The dark-haired woman eyes the ghost as he reclines on the couch beside her. She looks surprised at his statement before he continues speaking. She can almost feel the rasp of his voice, like sandpaper against her skin.
She can’t help but let out a quiet chuckle at his enthusiasm.
“At the moment, it’s House on Haunted Hill,” she pauses for a moment. “Vincent Price is one of my favorites.”
She turns her head to eye her VHS shelf, housing an impressive collection of horror movies.
“I’m pretty sure I have The Exorcist, though… it’s a classic.”
“That guy has one of the greatest evil laughs of all time. Though I am a bit biased;
I’m damn sure my cackle is just as good if not better.”
Inhaling a redundant breath, Betelgeuse let loose an abrupt,
unrequested maniacal laugh in much of the same style from
Price’s Thriller outro as if to prove his one-sided theory.
After a dry hacking cough and snort, the ghost would settle
down enough to actually take a gander over at Lydia’s neatly
arranged stockpile of videos.
“Oh yeah, sure is. Maybe after we watch this, we’ll pop that in
and have a few good chuckles, huh?”
Propping his feet up on the coffee table, Betelgeuse would
manifest a large bucket of popcorn in his lap. At first glance
it would appear to be just a normal tub; but those weren’t
unpopped kernals at the top. A few buttered beetles would
scurry under the popcorn and away from the invading hand.
He offers a handful to Lydia with a not-so-innocent grin.