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About Me

I am a woman, a writer, and a horror fan. And I'm also lucky enough to be able to combine those three major portions of my identity on a daily basis... I write reviews and articles and do interviews for the best damn horror site on the web, Dread Central.
I'm a big fan of independent films. I think they are responsible for some of the freshest blood in the genre. But I don't hold a big budget against a studio movie. I don't care if it cost $500 or $5 million dollars... All I care about is whether or not it's any good. I base my opinions on the content of the work alone. Same way I judge the books I review, not by their covers but the story contained between them.
Any intelligent human beings should check out this site... about the West Memphis Three. This is something that should not be ignored. A part of the bigger, scarier picture too. Hopefully, someday soon, people will start to open their eyes and things will change around here.
Also.... I like chocolate, babies, kittens and roses.Hey, I'm not ALL darkness, blood and guts! ;-)
Love 'n kisses!

My Interests

Horror, blood, death, sex and violence.

I'd like to meet:

Stephen King, Joss Whedon, Shirley Jackson, Gustave Floubert, Peter Jackson, Kathryn Bigelow, Fairuza Balk.

Also, interesting, intelligent, free-thinking people of all persuasions. Horror fans, hellhounds, bookworms and tattooed ladies (or men), and just about anything in between. (Except for ignorant, bigoted, small minded assholes... they need not apply.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Music:

AFI. Tori Amos. The Cure. Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Kane Brothers Blues Band. Rob Zombie. Human Drama. Voltaire. Eminem. Live. Guano Apes. Robert Johnson. Jefferson Airplane. Damien Rice. Jethro Tull. Pearl Jam. Jane's Addiction. Eric Clapton. The White Stripes. Type O Negative. Coheed and Cambria. Devo. The Pixies. Sex Pistols. The Pogues. Beethoven. Bach. Chopin. The Doors. The Misfits. The Cure. Simon & Garfunkel. The Beatles. The Ramones. Tool. Nirvana. Joni Mitchell. Janis Joplin. Patsy Cline. Johnny Cash. Pink Floyd. Billie Holliday. Dar Williams. To name a few...

Movies:

Let's see.... Rebecca. Ginger Snaps. Secretary. Donnie Darko. House of 1000 Corpses. Fight Club. The Haunting (1963). The Pit and the Pendulum (anything Vincent Price, really). Dracula (I love Bela, but I think I like the Spanish Dracula better.) Ong-Bak. The entire Kevin Smith Oeuvre. Rashoman. Rope. Ghost Ship (I know, it's a guilty pleasure). Primer (even though it melted my brain). Lost In Translation. The Virgin Suicides. Crash. Empire Records. RHPS. Jaws. The Dead Trilogy. Casablanca. The Royal Tenenbaums. Heathers. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Garden State. King Kong. Hostel. Frailty. Near Dark. Memento. Aliens. Se7en. Audition. Dark Water. Ju-On. Shaun of the Dead. Say Anything. Better Off Dead. Lost Boys. Session 9. Shawshank Redemption. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. 300. And so forth...

Television:

Any show written by Joss Whedon. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Malcolm In The Middle, That 70's Show. Nip/Tuck. ATHF. Boondocks. Robot Chicken. Lost. Invasion. Project Runway. The Closer. Law & Order (the Jerry Orbach years). Law & Order: SVU. Judging Amy. The Daily Show. Deadwood. Rome. Entourage. Masters of Horror.

Books:

To begin with, anything by: Stephen King. Anne Rice. J.K Rowling. Ann McCaffrey. Neil Gaimen. Diana Gabaldon. Karen Slaughter. Ken Kesey. Shirley Jackson. Emily Dickenson.I could go on for a long time. I'm in love with the written word.Mostly, I just love to read. Anything by anyone, as long as it's well written.

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickenson, Karen Walton, Stephen King, my mother, my nephew

My Blog

Shit like this is why I plan on home schooling my kids...

St. Lucie teacher has students vote on whether 5-year-old can stay in class By Colleen Wixon Originally published 01:50 p.m., May 23, 2008 Updated 04:30 p.m., May 23, 2008 PORT ST. LUCIE ?Melissa Bart...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:30:00 PST

Turn It Up

So right, anyone who knows me knows I'm a Coheed fan. Have been since I was 12 and they were Shabutie. I used to love seeing them live at shows when I was growing up. (And not all of that had to do w...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:15:00 PST

Where I’ll be in March

The second annual Fear Fest horror con is coming up. I'm already getting excited. If you don't know what Fear Fest is... shame on you! Check out the site at www.txfearfest.com Normally, I wouldn't ha...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:41:00 PST

The West Memphis Three - "The time is NOW".

..> WM3 - "The time is NOW" ***Please Read & Repost*** I know a lot of you are aware of who the West Memphis Three are (if not, PLEASE check out www.wm3.org), and my stance on their conviction...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:10:00 PST

Hear that horn?

Okay, yeah so it's tooting my own horn, but I'm super excited so I thought I would share.... In the latest issue of Rue Morgue (awesome magazine) there's an ad for the upcoming DVD of Masters of Horro...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:52:00 PST

Read It And Weep

I do not think our founding fathers (or mothers) were infallible. They were just as human as we are. They ate and slept and went to the bathroom, and had families and friends, much like we do. I don't...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:30:00 PST

Haunted

People don't have to be dead for them to haunt you. Here's something I wrote this morning. xoxo HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There was just the thought of youin t...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:56:00 PST

just foolin' around....

Something I wrote this morning.... SCARS These are my scarsthey tell the story of me...this one from the stoveon the back of my right handI was 3 and felland on the left handbetween thumb and forefin...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:09:00 PST

Long Time Gone....

14 years ago I was 12. I was in 6th grade, maybe 7th. I hadn't really had a real boyfriend, or my first kiss. My biggest worry was that I was too tall (yeah... THAT didn't last - I stopped growing rig...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST

Just a little slice....

So, I've been writing a bit more lately, which is something that makes me very happy. Even if it's just a short piece, writing anything at all feels good. So, here's something that kind of popped up h...
Posted by Morgan Elektra on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:06:00 PST