifying. He and it's still terrifying.
It's still terrifying. And Missus Glick waking up in the moor, Oh
my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah. David has got is a little
cross back yeah from the little spatchelor. I don't know what they called tongue
depressing. Yeah, yeah, a little lollipop sticks. It's just up looking
for the boys. And of course the other is seen as well. Is
it's kind of in the background when he's in the Marriston house and the vampires
are kind of crawling out of the walls. Don't say too much because some
people may not have seen it. Oh god, if you haven't seen it,
you just have to see. You've got to see it. And David
Soul is awesome. James James Mason, James Mason is just the coolest.
Still enjoy the Master and he'll enjoy you. But we love us so much.
We have a signed photograph I do. Yeah, Yeah, I contact
David Soul. I contacted David Soul, you know, I didn't contact to
him. I follow him and he didn't have your people call his BA.
I follow him on Twitter and he was doing a photo signing from for Salem's
Law, you know, and I was straight in there. Yeah. And
I got a signed, signed photo sent to me and it's on the wall
in my office and it's David bashing a steak into well. I won't say
you haven't seen it, but it's really fantastic. I should take a photograph
of han't put it up on I should do? Yeah? Should Yeah,
images to go with the podcast. I like that idea. I might do
that. Yeah, I do that. Well, we'll see. Yeah,
that was a good question. It was it's not over yet, like the
Horror. Yes, there's more, all right, Okay, what was your
favorite wearwolf film for me? Dog Soldiers? I was that was really good.
But you were going to say American Werewolds from London that would be the
most people's choice. Yeah, you know, but The Dog Soldiers was really
good. Yeah. Now, as you mentioned it, I thought Dog Soldiers
just reinvented things, you know, it's fantastic. Yeah, and there was
great. The script is great, it was a great dial it was Yeah.
If you haven't seen Dog Soldiers, then ladies and gentlemen, check that
one out. Next one, Pauline. Okay, favorite zombie film for me
Dawn of the Dead nineteen eighty. God, I'd have to give that one
some thoughts, although I love the remake. I think the remake's really good.
You know, there's two thousand oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And
also the first Wreck movie. Do you remember the first Reck movie? You
do Reck the Spanish film? Oh? Yes, yes, yeah, Oh
that was really scary. It was really scary. Was that zombie? I
suppose it was? Yeah, they were dead? Yeah, yeah, I
guess so yeah. Yeah. I mean I would like to say twenty eight
eighths later, but that isn't technically a zombie first, technically an infected Yeah,
that is an infected film. So that's not good. I can never
remember those Day of the Dead, the Dead, the one I like his
shopping Mall of the Dead. Yeah, that was the first Dawn of the
Dead, right, okay, yeah, Shopping Mall of the Dead. Yeah
yeah, Dawn of the Dead. Yeah, that's a really good the original
of the remake. I like the original, so do I? Yeah,
I just really like the original. There's an atmosphere, isn't Yeah? There
is? Yeah? And and they're blue, which it's really cool. Yeah.
Which would be your favorite infective movie? B It would probably have to
be twenty eight days later? Absolutely, Yeah. And that was just by
a country mile, Yeah, by a country mile. Yes, yeah,
Now this is a good one. Rob asks what's your favorite monster film?
My answer is The Mist. Hmmm, we see I've been thinking, you
know, aliens, because that's a monster, but there's that's there's a different
category. Yeah, yeah, I mean they are monsters. I can't think
of any monster films. Well did you agree with my Well, like,
I guess so, but I'd have to try and think of it. Well,
I supposed the fact that I can't think of another monster film would suggests
that. Yeah. I mean obviously The Mister was brilliant. All right,
Well I've got some runners up here. Yeah, the Mist, which is
two thousand and eight, Yeah, The Fly nineteen eighty five science fiction as
well, but yes, yeah, you science fiction, but it's a monster,
yeah yeah yeah yeah. And Tremors Oh yeah, I like tremors.
I think I'd put tremorous that you'd put tremors over the mist I think I
would because it's jolly it is. Yeah. Yeah, I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed Kevin Bacon. Wasn't that Kevin Bacon. We've we've rewatched it.
Yeah. And I liked the kind of the survivalist, kind of gun toting.
Yeah, guy, because I remember that the guy who plays the husband
and that he used to be in that series with family ties and used to
a really right on character, and he plays the opposite character in this sees
like, you know, a total guns yea and tremors. It's very good.
Yeah, all right. Now, next one, there's there's some very
specific category. Yeah they are. The Next one here is favorite animal horror.
Oh my answer is Jaws. Yeah. I was thinking Jaws, but
I supposed to. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking Grizzly,
aren't you. No, I was actually thinking Kujo. I'm joking.
