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The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Visiting with Eich-Pee-El A remark by John Shirley (author of various science fiction and thriller books, plus author of lyrics for bands like Blue Oyster Cult ) has led me back to the the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft. I first came across Lovecraft as a mention in a story by Ray Bradbury (in which a man finds a world where all horror stories have been erased and tries to reintroduce horror into...
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Preston Writing Network (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
It isn’t for nothing that Ramsey Campbell has been dubbed ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’ by the Oxford Companion to English Literature . His career spans over forty years and he’s won every major award in his field several times over . Ramsey’s ‘epiphany moment’ came when, already an avid reader, he came across the work of legendary weird...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
@ManyBooks.net " Dead Ringer " by Lester del Rey (1956) " The Red Hell of Jupiter " by Paul Ernst (1931) " The Last Days of Earth " by George C. Wallace (1901) " McIlvaine's Star " by August Derleth (1952) " Show Business " by Lyle G. Boyd (1953) @Timeslingers: Episode 9-3: " Against Protocol " Episode 9-4: " Transfer " Episode...
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The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. In this weekly Kindle Reader feature, I point you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web. Free e-book selections for this week include science fiction by H. G. Wells and August Derleth,...
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Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Words Of Guru. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/1/9/30199/30199-h/30199-h.htm
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Alchemy Writers (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
The annual British Fantasy Awards were announced last weekend at Fantasycon on the night of Saturday 19th September. And the winners were: British Fantasy Awards have been announced Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award) Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney aka Graham Joyce (Gollancz) Best Anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 ed. Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson) Best...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
J. J. Miller and I had some exchanges a few days ago about the writer H. P. Lovecraft. This is one of those topics that brings in bagfuls of e-mail, I don't know why. Lovecraft has a huge following. I just posted one of the best of those emails to Secular Right, since it's a bit long for the Corner on such a peripheral topic. Incidentally, several readers questioned whether the Lovecraft biography...
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The British Fantasy Awards have been in existence for almost as many years as the British Fantasy Society itself. In 1971 Ramsey Campbell suggested the Society present an award in honour of the recently deceased August Derleth – an award which this year went to Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney. The 2009 [...]
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Stoke-on-Writing (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney aka Graham Joyce (Gollancz)The Karl Edward Wagner Award (the Special Award)Hayao MiyazakiBest AnthologyThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 ed. Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson)Best CollectionBull Running for Girls by Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)Best Non-FictionBasil Copper: A Life in Books by Basil...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The British Fanasty Society has posted the Winners of The British Fantasy Awards 2009 . Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award): Memoirs of a Master Forger , by William Heaney, aka Graham Joyce (Gollancz) Best Novella : "The Reach of Children" by Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming) Best Short Fiction : "Do You See" by Sarah Pinborough, from Myth-Understandings , ed. by Ian Whates (Newcon...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Thinking about H. P. Lovecraft now, I'm kicking myself for having totally left him out of my book . In his own fictional way, Lovecraft was a great apostle of gloom -- a gloominary (p. 251 of Doomed ). A pal just sent me this splendid quote from "The Call of Cthulhu": The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
The following books have won the August Derleth Award : 2008 The Grin of the Dark, Ramsey Campbell 2007 Dusk, Tim Lebbon 2006 Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman 2005 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Stephen King 2004 Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler 2003 The Scar, China Mi‚ville 2002 The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark 2001 Perdido Street Station, China Mieville 2000 Indigo, Graham Joyce 1999...
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Electric Spec Editor Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
We're going to take a tiny break from the first page contest to talk about one of the tools in the speculative fiction author's arsenal: world-building. Perdido Street Station (PSS) by China Mieville was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award, the 2002 Hugo Award, and won the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2001 British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award, as well as other awards. How
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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
"Latest Film News" fills pages 42 and 43 of Castle of Frankenstein #18! On the first pages, movies in production noted include Ben, Frogs, Schlock, Topper Returns (a TV movie starring Roddy McDowell), Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Dracula AD 72, Blacula, a rumor of NBC producing a four-hour version of "Dr. Frankenstein" to be seen over 2 nights, George Pal's purchase of the rights to...
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