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...
Simon Dyda (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
I've been on Blogger since February 2005, but this is the first time I've actually looked (via my profile ) to see how many other Blogger bloggers have the same interests and preferences as I have. Here are the results: Interests: Apophenia 16 Favourite films: Pulp Fiction : 11,800,000 Blade Runner : 8,050,000 The Good The Bad and The Ugly : 55,200 Chinatown : 35,400 The Third Man : 28,300 Dead Man...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers . Classic horror. Daily Thoughts 8/29/2009
Dark Roasted Blend (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
"QUANTUM SHOT" #584 Link - by Avi Abrams There is a touch of sensuality in the pink tentacles, scarlet flowers, and protruding ship masts How can we not feature something that boasts airships, Arctic wastes, tentacles and sensuality - all at once? Impossible, I say! So here is the "Airships and Tentacles" Series by Myke Amend , combining Vernian and Lovecraftian atmosphere and concepts...
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
Film... Homecoming (2009) @ Brutal As Hell 5 Direct-to-DVD Sci-Fi Movie Sequels That Should Never Have Happened @ Topless Robot Complete Comic-Con 2009 Programming Schedule is Live! @ FirstShowing Nimoy On Future Of Spock Prime and War of the Worlds Goes Steampunk @ SciFiPiuse The Flock @ Filmstalker & Dread Central Wolfman Gets Down On All Fours To "Bound" Like Sabretooth @ io9 Row Three's...
JSBlog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Interesting video from YouTube: Kate Bush's 1986 Experiment IV , a Quatermass-style story about the development of a lethal sound at a research establishment; it still manages to be scary despite the jokey treatment. I don't know if it's a case of conscious/unconscious allusion, but the scenario is remarkably similar to David Langford's "What Happened at Cambridge IV" (in the anthology Digital...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
This weekend, I found in a secondhand bookstore a 1911 novel by Robert W. Chambers called The Gay Rebellion , a bosom-heaver about the Suffragettes, the opening paragraph of which is: The year had been, as everybody knows, a momentous and sinister year for the masculine sex; marriages and births in the United States alone had fallen off nearly eighty per cent.; the establishment of Suffragette Unions...
Die Wachen (Free subscription) | 08/09/2007
Ben Thomas of Literacity recently posted " What Influenced Me, " a list (in turn inspired by lonesome_crow 's " Imaginary horror anthology ") of the top horror short stories that influenced his writing. I too have decided to take part in this analysis. The rules: only one story per author, no more than twenty stories total. So, here they are in no particular order: “The Yellow...
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