#10yearsago I was worried about the Y2K bug. Not the computer glitch, per se, but the madness of the world that both created and feared it.
Goodbye, Decade. I’m sorry but I have to leave you now. No, I don’t think we should be friends, either. There’s the door. I’m out.
Sorry to hear horror champion Chas Balun has passed. His site: http://www.zombiebloodba…
@mcsweeneys HAH! ENG 371: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era: http://www.mcsweeneys.ne…
@JohnUrbancik I love that: “mile-a-minute genius”. Timelords can be that way, I reckon. :-) Okay, I better get back to end of the year work.
@sideshowtony Dr. Who’s EMPTY CHILD episode was indeed VERY horrorshow. Gas masks on children get me every time.
Okay, and SHO too, but only for DEXTER! :-)
@sideshowtony Eccleston is amazingly manic. From the smile to the frown it all just wins. BBC, HBO, FX have the best writing on TV.
@BrianeKeene. Christopher! So I guess that means I will be following you to the gates of Hell!
@CrimespreeJon Water dissolving. And water remo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-movblee-movblee-move.
@Horror_Section Saw all…excpt Demon Wind?! http://www.thehorrorsect… Hah! Is it a Pazuzu story?
@crazywritinfool Thanks! It’s amazing how deep in the Doctor’s back catalog @netflix goes with streaming. Very happy. Try the @RokuPlayer!
DeathRef Planning to drive drunk on NYE? Get a free funeral in the event of your death! (and premeditation to be a schmuck): http://bit.ly/8axLd7
End of the year reflection on publishing: Books will change, but storytelling will outlast us all. That’s what books ensure, in fact. Write!
Geekily, I love chanting “Exterminate!” like a Dalek. I’m tempted to make the antivirus prog play it when it spots a virus on my machine.
@Sidney_Williams You’re right about Dr. Who, Sid! The minor characters are still majorly good. “Father’s Day” was amazingly deep.
@crazywritinfool It is awesome with broadband internet and a wireless network at home. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up. Magic!
The witty and intelligent goofiness of Dr. Who is really a great counter-narrative; I’m surprised how much I’m liking it.
I’m late but catching up with the new Dr. Who via @netflix on a @RokuPlayer. Saw #Torchwood origin last nite in season 1. Thx @BBCAMERICA!
@sideshowtony I had a great signing once at Tufts University bookstore. My contact there has moved on, but give the shop a call?
New Post at The Popular Uncanny: http://www.gorelets.com/… [Thanx again @Ghostwoods]
RT @Ghostwoods Creepiest invention of the year: An urn that looks like your dearly departed http://bit.ly/8Ef5oX <-Esp those you decapitate!
My computer just started making grinding moans. My brain is screening a trailer for The Texas Instruments Chainsaw Massacre. Tron meets Saw.
RT @sfsignal @johnottinger 5 Ways ‘Doctor Who’ Made a Diff. http://tinyurl.com/3rptf2 <- Yes, and it makes chanting “EXTERMINATE!” fun!
matt_cardin “Curse of the Daimon,” my album of original soundtrack-style, dark-themed music, is available at long last: http://tinyurl.com/y94nd…
Where have all the giant leeches with alien blood diseases gone? Wither green slime and unshapely things? Must our monsters always be us?
Have you ever listened to the Partridge Family’s song, “I Think I Love You”? I mean really, really listened? Freaky. http://j.mp/60gUQY
@therealduv It would be interesting to analyze that horror shelf to try to figure out how it’s being defined nowadays.Urban fantasy? Zombie?
@amergina YES! Not sure if I’ll req the whole book or not. I’ll post info to the GG page once it’s firmly on the syllabus.
I’m prepping to teach from a book entitled “Can It Really Be Taught?” This is not a joke. The taunting irony of this situation amuses me.
MichaelHyatt “According to Amazon, yesterday marked the first time that more ebooks were sold than real books”: http://bit.ly/70ghFX
@amazon delivered ‘Maldoror - the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont’ to me today! Crazy book: http://bit.ly/7D8iql
RT @ebertchicago #iSlate sounds like something you scratch your fingernails on. How about iPad - something you write on?
BorowitzReport The show So You Think You Can Dance? is unnecessarily taunting. I never said I could dance.
Jury duty summons in the mail this morning. Thanks, Judge Claus!
Sportuary is free for your shiny new kindle at http://www.gorelets.com Your therapy sessions after reading it are not.
