This image came to me a couple months shy of a year ago, when the Republican Party primaries hadn’t had much of a start. An anonymous fan with photoshop had whipped this up and posted it on Reddit, and another fan had sent it to me. How did I feel about it? What is the […]
We’ve talked about this before at the Yard: my novelette “Jules and Richard,” and its inclusion in Ellen Datlow’s Children of Lovecraft anthology–with its all-star lineup of weird writers, its Mike Mignola cover, its editorial pedigree. Well. Dark Horse has let it free this week, and its available all sorts of places: Amazon, Barnes &
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Actor and dad Leeman Kessler stopped by Toronto earlier this summer with his beautiful family, and of course the resuscitated shade of H.P. Lovecraft. We met up at a local pub on the Danforth for a chat and a drink, and somehow the conversation got around to exsanguination. This happens more often than you might
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A couple of months ago, Canadian Notes & Queries published my story “The Parable of the Cylinder,” in their Spring 2016 “Games” issue. It’s a story about Russian roulette strategies, and religion, and following from both of those, a discussion of the ramifications of turning the other cheek. It was also hard-ish to find, particularly
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There will be at least two more stories out from me this year, it looks like. Maybe three, possibly four. If the fourth happens, I count seven new stories in different venues for 2016, which for me is a pretty big haul. One of those stories is available now in Molly Tanzer’s amazing new journal
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I’d been vague-blogging this one in the last post about “The Caretakers,” which thanks to editor Ellen Datlow was up at Tor.com in February. Now I’m proper-blogging, that my novelette “Jules and Richard” will be appearing in Children of Lovecraft, again thanks to editor Ellen Datlow, who invited me to a party with a bunch
Call this an all-purpose post, to talk about stories arrived and upcoming. First up: “The Caretakers,” a short story that’s a big deal for me, as it’s up at Tor.com now, thanks to the good graces and editorial acumen of Ellen Datlow, and also the graphic genius of Greg Ruth. It is a strange little
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I’ve never written much fan fiction–not intentionally; I always had a sense that whatever my influences, they should stay influences. So if I thought well of Ian Fleming’s stories, I should take lessons from them in a new work rather than writing a story about James Bond. If I enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut… I should probably
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It has been two months now since Madeline Ashby and I tied the knot. We had our wedding at a place in Toronto called The Forth — a restaurant and event space that opened up not too long ago at Pape Avenue and Danforth Avenue in the east end of Toronto. We picked the venue
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It has been a year less a day now, since I wrote this piece, Don’t Mention the War, whinging about the difficulties I’d experienced, getting people to talk about H.P. Lovecraft and the racism that informs a lot of his fiction, and also taking a few steps to argue the case that this was so.
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