The Goreletter

Weird Juice

Stabble
Fungalberry
Kiweird Cocktail
Poisonberry
Phlegmonaid (With Extra Pulp)

Embalmigranate
Bashin’ Berry
Scabapple
Scrape Juice
Angerine

Spineapple
Strango
Slaughtermelon Smoothie
Crampelope
Slimeade

Neck Nectar
Horrange
Slitrus Lime
Gaspberry
Upchuck Cherry

Slopical Punch
Scarfruit
Granbury
Scarrot
Leech

Summer Teaching Tour

I apologize for not posting here a lot lately — I’ve been very busy teaching this past year, and I’ll be busy teaching all over again in the month to come, for a number of genre fiction-focused writing workshops. I’ll be running my “Atmosphere in Horror and Fantasy” course in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University next week, followed by a fun guest lecture on “Making the Reader Squirm” at the acclaimed Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop the week after that, then running some workshops on writing uncanny scenes at Alpha: The SF/F/H Writing Workshop for Young Authors in July just to top it all off. Busy days ahead!

All of these are only open for registered students only, but Alpha is hosting a free public reading/signing with myself, Holly Black and Tamora Pierce at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Greensburg, [Click title above to read more...]

TWEET AT THE DEVIL

He’s the geek screaming lonely in the night
‘Cuz he can’t reload the pa-ay-age

He’s the tear in your eye
When you drop your Wi-Fi
He’s the hash in your tag
He’s faved

And he’s the fantasy wife
That’s wasting your life
And spamming you to the ground

But on the pages of Twitter
We’ll type and deliver
Be short. And waste time…

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!
Tweet at the Devil!
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!
Tweet at the Devil!

He’s the follower you hate
And you won’t reciprocate
But he will not be ignore-or-ored

He follows you to the grave
When you lie on Friday
That you’re friends forevermore

And every single link
Is an URL that has been shrinked
That only sends you to his store

But on the pages of Twitter
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microcosm twitterzine

Check out editor Stephen M. Wilson‘s new twitterzine for poetry, called microcosms. I have a poem in the latest “issue” (“twissue”?) released today and more to come soon.

If you don’t know what a “twitterzine” is, then read this article.

scrawling

I’ve added a new area to the gorelets.com gallery, called “scrawl”, to share visual texts and art work that doesn’t quite fit anywhere. Drop on by.

2009 Stoker Award Winning Books

The 2009 Bram Stoker Award winners were announced by the Horror Writer’s Association at World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, last weekend. I read almost all of these titles and I can vouch that they are superlative reads. (In fact, I lauded Lucy Snyder’s poetry-winning book here in The Goreletter). See the HWA’s announcement for a complete list…congratulations to all the winners!

I contributed work to two of the books (though the editors, not me, rightfully get the awards!). These are pretty amazing books to be a part of, so I want to celebrate them here (and share some breaking news along the way as well):

The winner in this year’s “Fiction Anthology” category was He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson. It includes stories by myself, Gary Braunbeck, Nancy A. Collins, William F. Nolan (who also received a [Click title above to read more...]

Cool April Fool

Dark Regions Press pulled a cool April Fool prank yesterday when their newsletter announced the Crypt Keeper would now be their spokesman, after reading my book, Proverbs for Monsters…

My own April Fool’s scare was pretty lame. But you can still see it on my twitter profile.

Visit Dark Regions Press for all sorts of great books that ARE worthy of the Crypt Keeper’s time. I suspect their collection, Nostradumus’ Fate, will be out in the months ahead. Keep you’re eyes on this press….they’re doing great things. In fact, if you subscribe to their newsletter you not only get funky pictures like the one above, but massively generous discounts on their titles.

Ignorance Is Bliss (For The Mole People)

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
- C.S. Lewis (died 1963)

Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen – Book Trailer

PS Publishing has announced that Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen will be shipping later this month. You can pre-order it NOW on the PS Publishing home page. Here’s the book trailer to get you in the mood:

“Bizarro Day” Bookstore Event Follow-Up

Had a fabulous time last weekend at Backlist Books in Massillon, Ohio — a great new indie bookstore that does a knock-out job supporting not only speculative genre fiction (horror, science fiction and fantasy literature), but also the independent press. It’s good to see a place like this in the Midwest region of the country. They carry any number of books that I have only heretofore seen available online (especially when it comes to ‘bizarro’ fiction), lots of genre magazines, classic titles of science fiction and fantasy… They had LOTS of collectibles and rarities. I even spotted a quirky line of “adult sci-fi” paperbacks on one shelf that made me laugh aloud (I can’t remember the titles to the letter, but they were something along the lines of Captain Loins vs. the Tentacular Space Pirates from Planet Vulvon), and all sorts of cool art on the wall. Every [Click title above to read more...]