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| Monday, September 29th, 2008 | 12:24 pm
[adriannebrennan]
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Blood of the Dark Moon booksigning @ Mass Morgue 2008 Oct 26th in Cambridge, MA I will be having my next booksigning event for Blood of the Dark Moon, the first dark fantasy/vampire/paranormal erotic romance book in the Dark Moon series at Mass Morgue 2008 on Oct 26th at 7:30pm. Out-of-print copies of my book which my original publisher had sent me exist in limited quantities, so if you're local to Cambridge, MA or have a chance at being there be sure to stop by! If you enjoy dark fantasy, supernatural romance, vampires, and vampire erotica as well as books with pagan, occult, and BDSM themes, you may be interested in reading this book. More information about the book is here: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/botdm.html You can learn more about the event and its bands and vendors here: http://adriannebrennan.com/mass_morgue_2008.htmlFlyer is below the LJ cut: ( Mass Morgue 2008 flyer ) | | Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | 9:29 pm
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Tem, Steve Rasnic & Melanie: The Man in the Ceiling  The Man on the CeilingWriter: Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie TemGenre: Fiction Pages: 337 I have to be honest here: I'm biased. Not in the obvious way though. Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem were the writers-in-residence during the dreaded Week 5 of Odyssey 2005. Well, them and Melanie's guide dog, Dominic, who I think kept us all sane. The Tems were a sharp couple, and they thoroughly interacted and engaged with every single one of us students, and they always gave each us of their full attention. I have to admit, I didn't always agree with their crits (of my own work, of course. ;)) but they were open, honest, and willing to TALK about the work and get to know us better, and that left a far more lasting impression in my mind than anything else. The only writing of theirs I've read were two short stories (one from each writer) right before they showed up at Odyssey. I didn't pay much attention then, because I didn't know them and the stories didn't grab me at the time, and I've never sought out their work. Until now. I saw this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewer Program, and I didn't hesitate to sign up for an ARC. Why not? This was a book they'd written TOGETHER, and it had a gorgeous cover. I couldn't pass it up. And it turns out, I didn't have to. I won my copy of the ARC, and decided to hell with whatever I thought of the book, I was getting the REAL copy anyway, so I passed my ARC on to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) digitalclone and snuggled up with the REAL, pretty-cover copy. This is one of those reviews that doesn't need a cut. Hell, it doesn't even need a blurb about the premise, because the book is beautiful, surreal, and haunting in such a subtle way you're not even sure it's happening until it suddenly grips you. The Man on the Ceiling is in many ways, creative non-fiction, but it's practically an interstitial work, a book that blurs the lines between fact, fiction, memory, and imagination, but grounds it all in truth. I rarely had trouble discerning when Melanie wrote versus Steve, and the times I did, it didn't matter. Their writing flows together, entwines in such a way that having a book with two different first person POVs feels like it's come from one body, one mind, one soul. But it isn't. I'm not entirely sure how my reaction to this book is based on the fact I got to spend a week with this amazing couple. I suspect quite a bit, to be honest, but yet, you can't argue the beauty of the whole book put together. I was reminded of Valente's work. I was reminded of Winterson's. And that's high praise. There's such a simple, deceptive beauty to this prose that you don't even realize that at the book's heart, it's horror, but horror in the most realistic ways imaginable. Key word: imagine. My RatingMust Have: close to "the keeper shelf," but suspect it might take a second reading to bump it up a notch. Like I said, it's very possible I'm simply biased, but I thoroughly enjoyed this read, this autobiography of the Tem's imagination, of their lives, of their children. It's a surreal piece, and one not easily forgotten. | | Friday, July 25th, 2008 | 11:43 pm
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled friends page... for this stunning commercial: Thank you for your time. Current Mood:  chipperCurrent Music: Rob Zombie: Black Sunshine | | Friday, July 18th, 2008 | 5:26 pm
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| | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | 9:58 am
