Sucker Punch has problems, yes. Usually, though, you can squint just right, only watch the parts of the movie that the trailer sold you on, and you’re good. Not this time. Which, this is a hyperkinetic, Scott Pilgrim-kind of fantasy fight movie involving steam-powered zombies, with some pretty cool updates of standard songs going on in the background (and foreground), such that the whole thing feels like an Evanescence video, I guess. Any one of which should be enough …
So one time I’m on the phone with the bank, talking to a robot about money, when I hit the wrong key, somehow ended up with Laird Barron on the other end, and I could tell from the way he was talking that his mouth was just real close to the phone, close enough I had to hold my phone out, look at it. But then I listened. He was already talking, he might have even been mostly asleep, and his voice, something about it, it kind of unmoored me, made me not so much suspicious that he was calling from …
that I’m proud and lucky and honored to be in: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, ed. Paula Guran.…
Couple new stories up in the debut of Timber, “The Bridge” and “The Wisdom of Solomon.”
Also, Juked‘s put “Snow Monsters” up in the 2011 Million Writers Award. …
Couple of TOCs I’m lucky enough to be in posted today, Creatures, edited by Paul Tremblay and John Langan, and Bestiary, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.
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a very cool place. I like the idea, too, of stopping at the first, you know, ‘stop.’ think it’s what I always do. and, got a story up there, “Seafood.”…
from Publisher’s Weekly:
…The Ones That Got Away
Stephen Graham Jones, Prime (www.prime-books.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60701-235-1Thirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones’s second collection (after 2005’s Bleed into Me). Several stories feature children coming of age: in “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” a father and son, stranded and awaiting rescue, sustai
These are, I don’t know, between fifty and ninety movie-type reviews I wrote back in 1999 or so. Pretty much the exact same few months I was first writing DEMON THEORY, yeah. Anyway, I only messed up on a couple. Stigmata‘s one of them, I think. But I got a couple right as well, maybe: Fight Club, American Beauty, and Unbreakable and American Pie 3 made me happy with what I’d written for American Pie and Sixth Sense, respectively. Anyway, I’d still be doi…
couple new stories up at/with Platte Valley Review. “Girls” and “Bulletproof.” they’re in great company, too.…
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