Category: News
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What’s waiting on the other side of summer?
The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of the past, the more we’ve come to love Halloween—the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, the “other side” is closest, and everyone can become anyone or anything they wish… and sometimes what they don’t. Eighteen original stories…
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Laughrey Connolly Reunion @ Riley’s
It’s the season for music reunions. Styx and REO Speedwagon are back on the road, and Lou Gramm might (or might not) be considering reuniting with Foreigner. But the really big event is happening this Thursday at Riley’s Pour House, the spot that Pittsburgh Magazine has named the Best Irish Pub in Pittsburgh. That’s where…
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Spring Fever Blog Tour with Tracee Ford
Interview with Tracee Ford Did you always want to be a writer? If not what did you want to be? Funny thing. After five books and over 50 short fiction sales, I’m still not comfortable calling myself a writer. I’m just a guy who writes. It’s about the verb, not the label; about the doing,…
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Textual Origins of Mary Shelley’s Monster: The Grave Misconception
A few months ago, a monster came to town. It started as a small disturbance south of Jamaica and grew as it headed north, picking up speeds and moisture, and finally developing into a hurricane as it ascended the eastern seaboard of the United States. Along the way, it earned the name Sandy, but that…
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Between Books
They say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. That’s generally true, but there are exceptions . . . and Between Books is one of them. You see, I knew from the first time I stepped inside that I had found someplace remarkable. Between Books is a real book store. Within its long…
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The Horror Zine on Fear the Abyss.
There’s a sweet review of Eric Beebe’s Fear the Abyss over at The Horror Zine. It has some terrific things to say about stories by Joseph Williams, Jack Ketchum, Gary A. Braunbeck, Jamie Lackey, Tim Waggoner, Kenneth W. Cain, and Jeyn Roberts. And then there’s this: “Human Caverns” by Lawrence C. Connolly is a beautifully descriptive…