Garlands of the Grotesque: Catching up with Mike Lombardo
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I’ll start big: Mike Lombardo and Reel Splatter Productions‘ new short film “The Stall” now ranks near John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) on my list of favorite Lovecraftian films. For…
2013
Oldboy’s Failed Cultural Imagination
Writing a bad review of Spike Lee’s Oldboy is, at this point, rather redundant, as the film is already failing by all the usual critical and financial metrics. However, I…
Dark Delicacies and other pleasures, Dec. 1, 2pm Pacific
Before I started publishing my work, two bookstores captured my imagination and became backdrops for book-signing fantasies. One of them, Oxford Books in Atlanta, no longer exists. The other, Dark…
Descending Lines Launch Party, Nov. 12!
It’s here in Louisville, and it’s all over the world. Check it out!
Stephen Zimmer’s Hellscapes: Fantasies of Damnation
For background on Hellscapes and an interview with Stephen Zimmer, see my guests’ page. To launch the collection of Stygian narratives in Hellscapes, Volume 1, Stephen Zimmer cites three primary…