Jason V. Brock's Blog, page 133
July 18, 2013
Interview with George Romero by Jason V Brock in Nameless #2+++ …
‘No dog should die alone’: Photographer promotes senior pet adoption
July 17, 2013
The Arkham Digest: Review: Milton’s Children by Jason V. Brock
Milton's Children is a novella recently published by Bad Moon Books. Jason V. Brock writes a fast-paced, short novella which includes many nods to literature and pop culture.
The story is about a group of scientists on their way home from a routine Antarctic trip. On the way back they discover a set of uncharted islands, and with hopes of making a significant discovery decide to stop and investigate. What begins as the scientific discovery of a lifetime quickly descends into pure, visceral terror.
Brock crafts a fun, pulpy tale and sets a quick-fire pace. The story is to the point, and instead of lingering moves on rather quickly. There are times when I felt that the story seemed more bare-bones, and could benefit from being further fleshed out, but on the other hand the fast pacing of the narrative made for a nice, quick read that felt unburdened by tedious scenes of drawn out dialogue. With this in mind, it's definitely more of a shallow read, and some of the characters come across as cookie-cutter stereotypes. While seemingly lacking in depth, the nods throughout the book hint at some deeper themes, although the story itself still comes across as rather simplistic. The nods range from character names (liberal Adam Carter, an amalgam of Milton's Adam and Lovecraft's Randolph Carter butts heads with the right-wing Faust, obviously named after Goethe's protagonist) to film references (King Kong), as well as other literary references (Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness is brought up a couple of times).
Overall, Milton's Children is a quick, fun read. Fans of the pulps and stories that can entertain without being too deep will have a good time with this one.
New Documentary THE LIFE AFTER DEATH PROJECT Has Forrest …
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Editor in Chief, Sam SantiagoForrest J. Ackerman will forever be a member of horror royalty and everyday that he is gone we miss him that much more. December 4th 2008 will always be a sad day for horror. In light of this, a new documentary has come to our attention about Ackerman you might want to notice. Check it out below.
From writer/producer/director Paul Davids comes The Life After Death Project, and it focuses on the very real possibility of after death communication, particularly with Forrest J Ackerman. The film, which airs on the Syfy Channel May 15 before getting a two-disc Collector’s Edition DVD release nationwide on July 16, features interviews with authors Richard Matheson, Whitley Strieber, Dannion Brinkley, and Michael Shermer as well as scientists and top tier mediums.
This is a 50/50 for us. On one hand it’s totally exploitative yet on the other hand, old Ackerman might have dug this idea. You decide.
Synopsis
A mesmerizing “CSI”-caliber quest for proof of life after death. Four New York Times best-selling authors, three top science professors, and three well-respected mediums make a leap into the unknown, investigating astonishing evidence in the case of apparent “After Death Communication” (ADC) from sci-fi luminary Forrest J Ackerman. The film journeys from spiritualists to skeptics and from chem labs to ground-breaking computer software that may enable communication between the living and the deceased.
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Recensione Di The Devil’s Coattails More Dispatches From The Dark Fron…
The Devil’s Coattails
William F. Nolan and Jason V. Brock
Cycatrix Press
2011
288 pagine
$39.95
Consiglio questa raccolta di racconti a coloro che sono in grado di leggere in inglese (purtroppo, come tutte le produzioni originali e interessanti, non è ancora uscita in italiano).
The Devil''s Coattails, curata da William F. Nolan e Jason Brock, ha un'introduzione firmata da S.T. Joshi, autore di molti studi critici e letterari, come The Weird Tale (1990). Al suo interno troviamo delle perle come un racconto di Ramsey Campbell, The Moons, una simbolica e terribile metafora dell'infanzia vista come periodo dell'esplorazione.
In Object Lesson, Jason Brock affronta il difficile tema dell'eutanasia con struggente delicatezza.
È presente un breve racconto di Dan O'Bannon, Invocation, sul tema dell'invocazione diabolica, puro orrore condensato in poche righe.
In Gunboat Whores, John Shirley immagina un episodio della vita del celebre pistolero Wyatt Earp.
William F. Nolan, in Dread Voyage, rielabora il tema epico classico.
