Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: fantasy

  • Researching a Novel: My Lost World

    Rain forests, deserts, volcanic mountains, green-sand beaches. They’re all part of the alien landscape of a novel project that links and expands my novelettes “Daughters of Prime” and “The Others” (both of which originally appeared in F&SF). Since the alien setting will feature ever-more prominently in the book-length version, I figured it would be a good idea to experience such…

  • From “Starry Nights” to “Life’s Adventures”
    Story Night Rocks!

    In the recent posts “Storytelling Night” and “The Stars Came Out,” I endeavored to cover last week’s “Starry Nights and Celestial Conversations,” which had far more highlights than can be covered in three blog posts. In other words, if you want to get all that Story Night has to offer, you just have to be there. In addition to…

  • Professor Challenger:
    New Worlds, Lost Places

    “The whole matter is very fully and lucidly discussed in my forthcoming volume upon the earth, which I may describe with all due modesty as one of the epoch-making books of the world’s history.” – Professor G. E. Challenger When the World Screamed Featuring cover art by Academy-Award winning artist Dave Kelsey and new fiction from…

  • Who Says You Can’t Repeat the Past?

    The good people at PARSEC, Pittsburgh premier science fiction organization, have posted the audio of my April 11 presentation “Dreams, Memory, and Time Travel.” It’s the first in what I understand will be a series of podcasts featuring speakers from Parsec’s monthly meetings. Held in Squirrel Hill, the meeting gave me a chance to revisit my…

  • Sinister Appetites & Dark Discoveries

    I’ve been a fan of the stories of Robert Aickman since I first discovered them in the pages to F&SF in the 1976 and then went on to savor his collections Cold Hand in Mine, The Wine Dark Sea, and others. Strange, surreal, and imbued the essence of dreams — his tales helped kindle my interest in…

  • Featured Audio
    A Story by Horror Master Stephen Volk

    I’ve been a Stephen Volk fan ever since I caught the movie Gothic at a midnight run back in 1987. Directed by Ken Russell, the same over-the-top director responsible for such classics as Altered States and The Devils, Gothic presents Stephen Volk’s reimagining of events that led to the writing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Among his other film…