Tag: horror
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Man of Mystery, Horror & Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe as Performance Artist Mustachioed, scowling, dressed in black—Edgar Allan Poe stares at us from the silvered surface of a faded daguerreotype. It is the face of a tortured poet destined for early death, but although the portrait was taken during the height of his struggle with depression and ill health, I can’t…
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Minute-Men Preview at …
Plus Panels on AI, Horror, Writing … and more! This year at Confluence, I’ll be joining brother Christopher Connolly for an in-person preview of our forthcoming novel Minute-Men: Execute & Run, set for release this fall from Caezik Science Fiction & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor Books. The preview will take place 2:00 on…
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Out Now: “Echoes” in Weird Fiction Review
Prosperous Progeny. “And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper.” That’s Mary Shelley, writing in her Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frakenstein. While writing the book as a teenager, she could not have imagined how successful the novel would become. But as an adult, after witnessing a reissue of the…
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It’s 2025 … and We’re Just Getting Started.
Execute & Run It’s been a month since my previous post. That’s generally an indication that I’m neck-deep in a writing project. As I’ve pointed out before, I’m a bit of a monomaniac. One thing at a time, that’s me. A similar gap occurred in January-February 2024 while I was working on a novel titled…
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More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.
In an age when professional magazines are inundated with computer-generated submissions and screen actors can be replaced by CG doppelgangers, there are still activities that remain exclusively in the human domain. I’m referring to in-person events. You can try and simulate them with Zoom and Facetime, but there’s nothing like the real thing, and I…
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Origins of Body Horror
Did it begin in the 1980s? In the decade before computer-generated animation gave us morphing faces in Michael Jackson’s Black or White and the fluid flesh of James Cameron’s Terminator 2, cinema’s masters of practical effects were busily corrupting the human form. Dick Smith gave us rippling flesh in Altered States (1980); Tom Sullivan, the…