Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Enter The Nest

I've added a new sub page to gorelets.com that will collect and archive all my posts to twitter.com, so you don't have to go to their website and try to hunt for them. Enter The Nest. What I like about this is not only will it allow me to keep a record of all those brief snippets of weirdness that I've posted that are hard to find in twitter's archives, but it also lets readers like you search for things that you'd have a hard time finding on twitter itself, and it doesn't require signing up for twitter to do…
November 6, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews

Philosophies of Horror: Matt Cardin and Thomas Ligotti

The horror genre seems to attract two dominant personality types: those who love the emotional thrill of fear and shock for its own sake, and deep thinkers who enjoy musing over the alternative possibilities promised by the Unknown. On the latter score, some authors approach the ideas of life, death, and the great beyond with impressive sophistication and scholarly research that often supersedes their fictional imaginings. Stephen King's non-fiction titles (Danse Macabre, On Writing) are seminal works of criticism. Anne Rice's musings on the church are followed by many. Dean Koontz wrote the book on Writing Popular Fiction. China Mieville…
October 20, 2010Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews4 Comments

"Capital punishment. The criminal is killed because the crime has spent all the capacity for living a man has. He has experienced everything if he has killed. He can die. Murder drains a man." -- Albert Camus (died 1960)

The Last Drop