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Review - Once; James Herbert Once… James Herbert I've loved James Herbert (a Brit, naturally!) ever since I read The Magic Cottage many years ago. He has a wonderful way of blending the everyday world with the supernatural in a way that's seamless and utterly believable, and I appreciate his ability to explore very different subjects and rarely repeat himself - no doubt a difficult task for a fairly prolific writer. In this story, he delves into the world of the Faerie, which, ironically, has never been one of my more pressing interests. He brings it out so naturally, though, that I found myself just going with it! Thom Kindred has returned to his childhood home of Castle Bracken to heal from a devastating, early-age stroke. Bracken really is a true castle, a relic of the distant past, and Thom grew up in a small cottage on the property - the cottage having been occupied by his mother, who served as a tutor to the children of Bracken's owners. When the story begins, Thom's mother is long dead - of suicide, or so Thom was led to believe those many years ago - but the glimpses we get of her through his memories are intriguing. She seems mystical, lovely and ethereal, and I don't know about others who read this book, but I would have loved to know more about her and to have another 200 pages or so reserved just for an exploration into Thom's childhood and growing up with this mysterious woman of the woods. Then, of course, there are the woods themselves, which we soon learn are unlike any other. It doesn't take long before we find Thom plunged into a mystery both beautiful and terrifying, and the woods come alive with all the creatures we hear about in fairy tales as children - the original fairy tales that were both dark and light, alternately fascinating and frightening. He falls in love with Jennet, a faerie creature who slowly re-awakens his long-suppressed memories of life as a child in this otherworld, and also reveals to him the truth about his mother. When he learns that the fate of the magical world he inhabited as a child and has re-discovered as an adult is in terrible, immediate jeopardy, he realizes that, ready or not, he's about to be caught in the middle of a torturous battle between the past and the present, and what is seen and unseen. I have only two complaints, and they're relatively minor. The first is in reference to one of the villains of the story, a witch whom he specifically identifies as Wiccan. It's not an accurate depiction of the religion of Wicca or its practitioners, nor is there any adequate explanation, even briefly, of the word itself and the numerous ways it's used. It's a somewhat broad and hotly debated topic anyway and probably why he left all that out, but I still think it's confusing and more than a little misleading to anyone who is not familiar with Wicca either as a religion or as a word. My other complaint may sound a little weird, but it has to do with his depiction of Jennet, the faerie with whom Thom falls in love. It's a very sexual relationship, which is fine and I have no issue with that. It's the description of her as (and I apologize in advance if this is a little TMI or inappropriate!) 'hairless' and small-breasted, and essentially very child-like. I realize I'm not articulating this very well, since obviously "small-breasted" in no way translates as "child-like". It's just the depiction of Jennet in general as more of a 13-year old...at least, that's the image I get in my head. I'm uncomfortable with a grown man expressing such lust for a girl who comes across almost pre-pubescent. I should make clear, of course, that Jennet's character is NOT a child. It just gives me an itsty bitsy bit of the creeps. At any rate, it's a small thing because the other sexual attraction he feels, towards the witch of the tale, is very much the opposite. I don't know if there's any significance to the fact that the "woman" of the story is the evil witch, while the child-like female is ultimately the heroine and an object of true love, but I'm sure that in any case Herbert wouldn't appreciate my Freudian analysis of his sexual predilections. LOL All in all it was a good, satisfying story. A nice addition to anyone's collection of supernatural, dark fantasy and other similar tales of the genre. | | Monday, July 14th, 2008 | 10:21 pm
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Thurman, Rob: Nightlife  NightlifeWriter: Rob ThurmanGenre: Urban/Dark Fantasy Pages: 339 Bought this book Saturday, started it Sunday night, finished the following Monday. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was fast-paced. And yeah, I was completely hooked. Thurman's debut is not without it's flaws, but the raw voice of the narrator(s) and the emotional tension of the book pulls you forward. It's an urban fantasy that's actually dark fantasy, that's actually horror, and if you're a fan of any of these genres, it's definitely worth the read. The full review, WHICH DOES INCLUDE SPOILERS, is in my LJ if you're interested. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome. REVIEW: Rob Thurman's NIGHTLIFEHappy Reading! :) | | Sunday, July 13th, 2008 | 9:43 pm
