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Arnzen Interview at The Black Glove magazine
Check out Karen Newman's new interview with me at The Black Glove online horror site. They also review my book, Proverbs for Monsters in another post.
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
Scuttlebuggery: Soccer for Scarabs
Scuttlebuggery is a stylishly steampunk online promotional game for the goth band Johnny Hollow, brought to you by the geniuses at My Pet Skeleton Productions (maker of "A Murder of Scarecrows" featured here awhile back). In this game you play a scuttlebug -- a round beetle who must figure out how to push bubbles of absinthe toward a drain, dodging beetles and fluttering moths along the way. It's like soccer for scarabs. And though it sounds like child's play, it is a Sisyphean challenge that will likely make you appreciate the vast labor of the insect world, scuttling all around…
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Play Dead in Common
Lots of little things going on, so I thought I'd post a bunch of random news all in one batch: + WD Prescott is running a neat contest on his website with a chance to win a signed copy of my out of print novel, Play Dead! + You can now order the 'spoon river horror poetry anthology,' Death In Common, edited by Rich Ristow, on amazon.com + Two of my critical essays on THE EXORCIST will appear in Studies in the Horror Film: The Exorcist, which promises to be a fantastic -- if not the definitive -- collection of…
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Pluck Your Last Drink Bird Head
Awhile ago I got the strangest e-mail message from World Fantasy Award-winning author (and old friend) Jeff Vandermeer. It read: Who is Last Drink Bird Head? Story, anecdote, 500 words. Don't Think: just write. And I did. My story was but one of a long list of short-shorts that now appear in Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity -- with all proceeds going to proliteracy.org. The results are pretty astounding, ranging from hilariously surreal to pensively chilling to deeply touching. The publisher writes: "Last Drink Bird Head is a blues musician, a performance artist, a type of alcohol,…
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Morbid Curiosity Cures The Blues
I love this dangerous and disturbing book, and highly recommend it...especially if you're getting bored with the run of the same old mills: Learn more... Read that book. And if you're still hungry for more, and you can find back issues of the (now defunct) magazine that spawned this book, you might find my memoir of Amityville lurking in Morbid Curiosity #7.