Yeah, I was hurting the walk thinking about Kujo the other day. Well,
there you go. What other woman of my non specific years goes about
Kujo? But were you walking a dog at the time? Yeah, I
was, Yeah, but you know, like the idea of like, you
know, because Saint Bernard's is so cuddly and if it becomes rabbit like you
know, well, I'm giving an honorary nod to Grizzly anyway, even though
it's not a great film, because when I was twelve, I went to
see that at the cinema twice in one week. Yeah, and I read
the paperback book too. Yeah, I loved it. I've seen it.
I've seen it as an adult and it's not as good as I remember it
as a kid. But as a kid, yes, please, I loved
it. Yeah, yeah, it is very Yeah because bears as well,
you know, like they're kind of you know, compelling beasts. They are,
Yeah, basically just Jaws on land. Yeah, each like real or
real, complete total, let's not mince any words about it. Rip off
favorite sci fi slash alien film, asks Rob. So for me, it
would obviously be Alien or Aliens, And based on the amount of rewatches I've
done, it's Aliens. I've seen Aliens more than I've seen Alien. Yeah,
because they're very different, aren't they. Those two films, And I
do kind of like them both equally because there's something and different different for different
reasons. In some ways, Alien is more chilling. Yeah, it feels
lonelier, you know, whereas its Aliens. It's great and it's really action
packed. But you know, Alien just fills you with dread, especially for
a time, I see, because you don't know what the hell is going
on, That's true. Yeah, had that advantage because it was all unknown.
Yeah, and just that scene that the mess table was, you know,
John hurt or whatever, you know. Yeah, everything was completely unexpected.
I think I would have to say Alien. Yeah, I mean I
think in terms of horror film, Yeah, it's definitely better. Aliens is
more of an action movie. Yeah, and it's great action movie, but
it's already been set up by Alien. Has your reasoning is sound? I
have changed my mind. Yeah, it's definitely the better horror film. Favorite
Slasher. Oh, I'm not a big slasher fan. I used to watch
a lot of these when I was a kid, you know, in the
very early eighties. I couldn't get enough of them. I loved all horror
films. Yeah, you know, and I saw I think practically every single
one of them at that time before the BBFC banned them. Yeah, and
even some more after that as well, because I worked in a video shop.
Yeah, at the height of that sort at the height of all that
sort of. Yeah, but I think probably Halloween Halloween would Texas Change saw
Massacre counter as a slash. I suppose it would actually, now you come
to think of it, and in that case, I would. I mean,
it's not the man with the knife stalking people, but it is you
know, maniacs killing people, and there's the whole final girl things, So
it probably probably does come into the realm. If that is the case,
then definitely Texas Change saw Masaca because it scared me to death. Halloween Halloween
I enjoyed, it, didn't terrify me. But Texas Change Saw Massacre scared
the crap out of me. Yeah. I'm not a massive fan of the
genre slasher films, but yeah, I think Texas Change Saw Massacre would be
the one for me. Yeah. You know, it is really scary,
and it's just a kind of you know, why are they doing this.
They don't need a reason to do it, They're just doing it. Yeah,
yeah, because they're hungry. Yeah, because that's what's really really scary
about it, I think. Yeah. Yeah, next one, next one,
next one. Favorite horror book, Oh my child Itself, thrusts his
hand up and says, the Rats trilogy by James Herbert, Please the Rats.
When I was a kid, I was about eleven or twelve, and
The Rats was was back then. You know, you didn't have sort of
phones and all that sort of thing. You know, it was books and
there was even pre video, so like that was the thing, you know,
when when a really cool book came out, everybody wanted to read it,
and you know, copies got passed around and and The Rats was just
super viral hit in our school and I loved it immensely. And then there
was a sequel, Layer, which was kind of Rats in the Country,
and then there was the third one, which I think was the best of
the series. Domain Red Domain. No, like I'm not a massive Rats
fan, No, I thought Domain, you know, which is set following,
you know, a nuclear war. There's like, you know, everybody
goes down into like there's the sirens go off, everyone goes down into the
London underground. Boom go the bombs and what's waiting for people when they get
down there, Big Rats, Big Rats. I just guessed that shows absolutely
fantastic, really a really great read. Yeah, so whether I'd like it
now, I can't say. My favorite books, I suppose as an adult
would all be Stephen King titles, and they would be Salem's Lot, Pet
Cemetery, and It and all the three. Probably Salem's Lot. Okay,
what about you? When I was a kid, handstand carry carry, Yeah,
they carry Yeah, because I suppose you identified with the female protagon.