Cool treatment of Stephen King’s Carrie: “Sissy Spacek” by @EdieSedgwyck http://bit.ly/5m0fvx mp3: http://j.mp/8FiztL
spinmatt My annual column on “The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2009”: http://bit.ly/6xdD1q
A Goreletter Flashback: Weird articles from the archives related to Christmas http://www.gorelets.com/…
Karate chops in the brow, high and low: @netflix just added streaming for Kurosawa films…and Billy Jack movies! [Thx @nowhereman]
I’m glad my taxes are helping NORAD to track Santa — http://www.noradsanta.or… — saves me the trouble of following @santaclaus
Online Gizmo of the Month: “Orphan Feast” http://bit.ly/780awJ
John_F_Taylor http://znl.me/1FIFR Giggling like coqui frog over the Arnzen prize pack. Christmas is today not friday thank you Mr. Arnzen.
Ah, Wednesday. The only day of the week named after an Addams Family character.
“Eldritch Musicks” by @CaseyContrarian arrived yesterday…loving the Lovecraft, Machen, Ligotti-inspired drones and tentacular riffs!
@Fictionwise: Great ebook bargains. Awesome place for short stories. Genre fiction friendly. Kindle store! http://kindle.fictionwis…
Twitter Defined: RT @sesamestreet Cookie haiku: Cookie, cookie, cook. Cookie, cookie, cookie, cook. Cookie, cookie, cook. (Me love poetry.)
Just downloaded “Unhenged”: A Spinal Tap Tribute album! Thanks @Coverville http://www.coverville.co…
Writers with a Mac: @ScrivenerApp offering 25% off Scrivener now till new year’s. Might want to check out @mupromo’s website, too.
Just learned that “It’s Not Easy Being Green” is my assigned theme in @arthouse ‘s The Fiction Project! Deets: http://bit.ly/4Vpfto
What does the -ex in Kleenex stand for? Expectoration? Excrement? Exsanguination? Exudation? Exuviae?
It’s the money you could be saving that Geico is taking from you and putting into advertising.
I just learned that you can block a user’s retweets! Not that I want to…except for one abuser. Click on green arrow on their profile.
MecumHaiku You’ve watched my whole life, / microscopic eyelid bugs. / How am I doing?
RT @j_c_hay The cure is complete, the pellicle is formed. Now’s the time for meat to meet the smoke. @LifeIsBacon <-Best tweet of the morn!
@chrisbowsman Thx! You also can get ‘Sportuary’ for .mobi / kindle free at http://www.gorelets.com &Other ebooks: http://j.mp/6F6eu5
Read the weird frog dreams of @Poe71 @cinriter @chrisbowsman @carrie_rapp &a@misterbananieanie — they won a free bookplate! (End of giveaway).
@Poe71 Freaky frog falliteration! You win AGAIN! I’ll chuck another bookplate in the prize package, man!
Next 2 to reply to @MikeArnzen with a strange tweet involving frog(s) get a free signed/#d “frog” bookplate [http://j.mp/1jKtCN ].
Only two frog bookplate giveaways left. (see previous tweet) Quick!
First 5 to reply to @MikeArnzen with a strange tweet involving frog(s) get a free signed/#d “frog” bookplate [http://j.mp/1jKtCN ].
@Outlawpoet1970 A paradox that cannot be solved! NEcon is laid back w/lots of pro writers. KillerCon is Vegas w/new blood on the sand.
RT @KingdomSearch Here you can watch the Colbert Report interview with Stephen King (in 1st half): http://bit.ly/6BatAV <-HILARIOUS!
Find! Tim Dorsey’s “Atomic Lobster” is available @amazon for a free pre-order with bonus material for the Kindle only: http://bit.ly/8Qzc5E
@MikeBrendan ṃɾ. сɾøώlεÿ ṡεṉτ ṃε τø ƒlïρṃÿτεχτ.сøṃ τø ώøɾќ øṉ ṃÿ вαсќṃαṡќïṉģ ṡќïllṡ
Hang in there, @wdprescott!
20th Ann Contest Winner #3: Erik L. Smith wins rare Live & Vile production CD + copy of 100 Jolts! CONGRATS to winners! http://j.mp/8ZeQaw
20th Ann Contest Winner #2: John T. (@Poe71) wins a Play Dead ARC paperback + copy of Skull Fragments! http://j.mp/8ZeQaw
20th Ann Contest Winner #1: Matt B. (@captplothole) wins the Play Dead deck of cards + DVD copy of Exquisite Corpse! http://j.mp/8ZeQaw
ʎǝs’ ʇɥǝɹǝ ɐɹǝ ʇʍo dɐʇɥs ʎon ɔɐu ƃo qʎ’ qnʇ ıu ʇɥǝ louƃ ɹnu’ ʇɥǝɹǝ,s sʇıll ʇıɯǝ ʇo ɔɥɐuƃǝ ʇɥǝ ɹoɐp ʎon,ɹǝ ou˙
If you haven’t read him yet, it’s time to educate thyself: Preorder ‘The Best of Joe R. Lansdale’ @amazon http://bit.ly/8q8uo7
@Horror_Crypt reminds us of The Rabbit of Caerbannog — Protector of the Legendary Black Beast Of Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh! http://j.mp/4CtLtu
wired 10Gs in Geek Gear up 4 Grabs. Tell us your 1 Wired Wish. RT for a chance 2win WIRED-engraved iPod touch http://ow.ly/NbPy
Enter the One Wired Wish Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $10,000 WIRED Store prize package. #WiredWish http://ow.ly/DbFr
@FSBAssociates Roald Amundsen!
