Horror Reanimated… the home of Bloody Books

Digital Wasteland #1

November 5th, 2008

This will be the first of a regular update, (is ‘regular’ non-commital enough, JD’L and Bill?) concerning recently published articles of interest for all us horror fanatics. Not much comment on my part you’ll be glad to know I’m sure, just plain, old-fashioned linkage. Hopefully it’ll save you guys and gals some time trawling through this great stinking, dripping Digital Wasteland. 

First up, something for genre readers by Lisa Tuttle. She reviews horror, science fiction and fantasy for The Times’ Books supplement on a Saturday. A few nice, new parchments of darkness to budget for can be found here.

Weird Tales – yes THAT magazine, (good old HPL et al), is giving away the July/August  issue as a PDF here. It’s a big 100 page baby that make takes a few minutes to deliver, but it’s worth it. But be quick, it’s for a limited time only and obviously trying to encourage a subscription-drive. The issue features fiction from Norman Spinrad, Nick Mamatas, and Karen Heuler; an in-depth interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola; a journey into H.P. Lovecraft’s dreamlands; an exclusive excerpt from Stephen Hunt’s steampunk epic The Court of the Air; and lots of other things. Even the ads are worth a read.

Check out Weird Tales’ website too – a nice little horror community developing over there. 2008′s the 85th anniversary of said title and to celebrate they’ve set up The 85 Weirdest Writers, a page dedicated to us, so we can share all our weirdos with everyone else. Isn’t that nice of them? Great fun. START HERE THOUGH because they want to tell you their 85 first…

Chapbooks. I love ‘em. Cheap and collectable. Chapbooks with zombies in them. Stonk  on! Er, I mean, Creeping Hemlock Press have just put out 2 small and perfectly  malformed zombie chapbooks. Originally given out at Monroeville, Pennsyvania’s  October 2008 Zombie Fest these babies are gonna go fast. 250 copies only. Each of  themsigned. I’ve ordered them both for the credit-crunch-proof sum of $22 including  postage!

 Flesh is Fleeting… Art is Forever! Or, Some Bullshit Will Continue Even After the Dead  Wipe Us Out is by Gary A. Braunbeck, (a Bram Stoker Award winner with his previous zed  chapbook, We Now Pause For Station Identification). As anyone who’ll have read his  work, or the above chapbook, you’ll know you’re in for something special and  decidely unique. And that’s not something that’s easily done when it comes to zeds. 

Kim Paffenroth, author of the Dying to Live series and the Bram Stoker Award-winning Gospel of the Living Dead, collaborates with Creeping Hemlock’s very own R.J. Sevin & Julia Sevin to give us Thin Them Out. This one’s 10k words of pure survival instinct by the looks of it, and what a cover! 

Click through to Creeping Hemlock’s website to check out the blurbs and buy these mini-tomes of the dead.

Oh, and talking of zombies… io9 has a wonderfully researched and illustrated piece on the relationship between social unrest and the number of zombie films being produced and devoured – what do you reckon? More or less? C’mon it’s so obvious…

A zombie on a T-shirt, eh? Just what you’ve been waiting for I bet. This handsome chap’s from the rotting imagination of the designer of Horror Reanimated, Lee Casey, a.k.a Mother Leopard.

So sod the credit crunch, the looming inevitability of mass unemployment and the dark Starbuckless days of fiscal apocalypse, and buy this too I reckon. Spend and die! (Is that okay, Lee?)

And finally, more T-shirts and more horror! The amazing T-shirt emporium that is Threadless is having a competition to design a horror T-shirt in association with the ultmate Bible of darkness in culture and entertainment, Rue Morgue magazine, Devil’s Due Publishing, Wacom and horror punksters The Alkaline Trio. Let’s see if Casey can come up with a winner as the prizes are amazing.

The Professor (who definitely has more chapbooks and zombie t-shirts than you)

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