Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
AMERICAN FANTASTIC TALES edited by Peter Straub — Should you have a horror hound on your holiday gift list, this is what you get them: Library of America’s two-volume set, well-edited with unconventional choices by Straub. End of story. Check. You’re done. Still need convincing? Damn, you’re a problematic one, but all right: This esoteric [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Interviews /Profiles Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings interviews John Brown . (via Tor/Forge ) The Agony Column interviews Peter Straub (podcast). Tor.com interviews Garth Nix . BSC Review interviews Joe Abercrombie . Tor/Forge interviews Hideyuki Kikuchi . Bibliophile Stalker interviews K.J. Bishop . Articles Teresa Sousa de Almeida on Science Fiction in Portugal: The Drawing Up of a Territory . Jim C....
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Tonight Duane Swierczynski on Secret Dead Blog quotes from a New Yorker series from the 1930s called Legends of The Underwood. The man profiled is Arthur J. Burk, a pulp magazine stalwart who said he wrote four thousand words a day but could do triple that if need be. I've written a fair amount of fiction in thirty-some years but I was never fast. I've always done a thousand or fifteen hundred words...
Spatula Forum (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
As I just cracked open the 14,000-page monolith that is Stephen King's latest, "Under The Dome," I thought I'd get back to this occasional series. You can accuse King as a writer of many talents and some flaws, but nobody can ever argue that he's unproductive -- how many millions of words has he written in the last 30 years, anyway? An entire bookshelf in my house creaks with tattered King...
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Autumnal bread baking has won out over blogging this afternoon, so rather than a proper post I have merely two passages to share. They have no explicit commonalities, but when I read the second this afternoon it called to mind the first. See what you think. The first passage comes from "Little Red's Tango," a strange, elliptical, atmospheric story by Peter Straub (which is collected in a...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Interviews/Profiles New The Business of Writing video series with Tad Williams ( The Writer's Journey , Why Did You Become a Writer? ). (via Cheryl K. Morgan ) The Dragon Page interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast). Larry Nolen interviews David Anthony Durham . The Link interviews Cory Doctorow . Dead Robots Society interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast). Mihai Adascalitei interviews Sebastian A. Corn . The...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I'm generally pleased that local author Dean Francis Alfar gets mentioned in io9 (and my own website, the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler , gets a couple of hits; but do check it out because I like the stories there). In the meantime, I gush over one of my favorite international authors, Zoran Živković , over at SF Signal. Sorry folks, that's all the interviews we have for The Apex...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
November 18, 1984, is a Sunday. By Congressional resolution, it’s the first day of National Family Week. The New York Times publishes several articles about Baby Fae, the anonymous child who died last Thursday after living 20 days with the transplanted heart of a baboon. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub tops the [...]
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
We’ve had to reschedule our upcoming Peter Straub novel, The Skylark, until next spring. We apologize to everyone for this change in plans, but some non-contractual obligations reared their ugly heads, and we need to accommodate the release of the trimmed New York release of the book.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Interviews /Profiles Salon.com interviews Peter Straub (editor of American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps . Moonlight, Lace and Mayhem interviews Rachel Caine and A.J. Chase . Fear Zone interviews Nicholas Kaufmann . Temple Library Reviews interviews various horror writers (via Kaaron Warren ) and Larry OF Blog of the Fallen . Outer Alliance spotlights K L Richardson...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
“..The author of “Ghost Story” and “Koko” talks about the fine art of literary terror Peter Straub has a lot of alter egos. There’s Tim Underhill, a bestselling, jazz-loving novelist born in the Midwestern town of Millhaven (fictional counterpart to Straub’s own hometown of Milwaukee), who lives in haunted solitude in a loft in Manhattan’s East [...]
Salon (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The author of "Ghost Story" and "Koko" talks about the fine art of literary terror
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? E-mail us at avcqa@theonion.com . Over...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Don’t feel so alone here in the middle ground, Ellen. If the bell curve is any indication, it should probably be pretty crowded here. Frankly, I’ve been a little surprised at the vitriolic backlash against Ghost Story , which I thought would be a pretty popular book-club choice, accessible and easy to discuss. I’d never read Peter Straub before (apart from the two Talisman books he...
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...
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