Darkeva interviews World Horror Convention’s Poet Guest of Honor, Bruce Boston. Darkeva: There’s definitely a strong contingent of poets among the sci-fi/fantasy/horror communities, and you’re certainly one of the most accomplished with publications in all the top magazines. Tell us a bit more about how you got your first few sales.[...]
Darkeva interviews World Horror Convention’s Editor Guest of Honor, John Joseph Adams. Darkeva: You’re one of the most respected editors in the genre fiction community, and have edited many bestselling anthologies. Is there a particular favorite among them that you worked on? JJA: That’s a hard question to answer–kind of like asking a parent to[...]
A few years back, scientists discovered that the ocean crust, previously considered a thick layer of lifeless rock that covers 60% of the Earth’s surface, actually contained some microbes. But the extent of the microbial ecosystem in the crust was unclear until a study published recently revealed that the “dark biosphere” in the ocean crust[...]
Darkeva interviews World Horror Convention’s Artist Guest of Honor, Glenn Chadbourne. Darkeva: You’re one of the most noted Stephen King artists, particularly for Secretary of Dreams, and your work has frequently appeared in Cemetery Dance. What do you find the most challenging or the most rewarding aspects about being an illustrator working in the horror[...]
Darkeva interviews World Horror Convention’s Author Guest of Honor, Caitlín R. Kiernan. Darkeva: Although you’re mainly known for your powerful and dark novels such as The Drowning Girl, The Red Tree, Silk, and Low Red Moon among many others, you’re also a prolific comic book writer, most notably for Alabaster, but also with Vertigo for[...]
Blogger Darkeva has posted a fascinating interview with World Horror Convention Guest of Honor Amber Benson. Darkeva: In addition to your acting career, you’re also an accomplished film director, producer, and writer, but most people know you for your role as Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As urban fantasy and horror readers already knew[...]
Celtic 5 Dundee 0: Drubbing ends bizarre weekend for Dark Blues. By Eric Nicolson, 25 February 2013 9.35am. Scot Gardiner and John Brown at Celtic Park on Sunday.SNS Group. Dundee's 5-0 defeat to Celtic was entirely predictable and run-of-the-mill.See all stories on this topic » The Courier Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre[...]
At Columbia University’s Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, New York, Elena Aprile sits in front of a new liquid-xenon-filled detector that is key to her search for dark matter. Dark matter sounds like some physicist’s tall tale: There’s this invisible matter, see, and it has this powerful gravitational effect on galaxies. That’s why we know it[...]
The Dark Side of the Poles: Dreams and Nightmares in Polar Exploration runs until 3rd November 2012 in the UK, as part of the University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas… “Throughout the Festival, explore our trail of polar dreams and nightmares. Find untold secrets hidden in drawers and strange objects that have crept into the[...]
Enter, Night By Michael Rowe ChiZine Publications, 2011 ISBN: 987-1-926851-45-7 275 pgs. Trade SC. $15.95 US/$17.95 CAN Amazon Link Vampire fiction. Just whisper the words and they’re likely to evoke groans from horror readers, writers and editors across the globe. Let’s face it, the vampire is a character which—pardon the expression—has been done to[...]
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
This episode starts with the next part of Stanley’s journey, where he takes the first step on the way home. The main feature today, is the first part of one of Lovecraft’s most loved stories: “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Download the show . http://archive.org/download/CthulhuPodcastEpisode149/CEP149.mp3 Click Here to Read Cthulhu by Tweet
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