Melanie Tema, in Best friends, è un racconto melanconico e amaro sul tema della perdita.
Il racconto breve Night Food, di Jerry E. Airth, parla di donne zanzare che seducono e uccidono uomini, ma alcuni hanno imparato a difendersi da esse, mentre in Too Good to be Human di J. Brundage, troviamo al bizzarra storia di Athena, una donna con tre braccia che lavora in un ufficio e viene vessata dai colleghi.
Il racconto di James Robert Smith, On the First Day, affronta anch'esso la tematica diabolica, dando un'interpretazione da brividi e insolita sul concetto di Dio.
Barrels Ready di Norman Corwin è invece un breve saggio su un personaggio del passato conosciuto dall'autore, intriso da una forte nostalgia, mentre Cattiwampus Steve Rasnic Tem si basa su un racconto popolare degli Appalachi, rielaborandolo in modo originale.
Troviamo inoltre uno scritto di Richard Christian Matheson (memorabile autore da poco scomparso), Interrogation, denso di significati nella sua brevità.
The Woods Colt di Earl Hamner Jr. è la storia di una casa infestata e di segreti di famiglia che riemergono.
Dying to Forget è un racconto di Sunni K. Brock che affronta i temi della morte e della rinascita, mentre Invisible di Nancy Kilpatrick è una ghost-story che parla di una macchina fotografica in grado di mostrare la presenza di spettri.
Can You Imagine di Paul Salamoff è un poema che immagina una società libera dalla tecologia, mentre A New Anthology Series – Knife Through the Veil di Marc Scott Zicree è una sceneggiatura che l'autore ha presentato alla CBS come episodio per Twilight Zone TV Show, ma che fu rifiutata perché ritenuta troppo violenta.
The Hidden Realm è un racconto di W.H. Pugmire e Maryanna K. Snyder in cui s'immagina che Oscar Wilde sia terrorizzato da una strega che incontra per la strada, e il suo amico pittore Frank Miles abbia visioni demoniache.
If You Love Me di Paul G. Bens Jr racconta la storia di un omosessuale che chiama il 911 a causa della morte del suo compagno.
Ritengo si tratti di un'antologia interessante, con racconti insoliti e con un buon livello generale.
Da consigliare vivamente a chi ama il genere fantastico, le atmosfere perturbanti, ma sempre con una certa raffinatezza e cura formale.
July 16, 2013
SPOOK SHOW 68 Goodnight, Mr. Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, although five more of his novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), and A Stir of Echoes. Matheson also wrote numerous television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He later adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay which was promptly directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the TV movie of the same name.
Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, the son of Norwegian immigrants Fanny (née Mathieson) and Bertolf Matheson, a tile floor installer. Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951. He married Ruth Ann Woodson on July 1, 1952 and had four children, three of whom (Chris, Richard Christian, and Ali Matheson) became writers of fiction and screenplays. He died at his home on June 23, 2013, at the age of 87.
Matheson's first short story was published when he was only eight years, appearing in his local newspaper The Brooklyn Eagle. After graduating from high school in 1943 he did a spell of service in the US army, an experience which featured in his 1960 novel The Beardless Warriors. After the war he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1949.
His first novel Hunger and Thirst was ignored by publishers for several decades but his short story "Born of Man and Woman" was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950, the new quarterly's third issue and attracted attention. It is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, cast as the creature's diary in poignantly non-idiomatic English. Later that year he placed stories in the first and third numbers of Galaxy Science Fiction, a new monthly. His first anthology of work was published in 1954. Between 1950 and 1971, he produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres. He was a member of the Southern California School of Writers in the 1950s and 1960s, which included Charles Beaumont, William F. Nolan, Ray Bradbury, Jerry Sohl, George Clayton Johnson, and others. Matheson appears in two documentaries related to this era: Jason V Brock's Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man,[8] and The AckerMonster Chronicles!, which details the life of agent and editor Forrest J Ackerman.
Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as Hell House (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most of all, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening. "Duel" was adapted into the TV movie of the same name.
