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A Pop-Up Studio in Las Vegas Lights Self-Made Style Like Couture, 150 Portraits of The Alt Side
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Gothic Beauty 25 Year Reunion of Original Artists Calendar
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Gothic Beauty Magazine #53: A Velvety Blend Of Gothic Flavors
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Gothic Beauty Magazine Issue #52: A Feast Of Gothic Artistry
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Panel of Experts: How do you feel fiction-writing and screen-writing compare?
2012 Blood Iris Anthology (Paying Market)
Red Iris is a small press specializing in darker urban fantasy, paranormal, and horror. If you write in that bailiwick, but are told your work is too brutal, you might want to give Red Iris a try. They are currently reading for their Blood Iris Anthology of short fiction. Call for Submissions: Blood Iris Anthology 2012 We are currently accepting short story submissions for the 2012 Blood Iris Anthology. Our books tread the line between horror and paranormal, so we love explicit violence, disturbing content,… Read More »
The Raven (illustrated poem)
With The Raven movie, starring John Cusack, opening this weekend, we thought today might be an appropriate day to post Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem The Raven. This is from a Project Gutenberg archive of an illustrated 1883 edition. Gustave Doré was the illustrator. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber… Read More »
Game of Thrones Episode 204, Garden of Bones
This week’s Game of Thrones propelled the story forward in leaps and bounds. Robb Stark waged war, Joffrey revealed the depths of his cruelty, Daenerys got out of the desert, the brothers Baratheon vied for the crown, and Davos Seaworth helped Melisandre enact one of the most bizarre incidents in the entire Song of Ice and Fire series. While it moved the players forward quite a bit, this episode didn’t feel as rushed as previous weeks. We got to spend a lot more time with… Read More »
Criminal Element (Paying Market)
Criminal Element, a subsidiary of leading publishing house Macmillan, is reading for high quality crime and mystery fiction in all subgenres. Much of the site is teasers for forthcoming novels, but they also buy original fiction for the Criminal Element site. Awesome tagline: Murder. Mystery. Mayhem. Professional pay rates and then some. Criminal Element welcomes submissions of original short crime and mystery stories in all subgenres. We are not interested in “true crime” or other non-fiction material. We are interested in stories between 6,000 and… Read More »
Blood-Spattered Bathroom Accessories
A picture of a bloody bath mat, with the caption, “bath mat that turns red when wet”, has been burning up Pinterest. This is fiction. While it might be cool to have a bath mat which turned blood-red when stepped on with your wet bare feet, this product does not exist. The rug pictured is a creation of Spinning Hat. The Spinning Hat Blood Bath collection includes a bloody bath mat, Blood Bath shower curtain, blood towel, blood apron, blood pillow (Do you use aprons… Read More »
Ashes and Rust by Loren Rhoads
There’s a new chapbook by a very good friend of mine and a truly brilliant writer, Loren Rhoads. Loren is the woman behind the gone but never forgotten Morbid Curiosity magazine, a hugely influential nonfiction zine about first-person experience. Her fiction is equally cool, so I’m really looking forward to checking this out! Sex. Drugs. Rock’n’roll. Space aliens. Demonic possession. Murder. Friendship. Ashes & Rust contains four previously published post-apocalyptic short stories inspired by growing up in Flint, Michigan. The chapbook’s stories originally appeared in… Read More »
New ParaNorman Trailer
Laika, who produced the movie “Coraline” in 2009, in conjunction with Focus Features, will be releasing “Paranorman”, a new stop-animation comedy thriller adventure film on August 17, 2012. Norman Babcock, a young boy, can see and communicate with the dead. An ancient witch’s curse falls upon their New England town of Blithe Hollow, and Norman is the one who can save them all. Filled with not only ghosts, but also zombies, “Paranorman” sees Norman pushed around by classmates and the undead alike. He must become… Read More »
Game of Thrones Episode 203, What is Dead May Never Die
Sometimes you have to make tough choices, setting idealism aside. Sometimes you have to harden your heart against the harshness of the world. Sometimes you have to kill a small part of yourself so that the rest can live. Because “What is Dead May Never Die.” We briefly visit Jon Snow north of the wall, in a direct continuation of his encounter last week with Craster’s cudgel and a baby-eating white walker. Craster throws them all out of his hovel, and Lord Mormont has a… Read More »
Monsterpalooza Wraps
Monsterpalooza is finishing up today at the Burbank Airport Marriott. In attendance were a ton of horror movie special effects makeup artists and an assortment of other horror film celebrities such as Brinke Stevens and Linnea Quigley (and Carroll Spinney who apparently muppeteers Oscar the Grouch!) Monsterpalooza event photo by Cyndee of the traveling tribute to Jack Pierce (which also includes a Frankenstein monster figure), from yesterday’s Pierce – Man Behind the Monsters panel. “Discover the life and legacy of Jack Pierce, the make up… Read More »
Artifacts and Relics: Extreme Sorcery
Christopher Heath and V. Shane at Heathen Oracle are reading for a dark swords & sorcery anthology called Artifacts and Relics: Extreme Sorcery. They are taking the interesting approach of only contacting authors they are going to publish and not sending rejections, as well as announcing acceptances their Facebook page and blog. A modern approach to old tymie fiction. Heathen Oracle pays a bit higher than standard rates for indie press. Heathen Oracle is now accepting stories for its Azieran Adventures anthology, “Artifacts and Relics:… Read More »
