Today we offer that fellow with the ability to cloud men’s minds.
If decide to spend some time with Lamont Cranston. You never know where it might lead. It could lead to the fulfillment of your wildest dreams. Or it could lead to the …
“Nightmare at Gaelsberry” originally aired on “The Shadow” radio program on February 2, 1941.
Here’s another one from the seventies. Guess that’s “old time radio” too these days.
When you lose a job, you likely take anything to pay the bills. But just be careful of who you work with. Because sometimes you’ll find …
“The Lady was a Tiger” originally aired on “The CBS Radio Mystery Theater” on February 5, 1974.
This show begins with a local news broadcast from 1974. We left it in because we found it of historic interest. However, it you’re not interested, the show proper starts at around the 6:30 mark.
An unforgettable episode of “Suspense” from Lucille Fletcher author of such radio classics as “The Hitch-hiker” and “Sorry Wrong Number”.
Sometimes that stranger in the corner is after you. Sometimes he is a man from beyond the grave. And sometimes he’s just …
“The Night Man” originally aired on “Suspense” on October 26, 1944.
A ghostly tale of portent and property.
What is that at the end of your bed? Is it just a trick of the light? A dream? A hallucination? Or is it an …
“Apparition” originally aired on “The Whistler” on November 15, 1942.
Kindle versions of Michael West’s horror novels Cinema of Shadows and Poseidon’s Children are available for free via Amazon, today only! So fire up your Kindle or point or iPad and pick those books up now!
Facebook can be an entertaining place. Sometimes accidentally so. As the blooming of a friendship (above) between the Phantasm series’ Reggie Bannister with the Friday the 13th Series‘ Kane Hodder. Wonder what such a meeting would look like on screen?
John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of the novel Let the Right One In, has turned his attention from vampires to zombies in his new novel Handling the Undead.
Publisher’s Weekly says:
This intelligent look into the psychological side of the undead will entice longtime zombie fans eager for a subversive examination of some of the horror genre‘s most recognizable monsters.
However, Bloody Disgusting argues:
Handling the Undead trades that novel’s character depth and riveting dialogue for a shitload of slow-paced rumination and spiritual reflection. Once the novel ends, you realize how little has actually occurred.
However, some little birds tell us that the US movie rights to this novel are about to be snatched up. We expect to see sale news some time in the next two weeks.
Caity Lotz who be part of the Undead Task Force on MTV's upcoming horror-comedy series "Death Valley"
The series entitled “Death Valley” follows the adventures of the Undead Task Force which battles monster of all varieties in the San Fernando Valley. It will be a blend of horror and comedy and star Caity Lotz (“Mad Men”) and Tania Raymonde (“Lost”). The show will be produced in a documentary style.
MTV production VP Tony Dibari told the Hollywood reporter:
“‘Death Valley’ is the perfect combination of horror and comedy, two genres we know our audience responds to … That blend, combined with a fast pace and gritty ‘follow doc’ visual style, will take viewers on a wild ride where they are never sure what’s around the next corner.
And MTV hopes that big ratings will be around that next corner. Though horror comedies haven’t had the best track record on TV.
Here’s the cover and table of contents for a new Lovecraft Mythos anthology edited by Ellen Datlow. The anthology will be out in October.
It looks worth it for that cover alone. Who wouldn’t want that sitting on a coffee table?
“Introduction” by Ellen Datlow
“The Crevasse” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
“The Office of Doom” by Richard Bowes
“Sincerely, Petrified” by Anna Tambour
“The Din of Celestial Birds” by Brian Evenson
“The Tenderness of Jackals” by Amanda Downum
“Sight Unseen” by Joel Lane
“Cold Water Survival” by Holly Phillips
“Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love” by William Browning Spencer
“Houses Under the Sea” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“Machines of Concrete Light and Dark” by Michael Cisco
“Leng” by Marc Laidlaw
“In the Black Mill” by Michael Chabon
“One Day, Soon” by Lavie Tidhar
“Commencement” by Joyce Carol Oates
“Vernon, Driving” by Simon Kurt Unsworth
“The Recruiter” by Michael Shea
“Marya Nox” by Gemma Files
“Mongoose” by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
“Catch Hell” by Laird Barron
“That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable” by Nick Mamatas
For immediate release
Contact Steven Wedel, HWA publicity
Jan. 23, 2009
WILSON, YARBRO WIN LIFETIME HORROR AWARD
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given for an author’s overall body of work, will go to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and to F. Paul Wilson.
F. Paul Wilson
Yarbro rose to fame with her vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain. She is the first woman ever to receive the International Horror Guild’s Living Legend award. She also was the first woman elected president of the Horror Writers Association. Yarbro’s novels are notable for laying the groundwork for the recent upsurge of “paranormal romance” and trans-genre fiction.
Wilson is best known for his Repairman Jack series of novels, though those are only a part of his more than 40-book canon. In 1979 he won the first Prometheus Award and claimed a Porgie Award in 1984. He won a Bram Stoker Award in 1999 and has been recognized by the American Library Association and the New York Public Library.
Deb LeBlanc, current HWA president, said, “Both of our winners this year have made incredible contributions to the field of dark literature. We are very pleased to add Chelsea and Paul to our roster of LAA recipients.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious of the Bram Stoker Awards, given by the HWA in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but over an entire career. Past Lifetime Achievement Award winners include such noted authors as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, and Peter Straub. Winners must have exhibited a profound, positive impact on the fields of horror and dark fantasy, and be at least sixty years of age or have been published for a minimum of thirty-five years.
The LAA will be presented as part of the 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend conference to be held June 12-14 at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Burbank, Calif.
The Horror Writers Association is a worldwide organization promoting dark literature and its creators. Started in 1985, it has over 500 members who are writing professionally in fiction, nonfiction, videogames, films, comics, and other media.
