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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 […]
Question: Does a storyline seem more or less frightening to you, when BDSM themes are included, such as those in Hellraiser or Ichi the Killer? Some of us find BDSM imagery aesthetically pleasing or erotic and some of us find it unappealing or dull. However, we nearly universally feel that, no matter what the elements […]
Question: What was the first movie or book or television show that scared you? We are a motley bunch with both some pretty disparate and even shocking influences and some very real commonalities. Some of the answers here are eye-openingly unique and some are horror classics. Given that the question is about the first media […]
Amelia G is reading for the sequel to her critically-acclaimed Backstage Passes anthology. Here is the info from her blog and the writers guidelines. I’m still reading for the sequel to Backstage Passes. Backstage Passes is a bit of a who’s who of cool fiction, with work from Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, John […]
Question: What do the reviewers think of Sucker Punch? The movie reviews are in and Sucker Punch has to be one of the most reviled movies of all time. The consensus is that occasional interesting visuals do not make up for a boring and despicable story line and hypocritically sanctimonious attitude. The action and the […]
Everyone at Gothic.net HQ West Coast Division is still recovering from Saturday night. The party to celebrate the newest Gothic.net site design was a smashing success. Luminaries in attendance included writers Maria Alexander, Gram Ponante, and Richard Dean Starr, dark artists Forrest Black, Carlos Batts, and Tim Sin, nightclub impressario Tricia LaBelle, superstar Blue Blood […]
Nineteen hour countdown to the Gothic.net party tonight! A few more kickass things: The event is 18+ (not 21+), which means you only have to be eighteen-years-old to attend. One of the reasons for holding the party at this venue is that they are extra-cool about this. Blue Blood’s Forrest Black and Amelia G will […]
Question: What 2010 horror releases (film or book) did you find most notable? The results are in from our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Literary horror culture is aware of history and how literature, in whatever medium, builds upon what came before. So a lot of us spent 2010 catching up on releases from prior years […]
Amelia G is an award-winning writer. She has authored thousands of nonfiction articles on pop culture. Her fiction is regularly honored in best of anthologies. Her academic background is in English and social psychology and she received Honors at Wesleyan University for her pop culture deconstruction of vampire legends. Locus has described her genre work […]
It is no secret that I love the vampire genre. I received Honors at Wesleyan University for my thesis on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality. And I would like the record to show that I will be speaking on exactly that topic this weekend at Vampire Con in Hollywood. I’ll be […]