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Simmons, Dan: The Terror  The TerrorWriter: Dan SimmonsGenre: Horror Pages: 766 I never really intended to read this book. Last year, when the Discovery Channel's Planet Earth was showing brilliant images from the Poles, my fiance made a remark about how much he loved that setting, how it captured his interest. For some reason, him saying this reminded me of Dan Simmons's The Terror, so I told him what little I knew about the book. Arctic setting, horror story. Greg was interested enough that he sought out the hardcover in the store and bought it. When he read it, he loved it. Gave it five stars. But I wasn't interested, not even when I'd made a decision to place my own novel in an arctic setting myself, and then I wasn't interested until I read The Ends of Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. Once I read that, I was hooked. I decided that when I had the time and patience for the beast of the novel that is The Terror, I'd read it. It's not like I didn't know what to expect. I've read Simmons before. But it's almost impossible to review this book. At 766 pages long, it's a beast of a novel, and you're forced to take your time and actually read the thing rather than skim it. The Terror is a historical fiction, recounting the lost Franklin expedition for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic. Not a single soul was recovered from that passage, while remains were found and guesses were made, the story of the voyages of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror are largely a mystery. Simmons has recreated that story, using as much fact as possible (lead poisoning, scurvy, and cannibalism), while also creating a different kind of monster that preyed upon the souls of these men, and thus using the monster to bring this tale to some kind of conclusion. The monster is as literal as it is metaphorical, because there is so much about the mens' conditions that defeat them. The lack of game, the poorly canned and cooked food, the scurvy, the unrelenting ice, the threat of mutiny. The monster is often the straw that breaks the camel's back, forcing these men to act when they might otherwise not, and increasing the tension and fear. But the book isn't about the monster. Indeed, there's long parts of the book where the monster never makes an appearance, let alone is talked about. Ultimately, this is a tale of survival, about what it takes to live in such harsh conditions and how these conditions transform a man's body, mind, and soul. While we get several points of view, we're most centered on Captain Francis Cozier and Dr. Goodsir, both who try to keep men alive, but who have completely different angles on what's happening. But the single-most unifying character in this book is the setting itself. No surprise, given Simmons is our writer. Just by reading the first page, I was thrust into the world of the novel, and never once was I torn away by some careless detail or incomplete scene. Simmons is a deliberate writer who takes his time, and while I will admit I thought some sections of the novel could've been trimmed down some, I'll give Simmons the benefit of the doubt: these men lived in these harsh Arctic conditions for three-plus years, and the length of the novel lets the reader fully experience every moment, every joy, and every defeat. It's worth it. By the end it's definitely worth it. Characters flesh into individuals, and some you'll love, some you'll hate, and some will simply fascinate you. And the touch of fantastic at the of the book is just really, really cool. My RatingMust Have: it's horror, but it's historical fiction, and a survival story at that. As mentioned above, the pace is deliberately set at the speed of a glacier, but never once does Simmons let you leave his world. There's definitely an awe factor to this novel, as well as a quiet, driving tension that makes you wonder who, if anyone, will survive. It's a fascinating novel that makes me want to research Simmons's source material, just to learn everything I can about where the truth differs from fiction, but as a whole, I'm very happy with the book. If you're a fan of Simmons's work, you definitely have to check it out. | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 12:08 pm
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from Kiernan, Silk, The Five of Cups, and Daughter of Hounds are my favorites, and From Brite, Lost Souls, definitely. And I also like A Georgia Story, a short that she wrote. That whole collection of Short stories (Wormwood) was great. Skin Was a very sad novel, but very well written (Koja). i dont really know if i could classify that one as horror though...
