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August 22, 2012
Print Collections
Those novellas published for Kindle, Nook, Sony and other e-readers over the last two years have been collected in two volumes and published in paperback for those who enjoy print on a page.
Whose Woods These Are
(paperback) http://www.amazon.com/dp/1479114413
Lovely, Dark and Deep
(paperback) http://www.amazon.com/dp/1479128732
August 20, 2012
Things that inspire horror authors
The latest things to have inspired the stirrings of grotesque tales in my head.
First, based on a true story: The Whistleblower, starring Rachel Weisz. Seriously. Who needs zombies when you have these soulless, emotionally dead, greedy, rutting jerks to live and work beside every day in life? I’m going to write a story in which I deal with them as nature intended.
Second, the Lindbergh case. I may have read it before (who hasn’t, right?) but it took seeing certain elements involved played out by actors in the film J. Edgar to whap me with the overwhelming sense of just about everything in this case being seriously off. This of course sent me to the internet, where I read and clicked, clicked and read everything from the nanny’s original police statement to this most illuminating of articles in Yankee Magazine where they make what I perceive to be a serious case for this having been an inside job, pulled off by someone right there in the house. http://new.yankeemagazine.com/article/who-killed-lindbergh-baby
And from YouTube the series In Search Of presents its case:
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And then there’s this story, which makes a statement in so many ways about ‘us’ as a species. When I first saw the picture I immediately thought of the movie Freaks, which awakened us to the injustices endured by unusual, physically malformed or just plain different humans that 99% of us will never actually encounter.
According to the articles on two paranormal sites the creature in the video was wounded by someone who didn’t know what he was looking at, so he shot it. (So many tales on the internet begin this way.) The thing fled back to its hiding place where there were apparently one or two more, and the shooter and his friends tracked it there. The wounded thing attacked, presumably to protect its family, and the shooter killed it. Real or hoax, I’ve already written several stories that could have been inspired by this unfortunate video and will likely write another, just to deal with the shooter in a way nature probably didn’t intend.
August 6, 2012
August 2, 2012
Richard Burton agrees with John Steinbeck
You may recall my earlier post (Feb 2012) relating John Steinbeck’s contention that authors should be read and not seen, and how often we find ourselves disappointed when the actual author of stories we love come nowhere close to what we have imagined. Yesterday I stumbled on a 1980 interview by Dick Cavett with the elegant, achingly eloquent Welsh actor Richard Burton saying, “I wish novelists would not put their pictures on the back of books, because you read a book which is perhaps absolutely fascinating, and it’s shall we say one of these espionage books…and you read the book and you’re absolutely gripped by it and then there’s a picture of the chap on the back and he’s a febrile old man, bald as a banana, about seventy-five years old, and you know that it’s all kind of wishful thinking on his part and he’s pretending to be James Bond.”
I rest my case.
You’ll find the footage I mention around the 7:00 mark in the video. Before the mark he talks about meeting Greta Garbo, writing in a diary, writers being largely inarticulate people on the whole (which made me howl in recognition of myself) a hilarious story about Humphrey Bogart, and after watching I looked for the entire interview just to hear more of that incredible voice.
Video uploaded by BigCountryJASon on youtube.com
Gotta love it.
August 1, 2012
The Death of Gore Vidal Marks the Last of the Literary Outlaws
Reblogged from Rant, with occasional music:
The American writer Gore Vidal, died on Tuesday evening aged 86, from pneumonia. He passing signals the end of a group of writers whose heyday was in the 60s and 70s and who were known for their uncompromising prose and their often controversial views. They became fixtures of the chat show circuit in the 70s when cigarette smoke still wafted around the studio, as did intelligent conversation.
Beautifully put out there for us all by Derek Flynn.
July 14, 2012
June 27, 2012
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Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. A woman who lived there has come back to face down the ghosts that torment her but when her daughter falls for the ex-con next door she realizes the past is about to repeat itself.
June 16, 2012
June 14, 2012
Script: The Birds
Reblogged from LA Screenwriter:
The Birds was written by Evan Hunter based on the novel Birds by Daphne Du Maurier.
Totally have to reblog this one, only one of my favorite movies EVER! Thank you, Angela!
June 1, 2012
The Night Stalker
I just learned Edgar Wright will be directing a new version of the creepy, often goofy The Night Stalker. Yes, I did watch the television series with Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union and even bought the DVD though it bore little resemblance to the tone of the original series or the character played by Darren McGavin.
Who will be starring as reporter Carl Kolchak in the newest remake?
Mr. Johnny Depp
(Love Depp, but I want to start a petition for Simon Pegg to play Kolchak instead, with Nick Frost playing his boss, the always angry editor, Vincenzo. :)
Have viewed the movie The Night Strangler several times since finding it on YouTube, whenever I’m craving a moment with the hat, the grimace, and that frumpy blue suit. It just ain’t Kolchak without the suit.
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