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Speaking as something of a hermit who knows very little about the world beyond my immediate bubble I was somewhat stunned by Phantasmagoria. I\u2019ll dive right in. A well balanced and empathetic editorial from Trever Kennedy presages a cornucopia of stuff. So much stuff I have to bunch the original artwork into one comment – Extravagant. It\u2019s everywhere throughout and it\u2019s all very good. \u00a0That\u2019s the new stuff. One of my fascinations is pulp and comic art. Wonderful, wonderful pictures throughout \u2013 worth the price for those alone. Then there\u2019s the photographs and the adverts: even the adverts are worth the price. I find I have lied about \u2018one comment\u2019 but that is the effect of this Winter Extravaganza<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Interviews. The first with Peter Atkins author and Filmmaker arguably best known for Hellraiser. Trevor Kennedy insightfully draws out a fascinating portrayal of a man who appears to have several doppelgangers or a human duplicator to do all that he does. I played in a punk band in the 1980\u2019s and am looking at The Chase as though I know them personally; I\u2019m also thinking that the band took up almost all of my time. How does he manage? Happy news that a new collection of Horror is nearly with us among, it seems, a ridiculous number of other interesting projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnny Mains (Pan man) is up next. I have long been aware of Johnny\u2019s investigative talents (this is the man who actually found a photograph of Herbert Van Thal) Here he is again resurrecting the little known author Catherine Lord. Great work by Horror\u2019s modern detective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next Mary O Reagan of PS Publishing discusses her own writing and Absinthe Books, introducing novellas by new authors. After which, Steve Rasnic Tem. When Trevor Kennedy says he is \u2018overwhelmed somewhat\u2019 by Steve\u2019s ouput I find I am in the same boat. Still, we get insights \u2013 Tem\u2019s hatred of violence, his exploration of the inner world beyond mundane realties and the belief that these worlds are effectively real \u2013 a sentiment I affirm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over to Films \u2013 \u2018The Curse of the Cat People\u2019 viewed by Michael Campbell and thirty years later, \u2018Misery\u2019 viewed by Barnaby Page. I loved this juxtaposition of two very different classics. This is followed by a tribute to David Rowse who was suited up for Darth Vader and an interview with David J Howe. Of Telos publishing. Telos, of course, publish Paul Finch\u2019s Terror Tales, a brilliant series enjoying spectacular success. I\u2019m proud that my story \u2018The Other House, the Other Voice\u2019, appears in one of the series alongside some very respectable company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am stopping the review here to say that I counted sixteen short stories in this edition. I am actually not even a third <\/em>of the way through what can only be described as an extravaganza marked by a wonderful delicate balance in production and a quiet display of erudition so, with apologies to those revered names unmentioned, I am off to read the next story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking as something of a hermit who knows very little about the world beyond my immediate bubble I was somewhat stunned by Phantasmagoria. I\u2019ll dive right in. A well balanced and empathetic editorial from Trever Kennedy presages a cornucopia of stuff. So much stuff I have to bunch the original artwork into one comment – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,8,46,16,9],"tags":[60,72,155,152,153],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-hell","category-horror","category-reviews-hell","category-reviews","category-sf-dystopia","tag-johnny-mains","tag-paul-finch","tag-peter-atkins","tag-phantasmagoria","tag-trevor-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}