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M.R. Interviews....Sumiko Saulson

Please Welcome Sumiko Saulson 

Your novel solitude has many apocalyptic elements. What sets your book apart from the apocalypse books that are growing in popularity?
 Apocalyptic fiction is growing in popularity? I had no idea, to be very frank... the closest thing to any recent popular apocalyptic fiction I can think of is "The Hunger Games" and that is post-apocalyptic. It is hard to answer your question without giving away too much and having to issue spoiler alerts for my own novel. I can say this: although as you mention, the story has apocalyptic elements, it is not necessarily apocalyptic. An apocalypse occurs on a global scale, for one thing, and the reader soon finds out that the elements of "Solitude" are very local, isolated to one city, San Francisco, where all of the action takes place. Although the story neatly rides the borderline between horror and science-fiction, incorporating elements of both genres, another, unspoken genres present and perhaps most convincingly celebrates it from apocalyptic horror: and that is mystery. The reader and the characters alike will spend the first third or half of the novel not really knowing what is going on.  In Solitude where did the characters of Angela, Jordan and Margo come from?  Angela comes from San Francisco, and Margo comes from Los Angeles... remember? Okay... right. I'm being facetious. I realize you are asking me what inspired them, and I learned my character development skills in film school, so I always sort of dislike those kinds of questions because the trick of character mixing is that people should in no way, shape or form be able to identify any resemblance to any actual person. Ever. While I do have quite the imagination, I like anyone else am inspired by actual events and real people who I know and have contact with on a day to day basis. All of my characters are very blended, though... none of them is inspired by one single individual, to my mind that would kind of be cheating. One of my friends who read the book and knows me very well did mention the fact that he notices that there is a bit of me in every single one of my characters: possibly including the chihuahua,I didn't really ask. I put a little me in them to help prevent them from to closely resembling someone I know: even accidentally. It also helped me to develop their thinking processes. So I can honestly tell you where they came from: they came from me.   Is there a particular character you feel the most attachment to? How so? The chihuaha, Crazy. I feel particularly attached to her because she is the first character in any of my books that another human being start to talk to me about as if that character *really* existed. It is the most amazing feeling in the world as a writer to find out that a character stuck with someone so much that they are talking about her as if she was a real dog somewhere. I even started a fan page for her, and did a month worth of promoting chihuaha adoptions in her honor. It was only when my friend Beth's chihuaha "Jackie Dog-butt" died that I realized she was one of the characters mixed in the dog - that the dog had a character mixing process like my other characters. My neighbors have a neurotic one-eyed poodle named Repulsa, which means Repulsive. She went into Crazy, too, definitely inspired the name - which at one point was going to be "Loco". And of course there was some of me in there, as eventually there was a scene where we get into the dog's head, which is a defining moment for a character. Both of her canine real-life models were geriatric dogs, even though Crazy was a young adult. Beth named her new puppy "Josefina Dog-butt" aka "Crazy" so she's named after the story dog and one of the dogs the story dog was named after. Ironically, Josette was Crazy's original human name's, and Josefina was the name of the person who gave the puppy to Beth. A year AFTER Crazy was written. So spooky. Okay... enough for ironic canine coincidences and giving myself the chills. Solitude deals with both the internal and external struggles of your characters. How did you balance these two elements?  Because the characters spend so much time alone in the story, I had a lot of time to develop their internal lives and make them real to the reader. This was an intentional choice, because when I began writing prose many, many years ago, I was told that I had a gift for writing characters. My characters were stdrong when I was an eighteen year old in a writing workshop, but it would take another twenty or more years before I would be able to master the other elements of storytelling. Therefore the character-driven nature of the plot allowed me to get over that hurdle and complete the novel. Then, later, in editing, I was asked to increase the amount of external conflict. Scenes like the one where Gerald was being chased by the pack of wild dogs were added in the first round of editing. It is going through yet another round of editing, to draw out the final action at the end of the book. How does your background in poetry impact your writing as a novelist? I have the tendency to be very sense-oriented in my descriptives. My writing often uses rhythmic structures: something for which I am very greatful now that I am starting to do public book readings to increase the local paperback sales. It is a sort of subconscious tendency, very deeply ingrained. I am happy with the characters and the lyricism and I am working on increasing my tendency to use action and show, show, show the reader what is happening. Speaking of lyrics, I write lyrics for my alt-rock band "Stagefright", and I guess that the whole time I was writing the book there was a rock soundtrack running in the back of my mind. What is your favorite fictional character? How has this character impacted you over the years?
I am not the sort of woman who has one favorite fictional character: I am the kind of avid reader who has an entire universe populated with a diversity of characters. When I was in 3rd grade, it was Pippi Longstocking. When I was in 4th Grade, it was Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. But by 5th grade it was Loki in the Norse mythologies I was reading at the library - or perhaps it was Psyche in the Greek, I really can't say. I read Toni Morrisson's "Song of Solomon" and fell in love with Pilate. I read... and I read... and I read. And perhaps my favorite character became in each of these stories the omniscent narrative voice... the character who can peek in and out of these character's minds, that puppetmaster you are not supposed to see, but I always did manage to envision. I saw her in the work of another and I became her in Solitude. That makes me ever the more convinced she - he - or it must be my favorite fictional character of all.  What was the first truly frightening novel you remember reading? Was your reaction to bury it in the closet, or to run out and find other stories like it?  I *could* say it was "Ghost Story" by Peter Straub, since I read it - aloud - to my little brother one summer when I was in the sixth grade, and I read it just the way one tells spooky campfire stories. But it did not truly terrify me. The first novel to give me nightmares was Frank Herbert's "Dune Messiah". I read "Dune" first and it was scary... but "Dune Messiah" struck every chord of subconcious fear over the nature of men and religious zealots, of governments, of predestination in my pubscent mind. Yes, I was in the seventh grade when I read "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" but it might not have been age appropriate. I put it down and started reading "Chronicles of Narnia" instead. You see, being intellectually advanced does not make one emotionally mature enough to process such things. The nightmares were about nuclear war. I would resume reading the Dune series five years later.  What current genre authors are you following?  It depends on what you mean by "Current". How current? The most current writer I began to follow was L.A. Banks, and on a deeper level it was reading her novels that made me feel that I could write one: you see, as an African American woman I was, as so many of us are, given the faint impression that if I wanted to write I would have to have a voice like Toni Morrisson or Alice Walker. The idea that  is acceptable to be a genre writer: not all women of color must be literary writers in America, it is a new one. People like L.A. Banks opened that door for me. But growing up I read Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Frank Herbert - a lot of short stories in Asimov Fiction and Fangoria - so I have been a long-time genre fan. What current trends in the horror genre do you find encouraging? As I mentioned before, it is really great that it is becoming increasingly acceptable within the black community for write genre fiction, including science fiction and horror. That's a really big deal. I also think that self-publishing is making it so more and more new authors are out there. So are e-Readers like Nook and Kindle. What current trends do you find disparaging? When I was in English class and I was hosting a reading lecture on the classic tale "The Monkey's Paw", I noticed that the majority of the students were making references to horror movies - not novels or even short stories. I am a bit concerned that people are reading horror less and watching it instead.  Do you have anything else coming down the pipeline you would like to share?  I have a book of short stories called "Things That Go Bump In Your Head" coming out on Halloween - right around the corner! A.L. Peck, the author of "Abstract Murder" is writing the introduction for it and it is in final editing as we speak. It contains horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction shorts and was inspired by my life-long love of the Dell Magazine short fiction stories and the kind that they always profiled in the comics like Tales from the Crypt.


