The Green Ribbon

This is it, folks.  This is the story from In A Dark Dark Room that screwed me up.  It isn't about ghosts or monsters but it's scary and weird.

I love the colors, too.  Jenny and Alfred are this sickly pale color throughout their lives and everything has this subdued funeral home color scheme to it.  And the cat, who appears in every story in the book, is at its curious best here in the final panel.

I didn't know there was an audio book of In A Dark Dark Room until I found this video on YouTube. Hopefully I can track it down sometime.

Welcome to In A Dark Dark Room, a blog dedicated to my lifelong fascination with monsters, ghosts and the strange.

The title of the blog is an homage to the book by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Dirk Zimmer.  This book single-handedly changed my life when my parents bought it for me when I was 5.  Since that point on, I've been obsessed with the macabre.

About Me:

30-something year old slacker type who is still obsessed with the paranormal.  Although I don't believe in the supernatural, I still find it interesting.

About the Blog:

Do I expect anyone to read it?  Nope.  Will I update it regularly?  Almost certainly not.  Will I abandon it after a few months when I realize that I didn't have that much to say in the first place?  All signs point to yes.

In the meantime, look for posts about awesome monster & ghost books, maybe some movie reviews, cryptozoology news, interesting tidbits of folklore & mythology and anything else I feel like shoehorning into this blog.