But yeah, I thought that was really really good. I read that when
I was about eleven. I think, yeah, yeah, really scary.
Yeah, I found that scary. The mother was scary. Yeah, she
was terrifying, really terrifying, awful, awful person. And I think then
later it's funny. I wouldn't have even put myself down as a Stephen King
fan. But my favorite horror book is Pet Cemetery. Yeah. I found
that the dread and the creepiness and the awfulness of us is awful, wasn't
it. Yeah, you know there was some terrible thing, really terrible things
happened in that book, there wasn't, you know. And hats off to
him, you know, he wasn't afraid to go there, you know,
And I really it still is with me. The first time he goes to
the pet cemetery at nighttime, he goes over the dead fall, and I
just thought that was just so brilliantly written. Yeah, I wouldn't think it
is stuck with me, you know. The unearthliness of that I think really
stayed with me. And because there's a lot of his books not that keen
on, but I just thought that was a masterpiece. I think he was
at his best, you know, in the seventies and early eighties. It
was just it was just the disquiet and there is something about that book that
it would be a hard one to reread even but absolutely brilliant. Yeah,
because the other we neither of us really read horror novels anymore, so I
don't know. There's probably been hundreds, if not Yeah, a really great
horror title since then, but I wouldn't know what they are. Yeah.
So there's a question for your ladies and gentlemen, if you know of any
really great horror novels written in the past should we say twenty years? Yeah,
let us know. Oh yeah, I'd love to know. Yeah,
I'll make that the question on Spotify, but you can also drop me a
line at Facebook or my website Mike at author dot com and let me know,
not nothing by podcasters, please, I want like novels and that are
you know, books and read in bookshops. Yeah, I'm not interested in
any of the works of my peers. Well, sometimes it will because you're
listening and recording so much. It's kind of a relief to sort of have
a book. And well, it's just this is I'm all very well aware
of the works of my peers. It's it's the it's the works of people
like authors who write horror novels out there that I'm not familiar with, and
those are the ones I'd like to know about because I might like to read
them. Yeah, you know, moving on there questions right, Yeah,
last question from Rob is favorite horror TV series? Oh? My answer Black
Summer on Netflix. Oh yeah, that is very good. It's fantastic.
Yeah, yeah, that is really good again, really dark and terror fine,
proper scary. Yeah. Can you think of noble can you think of
anything that tops it? Well, what's that One's a black Mass whatever it's
called, you know, the one midnight Midnight Mass. Yeah, it's very
very good, very very good. I don't think it tops Black Summer.
No, of course we've already Yeah, I'd have to have a think about
that. It's all right, you mean no, not to say no,
it was really good, but it's not as terrifying as Black Summer, no
way. Yeah, and it's you're just you know, it's it's written kind
of a little bit tongue in cheek. Yeah. Well it's a kind of
a you know, it's Charlie Brooker, isn't it. So you know,
there's a kind of there's a very dark humor too. But Black Summer is
truly terrifying. It is, Yeah, truly terrifying. Considering it's that it
takes a tired kind of I would almost say that whole genre now has become
a trope, you like the Walking Dead. You know, it's just exhausting.
Yeah, I can't be there's a lot of very long conversations that kind
of you're not interested. Well, I'm not interesting interested, don't I cared
about the characters initially the first few series, maybe the first three four,
but then yeah, I just lost interest in it. It's amazing has kept
going. Yeah, yeah, but Black Sammer just reinvents the wheel as far
as yeah, very short episodes about half an hour long, and just goes
by it feels like it's gone in five minutes because you're just gripped the whole
way through us. Yeah. Yeah. I've added a couple of other questions
for us to Rob's list, and the first one is what's your favorite HP
Lovecraft adaptation? My answer is Surprise Surprise re Animator. Oh yeah, you
do love that? I do? Yeah, and I love I love the
sequels as well. But From Beyond is a close second. Yeah. I
talked the Color out of Space. Wasn't that made in the last couple of
years? That the one with Nicholas ca Yeah, it's actually quite good to
remember. It was very good. Yeah. Color out of Space is my
favorite story. Yeah, but I just loved Reanimated. Yeah, you know,
well it is. It's great, It's it's it's a good one,
all right. Yeah. Yeah, have you got a favorite? Then?
I don't really have a favorite. No, but I enjoy both of those
films. There would be more inclined to watch Reanimator again rather than Color out
of Space, Yeah, because it has a great rewatchability to us they have
made. Did you did you ever see that version of the Shadow over Innsmith?
