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WotD: Bloodcurdling
All Hallow’s Eve is on Thursday.
You may hear some bloodcurdling screams around the witching hour.
If you’re smart, you’ll take my advice and not go out by yourself.
In horror movies, the first person to die is always the stupid one who hears a noise and investigates it alone.
They are the ones who go down into a dark basement or, even worse, walk into the forest with nothing but a small flashlight.
They always die horribly violent deaths while producing bloodcurdling screams.
If something is bloodcurdling, it is terrifying.
The image is that it makes your blood lumpy.
Imagine putting lemon juice into a glass of milk.
The acid in the lemon juice will immediately cause the milk to curdle and become lumpy.
Now imagine you are so terrified by something it makes your blood curdle.
It’s one of the reasons why I don’t watch horror movies.
I like my blood just the way it is, thank you very much.
In recent Halloweens, clowns have been bloodcurdling sights on the streets of many cities.
Perhaps it was due to Stephen King’s clown character in his book entitled It, which later became a movie.
King thinks that for children, clowns are the most terrifying things in the world.
Nice guy, that Steven King.
Who thinks about scaring children other than parents who want them to stay in bed at night and not go roaming around the house when everyone else is asleep?
Anyways, remember, if you hear a bloodcurdling scream late at night, DON’T GO TO INVESTIGATE!
Unless you want to meet the scariest thing in the world.
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