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April 3, 2015
Snow by Ronald Malfi: Horror Done Right
Snow by Ronald Malfi is probably my all-time favorite book from this reading class. This semester, I have struggled through most of the novels and looked forward to the short story/movie assignments.��Snow, however, was different. To put things in perspective, the novel runs about 322 pages in paperback (I read it on the kindle app […]
March 27, 2015
The Thing: An 80s-tastic Horror Film
I’ve never liked classics. In high school I would rage against reading Shakespeare, Hawthorne, and basically everything else that wasn’t a good fantasy novel. I found “classics” boring, stodgy, and pretty dry. Maybe I have no taste. I don’t know. The Thing kind of struck me in a similar way. It’s an alien horror film […]
March 20, 2015
Wolfman: Attack of the “Felts”
The Wolfman by Jonathan Maberry was my second foray into werewolf horror. It was a decent book in both story and prose, but ‘decent’ is about all I can say about it. My biggest critique of��The Wolfman, however, is on the language mechanics level. In this work, Maberry suffers from the incurable “felting” disease. I […]
March 13, 2015
Alien: A More Elegant Movie From a More Civilized Age
Today I watched��Alien��for the first time. It’s an older movie (1979) and what i was first struck by was how different it was from modern films. Alien didn’t rush the intro, it didn’t rush the first scene. It took time with the setting, the first 2-3 minutes of the movie are all shots of the […]
March 6, 2015
The Global Perspective: World War Z
Perhaps the most un-orthodox novel I’ve ever read,��World War Z��is not for those who are seeking a fast paced thriller. Reading more like a fantasy novel than a heart-stopping horror-suspense story, “Z” gives the alternative to many of the horror novels that we have read in this class.��Rawhead, Yattering, and��I am Legend all dealt with […]
March 5, 2015
How to Incorporate History into Fiction
Originally posted on The Knights of the Folding Table:
From a young age I���ve been captivated by history as the foundation stories of the world around us. History tells us about our families, explains political divisions and cultural philosophies. It permeates our lives whether we know it or not. This is the same for fictional…
From a young age I���ve been captivated by history as the foundation stories of the world around us. History tells us about our families, explains political divisions and cultural philosophies. It permeates our lives whether we know it or not. This is the same for fictional…
February 27, 2015
Yattering & Jack: 10/10, Would Read Again
This was by far my favorite story yet that we’ve read for this class���and the most unorthodox. The story follows The Yattering, a lesser demon, and his quest to corrupt Jack, the son of a woman who owed her soul to hell. Or Satan. Or something. The story was so different than anything I’ve read […]
February 20, 2015
Cycle of the Werewolf: A Better Rawhead Rex
Cycle of the Werewolf is a novella by Stephen King that was published in 1983. While it is not “traditionally” King-like, it still holds many of the tell-tales of this style and tone, while still being distinctly different from his other works. Cycle of the Werewolf��is written in the third person limited present tense, a […]
February 14, 2015
Help Chaos Theory get to #1
Continuum: Chaos Theory is currently #20 on the Amazon Bestseller list: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,068 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store) #20 in��Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Anthologies & Short Stories Please show us your support and help us get to […]
Free Download: Continuum Chaos Theory
Just letting you all know, if you downloaded the other two Continuum Books when they were free, the newest installment of Continuum is now free on Amazon.com. Chaos Theory is, without a doubt, the absolute best collection of short stories that we have ever put out. From the stories, to the cover, to the font […]