It was Spanish Fire, Yes, I did, Yeah, and it
was very the weather was very like Irish way, yes, Galicia. Yeah,
it was the Atlantic coast. Yeah, right right, yeah, which
makes sense cold Dagon Dagon. Yeah. That was it and it was it
was done. It was good. He was directed by the same director as
Reanimator from Beyond. It was very good. But I'd like to see,
you know, a period American remake. Yeah. I think they haven't really
mind this area have a period not a remake so much as a version.
Yeah, they haven't. No, there's there's you know, but there's a
three computer games, at least of Shadow over Ensmouth. Yeah, there's there's
that radio play that you like, BBC One's fantastic. Yeah, the Lovecraft,
Yeah, they I was gluted out. I got me right through the
winter. There's three different series. I mean, obviously they take the story
and they change it to a modern day setting and the construction of it,
the conceit is it's an investigative kind of podcast that looks into supernatural things and
they're very cynical and they get sucked into this world here. It's it's very
very good. But if you if you are a fan of that story and
you'd like to see a film, then there is a version Ladies and Gentlemen.
It is called Dagon. It's filmed in Spain, but it's in English.
It's an American film directed by Stuart Gordon, as I say, the
same director as re Animator and from Beyond. Last question on this list,
favorite horror comedy from me Sewn of the Dead. Yeah, it kind of
has to be because it's it's genuinely funny. It is a lot of comedy
horrors aren't actually funny. No, most Yeah, it is very hard to
achieve a good yeah, balance of kind of. Yeah. Also, I
just made a note that my younger self, yeah, wants to say bad
taste. All right, you see bad taste. I didn't enjoy it.
I thought that was I think that's a young man's thing. It was,
yeah, it's it's I just didn't It just didn't amuse me. I didn't
like it at all, perfectly honest, I liked it. What was it?
I liked that mel Brooks I was a young Frankenstein or yea, Yeah,
I enjoyed that. That was a good comedy. I mean, it
wasn't really horror, was it? But it had Frankenstein's monster in it.
Yeah, And was that other movie from Peter Jackson, brain Dead. It's
called brain Dead in the UK. That's another great horror comedy. I haven't
seen that. It's got a different title in America. But yeah, Peter
Jackson's early horrors. Horror comedies. Yeah, very enjoyable. Yeah, but
not for everyone. No, not for me, not for you. So
Sewan did for both of us, think yeah, I think so, yeah,
yeah, all right, yeah, So that brings us to the end
of Rob's questions. We have no more. I hope those answers were suitably
illuminating for you, Rob and anyone else who's interested. And so now we
come to the question of what you think of the Hollywood strikes. I asked
you what you think, and Rob I go again, says I didn't get
a chance to put my list of actresses forward. As well as Eva Green
and Jany Comer, I also think Anna Taylor Joy, Billy Piper, Kia
Nightly, Dakota Fanning, and Kaa Scodelario. Okay, that's something to do
with the strike. That's interesting. Those those are actresses for Yeah, yeah,
yeah, they're all very good. They are. Yeah, Billy Piper
would be good. But anyway to the to the actual question of the Hollywood
strikes. Andrew Rothman says, this strike is luddites versus or weaving machines.
New tools will empower independent creators to reach Hollywood level quality and we won't need
the industry anymore, but we will people pay for the content. M That's
good point. Yeah, I mean, you know, this is this is
one of the things I'm you know, thinking like, you know, if
these people, if if the if the if the creators, if the writers,
yeah, you know, if they will sort of get together, you
know, with with actors and you know, animators and everything else, they
could they could be on Patreon and all sorts of other delivering the studios anymore.
Then well, it's yeah, it's kind of it's well, the solution
and stuff is, yeah, it is instead of you know, the studios,
you know, not needing the actors or the writers. You know,
puts a shoe on the other foot, doesn't it. Yeah, possibly,
I suppose, But interesting point it is. It is an interesting point.
I mean, I see that, you know the point about luddites versus weaving
machines. It's easy to sort of see it that way, you know,
because it's like sort of trying to sort of hold back the inevitable, but
hopefully it's not inevitable, and hopefully it's evitable. Yeah, and that the
writers and the actors will win. Alexeus Gothics says, I feel that they
are making it harder than what it really is. Look at you, he
says, you mere an example of making outside of traditional media. You are
an inspiration, which kind of ties into what we were just saying. Yeah,
thank you, Alexis. That's very kind of you. Yeah, I
mean it's it's possible, as I say, that these creatives could sort of
plow their own fore Yeah, it's kind of a matter of suppose, as
they say in a dreaded phrase, but thinking outside the box. Yeah,
well, I think if if, you know, if the industry does move
on and doesn't need them anymore and they don't win, then they could.
