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Continue reading →: Nightmares & Enigmas
Scott Nicolay is doing the proverbial lord’s work in translating the weird, short fiction of prolific Belgian author Jean Ray (not getting into his many pseudonyms, of which this is actually one) into English. In this game, we talk a lot about H.P. Lovecraft and less than we should about…
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Continue reading →: An Oral History of 2019
I didn’t publish very much fiction this year, but I am proud of what I did publish. “Doctor Pitt’s Menagerie” in Bargains from Pine Float Press, “Stygian Chambers” in Pluto in Furs, and “The Splitfoot Reel” in the memento book at NecronomiCon Providence. That’s it for new stories, although this year also saw…
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Continue reading →: Famous Monsters
In one of my earliest memories – this would have been sometime before I was in third grade – I’m sitting on the living room floor, eating a hamburger and watching The Fly on network TV. Not the relatively benign 1958 version with Vincent Price and David Hedison, either. The incredibly gross…
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Continue reading →: That’s Entertainment
For various reasons, the last couple of months have been largely a dry spell for me when it comes to producing new fiction. But that doesn’t mean that you necessarily have to do without. “When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars,” one of the four original stories in Guignol & Other…
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Continue reading →: The sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow…
As regular readers are already aware, I got sick the day before Halloween. It followed a busy October in which I probably spread myself a little thin, and I’m sure it’s no more than I deserved. I’d had a good month, and I was willing to let it tank my…
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Continue reading →: Money Makes the World Go Wrong
I still haven’t seen Parasite, which I gather touches on similar topics, but several of my favorite movies of the year so far have had one unshakable central theme in common: Rich people are bad, actually. It’s not a terribly different theme from many of the movies that I grew up…
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Continue reading →: “Let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.” – Shanks (1974)
Every now and then, I watch a movie that makes me lament that I am no longer actively writing Vault of Secrets columns or working on another volume of Monsters from the Vault. Shanks is definitely one of those movies. Some time ago, I decided to try to watch some of the…
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Continue reading →: Pestilence
As any attentive reader already knows, I got sick on my birthday, which was twelve days gone now. I’m still sick. Most of the other symptoms have lessened with time, but I am stuck with a persistent cough that is painful, frustrating, and exhausting. Worse still, it won’t let me sleep.…
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Continue reading →: Sardonic Tales: “When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars”
A few years ago, I did a thing where I picked a movie that would make a good double-feature with one of the stories in my then-newest collection, Painted Monsters. This year, for the Countdown to Halloween, I thought it might be fun to do the same thing, but with my…
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Continue reading →: Too Much Horror Business
As I write this, it’s my birthday, October 30, 2019. At least it is for another few hours. This year, I promised myself that I would do Halloween all the way to the hilt if it killed me in October. And I did. And it looks like maybe it did.…
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