Sumiko Saulson is a horror novelist, published poet and writer of short stories and editorials. Her novels include "Solitude," "Warmth", and "The Moon Cried Blood". A native Californian, she was born and spent her early childhood in Los Angeles, moving to Hawaii, where she spent her teen years, at the age of 12. She has spent most of her adult life living in the San Francisco Bay Area. An early interest in writing and advanced reading skills eventually lead to her becoming a staff writer for her high school paper, the Daily Bugle (McKinley High, Honolulu, HI) one of the nation's only four such daily High School papers at the time. By the time she moved to San Francisco at age 19, she had two self-published books of poetry and was a frequently published poet in local community newspapers and reading poetry around town. She was even profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle article about up-and-coming poets in the beatnik tradition. Over the years she's written numerous articles for local and community papers, non-profit and corporate newsletters, poetry and lyrics and novels.

Halloween Bash...Reed Rothchild Reviews Insidious

 It's easy to see "from the director of Saw" and immediately lose interest in seeing this film.  But let's just remember that the original Saw was a very well crafted independent film and one of the better horror thrillers of the last decade.  Unfortunately, after sequel #287 many people seem to have forgotten how awesome the first installment was.  I also really enjoyed director James Wan's Repo: The Genetic Opera.  The songs were catchy as hell and the concept was just plain badass.  So despite how boring and by the numbers this looked I was still excited to check it out.

