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Archive for August, 2011
Irene hiatus
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
John Langan on IT
Posted in Friday Monster Rec on August 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Everything Down Here Floats:” An Appreciation of Stephen King’s IT Has there ever been a better title for a monster novel—not just a horror novel, but that particular subspecies of the form known as the monster novel—than IT? Check the dictionary, and you’ll find that the majority of the pronoun’s definitions refer to it [...]
Interview with Michael Kelly
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Kelly is the author of Scratching the Surface, and Undertow and Other Laments. His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best New Horror, Dark Arts, Nemonymous, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, and Tesseracts 13. Michael edited the anthologies Apparitions (for which he was a Shirley Jackson Award [...]
Monster Algae! More Chupacabra!
Posted in Monsters in the news on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–A satellite has identified a monster algae bloom off the New Jersey coast that could soon affect fishing and beachgoers. Images from the NOAA satellite show a swirling blueish green blob stretching from Brooklyn past Sandy Hook all the way down to Cape May — a distance of more than 100 miles. Beware of the [...]
Wildcard: day 2
Posted in Wildcard on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–From io9: Spoiler Alert: Behold Guillermo del Toro’s latest scary monsters, from Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark –John Landis planning a Paris-set monster movie. –Fear.net’s top 5 giant monster bug movie list –Just in case you’re one of three people in the world who hasn’t seen this yet. Tom Waits/Cookie Monster Mashup. –This tee [...]
Happy birthday, H. P. Lovecraft
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friday’s Monster Recommendation: The Caretaker of Lorne Field
Posted in Friday Monster Rec on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(written by Paul Tremblay) The Caretaker of Lorne Field is an odd but brilliant little horror novel written by Dave Zeltserman who is best known as a gritty crime/noir author. Not that that matters, but I do think this book unfortunately flew under the radar of most horror fans (despite the plethora [...]
Interview with Stephen Graham Jones
Posted in Contributor Interviews on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of It Came from Del Rio, the horror collection That Ones That Got Away, and seven other books, with two more on the way from Dzanc. His stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year(s), and around a hundred and twenty [...]
Tuesday’s Monsters in the News
Posted in Monsters in the news on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–Loch ness monster like beast filmed in Alaska. “Alaska may have its own version of the Loch Ness monster, according to prominent cryptozoologists who say a video shows a mysterious marine animal, which they believe is a Cadborosaurus.” Always with the Cadborosauruses…. –What’s a Loch Ness like beastie without mention of a Chupacabra? This story [...]
Wildcard: day one
Posted in Wildcard on August 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Our first of many wildcard mondays. Make with the monsters! –Blogger/author Scott Emerson is doing a 31 days 31 monsters fest on his blog. Here’s a link to his post on IT CONQUERED THE WORLD. –Creature from the Black Lagoon goodness! “DreamHaven Books is proud to announce the first US publication of the novelization of the [...]
