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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?
At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded
Gothic.net contributor Maria Alexander’s new poetry collection, At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded, is an assembly of emotions and senses that touch you from top to bottom. Drawing from the days when the enigmatic drink, absinthe, was illegal and mystifying, Maria’s passion and love of the Green Fairy shows in the words that pour forth over the slotted spoon and into our minds. This collection of dark poetry reaches into the innermost recesses, stirring our deepest desires, touching imaginary… Read More »
Game of Thrones Episode 202, “The Night Lands”
In “The Night Lands,” we get Game of Thrones’ most pornotastic episode yet. As everyone’s expectations are shattered or shifted, we find out one thing I’ve suspected all along: Melisandre goes commando under those crimson robes. At a rough count, there are nearly 10 different intertwined plot lines in this episode alone. This week, Robb Stark and Jaime Lannister were not to be seen, along with Joffrey and Sansa, and Bran back at Winterfell. Good thing, too. With the blizzard of characters in a given… Read More »
The Edge of Sundown (Paying Market)
Editors Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass are currently reading for an anthology of scary Western tales, to be published by role-playing game company Chaosium, home of Call of Cthulu. Supernatural elements welcome. THE EDGE OF SUNDOWN An Original Anthology of Western Horror Stories Writer’s Guidelines Welcome to the writers’ guidelines for the western horror fiction anthology The Edge of Sundown, to be assembled by Kevin Ross (Dead But Dreaming 1 and 2) and Brian M. Sammons (Cthulhu Unbound 3 and Undead & Unbound),… Read More »
Poppy Z. Brite Collectible Art and Lost Souls
Long before the current teen vampire craze, Gothic.net contributor Poppy Z. Brite wrote her seminal vampire novel Lost Souls. Poppy Z. Brite’s teens were edgier and more real. Although these days Poppy Z. Brite is Billy Martin and has gone on to writing on more explicitly gay non-horror topics, you have the opportunity to get a one-of-a-kind collectible version of Lost Souls on eBay now. This collectible is a signed hardcover copy of Lost Souls with original chartreuse-inspired artwork by the author and the autograph… Read More »
Panel of Experts: Novels vs. Anthologies
Question: Do you enjoy novels or anthologies more? Why? A little more than half of us prefer novels to anthologies. We like to be truly transported for hours. We like to get to know memorable characters deeply. We love to immerse ourselves in a good author’s fully-realized vision. This does not mean that we are evenly split between preferring anthologies and preferring novels. Only around a sixth of us prefer anthologies. Some of us love the intense sharp shock of a good short horror story.… Read More »
Panel of Experts: Favorite Monsters
Question: What are your favorite monsters and what specifically appeals to you about them? A lot of us love the classic Universal monsters and could not choose just one. Some of us most fear the monsters we recognize the best for our worst impulses — murderers, serial killers, angry and sad people. Some of us most enjoy the monsters we see some positive qualities of ourselves in — vampires and werewolves and dragons we might love or tame. This perhaps means that some of us… Read More »
2011 Bram Stoker Award Winners
Congratulations to all the Stoker winners! This is all work well worth checking out. Superior Achievement in a NOVEL Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press) Superior Achievement in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL (tie) > The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder (Razorbill) > Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Superior Achievement in a GRAPHIC NOVEL Neonomicon by Alan Moore (Avatar Press) Superior Achievement in… Read More »
2011 Stoker Awards (Video)
Gothic.net was happy so many friends of the site were nominated for Stoker Awards this year. Due to the wonders of the internet, without going to Utah for the weekend, you can see the ceremony (but not the debauched afterparties) in the archived webcast from World Horror. Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards™ for Superior Achievement in the field of horror writing, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work Dracula. Since 1987, the approximately 700… Read More »
Game of Thrones Episode 201, “The North Remembers”
The second season of Game of Thrones has finally arrived. The first episode prepares us for the Clash of Kings to come, setting all the major players in their corners and drawing the lines of battle, soon to be crossed. Imagine a ring announcer shouting, “Let’s get ready to rumble!” in an overwrought British accent. Why are there so many kings in the Seven Kingdoms right now? Last season revolved around Eddard Stark acting as the King’s hand for his old friend, Robert Baratheon, and… Read More »
Stoker Awards Nominees
The Stokers have announced the nominees. There are a lot of really excellent dark writers nominated. Gothic.net would like to especially wish luck to Brian Hodge, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ellen Datlow, G. O. Clark, J. G. Faherty, Lisa Morton, Marge Simon, Maria Alexander, and Thomas Roche tomorrow night. No matter who wins, the real winners are all of us who get to read so much quality horror. This year’s nominees in each category are: SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL A Matrix Of Angels by Christopher… Read More »
