Tag Archives: Horror

Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It

Posted on August 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Beneath the Skin

Posted on April 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Beneath the Skinby Michael DoyleThere just beneath my skinAs simple as you pleaseIs the real me that beginsWith the will not to appeaseBut to be just who I am insideBehind my appearance, I hideDisguised by the roles I playIs the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appearance, Appease, Beneath, Blues, Disguise, Fiction, Guitar, Heart, Hide, Horror, Inside, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Me, Road, Roles, Short Story, Simple, Skin, Str, Tales, Thousand voices, Writing | Leave a comment

What’s the Horror?

Posted on December 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What’s the Horror?by Michael DoyleWhat’s the horror, you might ask.It seems my life is an endless taskIt seems what I take off the listIt only points to things that I’ve missedIn this rush toward year’s endIt seems I’ve not been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amen, Ask, Deadlines, Earn, Edge, Empahty, Endless Tasks, Entropy, Focus, Fun, Gain, Guess, Hall, Happy, Hide, Holidays, Horror, Human Mess, I, Impress, Landimes, Learn, Liberty, List, Missed, My Friend, My Life, New Year, Pearl, Poetry and Poems, Point, Productivity, Reluctance, Ruin, Rush, Share, Shell, Sorrow, These Days, Undone, Wall, Year's End | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Where There Is No Imagination There Is No Horror

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

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It Hardly Counted

Posted on October 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

It Hardly Counted by Michael DoyleIn all my time in the dreadful warI felt certain of something moreA lot of horrible things occurredLooking back they’ve all blurredThese horrors handled with graceAre the worst, most of us faceTo know that man’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amount, Blur, Certain, Conflict, Cost, Count, Desipte, Die, Effort, Empty Hero, Endure, Eyes, Face, Feeling, Friends, Grace, Hell, Horror, Hurt Full, In the End, Inflict, Less Than Zero, Lifetime, Man's Inhumanity To Man, Memory, Mirror, More, Needed, Occur, Others, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rhyme, Shell, Time, Trouble, Truth, War, Why | Leave a comment

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Books, Children of Frankenstein, Cliche, Conscience, Creature, Cross-Current, Darkness, Distortion, Electrical Reanimaion, Electricity, Forget, Frankenstein, Future Society, Galvani, Ghost Story, Giordano Bruno, Gothic Horroe, Halloween, Headspace, Horror, Humanity's Hubris, Imagination, Irrational, John Milton, Late, Law of Unintended Consequence, Lesson, Literary Feature, Literary Snobs, Literature, Magnetism, Mankind, Mary Shelley, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Monster, Morality, Mount Tambora, Movie, Natural Philosophy, Nemesis, Nightmare, Nuclear War, Outcast, Overcome, Paradise Lost, Plausibility, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Rational Fate, Rationalism, Recompense, Rejected, Resemblance, Right and Privilege, Robots, Scary Stories, Science, Science Fiction, Seeds We Sow, Special Effects, Speculation, Spree, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, True Science, Unhallowed Ground, Universe, Victor Frankenstein | Leave a comment

Just One More Psychotic Break

Posted on October 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just One More Psychotic Breakby Michael DoyleCosmic horror played the killing schoolThat taught the writer of chilling ghoulsThis was the bogeyman’s secret in his tombThat rose up from the barren gothic wombThis was where a dark demon became a faceless … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abbey, Beast, Black Magic, Bogeyman, Brain, Candle, Chilling Ghouls, Cosmic Horror, Creation, Dark, Dark Demon, Dark Fantasy, Details, Devil's Staircase, Die, Duality, Faceless God, Film, Gothic Womb, Haunter, Heels, Hell-Bound Train, Horror, Jack the Ripper, Keeper, Killing School, Macabre, Mild, Movies, Murderous Day, Mythos, News, One More, Ordinary, Pass, Personal Hells, Poetry and Poems, Psycho, Psychotic Break, Psychotic Murderer, Robert Bloch, Secret Opener, Sinister, Sitution, Soul, Time, Tomb, Unholy, Werewolf's Bark, Wound, Writer | Leave a comment

Lost Plot

Posted on August 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless | Leave a comment

Mountain of Consequence

Posted on February 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish | Leave a comment

As If From Nowhere

Posted on April 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If From Nowhereby Michael DoyleHorrific images arise as if from nowhereThe sort of created crucifixion of unspoken fearHounded by the talons of the furiesThat creep up very slowly and kill with a hurryBringing back the Temple of Apollo, At … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandonment, As If, Athena, Avenged, Avenger, Banish, Beauty, Body and Mind, Brand, Chest, Child, Circumstances, Conspire, Create, Creation, Creep, Crime, Crucifixion, Delphi, Dissonant, Divine, Doubt, Dread, Empire, Evil, Explanation, Exploitation, Fataility, Fatality, Free Agency, Gobsmacking, Gods, Heart of Darkness, Horrific Images, Horror, Humanity, Hurry, Iconic Moment, Importance, Impotence, Incoherence, Love, Man's, Mankind, Moments, Monsters, Morality, Murder, Narcissus, Nostoro, Nowhere, Parents, Pervasive, Plain View, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rebellion, Refines, Serial Killer, Shattered Lullabies, Shriek, Sublime, Symphony, Synchroniciites, Tactile, Taken For Granted, Tales, Talons, Temple of Apollo, Test, The Furies, Thought, Torment, Triumph, Undoable, Unspoken Fear, Unwanted, Witches' Brew, Wounded Imagination, Wrong Doing, Zeus | Leave a comment