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Overall I thought this was very good.  I don't think the whole quite lives up to the sum of its parts, but it's much better and less generic than the previews would lead you to believe.  The film is rife with cliches and most of the acting is over the top and bland, but there ARE quality scares.  There were enough really well done creepy moments for me to overlook the film's many shortcomings.  The first act is nearly flawless thanks to a terrifying atmosphere that director James Wan sets up for us.  The less we see the scarier things seem.  There are only a couple scares in the first act, but the anticipation (at least for me) was through the roof and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.  The second act maintains the high standard set in the first for a little while, but then the majority of the plot is revealed and things kind of putter out.  I saw the big twists coming from a mile away, but the film did pick up a little steam once again when Josh headed into "The Further."  I can't say this was a great movie, but there were more legitimately scary moments in this than in any other movie I've seen in the last couple of years.  It was refreshing to see a director utilize old school scare tactics so well such as an eerie score, floating camera, shadows and lighting, inanimate objects, etc.  This was a PG-13 movie- thus it was low on violence but high on scares.  If you want a solid creepy movie to get you into the Halloween spirit then I'd say thins is the movie for you.  If you're looking for a game changer in the genre then I'd say skip it.

Funny or Scary: Very scary.  Your mind will plays tricks on you even when there's nothing scary happening on screen thanks to the eerie atmosphere that James Wan has established.
Scariest Scene: Either when Renai sees something in her daughters window in the middle of the night or when Josh first enters "The Further."  There are literally at least 5 more solid scares as well.
Overall Corpse Rating: 7 very creeped out corpses.

Halloween Bash...Pamela K. Kinney and the Jack O Lantern

The Odor of Burnt Pumpkin Makes Me Scream Halloween!

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
There has been a chill in the air more often than not this year since autumn came. Perfect Halloween weather. Pumpkins fight for space in jumbled disorder in supermarkets. Haunted house attractions are popping up since October 1st. Ghost tours are busy. People are talking even more about ghosts and ghostly tales, even though TV shows like “Ghost Hunters” and others keep the paranormal on their minds 24/7, 365 days of the year. SyFy has the “31 Days of Halloween,” and AMC has their own version of horror films they been showing in October for years. And as a published author of horror fiction and three nonfiction ghost books, I am kept busy with signings all month long.

There’s something about Halloween that hypes up those that the rest of the year they say, “Oh, horror. Oh yeah, that stuff that Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King wrote.” But when bags of candy scrambled for space on shelves at the store, Halloween decorations are sold, and people search for costumes suddenly, those same stories are devoured. Not just those written by authors, but myths and legends of Halloween too.
Halloween began its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). This was a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, used by ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped on the 31st of October and the deceased could come back, creating havoc of sickness or damaged crops. They did bonfires, because it was believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk went door to door on Hallowmas (November 1) to receive food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). This practice originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar versions were found as far south as Italy.
The jack-o'-lantern is another symbol of Halloween. In America, it is a pumpkin, with a monstrous face carved on the outside surface and the insides scooped out, a lit candle placed in to illuminate. But the practice of decorating “jack-o’-lanterns” originated in Ireland, where large turnips and potatoes served as an early canvas instead. The Irish even have a folktale concerning this tradition, about a man named Stingy Jack.  Kick back and relax, while I tell you this tale of a trick gone wrong.
According to an old Irish folk tale, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil changed, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from morphing back into his original form. Jack did set the Devil free, but only under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack outsmarted the Devil again, by having him climb a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While Lucifer was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that he could not come down until giving the promise of not bothering Jack for ten more years.
When Jack died, it was told that God would not allow such an unsavory figure into Heaven and of course, the Devil, upset by the tricks Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, wouldn’t allow Jack into Hell. Lucifer sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack dropped the coal into a carved-out turnip and wanders the Earth carrying it in his search for a final resting place, something the legend says he will never achieve. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," or simply, "Jack O'Lantern."
Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o'-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century; and later, meaning an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. In Labrador and Newfoundland, both names "Jacky Lantern" and "Jack the Lantern" refer to the will-o'-the-wisp concept rather than the pumpkin carving aspect.

When the 31st is here and you hear the doorbell ring and you grab that bowl of candy, open that door carefully. For instead of the treat of trick-or-treaters, you may be tricked into opening the door to things out of a demented mind.


