Archive for February, 2008
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February 29, 2008
Dean Koontz The Origin of Audio Books
Dean Koontz has placed 10 of his backlist novels with Brilliance Audio for release, unabridged on CD. Lightning, Whispers and Winter Moon appeared last year. Phantoms hits stores in January. In honor of all things audio, Koontz has written an essay on the History of Audio Books. Here’s the opening …
“Ten thousand years before the first word of history was written, the first audio book was created by Og, brother of Nogg and Plogg, son of Vog and Noog, grandson of Zogg and Heather. Og was a born storyteller frustrated that paper had not yet been invented. He wrote his first book on slabs of wood, burning the words and pictures into the surface with sharp pieces of stone superheated in fire fed by Wooly Mammoth fat. He is credited by some with inventing the words “hot,” “ouch,” “S***,” “***k,” “D**n,” and “************,” as well as the exclamation point.”
To read the rest, visit: The Origin of Audio Books
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February 29, 2008
AMerican Gods Neil Gaiman
As a result of his reader’s poll, Neil Gaiman has posted American Gods online for everyone to enjoy for free. The book will only be up for one month, so if you’re interested, you need to get over there now.
It’s all here for you: American Gods
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February 28, 2008
Filmmaker Greg Lamberson, whose novel Johnny Gruesome is currently available as a signed and numbered Limited Edition hardcover from Bad Moon Books, has announced development of two new motion pictures he intends to direct before the year is over: Deadly Rites and Slime City Massacre.
“Deadly Rites was written by a friend named Walt Jantzen, and we’ve been developing it for years,” says Lamberson. “The story is essentially ‘Deliverance meets Helter Skelter,’ with great heroes and villains—really strong material.”
Slime City Massacre is a sequel to Lamberson’s micro-budget Slime City, currently celebrating its 20th anniversary with a soundtrack CD and film festival screenings.
“Slime City Massacre is a celebration of the whole ‘80s era of latex filmmaking, not just a sequel to my film. I’m writing the screenplay now, and I already have one investor lined up. Robert Sabin and Mary Huner will be back in supporting roles, and I’m writing the lead for Erika Smith, who’s expressed interest, and a number of other roles for fan favorites. This will be a down and dirty film, just like the original, only with a lot of surprises” says Lamberson.
Lamberson also recently completed a book called Cheap Scares! How to Make a Low Budget Horror Film for McFarland and Company. The book uses his own experiences and misadventures in low budget filmmaking to teach aspiring filmmakers the ropes, and features interviews with J.R. Bookwalter, Roy Frumkes, Larry Fessenden, Brett Piper, Scooter McCrae and others.
You can find out more by going to Greg Lamberson’s website.
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February 27, 2008
Dark Ride Michael Laimo
Dark Ride is a brand new signed limited hardcover collection of short fiction by one of the brightest young writers in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. These stories range from the horrific to the surreal, and prove Michael Laimo to be a compelling stylist and relentless storyteller. None have been collected previously and some are original to this Borderlands Press volume.
It features an introduction by Brian Keene and is signed by him as well as the author.
“Summer Fling” is not just another monster tale, and wraps up with a resolution that is as wicked as it is unexpected. In “The Rash,” the author re-examines a personal nightmare to create a universal tale of biological terror-illuminating that moment when we discover something is going very wrong with our own bodies. Other tales which explore this territory are “Contact Lenses” and “Scarred for Life.”
Laimo uses his knowledge as a native New Yorker to summon up a frightening and memorable subway ride in “End of the Line.” Then he switches gears in “Something in the Air” to examine a small town visited by a very original kind of evil.
Other tales range from the playful, such as “Aftermath,” to the extreme, as in “The Exploitations of George Frederick Leighton,” and the oddly experimental “I Exude in Partials.”
In addition, a new novelette, “The Startling Supplements to Brione Heloise’s Depictions” appears here for the first time. Written as an homage to the work of H. P. Lovecraft, it reveals yet another aspect of Laimo’s admirable talent.