Also a good author: JOhn Connolly. I read Nocturnes last year and i fell in love. It's this great little collection of short stories, one of which is The New Daughter (I heard they were making a movie out of that one). | | Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | 10:37 pm
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I personally love poppy z. brite and anything by caitlin r. kiernan. kathe koja also has some pretty fantastic stuff as far as horror goes. Current Mood:  creative | | Sunday, July 6th, 2008 | 8:00 pm
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Review - The Taken; Sarah Pinborough The Taken Sarah Pinborough Fiction; Horror I am forever on a quest to find good horror authors, and as a rule I almost always prefer the Brits. I’m also forever on a quest to find good female horror authors, and Sarah Pinborough has stepped into that sparsely-populated spot rather well. I discovered her through Dorchester/Leisure’s large line of mass market horror paperbacks. Not only do I love the way Brits tend to write, but I also love English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish settings. In this story, Alex(andra) is a young woman who, after the demise of her marriage, has come to stay for awhile with an aunt in the rural English village of Watterow . One of the most startling and effective devices in this story is the fact, known only to Alex and to the reader, that Alex is dying of ovarian cancer, and dying quickly. She only has a few months left, and the cancer is the real reason her marriage ended, although no one knows this because Alex has decided to keep the cancer a secret from everyone for as long as possible, until she literally cannot hide it anymore. For the reader, knowing this and being inside Alex’s head as she struggles with her pain, despair and internal rage, brings an intimacy and dark edge to the story that really changes one’s perception of everything that takes place. Not really ready to deal with anything beyond the very immediate present, Alex runs straight into an old secret the town has covered up for decades. All Alex knows at first is that a supposedly long-dead, angelic-looking 10-year old girl named Melanie Parr has something to do with a sudden rash of shockingly violent deaths in the once-peaceful little town, and that whenever the girl’s name is mentioned the locals – including Alex’s own cousin – glance at each other, clam up, and radiate fear from every fiber. Who on earth was this girl, Alex wonders, and what kind of sinister hold does a little girl lost in a storm 30 years ago have on these people? Who, too, is “The Catcher Man” people whisper about – often in the same breath? Once a pagan forest legend about a fertility god, twisted into a sinister being who steals children, it poses an interesting if indirect question about what kind of genuine power the human ‘thought form’ can give to something and truly make it real. I was thoroughly captivated by this book and have already ordered Pinborough’s other novels. She’s definitely one author horror fans should be watching for if they haven’t discovered her already. | | Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | 9:02 pm
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Hello, I'm selling all of my special edition Poppy Z. Brite books on Amazon thanks to the IRS and other misc. bills. :/ GO HERE! | | Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | 8:57 pm
[dictumsibylla]
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The Vampire Times needs contributors! Hello all; I started a blog over at Blogger called The Vampire Times. I'm starting this blog because I love all things vampire, whether it be books, movies, art or merchandise, and I rarely see good reviews on any of those things, or news pertaining specifically to the vampire community. I'm tired of the bulk of vampire-related blogging coming from 15 year olds who can't form a sentence or biased vampire junkies who would love any be-fanged undead creature. I think it's time for other vampire-lovers to read news and reviews that are comprehensive, well informed and grammatically correct. I am, however, looking to add to the staff here at TVT. I need people to do reviews, scout for news items, etc. I hope this place gets popular enough that it gets internet attention and we can actually kick off The Vampire Times soon. I have an entry with resources; lists of books, authors, movies, and games, and would love it if someone active in the vampire community would post updates and news and whatnot. Anyway. Just leave a comment here or on my journal proper if you are interested. I may ask for sample writing (any kind, journalistic style preferred of course), but it really depends. Thanks. Snark if you wanna. Crossposted to a few select communities. | 11:43 am
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Review - Evil Harvest; Anthony Izzo Evil Harvest Anthony Izzor
This is one of those “something evil lurks in this sleepy little town” horror novels that seem to be so popular now. It’s almost its own little sub-category of the horror genre! I like them, although I tend to prefer the more ‘personal’, individual type horror stories (a haunted house, or one little ghostie or beastie after one protagonist, etc).
Matt Crowe has returned to his hometown of Lincoln, New York with one thought in mind: to exact revenge on the inhuman, predatory beasts who control the town and live in human form, feeding on the locals intermittently until once every one hundred years they go on a ‘harvest’ and wipe everyone out. Matt’s parents and kid brother were killed by the creatures years before, right in front of him, and their ringleader is none other than the town’s police chief. He finds a partner for his efforts in Jill, an ER nurse who is a newcomer to the town, and learns for herself all too quickly that she’s moved to the wrong place.
This is going to sound like I’m picking on male horror writers and I promise that is not my intent. It just happens to be the first observation that came to me: that in recent years all of the books I’ve read by male, usually-American horror writers read almost identically. By that I mean it’s almost as if they’re written by the same guy. My personal theory is that there are a lot of Bentley Little impersonators out there! The horror genre has long been a near-dead genre in America, and Bentley Little’s contributions to the genre in the last decade, giving it a little boost, has obviously not gone unnoticed. Michael Laimo, Briane Keene, Scott Nicholson, this Anthony Izzo, and about a dozen others all write in a very similar vein, with ‘voices’ so identical that I would certainly not be able to distinguish one from the other. I don’t know that this is necessarily a bad thing, and mimicry is probably 90% of the publishing world anyway. It’s just an observation.