Matheson wrote screenplays for several television programs including the Westerns Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel and Lawman.[9] He is however most closely associated with the American TV series The Twilight Zone for which he wrote more than a dozen episodes for[9]; including "Steel" (mentioned above), and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", plus "Little Girl Lost", a story about a young girl tumbling into the fourth dimension. On all of Matheson's scripts for The Twilight Zone, he also wrote the introductory and closing statements spoken by creator Rod Serling.[10] He adapted five works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman's Poe series including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and The Raven (1963).[6]
He wrote the popular Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within". For Hammer Films he adapted Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out (1968).[6] In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!), starring Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.
Matheson's first novel, Someone Is Bleeding, was published by Lion Books in 1953.[4] His early novels include The Shrinking Man (1956, filmed in 1957 as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay) and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, (1954, filmed as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, The Omega Man in 1971, and I Am Legend in 2007). Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, A Stir of Echoes (as Stir of Echoes), Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House), the last two adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror (1975), including "Prey" (initially published in the April 1969 edition of Playboy magazine) with its famous Zuni warrior doll. Matheson's short story "Button, Button", was filmed as The Box in 2009, and was previously adapted for a 1986 episode of The Twilight Zone.
In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. It was filmed in 1967 as The Young Warriors though most of Matheson's plot was jettisoned. During the 1950s he published a handful of Western stories (later collected in By the Gun); and during the 1990s he published Western novels such as Journal of the Gun Years, The Gunfight, The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun. He has also written a blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It ..., aptly dedicated to Robert Bloch, and the suspense novels 7 Steps to Midnight and Hunted Past Reason.
In 1993, Matheson published a non-fiction work The Path, inspired by his interest in psychic phenomena.Matheson cited specific inspirations for many of his works. Duel derived from an incident in which he and a friend, Jerry Sohl, were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the Kennedy assassination. A scene from the 1953 movie Let's Do It Again in which Aldo Ray and Ray Milland put on each other's hats, one of which is far too big for the other, sparked the thought "what if someone put on his own hat and that happened," which became The Shrinking Man. Bid Time Return began when Matheson saw a movie poster featuring a beautiful picture of Maude Adams and wondered what would happen if someone fell in love with such an old picture. In the introduction to Noir: 3 Novels of Suspense (1997), which collects three of his early books, Matheson said that the first chapter of his suspense novel Someone is Bleeding (1953) describes exactly his meeting with his wife Ruth, and that in the case of What Dreams May Come, "the whole novel is filled with scenes from our past."
According to film critic Roger Ebert, Matheson's scientific approach to the supernatural in I Am Legend and other novels from the 1950s and early 1960s "anticipated pseudorealistic fantasy novels like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist."
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INTERVIEW: Adapting horror fiction to a graphic format
William F. Nolan is perhaps best known for coauthoring the novel Logan’s Run with George Clayton Johnson, and has written hundreds of pieces, from poetry to nonfiction to prose. He also had a long career in the movie industry, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis. Nolan has also been a prolific editor of collections (by others), and anthologies, frequently with Jason V. Brock. He has received the Living Legend in Dark Fantasy award by the International Horror Guild in 2002. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Stoker award from the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
Jason V Brock is an American author, artist, editor and director. He is the CEO and co-founder (with his wife, Sunni) of JaSunni Productions, LLC, whose documentary films include the controversial Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, andThe AckerMonster Chronicles. His novella, Milton’s Children, was published by Bad Moon Books in early 2013. He has partnered with William F. Nolan as co-editor on several anthologies. They most recently worked together on Tales from William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe comic book adaptation of Nolan short stories. (Available from Bluewater Productions).
DARK UNIVERSE is meant to showcase graphic adaptations of stories contained within the DARK UNIVERSE omnibus, a collection of short works by author Nolan. Plans are to adapt these stories into six individual issues and then later collect them all in a trade paperback or hardcover edition. (Note: A review of the first three issues was featured on this site in February 2013. An updated review will appear on this site shortly. )
Further insights regarding the production of Tales from William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe were obtained during a recent conversation with the authors:
Why adapt Dark Universe for comics? Why not an audio presentation, such as a CD? Or a movie or TV series? Even a stage play?
