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Many of us have fond memories of childhood, especially those lazy summers when schools were out, the days were hot, and the neighborhoods were ripe for exploration with friends. Hugo award-winning author Dan Simmons captures this age of innocence perfectly in Summer of Night, but then he lets the monsters loose in this old school horror story about how the carefree lives of a group of children are quickly torn from them as they . . . → Read More: Review: Summer of Night, by Dan Simmons 
Five Slices of Death, by Kendall Giles My new collection of delicious horror stories has just been published! Here are more details about the book and what’s inside. BUY NOW! Five Slices of Death for the Amazon Kindle Five Slices of Death for the Barnes & Noble NOOK Related Posts:A lecture and reading by Jeffrey FordReview: Danse Macabre, by Stephen KingRetrospective Writing Contest Prize PackStory wins Raw Dog Screaming Press Retrospective Writing ContestNew Podcast . . . → Read More: Five Slices of Death, my new horror short story collection, is available now 
I had the pleasure today of seeing and hearing acclaimed and award-winning author Jeffrey Ford not once today, but twice! A prolific author in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery, Jeffrey Ford has written novels, such as The Shadow Year: A Novel, The Girl in the Glass : A Novel, and The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque : A Novel, along with collections of short stories, such as The Drowned Life (P.S.) and The Fantasy . . . → Read More: A lecture and reading by Jeffrey Ford 
Does the world need another vampire novel? I would say, yes, of course, especially if that novel is well written and adds something new or compelling to the literary conversation about vampires, a conversation that authors and readers have been having since 1872 with Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” In Children of the Night, Hugo award-winning author Dan Simmons makes a solid contribution to the ongoing vampire mythology by giving us not only a believable . . . → Read More: Review: Children of the Night, by Dan Simmons 
Half dark fiction, half academic musings on angels, demons, the dead, and monsters, Dark Awakenings, by Matt Cardin, is an exploration of the common religious goals of transcendence, rebirth, and salvation. So what makes this exploration dark? Cardin’s twist of the knife comes from the enlightened observation that these sorts of religious ideals may have tragic, dire, or even horrific consequences if actually realized. What if the path the pious have been following towards . . . → Read More: Review: Dark Awakenings, by Matt Cardin 
Some of us love stories that leave us listening fearfully for shuffling footsteps in the dark, or movies that make us spray our popcorn about the room when the bogeyman leaps from the shadows, on reflection, we may wonder just what it is about scary stories that causes such fearful reactions. Those who scoff at the horror genre, who flinch at any mention of anything bad happening in a story and whose entertainment choices . . . → Read More: Review: Danse Macabre, by Stephen King 
Above is a boar located at the excellent Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia. Below is a potpouri of reading links. This week includes a space shuttle launch, someone fighting shadows with a sword, how to make a pan flute, and lots of recommended science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and authors. Oh, and Charlie Sheen. [ VIDEO ] Japanese sword fighter vs shadows [ VIDEO ] Space shuttle launch viewed from a passing . . . → Read More: The Boar’s Head and weekend reading links 
WARNING: This is a special Halloween edition of my “weekend reading links”. If the Halloween season keeps you cowering safe inside your home, away from the dark and the scary, then it’s probably best to read no more of this page and please come back next week. You have been warned. We don’t really need to travel far to find the horrible and the scary. Just one step from my front door, the morning . . . → Read More: Halloween special: scary pic and weekend reading links 29 October 2010 
In a previous post I mentioned that my story “A Delicate Touch” won the Raw Dog Screaming Press 100 Jolts Retrospective Writing Contest, judged by Dr. Michael Arnzen. Today my prize pack arrived, and I’ll be in a state of spooky bliss surely through Halloween, if not longer into the dark of winter. First, I got a signed movie postcard from season one of the series Dead Like Me. This sounds like a . . . → Read More: Retrospective Writing Contest Prize Pack 
Just in time for Halloween, tonight we’re opening the crypt, so to speak, to start into Thriller, the acclaimed horror series from 1962, hosted by Boris Karloff. Says Sara Karloff, Boris Karloff’s daughter: Thriller was well written, beautifully directed, and had some of the finest actors performing these great shows. As if that were not enough, the episodes were not gory. They were suspenseful and intelligent. They invited the audience along on the adventure; . . . → Read More: Boris Karloff’s Thriller |
 
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