Biology in Science Fiction (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Here about the beach I wander, Nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, And the long results of time." - Alfred Tennyson The Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era featured coral reefs in shallow seas, and abundant life - jawless fish, sea scorpions , nautiloid cephalopods , trilobites and other creatures - inhabited the oceans. Plants - mostly mosses - were just emerging...
Grasping For The Wind (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
# Genre: Anthology, Humor # Paperback: 320 pages # Publisher: DAW # Publication Date: November 3, 2009 # ISBN-10: 0756405793 # ISBN-13: 978-0756405793 # Editor Website: Denise Little The trouble with heroes, is, of course, that the truth about them is never quite as heroic as the songs, ballads, and stories would have us believe. Using this conceit, editor Denise Little [...] Related posts: Book Review:...
SEO Blog and Entertainmet Blogger (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
NecroVision (2009) Quote: Description: NecroVisioN is first-person shooter that takes places in a varied range of locations, from the horrific and bloody trenches of World War One, to secret labs and underground caverns plagued by gruesome undead creatures. You must battle through legions of German soldiers and hideous monsters, as you venture forth into this terrible underworld. Inspired by infamous...
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Review by Ed and Christopher Sizemore Howard Lovecraft is not having a great Christmas. His father has been committed to a sanitarium. Understandably, his mother isn’t handling it well. However, there is one bright spot. On Christmas Eve, Howard’s mother gives him a book written by his father. Howard settles in to read and is immediately [...]
Yet Another Comics Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Here are the comics we added to our library collection in July (yes, I'm way behind; I'll be catching up over the next several days...): Adachi, Mitsuru. Tatchi = Touch vols. 2, 7 / Tōkyō : Shōgakukan, 1992-1994. Adams, Scott, 1957- Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! : cartoonist ignores helpful advice / New York : Portfolio, 2007. Akimoto, Osamu, 1952- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari...
Endless Ramblings of A Demented Min (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There's nothing manlier than H. P. Lovecraft's horror tales and especially that of Cthulhu...unless it takes this version. The Adventures of Little Cthulhu Forwarded my direction from the wife, this is a great video which carves the tales of H. P. Lovecraft just a wee bit differently. I hope you enjoy it!
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A fantastic tome for readers to sink their teeth, or fangs, into. Sponsored Topics: Vampire - Arts - Otto Penzler - Horror - People
The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
To quote myself: "When the paintings move, so should you." (Moving photographs should also be avoided at all costs.) All Horror Masters files are PDFs. Gertrude Atherton, "The Bell in the Fog" (Literary Gothic) E. F. Benson, "The Cat" (Horror...
Roscoe's Public Notes (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Short stories from the anthology, Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow, will provide some of my horror-themed reading moving into this Halloween weekend. This 336-page book carries the following description: The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the [...]
Bitterfig (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
On Friday I went to an exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum called “American’s Rome : Artists in the Eternal City 1800-1900 that spotlighted the Roman themed work of 19 th century American Artists. The exhibit included many painting of ruins and the commentary on these featured a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Marble Faun that I really liked: “( America is) a land...
annies home (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Quatable Sunday is hosted by Toni at the blog A Daily Dose of Toni On Hallowe'en the thing you must do Is pretend that nothing can frighten you An' if somethin' scares you and you want to run Jus' let on like it's Hallowe'en fun. - - - from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. - - - Lloyd Douglas The oldest and strongest...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
While talking about _The Raw Shark Texts_ yesterday I remembered a short story about the Necronomicon corrupting texts it was stored with - put it with a copy of Milton and *all* copies everywhere of Paradise Lost are permanently corrupted. That story I couldn't remember the name of at the time is "The Adder" by Fred Chappell, which I had in the Chaosium trade paperback anthology of Necronomicon-related...
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
CONTEXT! In thinking about the value of reviews beyond the consumer-guide, one thing that struck me that reviewers (can) do is provide context for the work being seen. They're not the only ones who do this, of course. CultureBot (for...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction? Read on to see their level-setting...
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
{Photo and jack-o-lantern by flickr user coldways , used under a Creative Commons license .} A weekend of air travel--whose horrors are all too real to offer any of the pleasures of the season--allowed me finally to cross from Volume I to Volume II of the Library of America 's new American Fantastic Tales . The break between volumes coincides with World War II and the concomitant shift from agrarian...
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