Jason V Brock: It's a natural, really. I mean, Bill's (Nolan) stories are visual and have a lot of visceral impact, so when we put the original deal together with Bluewater for Logan's Run: Last Day and the subsequent Logan comics, we asked for a mini-series of the horror titles. Plus, once they come out as comics, then the plan is to collect them together in a graphic novel format with an introduction from the two of us. Should be quite a package—
William F. Nolan: Exactly. Darren (Darren G. Davis, publisher) at Bluewater was working on a Vincent Price series at one time as well, so it was a logical extension of that idea. I've always liked adaptations of my work into comics, which has happened on other occasions, so when we got this going, I asked to adapt half, and wanted Jason to adapt the rest. We did six stories apiece, so twelve total. They turned out well, I think…
Strangely enough, I did have an audio version of several of my stories done by an outfit in San Francisco. We recorded them with sound effects, actors, and full introductions read by me. It never materialized, unfortunately.
Brock: Yes, it's too bad. I was with you during the recording of the intros. They were to be streaming on the web, then CDs later.
Nolan: Right. An anthology movie would never work, for the same reason an anthology TV show wouldn't – no one seems interested in that format these days. Now a stage play is an interesting idea. I wrote one about Dashiell Hammett called Dash that's been performed a few times.
Whose idea was it to do a comic book version of select stories?
Nolan: Mine, as I recall.
Brock: That's correct.
How hard is it to adapt? Are certain stories selected because of ease of adaptation? Or, other criteria? Are there some stories that you would like to adapt to comics that aren't possible because of content or difficulty to translate to a visual medium?
Brock: Adapting stories is harder in some ways, and, like film or TV adaptations, sometimes one has to alter the original story to achieve what the visual medium of comics requires—
Nolan: That's right. People never understand that about movies or television. Sometimes you have to rewrite or rework things, combine elements, drop things, and so on. Doing a straight "literal" adaptation almost never works. The only exception I can think of is The Maltese Falcon. It was a near verbatim copy of the book, but that's another story…
We each chose the stories we wanted to do; I adapted the stories of mine that I felt had the best characters (‘The Halloween Man’, ‘Major Prevue Here Tonite’, ‘Heart's Blood’, ‘Ceremony’, ‘Starblood’, and ‘The Partnership’). They are some of my favorites in the collection (Nolan's Stealth Press horror omnibus Dark Universe). Jason really did a great job, though! The stories he picked were very hard to adapt, I think. I know I couldn't have done them! And he pulled it off beautifully, I might add.
Brock: Much appreciated. It was fun. As you say, I had to change a few things to make them work, but they came together well… My main criteria were I wanted to do something memorable, something that doesn't normally get adapted. Plus, we wanted to avoid things that others had adapted previously, too.
(Brock adapted the following stories: ‘The Pool’, ‘Vympyre’, ‘Him, Her, Them’, ‘The Giant Man’, ‘Boyfren’, and ‘A Real Nice Guy’.)
Is there a new revised print edition of Dark Universe the anthology coming to market?
Brock: Actually, yes, that's in the works. I am the editor on Bill's upcoming new collection, which was originally to be published by Arkham House, but which fell through with their apparent dissolution. Too bad, as it would have been an interesting fit for them, and is pretty much completed. I was able to garner interest for it from the fantastic Centipede Press, however, and I believe it should be out in time for the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England later this year, which we will all be attending. It's called Like a Dead Man Walking and Other Shadow Tales, and will feature about 90% new, unpublished material, with a few classic reprints to round it out. Later, Jerad (the publisher) is planning on a huge, current Best Of William F. Nolan that I convinced him was a good follow-up to this, and that will be, I believe, a part of his Masters of the Weird Tale series. It will have science fiction and horror, as well as some literary works and poetry.
How are the artists selected for the stories?
Brock: Darren G. Davis (the president of Bluewater) handles all of that—
Nolan: We do get some say over the type of art, but he does the artist selection, as Jason pointed out. I love the art in the Tales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe series, and really liked the art in most of the Logan series, especially the first four issues.
How much of the comic layout and panel art is determined before assigning to the artist?
Nolan: Well I write the scripts for the comics as a sort of screenplay format, with basic scene setting, character description and so on, but I use all the dialogue from the stories, and the plots. Jason works a little differently, I know…
Brock: True—I prefer to write very detailed scripts, and break down each scene into panels with a lot of specifics for the artist. I had to do that, as a few of the ones I adapted were quite short, and these had to carry over half of a twenty-two page comic. Of course, I use the setting, plot, and dialogue (mostly) from the stories…
How much does the artist contribute?
