Kurt Cobain, on inspiration:

 

Thank you for the tragedy.

I need it for my art.
- Kurt Cobain.

Recommended reading - Doctor Sleep

 

Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King.
 
Published by Scribner.
First Edition.
Published 2013.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1476727651
ISBN-13: 978-1476727653
 
Description:
 
“I liked you, honeybear. That’s why I came to warn you. Stay away from the woman in the hat.”
 

Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook – and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence – kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone – who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining – the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival...

 

“[A] vivid frightscape … terrifying.” – The New York Times.
 
“[King’s] cast of characters is as memorable as any [he] has produced…. Satisfying at every level.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review).
 
“Terrific … [King’s] power lies in narrative drive and macabre.” – Chicago Tribune.

Born on this day – Sarah Fielding:

Sarah Fielding

Writer

November 8, 1710 – April 9, 1768

Credits:

The Adventures of David Simple (1744); Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple (1747); The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749); Remarks on Clarissa (1749); David Simple: Volume the Last (1753); The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754); The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757); The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759); The History of Ophelia (1761); Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges (1762).

Born on this day – Bram Stoker:

Bram Stoker

Writer

November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912

Credits:

Under the Sunset (1881); Snowbound (1908); Dracula's Guest (1914); The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion (1973); Shades of Dracula (1982); Midnight Tales (1992); Best Ghost and Horror Stories (1997); The Judge's House and Other Weird Tales (2003); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879); Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906); Famous Impostors (1910); The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker (2012); The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (2012); The First Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); Human And Inhuman Stories (1963); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); The Midnight People (1968); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968); 11 Great Horror Stories (1969); The Undead (1971); Summoned From The Tomb (1973); Clutch of Vampires (1974); Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975); The Price of Fear (1976); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976); Demons Within & Other Disturbing Tales (1977); Spine-Chillers (1978); The 12th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1979); Echoes Of Terror (1980); The Giant Book Of Horror Stories (1981); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1983); Realms of Darkness (1985); Tales of the Dark (1987); The Man In Black (1990); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); Blood and Roses (1992); To Sleep, Perchance to Dream ... Nightmare (1993); Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); Thrillers (1994); The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994); Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996); Secret City (1997); Vampires, Wine & Roses (1997); The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997); Haunted Houses (1997); Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); Into the Mummy's Tomb (2001); Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favourite Scary Stories (2002); Classic Erotic Tales (2002); Vampyre Tales: An Anthology (2005); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); Creepy Archives, Vol. 1 (2008); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); 6 Classic Graveyard Tales of Vampires and Ghosts ... (2012); Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 2 (2013); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); The Frightful Fifty, Part One (2015); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); In the Footsteps of Dracula (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); Vampire Classics (2018); Stories to make you Shudder: Book 2 (2019); The Curse of the Undead - Selected Vampire Books and Legends (2020); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); Our Haunted Shores (2022); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).

Movies and television:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Allen and Rossi Meet Dracula and Frankenstein (1974); As Núpcias de Drácula (2018); Batman Fights Dracula (1967); Blood Daughter (2022); Blood for Dracula (1974); Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971); Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree (2003); Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); Broadway on Showtime (1980); Burial of the Rats (1995); Carry on Christmas (1969); Cineficción Radio (2019–2021); Count Dracula (1970 / 1977); Danny: Dracula (2021); Dawn of Dracula (2013); Drac's Night Out (1991); Drácula (1931 / 1972 / 1973 / 1974 / 1979 / 1980 / 1999 / 2001 / 2002 / 2006 / 2010 / 2013 / 2020 / 2023 / 2024); Dracula 2000 (2000); Dracula 3D (2012); Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013); Dracula a Silhouette Animation (2016); Dracula A Symphony of Blood (2021); Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972); Dracula and Stoker (2012); Drácula de Denise Castro (2018); Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968); Dracula Reborn (2015); Dracula Sucks (1978); Dracula the Messiah (2020); Dracula Untold (2014); Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972); Dracula. Über das Interesse an Vampiren (1976); Dracula: A Love Tale (2025); Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995); Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002); Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966); Dracula: Reborn (2012); Dracula: The Musical (2010); Dráculabelha (2020–2022); DraculAIDS (2014); Dracula's Curse (2006); Dracula's Daughter (1936); Dracula's Death (1921); Dracula's Stoker (2009); Drakula Goes to R.P. (1973); Drakulov (2021); Fangs (2008); Fireside Reading of Dracula (2022); Frankenstein's Aunt (1987); Gallery of Horror (1967); Historias de terror (2004); Hora once (1970); Horror of Dracula (1958); Hrabé Drakula (1971); I riassuntini (2018); In Search of History (2000); Jackal (2022); Jonathan (1970); La casa del juez (1993); La maison du juge (1964); Last Dracula's blood (2018); Legend of the Mummy (1998); Lesbian Dracula Submarine (2020); Living Death: A Day in the Life of Dracula (2004); Love at First Bite (1979); Lucy en miroir (2003); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Matinee Theatre (1956); Monster Mash: The Movie (1995); Mystery and Imagination (1968–1970); Nadja (1994); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror (Audio Score by idiedtrying.) (2024); Nosferatu: Del Rey & The Sun Kings (2013); Otra vez Drácula (1970); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016–2020); Phantasie (2009); Potty Time (1973); Quaranstein (2020); Re: Dracula (2023); Reel Monsters Podcast (2022); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Revivencial (1989); Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969); Satisfyingly Scary (2020); Scars of Dracula (1970); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023–2024); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Shadow Builder (1998); Siesta Z (2017); Slains (2020); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Sunday Suspense Bangla (2023); Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970); Telegram (2020); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Awakening (1980); The Brides of Dracula (1960); The Curious Case of R.M. Renfield (2006); The Dracula Monologues (2024); The Empire of Dracula (1967); The Final Voyage of the Good Ship Demeter (2012); The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981); The Heartless Cruelty of Lucy Westenra (2023); The Lair of the White Worm (1988); The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023); The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974); The Living Corpse (1967); The Monster (2008); The Moon, The Bat, The Monster (2019); The Mummy Resurrected (2014); The Return of Dracula (1958); The UnXplained (2020); The Vampire's Ghost (1945); The Weary Traveler (2016); This Ain't Dracula XXX (2011); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Vampyre (2015); Vampyros Lesbos (1971); Van Helsing (2004); Walking on Water (2015); Walpurgis Nacht (2004); Way of the Vampire (2005).