Pamela K. Kinney first published at age 17, is a published author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and four nonfiction ghost books. Two of her nonfiction ghost books, Haunted Richmond, Virginia and Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales, have been nominated for Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Find out more about her at http://FantasticDreams.50megs.comShe admits she can always be found at her desk and on her computer, writing. And yes, the house, husband, and even the cats sometimes suffer for it!
Return once more to haunted Richmond, where no building is safe from supernatural happenings. Visit Stories Comics, which holds more than just comics within its walls. Step back in time at Henricus Historical Park where you'll be welcomed by dead colonists, Civil War soldiers, and other haunts. Discover that not only is the Richmond Vampire out for your blood, but the Werewolf of Henrico waits for you beneath the full moon. It seems that the War Between the States is still being fought between ghostly Confederate and Union soldiers at Cold Harbor, Sailor's Creek, Parker's Battery, and Petersburg Battlefield. All this… plus a sea serpent, a lost city, ghostly cats, Bigfoot, a UFO, and haunted churches, parks, and colleges. So be sure to plan your visit now to a very paranormal Richmond. The dead don't stay dead in this town!



Many things scare us. But the most fearful things are those that infect our nightmares and visitations. Monsters from the closet or from another planet. Ghosts that haunt more than houses. Werewolves are not the only shapeshifters to beware of. Children can be taken from more than the human kind of monsters. Even normal things can be the start of a heart-pounding terror. Prepare to step beyond the pages into Spectre Nightmares and Visitations. Just tell yourself that they're only stories.

Like every state in the Union, Virginia has unique myths, legends, and yes, even true stories that sound much like legends, but aren't. Learn about the urban legend of the Bunnyman and what happens to mortals at his Bunnyman Bridge in Clifton at midnight on Halloween. Prepare to discover the myths surrounding Edgar Allan Poe and other famous Virginians. See why Natural Bridge is actually a haunted tourist attraction. And what makes the Great Dismal Swamp so creepy: Is it the ghosts or Bigfoot? Meet the Witch of Pungo in Virginia Beach and find out that Mothman and the Jersey Devil actually visited Virginia. Read Virginian stories of witches, demons, monsters, ghosts, pirates, strange animals, and soldiers from the Civil War. Come visit a most amazing, frightening, and even intriguing Virginia that you never knew existed.

Halloween Bash...If it is carved we can kill it.

Halloween Bash...Naima Haviland talks about the Halloween Tree

Naima Haviland examines The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
While some review the nativity story to remember the true meaning of Christmas, I re-read Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree to savor the true meaning of Halloween. In this novel even the elements know Halloween is special: 'Night came out from under each tree and spread'. And 'The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalk in invisible treads like unseen cats'.


Bradbury's trick-or-treating boys realize they're missing their best friend, a boy named Pipkin, who's been stolen by unseen forces. Only a sinister stranger knows how and where the boys might find him. When Bradbury wrote The Halloween Tree, kids trick-or-treated in packs long after nightfall, with no grown-ups tagging along. A decade later with It and Salem's Lot, Stephen King put our focus on the same child's world, through the lens of adult awareness. But in The Halloween Tree, we inhabit a lost era when the flip side of fear was wonder. In Salem's Lot, a boy flees an ancient predator through a dark ravine. Boys race through Bradbury's ravine where ' ... poisoned waters dripped and the echoes never ceased calling Come Come Come and if you do you'll stay forever, forever, drip, forever, rustle, run, rush, whisper, and never go, never go go go ...'
Crossing the ravine to meet Pipkin; they instead find the skeletal giant Mr. Moundshroud, his creepy Victorian mansion, and a tree lit with a thousand jack-o-lanterns. Rising to his challenge to uncover the twin mysteries of Halloween and Pipkin's disappearance, the boys hop on a kite Mr. Moundshroud fused with his fiery hands from torn circus posters whose illustrated beasts still snarl and roar. Pulled through time by their celestial guide, they witness man's timeless fear and the elaborate rituals designed to placate death. Each boy discovers the origin of his costume and comes to understand how fear and ritual evolved into a holiday. 
In the last interview published before he died (Rue Morgue, August 2012 issue 125), Ray Bradbury talked about his first trip to the circus at age 12. It's easy to see this encounter as the genesis of his amazing legacy. A circus performer named Mr. Electrico pointed to the young Ray Bradbury and said, "Live Forever."
The beautiful thing is, he will.

