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When I was a very young child, I had been given a “magic stick.” I found that I could make marks on things with this pencil. I used this “magic stick” to write on paper, walls, floors or any surface that I could find, even though my parents didn’t always appreciate where I chose to create my murals. Then, I began to discover that I could control this tool. In time, the crayon joined the pencil. The smell of crayons still brings back those first […]
Alice Henderson has been writing since her father gave her his old Underwood manual typewriter when she was six. From early on she wrote tales of the supernatural, spooking herself as she pounded away on the typewriter in her childhood turn-of-the-century house. Her passion for writing only grew, and she wrote her first novel at age eleven. She suspects that novel, tired of lurking in a drawer for so long, will one day make its escape and purchase a small Pacific island where it will […]
Gene Stewart was born on the 146th birthday of Charles Dickens in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He began writing eight years later and publishing three years after that. Editor Jeanne Cavelos favorably compared one of his unpublished short novels, Box Set, to J. D. Salinger’s work, while writer Harlan Ellison has called his work “Scintillant”. Stewart’s fiction spans many styles and genres but hallmarks of his work include compassion for the common man; themes of doubt, paranoia, and the discovery of hidden worlds or agendas; and the […]
IFC has brought Shinya Tuskamoto’s man machine classic Tetsuo movies to On Demand. Tetsuo III: The Bullet Man went live for On Demand this week. Tetsuo III is the first Tetsuo movie to be made in English. IFC describes the impact the controversial director made in the West, before even making an English language Tetsuo, “Shinya Tsukamoto was among a group of directors responsible for a revival of innovative and daring Japanese cinema beginning in the early 1980’s. TETSUO I: THE IRON MAN (1989), Tsukamoto’s […]
Kevin David Anderson was born in Indiana but now lives and writes speculative fiction in Southern California. His fiction has appeared in the pages of Dark Animus, Dark Wisdom, Darkness Rising, and a bunch of other publications with the word dark in the title. In 2008 he became the first American to be published in the South African Horror Magazine Something Wicked and a growing number of his stories are now available in audio format via some groundbreaking podcasts like Pseudopod, & Drabblecast. He earned […]
Blue Blood (SFW) reports that burlesque star and Blue Blood (NSFW) beauty is doing a star turn on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation tonight. You can check out this Gothic.net gallery from CSI, tune in to CBS tonight, or watch the show on the CBS web site after it airs. Tonight, Dita Von Teese is gracing CBS with her lovely self on CSI: Crime Scene investigation. She plays the love interest for Eric Szmanda’s character Greg Sanders. The episode is called A Kiss Before Frying and […]
Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Marcy Italiano now lives in Waterloo, Ontario. On May 30, 2008, her wonderful identical twin boys, Kaden and Thomas, were born. She went to Bishop Ryan High School in Hamilton and the University of Waterloo. She has worked as a webmaster since 2005. Previous to that she came from teaching adult computer classes, and corporate computer training. She also writes. She writes when she can, edits when she needs to, but she is working on it all the […]
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, “Thor,” which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A beautiful, young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes […]
