Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later, when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” Jonathan Carroll quotes
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Todd Mason forwarded me the following list of writers' favorite scary stories. I reply after the list Martin Morse Wooster reports to the FictionMags list: In their October 28 WASHINGTON POST fiction page, the editors of BOOK WORLD asked writers, "What story scares the hell out of you?" Anne Rice: M.R. James, "Count Magnus" Scott Smith: Stewart O'Nan, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING Douglas...
The muse (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I’d place Jonathan Carroll as being my favourite author. It’s hard to describe his genre: fantasy-fiction-horror-with the air of the unexpected. However, his books always seem to have passages/sentences that resonate with me. “They had been so much in love, equally and passionately. Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
This land is your land, this land is clunker land. From clunker cars to Jonathan Carroll's kitchen table, where a 20-inch Philips TV sits unplugged awaiting someone -- anyone -- to fire it up again before next week's season premiere of "Dancing With the Stars."
White Screen of Despair (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Since the last post, I've had a bit of an opportunity to think about what it is I do or don't get out of any fantasy I've read. If I don't like most fantasy, then what's the common element in the fantasy that I do like? For the record, I'm going to avoid getting into any heavy discussions about what actually constitutes 'fantasy', and point to this piece by Cheryl Morgan , where she makes the point...
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...
Between the Covers (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
There was a heatwave here recently - Monday last week it was 35 o C. I think it fried my brain. Why else would I be signing up for another challenge when I have several going already, and eleven books out from the library, and a heap of reviews to write, and I’ve just started a book with over 900 pages that will take me several weeks to finish? Book mad, me. Although ... given that my NaNo project...
White Screen of Despair (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Here's the deal. I hate The Hobbit. You really seriously couldn't pay me to read Lord of the Rings. I read the first page of the first Harry Potter book and thought, well, it's for kids. Why would I want to read this when I'm not a kid? And that's not even going into what appears to me from the outside to be a remarkable lack of imagination - they're trainee wizards, so they ride around on broomsticks....
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
1. After Silence by Jonathan Carroll 2. Boy In Darkness by Mervyn Peake 3. Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White 4. Viriconium by M.John Harrison 5. The Smell of Telescopes by Rhys Hughes 6. The Auschwitz of Oz by David Britton 7. Endland Stories by Tim Etchells 8. The Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek 9. The Sound of His Horn by 'Sarban' 10. The Song of Hiawatha by H.W. Longfellow You can...
Flick's Journal (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
M&S don't have their Christmas shop on the website yet. How am I supposed to choose my colours if I don't know what themes they have? How am I supposed to capitalise on the sudden, and short-lived, burst of enthusiasm caused by rolling my Christmas spreadsheet forward a year if I can't start writing cards? Bah! Am reading Oscar Wao . I'm not really enjoying it but, whilst my Protestant Book Ethic...
Ballast For My Gorge (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
I came across this old review by accident, and found that I didn't remember it at all. It appeared in the New York Review of Science Fiction some fifteen years ago. JONATHAN CARROLL: LONG, MEDIUM, AND SHORT After Silence by Jonathan Carroll (London: Macdonald, 1992; L14.99; 240 pages; New York: Doubleday, 1993; $21.00; 227 pages) "Uh-Oh City," F&SF, June 1992 "The Lick of Time,"...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Here are the contents of The Library of America's upcoming anthology, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now edited by Peter Straub: "Evening Primrose" by John Collier (1940) "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber (1941) "Mysteries of the Joy Rio" by Tennessee Williams (1941) "The Refugee" by Jane Rice (1943) "Mr. Lupescu"...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
If the trailer and the insane reactions coming out of Comic-Con haven't got you excited for Where the Wild Things Are, perhaps this video of author Maurice Sendak, director Spike Jonze, and screenplay writer Dave Eggers will melt your icicle-covered heart. In this featurette, Sendak discusses the initial response to the book and what he thinks about Spike Jonze's vision. Dave Eggers also pipes up...
The Art Department (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
(Via Jonathan Carroll) This looks amazing:
Bart's Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
About the Book What would happen if, in the middle of your life, you were to meet your seventeen-year-old self? And what if he told you had lived all wrong, but, lucky for you, he was here to help you fix it? But what if you had only a week to fix it because it [...]
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