RT @DavidKM “Dreams & Nightmares news http://dreamsandnightmar… <-great poetry jnl; I’m a lifetime subscriber.
Just heard that my sketchbook for The Fiction Project (@arthouse) has shipped. This is gonna be a fun slowburn: http://bit.ly/4Vpfto
ROBOTS - The Big Picture: http://www.boston.com/bi…
@BrianKeene I bet Damnation Alley could be remade into a fine film.
fpaulwilson last day to order your inscribed “Christmas Thingy” in time for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/nhtzpn
2010 already? Thank you Arthur C. Clarke. That’s twice in a lifetime. Probably won’t make it to 2061, but I’ll try!
The broken promise of cover art: ‘Santa vs. Satan In A Guitar Duel’ by Christmas at the Devil’s House @amazon: http://bit.ly/4Gzz8J
@Ginger_Clark It’s outrageous. Don’t most contracts also have an “any rights not in granted here are reserved by the author” clause, too?
@drmabuse Unusually? lol How about just “usl”?
@poxypigtails Oy! Scary stuff. “Needle Baby” in real life… http://tiny.cc/TlZPa
flimgeeks Too late. http://ow.ly/MKnh RT @edgarwright: A request. Please don’t remake ‘The Brood’.
Join the 105 freaks who are tormenting me on Facebook with icy temptations: http://www.facebook.com/…
Only 67 people realize that The Goreletter is also available via LiveJournal at http://syndicated.livejo…
RT @CaseyContrarian “Eldritch Musicks” is released today on disc and at digital stores. CD ships this week! http://bit.ly/1E9SzD
@AnneRiceAuthor launches discussion: “Should Major Authors consider going straight to Kindle?” on @amazon: http://bit.ly/6HuAdU
New Blog Entry Posted: “Talk About Writing” — http://bit.ly/6ecy21
5 star review of my “Spring Ahead Fall Back” on Red Adept’s Kindle Book blog: http://redadept.wordpres…
The Odyssey Writer’s Workshop just posted an interview with me on their blog: http://odysseyworkshop.l…
Just posted a new ‘Listmania’ of offbeat anthologies my stories have appeared in @amazon: http://bit.ly/6jw8Hb
“From quixotic to quincunx, I love the enigmatic X. Especially when it’s near a Q. It’s nature’s expectorant.” -Holiday X http://j.mp/8dD2ti
Beck Underwood’s Creepy Xmas Film Festival is great fun this time of year: http://www.creepychristm…
Things like that make the world seem criminally insane @jerrylgordon
Black Static magazine is running something akin to a sf/f/h “advent calendar” for the holidays: http://ttapress.com/blac…
I can has adult literacy please?
Tweet_Shrieks @MikeArnzen Can’t be any worse than the Zombeatles: http://www.youtube.com/w…
We laughed at the TV yesterday when a child actor said the word “vegetabletarian”. I like it — sounds like a political party.
Tonight is your last chance to win a rare production CD, a custom deck of cards, a special ARC, more. Details: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
This is so bad it’s hilarious: ‘Dead Zeppelin: A Metal Tribute to Led Zeppelin’ sampler @amazon: http://bit.ly/6U7uj2
Brilliant @Kyiakhalid! And now I’m glad it’s winter rather than a swarthy bug-infested summer.
Holy Toledo! My 20th Anniversary Contest ends tomorrow! Enter by midnight est at The Goreletter: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
jackhandey Probably the saddest thing you’ll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.
RT @kindertrauma Funhouse :: Xmas Horror http://bit.ly/5OL23Y
Did you catch the episode of CSI where the killer posed bodies as sculpture? The art on this page reminded me of that: http://j.mp/7DIJOY
@Poe71 One of my favorite reviews EVER. Thank you for the kind words and artful description! E-mail me your mailing address for a bookplate.
Just 3 days left in my 20th Anniversary Contest. Win Arnzen rarities. Enter by Dec 13 at The Goreletter: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
I’m feeling epoch exhaustion. It’s really hard to finish a decade after just finishing a millennium.
