Christine Rides Again

Last night I downloaded a new audiobook from Audible. This month I chose Christine by Stephen King, read by Holter Graham. Christine is about a teenager who buys a broken down old 1950s car but finds himself slowly possessed by an evil force in the car, which comes to life and starts running down his enemies. It was made into a film in the 1980s by John Carpenter. i read the book when I was about 16 and it was one of my favourite Stephen King books at the time.

On my way into work I listened to Chilling Tales: The Podcast, the stories this week were about an aspiring screenwriter who has a gruesome encounter in Hollywood, and a woman trapped in a down elevator, that takes her into a horrifying world. I listened to a new episode of one of my favourite podcasts You Must Remember This about the "secrets and/or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century". This was the first in a series of episodes about the life and career of Joan Crawford.

Back home I listened to a podcast episode called Punt PI where comedian Steve Punt investigates odd old mysteries, and mysterious crimes. This one was about the mysterious death of a reclusive elderly actress in the 1940s after she had apparently vanished for ten years. I also heard an episode of The Moth, which had a story about a family drama that blows up during a Bar Mitzvah, a man has a strange adventure in Morocco while searching for author Paul Bowles, and a struggling writer who tries to combat writers block by shutting the world out.