Keith Deininger's Blog, page 9
May 27, 2014
"Later that night, they go to his dorm room and she shows him what to do. He watches her take one of..."
May 23, 2014
May 21, 2014
Excerpt From Novel in Progress
In the mornings, waking alone in a...
May 12, 2014
Spent last night signing these for the limited edition hardcover...
Spent last night signing these for the limited edition hardcover of GHOSTS OF EDEN, due out in November. I’m very excited about this one. It’s personal, surreal, and definitely horrific.
If you’d like to read a short excerpt, well, you can do that here…
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Waterbears can go...
Waterbears can go without food or water for more than a decade. They can survive temperatures from zero to above the boiling point of water, pressure six times stronger than the deepest ocean trench, radiation hundreds of times higher than the fatal dose for a human, and the vacuum of space.
but everything comes at a price
son of a bitch looks like a dick
Guys you don’t know the half it. Tardigrades, or waterbears, (or moss piglets, how cute is that?) are the coolest things in the entire world.
They pretty much live everywhere on earth, and all they do is amble around drinking water. But if their life is in danger, they shrivel up into this little raisin thing and they can survive practically anything.
There was a piece of moss sitting dry in a museum for a century. Some scientists wetted the moss, and they woke back up. Just started drinking the water again.
They have survived as near to absolute zero as science has allowed us to get.
They’ve woken up after being subjected to 6 times the radiation lethal to humans, even though they are about 3 millimeters in length on average.
NASA sent them into orbit and they were released into the vacuum of space for ten days. They woke up.
So what does this mean? Scientists believe this may help to prove the existence of live elsewhere in the universe, and how life came to Earth. If there are creatures that can survive the emptiness of space, who’s to say an asteroid didn’t carry some from one planet to ours?
still looks like a dick tbh
May 5, 2014
My copy of Straub and King’s THE TALISMAN. One of my...
My copy of Straub and King’s THE TALISMAN. One of my absolute favorites. I wrote about it over at Ginger Nuts of Horror:
http://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/10/post/2014/05/the-book-that-made-mekeith-deininger-on-the-talisman.html
May 4, 2014
Coming in November…
"Keith Deininger’s GHOSTS OF...
Coming in November…
"Keith Deininger’s GHOSTS OF EDEN is like Bradbury on acid. A terrifying tale from a remarkable new talent. Be prepared to have your mind blown.”
~ Greg F. Gifune, author of THE BLEEDING SEASON
Read the synopsis and more on my site.
April 29, 2014
"The Blood of Mnemerrex" - an excerpt (as promised ;))
April 15, 2014
Off the Deep End: Crossing the Line Between Horror and Fantasy
I...
Off the Deep End: Crossing the Line Between Horror and Fantasy
I must apologize for my absence. I’ve been slacking in my blogging and social media duties. I’ve been busy. I’ve been writing. And my writing has taken some strange turns. It’s exciting, but also very intimidating, as I swim further and further out into the sea of the fantastic, attempting to navigate the stormy waters of world building. I am writing a fantasy novel, without restraint, surreal and dark.
I think—some of you may find this strange; others, perhaps not so much—I have found comfort in the horror genre. In many ways, for the beginning writer, it is a safe place to start. While one discovers one’s place in the writing universe—one’s “voice” it is sometimes called—and what one wishes to write, it is a genre that allows a lot of freedom with character and a means to explore internal emotional turmoil and themes that are universal, within us all, and understandably poignant at even a young age.
As my writing develops, I’ve found myself drawn inexorably toward the fantastic. I’ve always been drawn to works that explore the imagination, from my early days with C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, to later with China Mieville and Clive Barker, amongst others (I read George R.R. Martin before it was cool ;)), and I knew my own attempt at a novel set in a world completely of my fabrication was inevitable.
But, I have to be careful. Writing horror is very different from writing fantasy. It is true, they often overlap (as my own work has done), but horror—good horror, I think—is about restraint and subtlety. Fantastic elements in horror are often called “supernatural”, and for good reason. They are unexplainable and contrary to the natural workings of reality as it is usually perceived, thus the uncanny is achieved, thus horror.
Fantasy, in contrast, “goes off the deep end.” It no longer has use for the natural laws, other than as loose guidelines to be manipulated. It involves the writing of one’s own rules. It begs the imagination for possibilities, to reinvent not what is, but what could be. It’s a lot of work, and, as I’m finding, perhaps more difficult to write well than is horror.
I’m still in the early stages of the novel, so we’ll see how it goes, but I’d like to share a excerpt with you all soon, so be sure to check this space.
Oh, and don’t for a moment think of such things as swords and dungeons and wizards. And do NOT think I’d let myself become another Tolkien ripoff, or George R.R. Martin, or Robert Jordan, or anything like that. What I have so far, what I’ve been writing, looks to be a very different beast, a different experience, than anything else out there. And for my fans: don’t worry; my writing will always remain dark, violent, and disturbing. In fact, despite my claim to fantasy, my work may remain classified as horror, just like many of the works of such writers as Barker and King. ;)
