You know Ryan Bradford as the editor of Black Candies and from his hilarious San Diego CityBeat columns. He has a novel coming out early next year called Horror Business and he’s been asking people for their favorite scenes from scary movies. I came clean and confessed to my ridiculously unreasonable reaction to Salem’s Lot, a made-for-TV movie adapted from a Stephen Kind novel. (The photo above holds the clue to what freaked me out when I was 11 years old.)

In the movie, a young boy named Ralphie Glick goes missing. His family thinks he’s been abducted but the audience knows the truth: he’s been turned into a vampire. His brother Danny finds this out the hard way when Ralphie turns up one night, tapping on his bedroom window. Somehow Danny doesn’t notice that Ralphie isfucking floating in the air and opens the window for him.

Now it’s on and these creepy Glick Brothers are tapping on windows all over town and going on a blood-sucking rampage. Danny sets his sights on his friend, Mark Petrie, a horror movie buff with a Luke Skywalker haircut. Mark knows his monster movies and he repels Danny with a cross. You can watch the scene here.

Ryan also says some very kind words about “Brains for Bengo,” one of the spookiest stories in my collection Big Lonesome.