Ellen Datlow, who edits – well, just about everything it sometimes seems – has posted a list of eight notable story collections from 2009. And she has listed Monstrous Affections, my own little bag of stories, as one of them. Here’s what she said, from her Best Horror of the Year round-up, and the post: […]
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There were so many G20 moments worthy of note here in Toronto over the weekend: the moments when black-clad droogs raised the world’s consciousness about the dangers of fiscal restraint by setting police cars on fire, smashing store windows and lobbing mailboxes into roads; the moments where police boxed joggers, dog-walkers and Oh-Canada singing protesters
Well this takes me back. In 1991 (or so) Karl Schroeder and I sat down at a Brother portable typerwriter in a farmhouse on the top of the Niagara Escarpment, and banged out the line, “The man in the moon’s smile began to slip. It turned into a leer.” Which was the first line of
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It’s particularly hard to do if you’re trying to split with your parapagus tripus dibrachius twin sister – sharing as you do “three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts and a single liver.” Good thing that twin rock stars Evelyn and Evelyn Neville (aka Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley) seemed to be getting along
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It can at last be spoken aloud. In the spring of 2011, my novel Eutopia will appear under the ChiZine Publications imprint – the same imprint who did such a fine job with my story collection Monstrous Affections. CZP announced the title and publication date on Twitter and Facebook just this afternoon. So I am,
The Death Dealer comes for us all – even Frank Frazetta, the illustrator who almost single-handedly shaped the id of the 20th century teenaged boy; put the thew in Conan; and painted the covers of three-quarters of the paperbacks I read in 1979, easy. I would say Rest in Peace, but in Mr. Frazetta’s case,
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The red car was in front of us – like us, intending to make a left turn from Danforth onto Coxwell. When the light turned green, the car proceeded a nose-length into the intersection but no more – so that only one car – the red one – would be able to make it legally
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Dedicated yard apes will recall last watching this video here in July, 2008, when I congratulated winners of the ChiZine short story contest I helped judge. Well, the creepy android lady is back – and so am I. This year, I’ll be helping judge the 15th ChiZine Short Story Contest with a deeply cool slate
I knew this was coming at the end of April, but – like the tax deadline – it crept up on me. Pseudopod, that weekly horror podcast of which we’ve heard so much, has, while I wasn’t looking, uploaded a most excellent podcast of my story “The Radejastians” – introduced suavely as ever by Alasdair
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… with the same equanimity I brought to what seemed like the total collapse of my car’s suspension as we drove back from Port Huron (don’t worry – part of the plastic on the wheel-well had come loose, and we were able to fix it handily, thanks to the terrifying and barely-legal pocket knife loaned
You know, this week I would have taken a bad review… Read More »