Archive for "Oct 2010"

Heavenmaker or Helldiver

Over thirty years after it’s publication The Heaven Maker emerges again. The novelette is still out of print but I’m grateful to Theo Stylianides who appears to have been inspired by the final paragraph of the story to create a series of artwork and what looks – to my untutored mind – something like an […]

Fantasy Quotes

A page devoted to pompous and weighty aphorisms invented by me On Theatre “Graves are doubtless cold but a silent auditorium generates a chill exponential to the hopes of the dwindling performance” On Genre “When genre writing grows popular with the intelligentsia it dies as literature” ‘Hard Science Fiction is the realists’ attempt to give […]

David Lindsay: A plea for help

David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus and other speculative works failed in his lifetime to gain the reputation he deserved. A very small band of folks love his work (You’ll find an excellent site here) http://www.violetapple.org.uk The big question for me concerns the manuscript of A Voyage to Arcturus. It was substantially cut […]

Necronomicon

It’s late at night. You can’t write another word, the wife has left for bed and you should pack it all in and go to dreamland but you need a last fix on the computer. I recommend Necronomicon A neat little bit of madness by GamesofCthulhu You can find the game here. http://www.kongregate.com/games/GamesofCthulhu/the-necronomicon It’s a […]

The Seventh Black Book of Horror: Charles Black

Following with pygmy feet in the giant footsteps of D.F. Lewis here is a real time review of ‘The Seventh Black Book of Horror’. I had no idea that Thana Niveau was a writer having briefly met her not far from Brighton Pier in the company of the renowned master of horror John Llewellyn Probert. […]