Tag: horror
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Spring Events:
April is the Coolest MonthApologies to T. S. Eliot, but I couldn’t resist the headline. And there will indeed be some cool things happening now that the winter that “kept us warm” has come to an end. First up, I’ll be giving a talk at the Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley on April 27, sharing details surrounding the adaptation of my…
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From Page to Screen: A Story’s Journey
It’s the journey, not the destination. Emerson said something like that once. He might have been talking about screenwriting. The path that “Traumatic Descent” (a.k.a. “This Way to Egress”) has taken on its way to the screen is the subject of a newspaper article in a recent issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. On the whole, the paper…
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Mick Garris on NIGHTMARE CINEMA:
“Horror Films are Good for You”Ever since the anthology series Masters of Horror premiered on Showtime back in 2005, the show’s creator Mick Garris has wanted to do something more international in scope. Now, ten years later, that dream is becoming a reality with Nightmare Cinema, a feature film currently in pre-production in Los Angeles. Featuring five short films directed…
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Reading with Tom Monteleone:
A Night of Fantastic Fiction at KGBWe took Manhattan. This past Wednesday, my good friend Tom Monteleone and I performed for an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s KGB, the literary venue in the East Village that has become known as the best literary venue in the city. That’s us (left) plotting before the show, having a sit down in a scene that looks…