“Episode 1 in which Doris Gets Her Oats” So just what the hell is “Weird Fiction” anyway? It’s a question that really only seems to bother writers and critics. Well, maybe booksellers as well because they need to know where to put all the books. But it’s not something that[...]
He was a wonderful friend. He was a talented writer. He was a dedicated editor. He was Charles Edward Fritch, born January 20, 1927 in Utica, New York, where he grew up watching movie serials and reading science fiction. At the age of ten he filled a notebook with ideas for stories, and studied the[...]
Recently I gave an interview to the entertainment editor at the local daily newspaper in Waco, Texas, about the third installment of an annual horror film festival that I created down here a couple of years ago. The festival’s theme this year is “Horror and Apocalypse,” and one of the questions[...]
It’s 1975 and British Producer Gerry Anderson, best known for his Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds, has just launched his newest project, Space: 1999, a live-action science fiction spectacular that would become the most expensive series of its time. Taking its cue more from 2001: A Space Odyssey than the then cult favorite Star[...]
Russellmania! Six Weeks with a Devil By Shade Rupe The grand filmmaker embodied by the girth and full name of Kenneth Alfred Henry Russell, a.k.a. “Unkle Ken,” first appeared before me at a Q&A after his hypnotically alluring Salome’s Last Dance, an epic one-set telling of the famed Oscar Wilde play,[...]
That’s right, if you are a publisher, anthologist, or anyone else who frequently enters into business transactions with writers but often finds it problematic, I am going to tell you how to deal with writers effectively in just one easy lesson made up of two simple, single-syllable words…
A new study on plant reproduction finds that developing cells are very affected by altered states of gravity—a finding that has implications for our hopes for a future human society in space. In order for plants to have sex, a pollen grain first lands on a stigma (the female part of a flowering plant.) Following[...]
Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft is one of the most influential horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers of the 20th century. Stephen King cites Lovecraft as being responsible for his fascination with "weird fiction" and the greatest influence on …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – H. P. Lovecraft[...]
Despite being an evolutionary dead end, one ant species rebels against the tyranny of another. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
Chad and Chris travel down to the American southwest to kick it with Juan Romero! Show Notes The Transition of Juan Romero comic strip! Next Week: The White Ship http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_08_13_hppodcraft_ep006.mp3 Click Here to Read The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast by hppodcraft Tweet
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time: Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:[...]
Author: Mark All estselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: sheâ s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly[...]
She'll be selling her produce at three markets this year: the Junction, Oakville Place and John St. Joshi's life changed when she was in a car accident. Click Here to Read Google Alerts – S. T. Joshi by Tweet
You’ve got to give researchers a hand — or at least a forelimb — for discovering that a gradual transition in femur size and position was apparently the main factor behind changes in dinosaur evolution that, over millions of years, led to the emergence of birds. In a study published today in Nature, a team[...]
The Guardian newspaper has an obituary on the death of Basil Copper, the British author of the Lovecraftian mythos novel The Great White Space (1974) and much else. This novel seems regarded as a pinnacle of mythos fiction and was republished a few weeks ago as an official budget-price Kindle ebook (warning: plot spoilers early[...]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE launch on T-Mobile has been nothing short of bizarre.Gotta Be Mobile Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
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