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September 7, 2010
His Pale Blue Eyes - Zombie Story
Finished a new short story today, His Pale Blue Eyes. Despite the title it's a zombie story, though the undead are not the main feature, but a ten-year old girl looking for her parents in a post apocalyptic world. Perhaps that's one of the enduring strengths of the zombie trope, that it creates scope for placing people in extreme situations and seeing how they react to them. In that sense, yes, the zombies are little more than a convenient macguffin.
Anyway, whether anyone else likes this sto...
Anyway, whether anyone else likes this sto...
Malicious Deviance edited by Robert Essig
Malicious Deviancetable of contents1. Taking Out the Trash by Philip Roberts2. Red Turns to Green by Del James3. Love Refinished by Jeff Kozzi4. Bad for Business by Michelle D. Sonnier5. Shotgun Shelter by Jason Sizemore6. Better than God by Lancer Kind7. Margery's Alternative Therapies by Tammi Pratt8. Gossip Hounds of Sherry Town by James A. Sabata9. Punishment by Travis Heermann10. They Pissed on My Sofa by David A. Riley11. Killing Klaas by Aaron Legler12. Stalin's Coal Mine by...
September 6, 2010
Oswaldtwistle Mill Fire
More pictures of the fire and its aftermath.
Fire in Oswaldtwistle Mill
Got woken up in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of a helicopter, which was hovering overhead for ages. No idea why till I saw the news this morning. It must have been monitoring the blaze at a local mill only several hundred yards from where we live. This is a BBC news report about it.
September 4, 2010
They Pissed on My Sofa - Malicious Deviance
I just heard from editor Robert Essig that my story They Pissed on My Sofa has been accepted for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology Malicious Deviance from Library of the Living Dead. This is an unusual tale for me as it's a non-supernatural horror story. If anything it's a crime horror story. About a man who has finally had enough when vandals not only wreck his house but - as the title says!
The premise for the anthology was as follows:
"I am looking for well written speculative fiction w...
The premise for the anthology was as follows:
"I am looking for well written speculative fiction w...
They Pissed on my Sofa - Malicious Deviance
I just heard from editor Robert Essig that my story They Pissed on my Sofa has been accepted for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology Malicious Deviance from Library of the Living Dead. This is an unusual tale for me as it's a non-supernatural horror story. If anything it's a crime horror story. About a man who had finally had enough when vandals not only wrecked his house but - as the title says!
September 3, 2010
Johnny Mains - With Deepest Sympathy
My friend Johnny Mains's debut collection With Deepest Sympathy will be published in hardback by Obverse Books around the end of September this year. They have previously published The Panda Book of Horror and The Obverse Book of Ghosts. Johnny's stories have previously appeared in Pantechnicon and The Black Books of Horror. He also published Back From the Dead earlier this year, a hardback tribute to the Pan Horror series and is responsible for Pan Macmillan reissuing the very first P...
September 2, 2010
FantasyCon 2010
Below is a direct link to the dedicated FantasyCon 2010 website:
It's only another 15 days before FantasyCon starts in Nottingham. It's shaping up to look like a really great convention, especially with the lineup of guests and the number of important book launches that are going to tbe held there, including the reissue of the First Pan Book of Horror by Pan Macmillan, which for me is a really important event. The Pan series was a vital part of my early involvement with the genre, along with a...
It's only another 15 days before FantasyCon starts in Nottingham. It's shaping up to look like a really great convention, especially with the lineup of guests and the number of important book launches that are going to tbe held there, including the reissue of the First Pan Book of Horror by Pan Macmillan, which for me is a really important event. The Pan series was a vital part of my early involvement with the genre, along with a...
August 29, 2010
Autumn - new British zombie movie
Just watched a DVD of the British zombie horror film Autumn, starring Dexter Fletcher and guest starring David Carradine.
This is a very gritty, slow-moving but, in many respects, more realistic development of the zombie trope. For the most part it only has a small cast of characters, and they behave in the kind of way in which I imagine most of us would react to that kind of catastrophic situation. I also like how the reanimated dead gradually become more motivated, more able to act, more...
This is a very gritty, slow-moving but, in many respects, more realistic development of the zombie trope. For the most part it only has a small cast of characters, and they behave in the kind of way in which I imagine most of us would react to that kind of catastrophic situation. I also like how the reanimated dead gradually become more motivated, more able to act, more...