RT @JStevenYork Four reasons #apple’s #iTablet is irrelevant to #ebook. http://bit.ly/7PptWk <- I agree…+ confusion w/ mac ‘book’ identity
@wdprescott LOL Ever see this?: http://www.gorelets.com/…
@troilee Remember: Even BABIES want page-turners!
@MichaelKnost I >think< the editors of the Weird West Antho [ http://bit.ly/64wBVd ] will be @ScottColbert and @richristow
RT @BandersnatchBks Weird Western antho guidelines available here: will be up on the website soon! http://bit.ly/64wBVd <-Yee-hawrror!
Buy Three for Two @amazon: Paperback Favorites http://bit.ly/54WF9j <—Good selection ex: Buy 2 Max Brooks zombie titles, get The Road free!
GhoulishGary Wow… Famous Monsters Magazine print mag news: http://www.famousmonster…
@catvalente FRAGGLE ROCK? Netflix is out of control. I think all this streaming weird nostalgia will create a mutant lifeform in my TV.
@jenniferbrozek Agreed! I felt the ‘cosmic stew’ business was a bit much, but Rand’s “From Idea..” really helps fuel the creative furnace.
@MichaelKnost Hope it still promotes WWOH, because the entire book is an excellent writing guide! Nothing like it out there!
@MichaelKnost Cool to hear my Writers Workshop of Horror essay is excerpted in the Jan issue of The Writer. I will check it out!
Rec to writers: Rand’s “From Idea to Story in 90 Seconds”: Ebook @Fictionwise http://j.mp/662JUR Paperback @amazon http://bit.ly/7O8Sum
johnjosephadams I’ve updated by SF/fantasy workshops article with info on the 2010 workshops (Clarion, etc.): http://241o.sl.pt
Yurp. Urm hrm. Some folks call it a xmas present. Other folks call it a sling blade, urm hrm.
Plug: Psycho Hunter: http://www.last.fm/music…
LOL @bookgasm Porkpie’s title had me at ‘Corpse’… hope you’ll review.
@Poe71 Thanks for the cool feedback. Sold. I think I’ll stick with the greet on gorelets for awhile. Not enough quirk in the world.
@scottmccloud Clever, but not 100% true. I say “those who can teach, teach well. Those who can make a living at it, get tenure.”
@esedia @MikeBrendan @pennybloom @JohnPupo — Your feedback on the new odd greet msg at http://gorelets.com is priceless! THANK YOU.
@nextnature creates neat social networking tool (iphone app) for sharing found strangeness in everyday life: http://bit.ly/7gdWLQ
That’s an important point @esedia… thank you! What I had before just said ‘welcome’ and it felt too…unimaginative. I’ll keep tweaking.
NancySpringer Blort: You need not feel ghoulish if you are, say, attending a funeral and part of you is taking notes. This goes along with being a writer
Just added a quirky welcome message to the http://www.gorelets.com front page. Should I keep it? Rxns welcome.
True or false: both prefix and suffix contain prefixes and suffixes.
1 week left in my 20th Anniversary Contest. A few rarities for prizes. Enter by Dec 13th at The Goreletter: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
The force is not with me.
@DavidTWilbanks I feel stupid…I can’t figure the trick out.
Has anyone out there used the ‘Star Wars Science - Force Trainer’?! How does this toy work? Video on @amazon: http://bit.ly/4yTymS
#wanted: Seton Hill University relaunches search for #MYSTERY author (with PhD/MFA) for tenure-track #teaching #job http://j.mp/8f4bdq
Just learned that Kathe Koja has joined our Writing Popular Fiction program at SHU to mentor YA novelists. I’m excited!
Turn it up to 11: ‘Back From The Dead’ by #SpinalTap (MP3 Download) JUST $5.00 @amazon: http://bit.ly/69c7DY
For the holidays, wrap your gifts in death shrouds: http://www.eclecticbydes…
A message to the children of the world: Santa delivers not toys but propaganda.
For fans of Instigation at gorelets.com: @arthouse issues clever prompts, weekly : http://arthousecoop.com/…
Just rcvd ‘Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars’ by Cody Goodfellow. Intelligently weird stories! Available @amazon: http://bit.ly/7FYiyD
The “new tweets” alert escalates whenever I’m not looking and twitterspace clouds around me like something out of Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Audiovile: http://www.last.fm/music…
RT @DHarlanWilson 1/2 price books at Raw Dog Screaming Press: http://www.rawdogscreami…
Discovered another munged Goreletter post from days of yore funny enough to restore: GRILLING THE MERMAID: http://j.mp/7ho7EJ
Suffering from Twypnosis. Must log off…if I only I can reach the….