I do have a few complaints about this story in particular. Firstly, it seems to have originally ‘ended’ about 100 pages before it actually did. It felt like the author deliberately dragged the story out simply to get more bulk. It also ended very strangely. I won’t give it away, but it just appeared to stop in the middle of a paragraph. It wasn’t an ‘end’. The cadence was all wrong and very jarring. It’s also very remiss in the fleshing out of the main characters. They’re your typical American hero/heroine prototypes, with no depth to them whatsoever. What depth is attempted is all told, not shown, and is distinctly unimpressive. Jill has an overbearing mother. Oh boy, THAT’S a new one! I just couldn’t bring myself to care too much about what happened to either her or Matt, and the author’s job is to make me care.
All in all I’ll give this a C. Not failing, but a long way from good. The author has good pacing but needs to focus on character development, learn the fine art of ‘less is more’ and ‘showing’ vs. ‘telling’, and cut back on the tedious details like how to load a gun and what the characters ate for dinner, unless he can give those details in a far more interesting manner rather than as obvious filler. There’s potential here, though.
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Review - The Harrowing; Alexandra Sokoloff The Harrowing Alexandra Sokoloff Robin is a college student with a few issues – an alcoholic mother, no friends or social life, a snooty, bad-tempered roommate, and a bit of depression. When the Thanksgiving holiday arrives and it seems like the entire population has abandoned the picturesque university, Robin feels herself sinking into the familiar mire of darkness and despair, not helped by the gothic, Victorian dormitory house and its gloomy atmosphere. After another particularly illuminating long-distance phone conversation with her drunk mother, Robin snags a bottle of her roommate’s prescription pills and heads down to the common room with the intention of finally ending it all. When she gets down there, though, she realizes she’s not alone after all, and at least four others – Cain, Martin, Lisa and Patrick – have also stayed behind. These five very different personalities find themselves spending the evening together out of sheer boredom, discovering an old spiritboard in a cabinet and having what they think is going to be a bit of tipsy fun. When a spirit named Zachary, a young man who died in a dormitory fire in 1920, seems to be connecting with them through the board, they have no idea how far it will go as things turn very nasty, very quickly. Robin is confused by the gentle soul she feels Zachary is and the violent, malicious force that appears to be gaining power through whatever the five students released that night, and she determines to learn the truth. It sounds like a schlocky, B-grade teen horror rag and could easily have been so, but Sokoloff does an admirable job of evoking some very haunting imagery without resorting to any tricks, and brings out the story in a very original way. Robin’s character is well-drawn, although I would have liked even more depth. The story, while featuring young adults, is not strictly classified as a YA novel, probably due to the strong language and other adult themes. I thought it was well-written, entertaining, and creative. This is Sokoloff’s first novel and I’m looking forward to more from her. Edit: From other reviews I've read on Amazon it appears that it's being made - or has already been made - into a movie. I hope it does the book justice! | 2:01 pm
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Ok. So I'm late again for Wednesday book review. Pretty much if I wanted to catch up tomorrow I'd have to stick 3 books up and how's that gonna look. Not good. Not good at all. So this Tuesday I finally put up ajjones's Gypsies Stole My Tequila. And since I'm late and since a double promotion never hurt anyone, the second book for this Wednesday will be Paris Immortal by sroitCross-posted on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) book_pimp of course. 