Naima Haviland likes dead people. Fictional dead people, that is, and the twisted people who make them dead (or undead). She is the author of Bloodroom and Night at the Demontorium, a vampire novel and dark fantasy anthology for Kindle. She takes as inspiration the Southeast United States, including her home in the Florida Panhandle, an ocean paradise with a not-too-distant past full of eccentrics, explorers, pirates, ghosts, and UFOs.



Coming soon; John Everson, Robert Dunbar, Pamela Kinney, Troy McComb and much more.

Halloween Bash...Essential October Reads: Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar shares his essential October Library...Click below for more.






On October 22nd Robert Dunbar stops by Cutis Anserina....and you won't want to miss it.
ROBERT DUNBAR is the author of the novels THE PINES and THE SHORE and WILLY, the novella WOOD and the short story collection MARTYRS & MONSTERS. He was also the editor for the anthology SHADOWS, SUPERNATURAL TALES BY MASTERS OF MODERN LITERATURE. Dunbar's books have been extremely well-received by the critics, and he's been called "the catalyst for the new literary movement in horror." Yet dark literature has only recently become the principal focus of Dunbar's career. Both his mainstream fiction and his poetry have appeared in respected literary journals, and several of his plays have been produced. Dunbar has also written for television and has appeared as a guest on a variety of programs. For more information, visit his site at www.DunbarAuthor.com.

Halloween Bash...DreamSpinner Press sale

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Halloween Bash With Reed Rothchild...VHS

Alright so this is my fourth time doing this.  In case you're not one of my ten readers, basically every October I watch 31 horror films and review them on here.  Sometimes I'll throw a TV show on for good measure or even a horror related documentary.  Why do I do this you ask?  Well besides the fact that I'm a huge nerd-I think it's fun to watch a bunch of films from a specific genre and review them.  Also, I do this for you. This way if you're looking for a horror movie to watch with the lady and maybe get a handy as well then this is the place for you.  Why do I give you so much? Because I fucking love you!  Now please get off of my lawn so I can do the damn thing.





My first impression of this film is that it is a fucking blast.  Nearly all of the vignettes work well and they are all short enough that they never over stay their welcome.  The violence is really out there and the effects look terrific.  The scenarios all start of pretty generic, but I honestly could not have predicted where any of them were going.  This had all of my favorite horror movie components- gore, great effects, creative writing, and most importantly a slew of holy shit moments (loyal readers know how much I love my holy shit moments).  Once you get past how the shitty the picture looks (mostly due the stylized VHS look) there's a lot to love about this one.  The cast and crew were clearly having the time of their lives when they made this and it really shines through on the screen.  The acting can be a bit meh at times, but the scary surprises were plentiful and the film provides a little something for horror fans of all varieties.  There was only one vignette that I didn't really enjoy out of the five and even that wasn't horrible.  I can see this one becoming a cult favorite for years to come.

Funny or Scary: Both, which as most of you know is how I roll.  Most of the "tapes" start of with comedy to lull you in since each vignette follows twenty somethings getting into shenanigans   Then the tension builds resulting in a killer climax filled with blood, scares, and all around fun holy shit moments.
Scariest Scene: When Lilly totally loses it and transforms in the motel room.  It's absolutely brutal the way she handles the two guys in there and scene right before was dripping with tension.  Just an all around wonderfully done horror scene.
Overall Corpse Rating: 8 corpses that are not scared into using VHS for life.

Halloween Bash With Reed RothChild...The Divide

"Alright so this is my fourth time doing this. In case you're not one of my ten readers, basically every October I watch 31 horror films and review them on here. Sometimes I'll throw a TV show on for good measure or even a horror related documentary. Why do I do this you ask? Well besides the fact that I'm a huge nerd-I think it's fun to watch a bunch of films from a specific genre and review them. Also, I do this for you. This way if you're looking for a horror movie to watch with the lady and maybe get a handy as well then this is the place for you. Why do I give you so much? Because I fucking love you! Now please get off of my lawn so I can do the damn thing."

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Funny or Scary: This one leans heavily on the scary/disturbing side. I felt uncomfortable on more than one occasion.
Scariest Scene: Either when Josh ventures out of the basement for the first (and only) time and finds what has become of Wendi or when Sam brings back an unwilling Marilyn to his bunker.
Overall Corpse Rating: 6 slightly bored but ultimately impressed rape corpses.

Halloween Bash 25% off at DreamSpinner Press

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