I think they'd be putting out better content than the studios if the studios are
just using you know, avatars instead of actors, avatars of actors instead of
actors. But it's hugely expensive and high risk industry, you know, like
financially you know. Well, and was going to say the scripts are written
by machines, it's acted by you know, machines, avatars. I would
say, the question really is are people going to pay for that? Would
you? Would you pay a cinema ticket to see, you know, a
bunch of avatars running around to an AI script? To be perfectly honest,
I think if people think something is good, they'll go and see it,
and they don't care. Because people don't care, do they? You know?
Well, yeah, some of these you know, some of these Star
Wars movies and Superheros, they might as well be written by machines. Well,
it'd be perfectly honest. I mean, like, you know, my
feelings the things you're looking at on the screen are yeah pretty much AI.
Yeah. I mean for me on my eyes just laze over all that all
that special effects stuff. I just like, yeah, so what big explosion?
Whoa? You know, where's the bloody story? You know, where's
the characterization, characterization, where's the humanity? Yeah? But it's not interesting.
You know, it's like a firework display. Yeah. That's fine for
like, you know, five or ten minutes. Yeah, but you know,
I'm not going to sit down and watch it for two hours. Yeah.
You have to have something else there these days for three Yeah, and
that's just part one. Yeah, come back in a year's time for part
two. Yeah. I don't know. I just I see these things.
And there's a trailer on recently for something on Netflix that's coming up. I
can't remember. It's something called that something something yea Rebel Moon, And I
don't know what it's going to be like, but looking at the trailer,
it just looks like a load of you know, highly impressive to look at
confusion. I mean, you know, oh wow, look at that,
Oh wow, look at that. I have no idea what the story.
It just seems to be like a gazillion character To me, that looks exactly
like something that a machine could have written. Yeah, if you, if
you, if you've fed a whole bunch of kind of sci fi action movies,
chucked in some fantasy, just throwing Game of Thrones and Star Wars,
showing it all around in the kind of tombola and just asking just cough out
and the script that's what would come out. Well, certainly that's what the
trailer looks like. Now whether the TV show is going to be different,
But I'm looking at that thinking do I really want to invest hours in that?
Because there doesn't seem to be any you know, Yeah, it seems
to be kind of like, you know, someone's gonna and hey, let's
what we'll do. We'll get Game of Thrones and we'll throw in Star Wars,
you know. But of course the great thing by Game of Thrones the
hook and Game of Thrones for me for the first series with Sean Bean,
yeah, because it followed his character and it was clear from the trailer that's
what it was doing. But from this trailer you're just saying, I don't
know, there's a bunch of teenagers on different planets, a woman that looks
like a spider, and you know, loads of explosions, which we've seen.
We've seen that sort of thing for I mean, that's been in Doctor
Who, that's been in computer games. Yeah. It just looks like a
mass regurgitation of previously seeing ideas. Spaceships flying overhead at a low altitude.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen it all before. What's the story?
You know? I don't I tell you don't, don't hide your opinions
on this. No, and I mean I'm not being right on here,
but you do need a proper story, like you know, you know,
I mean, you're entitled to your opinion. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
sorry, Yeah, I got completely carried away there, Yeah, carried away
by rage. Yeah, rage, rage against like these dumb, bloody movies
where all those effects and no story. I know what you mean. Yeah,
anyway, Yeah, that's just me. I'm an old comudgeon. You
know, soon we'll be dead, the world can move into this strange regurgitation
universe that it seems hell bent on. But anyway, enough enough enough finally,
then, ladies and gentlemen, A question on a different topic, this
one from Payne sixty three. That's pay n E sixty three. Hi,
Mike. I have listened to the whole story twice now and have to say
that it is one of the best vampire stories out there. Obviously we talking
about Underwood Flinch. I would just like to know if you will be putting
the next series on Spotify, the next the next season, and to that
the answer is yes, I will. It will be. It will be
in the early part of next year. I'm not exactly sure when, probably
around the sort of time April, that sort of time, season five and
if you want to if you can't wait that long. Payne sixty three,
I didn't get a first name. Now that my Patreon content is available on
Spotify, you can sign up at Spotify Can I get them mixed up?
You can sign up at patree on and listen to Spotify. There my Spotify
content where you will find seasons five, six, and seven. And I've
just started season eight of the to Wood and Flinch saga. So how about
that? Yes, and that's I guess that's about it then, from mast
ladies and gentlemen, I hope you've enjoyed our little chat, and as I
say, I'm interested in hearing what your favorite horror novels are emphasis on novel
from the last twenty years. You can leave those comments at Spotify, Facebook,
Twitter, I refuse to call it X mastered on, and of course
my website Mike Bennett author dot com. But that's it from us for now
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