The 2012 Bram Stoker Award® winners: Top row (left to right): Mort Castle, L.L. Soares, Jerad Walters, Rocky Wood, Jonathan Maberry. Lower row/middle: Sam Weller, James Chambers, Lucy Snyder, Marge Simon, Robert McCammon, Caitlin R. Kiernan (seated), Charles Day, Lisa Morton (Photo by Stacy Scranton) (Not pictured: Gene O’Neill, Joss[...]
The Horror Writers Association chose a historic hotel in the haunted city of New Orleans to announce the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® tonight. The presentations were made at a banquet held as the highlight of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, which this year incorporated the World Horror Convention. Fifteen new bronze haunted-house[...]
Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens. My guest this week is Kendare Blake, author of the critically acclaimed ANN DRESSED IN BLOOD. Kendare lives and writes in Lynnwood, Washington. She writes books, enjoys scary movies, digs trying new food, goes hiking and plays (she[...]
When: June 10, 2013 Time: 3pm EST (use the Time Zone Converter to find your local time) The Future of Agents Do you think all the recent technological advances in publishing are sounding the death knell for the literary agent? Agents used to be the gatekeepers in the classical publishing model, deciding who gets through and who remains in[...]
Darkeva interviews World Horror Convention’s Guest of Honor, Ramsey Campbell. Darkeva: To quote the Oxford Companion to English Literature, you’re “Britain’s most respected living horror writer,” which is a great esteem. What do you feel have been some of the great honors of your writing career so far? RC: Well, that was certainly one. The[...]
SNM Horror Magazine delivers again in this fifth installment of its anthology series, Bonded by Blood V: Doomsday Descends. There are some intriguing stories in this book, and for the money, twenty-five entries give it a nice heft with plenty of diversity. Like other SNM titles, the table of contents is broken up in a[...]
Algorithm of Nightmares is a fine short story collection from Jeff Parsons, an author whose short fiction has appeared in genre magazine SNM Horror Mag. Praise to Steven and Samantha Marshal for recruiting Parsons to their team of authors and for publishing this book. Swirling fantastical and horrific elements into compact, swift-moving prose, the overall[...]
Suspentia By Brett Matthew Grahaham Suspentia is a collection of dark tales; and as the name suggests – an interweaving of suspense and dementia. The book is divided into 3 sections: “Part I: He Who Bleeds Last” containing 5 short stories, and in clever arrangement, the last one titled “Bleeder”; “Part II: Illusions” where another five[...]
Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens. My guest this week is Ilsa J. Bick. Ilsa’s bio reads like it belongs to ten other people. She’s a child psychiatrist, a film scholar, a surgeon wannabe, a former Air Force major, and an award-winning author of[...]
The HWA’s ninth Horror Roundtable will take place on Monday the 10th of June at 3pm EST. It’s a topic a lot of folks have asked about, and one very relevant to the current state of the publishing industry. The topic this round is The Future of Agents (thanks for the idea, Joe McKinney!). Please join our[...]
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William F. Nolan's new book about the works of Ray Bradbury. Edited by Joshi, and with an Intro from Jason V Brock and an afterword by Greg Bear.
A suspected bank robber is behind bars, and his unwitting accomplice left perplexed, after a robbery that police solved in record time. That's thanks to a pretty big clue — the getaway car was a registered Jackson County vehicle. NBC5's Laura …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts –[...]
I’m looking for a scan of a work by Everett McNeil, Lovecraft’s friend in New York and Kalem Club member: … Continue reading » Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden
Today, the hearing – held in a room inside Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre – was given details of Brady's daily life inside the secure hospital and features of his bizarre behaviour. The tribunal …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts[...]
The 2012 Bram Stoker Award® winners: Top row (left to right): Mort Castle, L.L. Soares, Jerad Walters, Rocky Wood, Jonathan Maberry. Lower row/middle: Sam Weller, James Chambers, Lucy Snyder, Marge Simon, Robert McCammon, Caitlin R. Kiernan (seated), Charles Day, Lisa Morton (Photo by Stacy Scranton) (Not pictured: Gene O’Neill, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, Joyce[...]
Composed by Edward Elgar between 1898 and ’99, Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra (“Engima”), Op. 36, has long been my favorite piece of classical music. In addition to being beautiful music there is enough mystery packed into the Variations to keep every conspiracy theorist in the house busy for years. The work is[...]
Naturally occurring human genes cannot be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, paving the way for cheaper gene testing for patients. The decision centered on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutated versions of which can dramatically increase an individual’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, was the first to[...]
Here we are, another week, and another episode. Stanley gets some bad news as heads back with Livingstone towards the coast. In part 3 of the Innsmouth story our hero learns some uncomfortable history about the town. Download the show. . http://archive.org/download/CthulhuPodcastEpisode151/CEP151.mp3 Click Here to Read Cthulhu by
By Kenneth Miller The border guards, wary of advancing rebels, fired their guns in the air as three motorized skiffs approached along the Sangha River in the late March night. But the boats’ occupants were unarmed foreigners, fleeing a bloody insurrection that had gripped the Central African Republic (CAR). Among the refugees was elephant researcher[...]
A funded Phd in the UK, which might appeal to some readers here, looking at early and contemporary fan-cultures around … Continue reading » Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden
Smiling comes in two distinct forms: genuine and polite. The genuine kind are those that result from a friend showing you a hilarious new grumpy cat meme. These smiles are spontaneous and indicative of pleasure. Polite smiles, on the other hand, are the ones reserved for the awkward encounters with your coworker at the coffee[...]
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