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I agree, Sol. Misery was a classic! I read it so long ago. I think it was '88...

Hey, Ryan. Did you see the teleplay of The Stand? I think it was 'round 91...anyway, the actor who portrayed Randall Flag, flagged, imho. Randall Flagg needed to be portrayed by a serious badass!! Kink thought Robert Duvall or Bruce Dern could pull it off. I'd go with Henry Silva, a very underrated actor who, to the best of my knowledge, never played the "good guy." Christopher Lee, too. Then again, he might not've had Silva's capacity for wry humor, and I'd say that's one of the requirements to fully portray RF. Sadly, Lee and Silva are no longer with us...don't know who else, around today, could do Flagg...

I wonder if The Stand will EVER be tackled by a talented producer and screenwriter...

Welll...the only one I got was number one, lol. Not-so-good-ol Normie Bates. I think there was a sequel and I don't think it did very well. I didn't pay much attention to the publicity surrounding it, though. The man who wrote the book, Psycho,(here's my question, If I may...:-)...who was he? Hint: he had a fairly powerful influence on Stephen King and the famous British horror writer, Ramsey Campbell. I'm guessing this one is not really that challenging because he also wrote for Bill Hitchcock(I'm 99.9% sure)and he was, not surprisingly, a famous writer. Then too, I don't mean to try and hijack the thread...:-)

Mike

This sounds very good to me, Max. The plot, the characters, and the visuals should do nicely. I'd say go for it!

Very good points, Jack.

Sorry for the very late replay, Max and TE. Thanks for the recommendations!

I respect your opinion/s, Max, and I don't blame you reg. your opinion about whether or not God exists. There's always been plenty of things going on in this mad world that can/does cause extreme skepticism.

To elaborate on my experience... To say that I'd exhausted God's patience isn't really the best way to verbalize it, but I certainly had come to a point where I knew in my "knower" that I'd lived a rebellious and sickening life for too long. I'm fully convinced that had I not called on Him and asked for mercy I'd have been dead a long time ago, maybe that very night.

The horror of it... It was more than seeing myself dying and going to a realm of eternal torment. I think we all can paint nightmarish pictures of what Hell might look like. The horror - part of it - was a lasting chill and repeating, "God, please don't let me die!" Sometimes in my mind, sometimes aloud.

Other dimensions to the horror: seeing just about everyone as someone sent to kill me or destroy what was left of my mind. It took a few years to get to a place where I could really trust people again. And there were - and sometimes still are - highly visual dreams... Being chased, being shot(and sometimes killed), being burned up in a pit. But regarding the dreams, the worst part was waking from them, absolutely convinced I was in Hell, that I'd finally wound up there. You know, the kinds of dreams that seem impossible to wake up from...

Another part of the horror was seeing(and this is funny, to me. Maybe a comedy-horror story could be built on this alone!)many other Believers as secret followers of Satan. That was when I was going through my extreme paranoia. Then too, that's not really too far off the proverbial dial. A lot of people who call themselves "followers of Christ" aren't. The reasons why are many, needless to say.

The only other component of the horror involved is knowing that I still live in some conflict with God, ignoring him, mistreating others, living mostly for myself. I consider that part of the horror because I'm up against the One who, ultimately, brought me into this world and can take me out. The One who can "destroy body and soul in Hell."

You make some strong points, Max. Pretty dang funny ones, too. Your zombie story might work. And I'm hoping that a LOT of us will shovel many, many more ideas into this lot(after all, we want to produce not just one horror story)'til we've got more pages of prompts than there are pages in The Stand! And I'd say the prospective horror story/ies need not be largely horror(at least not all the time). That's why I unloaded all those goofball ideas above. My most recent horror tale post, Ghoulish Games, IS pretty damn ghoulish, but there is also a thread - albeit dark - of humor running through it. It's not exemplary writing or storytelling, but I think it might serve as one example of blending horror with humor. Jmho.
Mike

Ideas for horror fiction:  Gluttonous, overweight people becoming "homes" for alien spiders that make them eat even more, causing them to die off quickly + Ronald MacDonald clones that kill and raise their victims from the dead + ice cream trucks driven by zombies. The popsickers THEY sell contain human flesh + knee-high robots that threaten to take over the world. The only way to stop them is to pee on them - or in them + A mass murderer who can't stop doing imitations of Walt Disney characters, singing, acting, etc. + Possessed cows that kill farmers + Another installment of The Exorcist with Stallone and Washington... Maybe THEY become possessed? + Aggressive aliens with over-sized appendages... + Star Wars:  entertainers going berzerk and offing each other + An Alfred E. Newman doll that persuades kids to off their parents + Pat Sajak going nuts and slaughtering game show hosts + A used car dealer(played by Jim Carrey)who sells FLEETS of "Christines" + The original Titanic raised, restored. There are promotions offered for cruises into the Bermuda Triangle + A cross-eyed serial killer who winds up accidentally killing himself + Garage bands of psychos raiding churches and performing + Gigantic slimy worms from another galaxy that dominate the earth. They giggle a lot as they create problems for people. How to stop 'em? Raise Dante from the dead and persuade him to utter an incantation that will send them to his world! + built-in swimming pools that are levitated to the Moon. How? One of us will figure that out + Okay, I know Ernest Borgnine is before the time of many people on this site. Even so, wouldn't it be cool if someone here made a movie with an actor who looks a LOT like him and portrays Dracula. Instead of morphing into a bat, he changes into an English Bulldog. Plus he's able to make others into vampires as a "person" or as a bulldog. He just clamps onto their calves and drinks! + Cheech and Chong and G. Carlin come back as zombs. They kill people while they're laughing + A psychotic poet portrayed by an actor who looks a LOT like Grampa(the vampire)in The Munsters + A woman suspects her husband has been replaced...as soon as he displays horrible table manners: using the tablecloth as a snot rag; using it to dry the dishes and clean the floor; using a machete to trim his finger and toenails; using it to cut his hair and the hair of his sons; he's portrayed by someone who closely resembles Ed Asner and behaves like most J. Nicholson characters; his wife is portrayed by someone who strongly resembles Dustin Hoffman. The husband also howls at the moon while crawling backwards and vomiting. He digs holes in the yard and buries his wife's clothes and jewelry + a robot "stuck" on the word, Redrum! as it glides down halls, carrying an M-60 machine gun + A Glock melts in the hand of killer as the killer screams and as a Jim Carrey character stares at it with lazers coming out its eyes. The killer is portrayed by the actor who portrays Seinfeld's George Costanza + A chicken stand run by a zombie arsonist. It's called Extra Crispy + A movie with someone who looks like Dom DeLuise portraying a brutal heavywt boxer with no conscience + 

Enough weird and wild ideas for now...

Mike

Evening, Nathan. Well, Brain Salad Psychology was originally titled Treatment. It's an older one that I first posted in mid-2013.
Cheers,
Mike