Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Stephen King

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Time-Travel Recommendations

    A couple of weeks ago on Prime Stage Mystery Theatre, we asked: What is your favorite time-travel story? We had already listed a dozen titles (all featured in the Mystery Theatre story “Time is Out of Joint”). You can check out our posts of March 3rd and March 8th for more information on those titles,…

  • Craic at the Fright Pub:
    Remembering the Premiere of Creepshow

    Stephen King and Peter Straub read from The Talisman at the World Fantasy Convention in New Haven, Connecticut, October 1982. Photo:The 21st Century Scop The first rule of Fright Pub is you must listen to Fright Pub. And the second rule of Fright Pub is bring something to drink. That’s because, at this horror-movie podcast,…

  • Writer at Work:
    Standing up for Your Writes

    “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” C.S. Lewis gave that advice in 1937, in an article titled, “Breaking in Print.” But it didn’t originate with him. He got it from his mentor Mary Heaton Vorse, who seems to be the source…

  • Spring Events:
    April is the Coolest Month

    Apologies 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…

  • The 2011 Bram Stoker Award™ Winners!

    The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards™ at its annual awards banquet last night. This year’s presentation was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the World Horror Convention, and marks the 25th Anniversary of the awards. The award is named for Bram Stoker, best known as the author…

  • Beyond the Walls of Horror

    Horror isn’t a genre. It’s an ingredient. A seasoning. Such things have been pointed out before, most notably by Douglas Winter in Revelations (1997), but a quick look at this year’s Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot shows that it bears repeating. This year the short-fiction jury has selected three strong works from mainstream publications, Ramona…