Brock: For me, not a tremendous amount in terms of characterization and paneling; in terms of artwork and the "look," a great deal…
How easy or hard is it to translate these stories to an illustrated medium?
Nolan: I grew up on comics, and I used to write comics with my departed pal Charles Beaumont (The Twilight Zone), but they weren't horror titles. I like adapting works into other mediums, so it's fairly simple for me—
Brock: Well, it depends a great deal on the tale that you're adapting, I think. Some are easy and others are more difficult.
Are there any benefits to a comics version of these stories? More impact? Able to tell a story in less pages because of the visual/text capabilities?
Brock: I think it's a great way to introduce younger readers to new stories. The challenge was to expand rather than condense, as Bill has a spare writing style, so I really had to wring more from the story without resorting to a padded feel.
Nolan: I agree with Jason. Young people love the visual impact, so it gets them to read more, and if they like these, then maybe they'll check out the books we do.
Compare this work to your work on the Logan's Run comic. Was it easier or more difficult to adapt, Dark Universe or Logan’s Run?
Nolan: We didn't actually adapt any of the Logan series—
Brock: That's true, though I have done a one-shot based in that world called Logan's Run: Solo. It's an original piece, however, and not an adaptation. The story is about a very far-future Logan and what happens to him as an aged Runner. On Logan’s Run: Last Day we were consultants, and did the costume designs and plotting of the story over the first six issue arc, then Paul J. Salamoff wrote it.
Nolan: I have to say that I've read Logan's Run: Solo and thought it was just fantastic. Ingenious what Jason did with the character and the scenario. It's going to be an aspect of the upcoming book we're planning to co-write in the Logan universe called Logan Falls, which will turn the franchise upside down—
Brock: Well, I hope it does… It will also incorporate, like Logan's Run: Solo, the pieces from the Bluewater Logan's Run: Last Day series called ‘Future History’, which I created but was not credited with. I'm reclaiming all of that back-story, as it was mine anyway, and both of us felt was one of the more interesting aspects of the series. It was a way of modernizing the older elements of the Logan saga; I want to deconstruct the "Logan mythos" and do more with the characters.
Would you like to work in comics again? On what sort of project? Do you have any plans to do so?
Nolan: Of course. I love comics!
Brock: Yes. I enjoy the medium a lot. We are doing a couple of things currently, but can't discuss them yet.
What else are you presently working on?
Nolan: I'm always working on about eight or ten books at any one time… Jason mentioned a few of them. Hippocampus Press is doing a collection of my writings about Ray Bradbury which is due out very soon called Nolan on Bradbury; it's edited by S. T. Joshi, and has pieces from Ray, Jason, S. T., and Greg Bear as well… And of course waiting on the Logan's Run re-make!
Brock: Well, we just dropped our documentary on Forrest J Ackerman (The AckerMonster Chronicles!) to rave reviews, so Sunni (my wife and film editor) and I are promoting that. As I said, Bill, Sunni, and I will be at several cons throughout 2013, from World Fantasy to World Horror, to Norwescon, and OryCon… Then I just had my standalone novella, Milton's Children, come out from Bad Moon Books. Hippocampus Press is also releasing my first short story collection, Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities soon, and I'm still working on which is a biannual … You can grab that in PDF and print format. The work doesn't end!
NEXT: A REVIEW OF ALL ISSUES PUBLISHED TO DATE OF WILLIAM F. NOLAN’S TALES FROM THE DARK UNIVERSE.
The Forrest J Ackerman Effect…
Book Review: William F. Nolan: A MISCELLANY edited by Jason V. Brock, Dark Discoveries Publications, 2011.
Neat chap book that includes a Bibliography along with the not previously anthologized noir short story "Strippers Have To Die" and a superhero comics primer titled "The Guys In Trick Suits" from 1967.
One of the greats from Golden Age standing with Bradbury, Matheson, Beaumont and Bloch; it's a limited edition from the publisher but well worth the read.
