Monsters in my Closet! There were always monsters around when I was young. What was lurking under the bed. What dark things were in my closet. And something was always waiting outside in th e dark. Cinematic beasts drove my young fears into imaginary trauma as a young 70s kid. My Mom loved Dracula vampire movies. She watched every vampire film she could find, including the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows . Unfortunately for me, my mother was also a sleepwalker. Nothing prepares a child for waking up in the middle of the night to find a pale woman with long dark hair drifting through the room in a flowing black nightgown. She would stare straight ahead as if under a spell, open drawers, move things around for no apparent reason, then slowly glide back out of the room. That was normal at our house. We always had to make sure the front door was locked. Not to keep monsters out. To keep Mama in. We let her escape a few times. In my glorious youth, Creature from the B...
