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By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sitting in a palm-tree lined cemetery in Hollywood promoting her latest film, “Bates Motel” actress Olivia Cooke says the impact of working in the horror genre has left her emotions on edge. I’ll cry at toilet paper.” Cooke, 20, may be best known for her role as Emma, a teen cystic fibrosis sufferer in A&E television’s hit horror drama “Bates Motel,” but she’s capping off 2014 with her third horror movie, “Ouija,” in theaters on Friday, just ahead of Halloween festivities on Oct. 31. Cooke plays teenager Laine, who decides to seek answers from the spirit world with the help of an Ouija board after her best friend dies mysteriously, but Laine summons up something far more sinister in the process. The film follows Cooke’s roles in “The Quiet Ones,” where she played a disturbed young woman haunted by a demon, and sci-fi horror “The Signal,” where a group of friends are abducted on a road trip.

Amazon.com Inc’s sales projections for the crucial holiday quarter disappointed, and third-quarter results missed Wall Street’s targets, sending the online retailer’s shares 9 percent lower. The company projected on Thursday net sales of between $27.3 billion and $30.3 billion for the holiday quarter, lagging the $30.89 billion analysts had expected on average. After an unusually busy first half of the year that saw the online retailer spend on developing everything from mobile phones and Hollywood-style production to grocery deliveries, investors were ready to see it curtail its ambitions somewhat and start delivering sustainable profits.