Shipping in March. To reserve your copy of Dark Ride, visit: Borderlands Press
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February 27, 2008
THE BANQUET (2006) It is 10th century China during the Five Dynasties Period. When the Emperor is murdered, his brother Li usurps the thrown and takes his wife Empress Wan as his own. Prince Wu, fearing for his life, and knowing that he will never have the heart of Wan, flees the palace and politics in favor of a life of theatre and song. Li fears that Wu will someday return and try to take
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February 27, 2008
Horror Mall Joyride The Folks 2
These are the newest pre-order titles available through Horror Mall …
Joyride by Jack Ketchum Featuring a special afterword entitled “On Writing Joyride” by Jack Ketchum. Howard deserved to die. For years, he abused his wife physically, verbally, and psychologically. Even after the separation, he kept coming back for more. Carol and her lover, Lee, knew there was only one way to stop Howard for good. They planned every detail. And they thought they had committed the perfect crime. But a stranger named Wayne witnessed what they did, and he was thrilled by what he saw. Now Wayne wants to be their friend. He wants to share the thrill of murder with them. He wants to take Carol and Lee on a road trip straight to hell so his new friends can enjoy his all-out killing spree that can only end one way…
The Folks 2: No Place Like Home by Ray Garton Andy Sayer is a new man. His external scars, left over from being badly burned as a child, are gone, and he has fallen in love. But he still lives with the Bollinger family, and Matthew Bollinger keeps a close eye on what Andy does with his life - and on who he loves. While Andy’s outer scars have been surgically removed, his internal scars never heal. And Andy’s hunger for revenge has receded over the last five years, but it is about to return in a big way.
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February 27, 2008
The Bizarro Starter Kit
There’s a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Andersen Prunty, Eckhard Gerdes, Bradley Sands, Steve Aylett, Christian TeBordo, and Tony Rauch.
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February 26, 2008
Review by Siko Mike
Marion Crane is a trusted business woman and agrees to take her employer’s client’s $40,000 to the bank for him. After she leaves her office, she decides to leave town and use the cash all for herself. Marion begins to get paranoid since a cop is on to her and her employer spots her in her car. She heads down the interstate and buys a new car for her escape to her lover’s house. She mistakenly gets off the main road when it begins raining really hard, so she stops at the Bates Motel to get some rest and is greeted by the friendly co-owner of the motel named Norman Bates.
Norman invites her to have dinner with him and seems like a loner who is taking care of his sick mother. Later that night while taking a shower, Marion is brutally stabbed to death by Norman’s deranged mother. Marion’s sister Lila is worried that her sister hasn’t contacted her and seeks the help of a detective and her sister’s lover Sam. What they uncover is the most shocking evidence imaginable. (more…)
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February 26, 2008
Review by Noel
In January 2008, one of the first major studio releases of the year was the not-so-eagerly awaited, much lambasted remake of One Missed Call. If like me, you were one of the 13 people nationwide that out of sheer boredom and a lack of other new releases to watch shelled out your hard-earned cash to see this, well you truly know the meaning of the word regret…
So for whatever reason, I decided to watch Takeshi Miike’s original again, to see why American producers would even want to make another version. I’d seen it in 2004, but only remembered a basic outline of it and thought it would do me well to redial, if you will (sorry, that was bad) and make sure I didn’t miss a moment of…One Missed Call. (more…)
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February 25, 2008
30-Second Bunnies Theatre do GRINDHOUSE!
Here are the first two pics from the TERROR TRAIN remake, which have been stolen annexed from Bloody Disgusting.
The trailer for THE HIDING, the next film from Shozin Fukui, the director of RUBBER’S LOVER and 964 PINOCCHIO.
Jun Planning has some adorable GREMLINS figures on the horizon.
- A Teaser Site has been launched for Alexandra Aja’s
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