July 1, 2010
Okay, yes, I’ve become a Twitter junkie. So follow me already! So last week, from June 22 to June 27, I attended this term’s residency at Seton Hill University….
Okay, yes, I’ve become a Twitter junkie. So follow me already! So last week, from June 22 to June 27, I attended this term’s residency at Seton Hill University….
So you might recall that in June 2008, I received my Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. In July 2009, we found out that…
Are you a horror writer? Yes? Have you read Doug Winter’s essay, “Darkness Absolute” in On Writing Horror? If you haven’t, you should purchase that assemblage of essays collected…
I’m a big Stephen King fan. I’ve read most his books and loved most of what I’ve read. I’ve had a copy of The Shining for a very long…
Ugh. Just ugh. All the Lovecraft stories we’ve read have had their difficulties, I think. I had issues with all of them. However, I didn’t hate any. Some I…
I’d bought Rosemary’s Baby years ago at a run-down second hand bookstore. It’s the sixth printing of the 1968 Dell paperback, priced at ninety-five cents. Ninety five freaking cents….
So here is my first introduction to something associated with the Cthulhu mythos. Granted, it’s a subtle reference, but it’s there. I think Lovecraft had a thing for marine…
So this is the third Lovecraft story we’ve read for class and I will say it’s been my favorite so far. I suspect it has to do with the…
This is the first story we’ve had to read that was written during my lifetime. It was nice to be able to judge it by mostly modern standards. I…
“The Music of Erich Zann” is the second Lovecraft story I’ve read. It’s about a young man who discovers an old musician up in the uppermost floor of his…