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Brian Keene's Blog, page 75
June 30, 2018
HORROR SHOW Site And BKR Hacked
The Horror Show with Brian Keene website and Brian Keene Radio were both hacked and taken offline Friday night. The Horror Show website has since been rebuilt and redesigned. You will need to refresh your browser upon visiting it. Service to Brian Keene Radio is expected to be restored by 9pm Saturday night. Thank you for your patience.
June 21, 2018
MARY SANGIOVANNI MARATHON
To celebrate the forthcoming release of Mary SanGiovanni’s BEHIND THE DOOR, Brian Keene Radio will be featuring a Mary SanGiovanni Marathon this weekend, beginning at 5pm (EST) Friday and running through Sunday night. The marathon will feature music personally programmed by Mary, every episode of her Cosmic Shenanigans podcast, her selected apperances on other shows such as Three Guys With Beards and The Horror Show with Brian Keene, archival audio, and much more. Brian Keene Radio is available for FREE on your phone or computer. (Note: The music we play is streamed via Spotify so that the arists will recieve …
June 13, 2018
Brian Keene Radio
Announcing the launch of Brian Keene Radio — broadcasting for free twenty-four hours a day, seven days per week, and playing the best episodes of The Horror Show with Brian Keene, Defenders Dialogue, Cosmic Shenanagins, music and much more — plus occasional live broadcasts from Brian Keene himself. Available on your phone or computer. And it’s FREE! (Note: The music we play is streamed via Spotify so that the arists will recieve royalties). Click here if you’re listening via Windows Media Player, iTunes, iPhone, WinAmp, or VLC. Click here if you’re listening via an M3U format media player. Click here …
June 12, 2018
Burning For You: An Update That Answers All Your Questions
As you may have heard, I recently suffered severe burns in an accident, and have been seriously incapacitated. If you haven’t heard, you can read about it here. The purpose of this post is to say thank you and answer some frequently asked questions. First off, Mary and I would like to thank everyone for their love, generosity, and support. Your thoughts, prayers, good wishes, candles, spells, workings, Tweets, messages, etc have been a blessing. Your donations, both to the GoFundMe and those made in private, have moved us both to tears. Your tireless efforts to boost the signal have …
June 9, 2018
Brian Severely Injured — Burn Fund Established
Brian Keene was severely burned in an accident last Tuesday, June 5th, suffering 1st and 2nd degree burns to his head and face and 2nd — bordering on 3rd — degree burns to his left arm. You can read news coverage about the accident in The York Dispatch, Bleeding Cool, and Horror Talk (as well as other places). He has spent the last week in the Lehigh Valley Burn Unit, where a new type of temporary artificial skin called Suprathal was grafted to his wounds. He is now home, and being cared for by Mary SanGiovanni, but faces a long, …
June 2, 2018
Scares That Care Charity Weekend Author, Podcaster & You-Tuber Programming Schedules
The fifth annual Scares That Care Charity Weekend horror convention takes place August 3rd through August 5th at the Doubletree By Hilton 50 Kingsmill Road Williamsburg, Virginia, 23185. With nearly a dozen different programming tracks, there are plenty of activities for horror fans no matter what your interest. Since I am responsible for setting up the programming tracks for the Authors, Podcasters, and YouTubers, what follows are the finalized programming schedules for those parts of the convention. 2018 STC AUTHOR PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE FRIDAY 5:45pm to 6:30pm – Jay Wilburn and Wesley Southard: Reading and Q&A 6:45pm to 7:45pm – Splatterpunk: …
May 23, 2018
Signing at Baltimore’s Protean Books & Records
Join Brian Keene, Mary SanGiovanni, Stephen Kozeniewski, and Wesley Southard for a book signing on June 9 from noon to 3pm at Protean Books & Records 836 Leadenhall St Baltimore, MD 21230. Each author will have books for sale at the event. you can also bring books from home to be signed (although we encourage you to support the store with a purchase while you are there).
May 16, 2018
CLICKERS FOREVER – American Library Association Star Review
The ALA’s Booklist gives a star review to CLICKERS FOREVER, which is now available in paperback and for Kindle. In her review, which you can read by clicking here, Becky Spratford writes, in part, “In this tribute to Mexican American trailblazing author Gonzalez, who died of cancer in 2014, horror-master Keene (Pressure, 2016) used Gonzalez’s first novel, Clickers (1999), as a framework. The result is a moving, compelling, and just plain fun-to-read volume that seamlessly melds critical essays, personal recollections (including more than one piece about his influence as a writer of color), and unpublished works by the subject himself. …
May 13, 2018
SILVERWOOD: THE DOOR – Official Announcement, Trailer, and F.A.Q.
Serial Box in partnership with BlackBoxTV proudly presents SILVERWOOD: THE DOOR from Brian Keene, Richard Chizmar, Stephen Kozeniewski, Michelle Garza, and Melissa Lason. Based on the web series by Director Tony E. Valenzuela. Deep within the forest of Silverwood, California a dark force is working to open the door between dimensions—bad news for a Boy Scout troop and employees on a company retreat nearby. As their darkest fears and impulses feed the mysterious force, their bonding exercises take a deadly turn. Will anyone be able to keep their minds long enough to close the door before our world is torn …
2ND ANNUAL BRIAN KEENE TELETHON EXCEEDS GOAL
The 2nd annual The Horror Show with Brian Keene Telethon, sponsored by Serial Box, has ended. Our goal was to raise $20,000 in 24 hours for the Scares That Care 501c3 charity. This year, Scares That Care is helping SAWYER (an 8-year old girl who is on her second relapse of Anaplastic Ependymoma), BRIAN (a little boy who was burned in a household accident), and HOPE (a Navy veteran and a single mother of two who is battling Stage IV breast cancer). At the end of the 24-hour live broadcast, we had raised $21,591. However, there are still donations coming …