What I'm asking you to do: 1. Click on the above links. 2. Add Tags. May I suggest "teddy bear cannibal massacre"? 3. Once you are at that link, hit the helpful or not helpful buttons for the reviews. 4. Hit those lists and guides and click on a few of those links. 5. Write your own List and include this book. Examples.6. If you've read the book, write a review - both on your blog or on Amazon. 7. If you're interested in buying the book, buy it. 8. Go to Amazon and independently search for the book. 9. Copy this post into your own livejournal. As usual this is the Wednesday Book Promotion. Help out as much as you can. Especially if I put your book up for Wednesday Book Promotion in the past. | | Friday, June 13th, 2008 | 7:27 am
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Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse Beneath the dim light of a full moon, the population of Cincinnati mutates into huge, snarling monsters that devour everyone they see, acting upon their most base and bestial desires. Planes fall from the sky. Highways are clogged with abandoned cars, and buildings explode and topple. The city burns.Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse is the new horror novel written by William Carl and published by Permuted Press. You can order this twisted tale at Amazon.com and Horror Mall. Check out the entire first chapter of this novel at Flames Rising for free: Chapter One: Part One and Chapter One: Part Two | | Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | 11:30 am
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Well. I'm a day late with Wednesday Book Promotion and actually pgtremblay and nick_kaufmann would prefer that you buy this book through the Web site as all funds go to the Shirley Jackson awards, so check with them for further information if you're really interested. Or just do the Amazon stuff. This week's Wednesday (Thursday) Book Promotion is for Jack Haringa Must Die. It's got Brian Keene, nihilistic_kid and a bunch of others. Cross-posted to book_pimp, of course.
What I'm asking you to do: 1. Click on the above links. 2. Add Tags. May I suggest "teddy bear cannibal massacre"? 3. Once you are at that link, hit the helpful or not helpful buttons for the reviews. 4. Hit those lists and guides and click on a few of those links. 5. Write your own List and include this book. Examples. 6. If you've read the book, write a review - both on your blog or on Amazon. 7. If you're interested in buying the book, buy it. 8. Go to Amazon and independently search for the book. 9. Copy this post into your own livejournal. As usual this is the Wednesday Book Promotion. Help out as much as you can. Especially if I put your book up for Wednesday Book Promotion in the past. | | Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | 9:37 am
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Reviews, Articles & News wanted at Flames Rising FlamesRising.com is an online resource for fans of Horror & Dark Fantasy entertainment. We are on the hunt for new reviews, articles and news items. We especially like promoting small press and independent authors. Drop by the Submission Guidelines page for an idea of what we are looking for: http://www.flamesrising.com/submission-guidelinesArticles could include "How to" guides for authors, "Best of" essays on horror movies or comics or even anecdotes about your personal experiences in the world of publishing. Reviews can be about books, movies, games, comics and other horror or dark fantasy entertainment. Regular reviewers get access to free products and other items as well as a featured bio on the website. We are also looking for press releases and news updates regarding upcoming books, appearances and other events featuring your favorite horror & dark fantasy authors. Use the Contact form to send us the good stuff: http://www.flamesrising.com/contact | | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | 1:37 pm
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Waking Brigid by Francis Clark Got this one out of the library after it came in on one of the monthly "Recommended Reads" e-mails. The library has it shelved as Horror, but it really isn't particularly scary in the traditional sense. More than anything, it's a meditation on spirituality and expressions of good and evil. The book starts is Savannah, Georgia, during Reconstruction following the Civil War. We start with a grizzled doctor, disillusioned by the injured of the war, visiting an old friend in the psych ward. Said friend dies in a locked room, murdered by a supernatural creature. which leads us into a world of Roman Catholic high mages being called to Savannah to combat a cabal of Upper Class Satanists lead by a cotton factor. By the end of the book, we have a Voudoun Mambo, a Sicilian Striga, Welsh pagans, and a recently-awakened-to-her-powers Irish pagan-cum-nun fighting both the Satanists and Belial, a demon who exists in the physical without the need for a host. While this sounds like the prose equivalent of a game of Calvinball, it's quite readable and asks the reader to examine their faith or lack thereof by the end. While I will say the ending was kind of predictable in terms of how people would fare, it was still worth the time invested in reading it. Current Mood:  awakeCurrent Music: "Disarm"- Smashing Pumpkins | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | 6:04 am
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NKG Sale The moving sale at Noble Knight Games ends tomorrow and I've got a little spending yet to do. Anyone have any suggestions on what I should get? I already ordered Frontier Cthulhu, High Seas Cthulhu and NO Loyal Knight (as well as a couple of gaming products I had been looking for). There are a ton of novels to pick from. Has anyone read the Fall of Cthulhu comic? Currently I'm leaning toward bulking up my Mythos collection or grabbing some of the Ravenloft reprints that came out recently. |
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