Just got my copy of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror – Twentieth Annual Collection, an anthology series that’s had a warm place in my heart since the eighth one, which contained my story “The Sloan Men.” No stories by me in this one, but I note that one was noted, by long-time YBFH co-editor […]
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… particularly when they’re also content. I’ve put up a couple more Lawrence Nickle paintings in the body of the Devil’s Exercise Yard, illustrating “The Pit Heads” and “The Sloan Men.” These are cosmetic changes, I guess, for those of you stopping by for the fiction; more content, for those of you art-fanciers who come
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Just in case my post a couple of days back didn’t convince you that The Devil’s Chair is nice and comfy – here’s the trailer, up on YouTube. So what are you waiting for? Have a seat.
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… on the other hand, if that happened, I wouldn’t be in a position to recommend The Devil’s Chair, a dandy little screamer by Brit director Adam Mason that had its premier at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness stream. Riffing on everything from The Haunting to Hellraiser – with a thick dollop of
I would get so much more writing done if they stopped having film festivals… Read More »
More people blog about my short-short story The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement And Then Take Questions than just me, you know. In addition to my friend here, I recently came across this guy from South Africa, David de Beer, who said a nice thing about the story not long ago. Here’s the review:
Kind words are always appreciated… Read More »
… but still some fun. Those of you who’ve read The Pit-Heads over at The Devil’s Exercise Yard may have been wondering: is there really a vampire-infested mining town called Cobalt, Ontario with some of the prettiest industrial ruins in Northern Ontario? Did this town really supply 44 per cent of the world’s silver at
Cobalt, Ontario: Not as much fun as the sign indicates… Read More »
I note that EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, the gang that does Tesseracts these days, has put up a pretty comprehensive web page for Tesseracts Eleven – the Cory Doctorow/Holly Phillips edition of the Canadian spec-fic anthology series. It’s here, and proves to any of you doubters out there that I wasn’t just fooling
Edging towards publication… Read More »
… or is live. A couple three weeks ag0 (or one quick scroll down the page) you may recall I let it be known I’d sold a short story, “The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement And Then Take Questions.” To ChiZine, a screaming fine webzine that can be viewed by anyone, here. I promised
Turns out, the potential readership is more gullible than ever – particularly in my home province of Ontario. According to this piece in Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper, only 51 per cent of Ontario residents believe that the Earth is millions of years old, and human beings evolved from less complicated forms of life. In
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