Loren Rhoads's Blog, page 97
November 28, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Kalifer Deil
Kalifer Deil was an engineer at Sun and Apple and is now involved with a third-generation dot-com startup. He dabbles in writing, sculpture, and home design. He has written two plays: Interview with an Alien and Flight of the Soul. He confessed to perpetuating a UFO hoax in Morbid Curiosity #5. "The Jumper and the Crabs," about working for the Coast Guard in the San Francisco Bay, appeared in ...
November 27, 2009
Morbid blog tour: A. M. Muffaz
Malaysian-born fantasist A. M. Muffaz's fiction has appeared in Fantasy magazine, Gothic.Net, Chiaroscuro, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Her memoir "The Bomoh" appeared in Morbid Curiosity #7 and is reprinted in Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues.Q: What does morbid curiosity mean to you? A: A willingness to ask hard questions and to look at the world from different angles, even if those views ...
November 26, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Leilah Wendell
Leilah Wendell is America's best-known necrophile and the world's foremost researcher of personifications of and encounters with Death. Author of fourteen books, she was also proprietor of The Westgate Museum in New Orleans, the only gallery devoted exclusively to "Necromantic Art and Literature."Leilah's support and encouragement was crucial to Morbid Curiosity. Leilah reviewed ...
November 25, 2009
Morbid blog tour: William Selby
Eleven years ago, Ohio native William Selby escaped writing for film, theater, and television (including the new Twilight Zone) in Hollywood. Transplanted to San Francisco, Bill currently plies his trade as a graphic designer. Six cockatiels, three budgies, and partner-in-crime Christine add zest, joy, and meaning to life. He is the author of Monté: King of Atom Age Monster Decals! to be ...
November 24, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Wm. Rage
Wm. Rage can be found performing with the horror-noise band Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. He also runs the Enterruption label, promoting and releasing music and visual arts by underground bands and artists from around the world. He had one story in Morbid Curiosity magazine -- "Donating My Body to Science" -- which appeared in issue #6. It's one of my favorite stories, because it ...
November 23, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Jill Tracy
San Francisco-based Jill Tracy has garnered multiple awards and a devoted following for her evocative cinematic music, sophisticated lyrics, old-world glamour, and curious passion for strange tales. Her tune "Evil Night Together" was featured on the CBS TV show NAVY NCIS and on the BBC series Jekyll. Her film score work appears in The Black Dahlia. Her newest album is called "The ...
November 22, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Jim Wiz
Illustrator Jim Wiz came late to the magazine, providing ten illustrations for the final three issues of Morbid Curiosity magazine. One of his pieces from the last issue appears on a t-shirt and a journal at the Morbid Curiosity Café Press shop (http://www.cafepress.com/morbidzine).Q: Jim, what does morbid curiosity mean to you? A: From the time we are children, we are taught not to ...
November 21, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Erik Quarry
Erik Quarry is a Gothic/Macabre artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His interests lie in the decadence of doom, death, and darkness, which his art reflects in a light-hearted style. Halloween, Danse Macabre, and Victorian themes abound in his artwork. Fascinated by El Día de los Muertos, Erik is a member of the Association ...
November 20, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Suzanne Dechnik
Suzanne Dechnik worked first in advertising and then for several comic book companies. She finished her art degree at OSU and is now making public sculpture while following her true calling: necromantic art. She showed lots of work at the Westgate Gallery in New Orleans before Katrina put the kibosh on that.The bulk of Suzanne's work as published in Morbid Curiosity dissected her relationship ...
November 19, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Mike Hunter
Mike Hunter's particular interests are anthropology, science, spirituality, Surrealist art, and comics. These factors frequently blend in his personal artwork. By day, he has worked as a graphic designer for close to thirty years. For the magazine, he created custom-made collages of torture machines, vivisection labs, medical anomalies, and police oppression. He provided 30 meticulous ...