Born on this day – Margaret Mitchell:

Margaret Mitchell

Writer

November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949

Credits:

Gone with the Wind (1936); Lost Laysen (1996); Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell (2000); Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000); I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002); Gone with the Wind Letters (1987); Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (1989).

Awards:

National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel (1936).

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937).

Both awards for her 1936 novel: Gone with the Wind.

Born on this day – Robert Strauss:

Robert Strauss

Actor

November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975

Born on this day – Norman Lloyd:

Norman Lloyd

Actor

Producer

Director

November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021

Born on this day – Gene Saks:

Gene Saks

Director

Actor

November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015

Born on this day – Stéphane Audran:

Stéphane Audran

Actress

November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018

Born on this day – Alain Delon:

Alain Delon

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024

Born on this day – Virna Lisi:

Virna Lisi

Actress

November 8, 1936 – December 18, 2014

On this day in movie history - Ransom (1996)

Ransom

directed by Ron Howard,

written by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon,

based on a story by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum,

was released in the United States on November 8, 1996.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:

Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Lili Taylor, Liev Schreiber, Donnie Wahlberg, Evan Handler, Nancy Ticotin, Michael Gaston, Kevin Neil McCready, Paul Guilfoyle, Allen Bernstein, José Zúñiga, Dan Hedaya, Iraida Polanco, John Ortiz, Mike Hodge, Paul Geier, Louisa Marie, Edward Francis Joseph, A.J. Benza, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Tony Hoty, Daniel May Wong, John Short, Ed Jupp Jr., Stephen Oates, Gene Harrison, Mick O'Rourke, Henry Kingi Jr., Roy Farfel, Lex D. Geddings, Donna Hanover, Rosanna Scotto, Tony Potts, John Finnerty, Todd Hallowell, Joe Bacino, Carl S. Redding, James Georgiades, Christian Maelen, David Vadim, Addie O'Donnell, Judy Hudson, Mitzie Pratt, Lynne Redding, Michael Countryman, Chris Lopata, John Hartmann, Anton Evangelista, Richard Price, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Dell Maara, Tommy Allen, John Dorish, Brad Brewer, Darren Brown, Marvin Brown, Glenn King, Cheryl Howard, James Ritz, Anna Marie Wieder, Joan D. Lowry, Craig Castaldo, Teodorina Bello, Jane Jenkins, Lori Tan Chinn, Carl Don, Nathaniel Freeman, Phil Parolisi, Rafael Osorio, Leslie Devlin, Lewis Dodley, John Brian Rogers, Jeffrey H. Kaufman, Mark Smith, James Patrick Whalen Sr., Kim Snyder, Panicker Upendran, Eric Attio, Steve Axelrod, Carl Burrows, Glenn J. Cohen, Gregory D'Angelo, Cynthia Daddona, Brian Donahue, Jeff Eigen, Todd Ellison, Philippe Hartmann, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Rawleigh Moreland, Christopher Tracy, Keith Leon Williams, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc.

On this day in movie history - Doctor Sleep (2019)

Doctor Sleep

directed and written by Mike Flanagan,

based on the novel by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on November 8, 2019.

Music by The Newton Brothers.

Cast:

Ewan McGregor, Roger Dale Floyd, Danny Lloyd, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Dakota Hickman, Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Cliff Curtis, Robert Longstreet, Carel Struycken, Alex Essoe, Zackary Momoh, Jacob Tremblay, Henry Thomas, Catherine Parker, Met Clark, Selena Anduze, James Flanagan, Violet McGraw, Bethany Anne Lind, Sadie Heim, KK Heim, Kaitlyn McCormick, Molly Jackson, Sallye Hooks, Michael Monks, Hugh Maguire.

On this day in music history - The song Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin (1971)

Stairway to Heaven

by Led Zeppelin

was released on November 8, 1971.

 

Born on this day – June Havoc:

June Havoc

Actress

Dancer

Director

Writer

November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010