Tag: The Outer Limits
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This Way to Egress: Grit
[This is the second in a series of posts on the shooting of the “This Way to Egress” segment of Nightmare Cinema. You can find the first installment here. The film is available for free on Freevee and Tubi or to rent or own on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu.] Filming “This Way to Egress” began…
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Welcome to My Nightmares:
A Video Essay on Cinematic MonstersYou’ve heard of man-made monsters. Today, let’s consider a video essay about a monster-made man … or at least a monster-made writer. Namely: the 21st-Century Scop. Here’s the backstory: Last year I was invited to take part in a speaker series sponsored by the Uniontown Library. Helmed in part by author Heidi Ruby Miller (who also…
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Gone Scopping:
Keeping the Oral Tradition Alive @ KGBIf you’re like me, you spend a lot of time reading screens. When it comes to accessibility, the digital format is hard to beat. But is it the best format for sharing stories? I recall an article at CNN.com in which a writer lamented the loss of print: “I miss the edges – physical and psychological. I…
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When you look into this book . . .
. . . it looks into you. For their new anthology, the good people at Post-Mortem Press have assembled an impressive lineup of writers who’ve made careers probing the depths of human existence, with editor Eric Beebe challenging each to examine the intersection between science fiction and horror. In the publisher’s words: The search for knowledge and…