Merry Quarantine-O-Ween!

October is normally my favorite time of the year, however with Covid-19, quarantines, social-distancing, and global-warming reality is scary enough for me these days. Since social-distancing is still being suggested by the CDC and it doesn't look like our counties will be out of the red anytime soon I thought I would put together a list of Halloween activities that are cheap, easy, and can be done locally or in the comfort of your own home.

What about a Scary Movie Night?

Horror Classics Available to Borrow at Big Sandy's Prestonsburg campus library

Don't forget that we have curbside pick-up or you can come in and ask about borrowing these. Please remember a mask is required.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Call Number: PN1997 .B7367 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minions. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including her fiancé, gather together to try to drive Dracula away.

The Wolf Man the legacy collection

Call Number: PN1997 .W598 2004

Publication Date: 2004

The Wolf Man: When a man is attacked by a werewolf, he finds to his horror that he now becomes one himself under a full moon. Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man: Grave robbers open the grave of the Wolf Man and awake him. She-Wolf of London: A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse. Werewolf of London: While on a botanical expedition in Tibet, Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 M37 2003

Publication Date: 2003

Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.

The Exorcist

Call Number: PS3552.L392 E96 2000

Publication Date: 2000

A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Call Number: PN1997 .S73 2007

Publication Date: 2007

ack Torrance is a writer who, along with his family, comes to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel. He is the off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before, but maybe he has. The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.

The Old Dark House

Call Number: PN1997 .O423 1999

Publication Date: 1999

A group of travelers on a mountain road in Wales, overtaken by a thunderstorm and torrential rains, seek shelter in a mysterious old mansion. It is full of eerie characters and uncanny happenings.

The cabinet of Dr. Caligari : a film in six acts

Call Number: PN1995.75 .C335 2002

Publication Date: 2002

In the film The cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a somnambulist commits murders under a hypnotist's influence. Also featured is a lengthy excerpt of Genuine. Both films are examples of the German Expressionist movement.

Nosferatu Symphony of Horror

Call Number: PN1997 .N563 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws.

The picture of Dorian Gray

Call Number: PN1997 .P53 2008

Publication Date: 2008

Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian still has one pure love - Gladys, the niece of the original painter.

Fox Horror Classics: A Terrifying Trilogy of Terror

Call Number: PN1997.A1 F69 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Three noir classic thrillers. The lodger: After a mysterious young medical scientists rents a flat in London, a series of brutal murders begins. The undying monster: A series of attacks by a part man/part wolf beast gives credibility to a legend. Hangover square: When a composer learns of a murder that occurred during his bout of amnesia, he is concerned he may be the suspect.

Topper & Topper Returns

Call Number: PN1997 .T67 2003

Publication Date: 2003

Dull and stodgy banker Cosmo Topper is spooked by ghosts. In Topper he finds himself the object of his deceased friends' desire to perform a good deed by getting him to loosen up and have some fun. In Topper returns, a beautiful young ghost enlists his help in catching a murderer.

Suspicion

Call Number: PN1997 .S976 2004

Publication Date: 2004

Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

Sleepy Hollow

Call Number: PS2067 .A1 2000

Publication Date: 2000

In this version of Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane is an eccentric investigator sent to Sleepy Hollow to probe a series of murders allegedly committed by a headless horseman.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow