Story Development
Imagination can enrich your life with absolute terror.
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I knew if I was going to write that it would have to be entertaining for myself. I have always been drawn to werewolves. The first story I developed is enriched by that interest and spirals into something a bit more complex. While I was writing it, I tried to think of other things that had frightened me during my childhood. The next thought was Voodoo Doll.
When I was seven years old I use to crawl in bed with my sister, Holly, and her husband, Howard, to watch movies late at night. One night "Trilogy of Terror" aired. In case you have never seen it, it is a trilogy of stories combined to create one thriller. The most disturbing was the segment called Prey written by Richard Matheson. It scared me deeply. I think mainly because Howard had lived in Sri Lanka and collected all sorts of strange artifacts, even a real voodoo doll. That night I slept with my mother (my father is a fireman and was at work). The next morning, I felt something lightly stepping up the bed and a scratchy grunt, much like the one of the doll in the movie. I reluctantly opened my eyes to realize that I was face to face the damned voodoo doll from Sri Lanka. I screamed at the top of my lungs and launched straight up in the air. My fright was soon vanquished thanks to my mother, who was laying on the bed holding the doll, laughing hysterically. I was never the same.
Later, I watched "Trilogy of Terror" as a teenager. I remembered it being much scarier than it actually is, but through the eyes of a child with a fresh imagination, it was rather vicious.
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