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Kurt Newton

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http://www.goodreads.com/kurtnewton

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The United States

gender

male

website

http://kurtnewton.weebly.com

genre

Horror, Poetry, Short Stories

influences

Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G ...more

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March 2012

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Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 300 poems and 200 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been four times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

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Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps revisited

I had the pleasure this past weekend of attending the 2011 Stoker Weekend convention. One of the panels I sat on was one called Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps with Christopher Conlon, Lisa Morton and Norman Prentiss. Sound familiar? Yes, we were able to recreate to a degree the blog conversation the four of us had last year. Unfortunately, the original blog posts were virtually unseen....

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Books by Kurt Newton

Average rating: 4.06 · 145 ratings · 32 reviews · 29 distinct works

	The Ultimate perVERSEities 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Brainpan Concerto 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The House Spider and Other Strange Visitors 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dead Dogs 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Dark Demons: Tales of Obsession, Possession and Unnatural Desire 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Life Among the Dream Merchants and Other Phantasies 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Powerlines 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Psychoses 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	My rating:
	The Sideshow Press Chronicles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Psycho-Hunter's Casebook 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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The Creek

by Chris Hedges

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Kurt Newton is currently reading: The Creek by Chris Hedges	My rating:
May 21, 2012 11:35am
Kurt Newton gave to: The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison read in January, 1985	My rating:
With Bradbury's The October Country and King's Night Shift at the top, this one ranks a very close second as one of the best horror short story collections around.
May 21, 2012 11:27am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2007	My rating:
Psychedelic, surreal, inventively insane!
May 14, 2012 09:17am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Extinction Journals by Jeremy Robert Johnson (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2007	My rating:
Very cool bizarro novella.
May 14, 2012 09:15am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory read in May, 2012	My rating:
Oh my God, what a surprise this was. I picked it up for a couple bucks in a bin of used books. Dark, haunting, wonderfully written. I'll be hunting down the rest of Gregory's works.
May 14, 2012 08:53am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison read in January, 1985	My rating:
Another highly recommended collection of Ellison's. Read this way back when and still remember a majority of the stories.
May 14, 2012 08:42am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison read in January, 1984	My rating:
When I began reading Ellison, Bluejay Books published this collection in trade paperback format. Ellison was constantly rewriting his stories and this was the definitive version at the time. It was definitive for me because this is the collection tha...more
May 14, 2012 08:38am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard read in January, 1990	My rating:
A man crashes his car and ends up stranded on an island below highway overpasses. Injured and unable to get help, he realizes he is not alone on this small patch of territory. I loved this book for its simplicity and psychology. It's amazing what Bal...more
May 14, 2012 08:15am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard read in January, 1990	My rating:
Not for everybody, but this laid the foundation stylistically for what Ballard's Crash would later become.
May 14, 2012 08:07am · see review
Kurt Newton gave to: Crash by J.G. Ballard read in January, 1990	My rating:
What can I say that hasn't already been said about this book. Revolutionary. Light years ahead of its time. Ballard was fearless. This is one of the best examples of going places where no writer has gone before. Highly recommended.
May 14, 2012 08:04am · see review