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JUNE 30

REVIEW Two movies get released this weekend and they are both about them dang ol' space aliens confronting our beloved Mother earth! I already posted muh freakin' UNDEAD review a few weeks ago. Today our Science Moment dude, Kelly Parks, tells you about them persnickety ol' space invaders in his review of H. G. Wells, I mean, Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS. Two hints: They ain't E.T. and they ain't the bulb heads from CE3K. What are they? Well, them alien boys - they just ain't right!

John Everson, author and book designer for Twilight Tales, was fresh off the plane from L.A. where he'd won a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, for COVENANT (Delirium Books).

Left to Right Tim Broderick, J.A. Konrath, and Stoker Award winner John Everson

Another of Broderick's graphic novel noir mysteries, LOST CHILD, is being serialized Monday through Friday at the www.TwilightTales.com website.

J.A. Konrath, recently nominated for the Macavity and Anthony Awards for best debut novel, for WHISKEY SOUR, read from his newly -released book, BLOODY MARY, (Hyperion).

Konrath contributed the introduction to Broderick's SOMETHING TO BUILD UPON.

After the readings and photo ops, the festivities continued with a music jam.

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JUNE 29

From Judi Rohrig
STOKERS TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
Feo made me do this. Give that man a phone card, and he'll use the darned thing.

Yes, I'm another female (has he called any of the male winners?*) who this past weekend found herself being honored with a Bram Stoker Award.

I am in my third year of publishing and editing HELLNOTES, which is a weekly newsletter that serves the horror community. Started in 1997 by David Silva and Paul Olsen, HELLNOTES has been serving the horror community without interruption. Garrett Peck served briefly as editor and publisher before I took over in February 2003.

But let me tell you about my day of flying high.

It was a very busy weekend, last weekend. Here I was knee-deep in research for a new work of fiction when our community's Freedom Festival called even more strongly than any Google search. You see, I'm a sucker for the Navy's Blue Angels.

Cue Kenny Loggins' DANGER ZONE, please.

Oh, I was there on the Ohio River Saturday for the fire and roar. Swoops, dives, and scare-the-hell-out-of-the-spectators-by-appearing-out-of-nowhere strafing. Ah, those Navy devilboys!

Then the phone call came. Emergencies never happen at a convenient time, do they? So my family and I were off to Ohio where we were needed. The last thing on my mind when I finally checked e-mail sometime on Sunday was the Horror Writers Associations' Annual Conference happening the night before in Burbank, CA. The last thing on my mind was winning a Bram Stoker. In a few moments I had while waiting for things to happen, I checked my e-mail late Sunday. There they were, the headers: "Way to Go!" "Congratulations!" "Drum Roll!" "Ha! You Won!"

I wish I could describe how I felt. I'm a female. I cried. I was a female in a stressful situation. I cried more. My family thought there was even more bad news.

I still don't know what happened. How this year - after HELLNOTES had stood nominated under Dave and Paul, Garrett, and even me - could be honored as the Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. I just know I am grateful to everyone in the HWA who clicked on that little box that said HELLNOTES.

Here is the message I gave Del Howison to read just in case Hell did freeze over:

"Thanks to all the members of the HWA for honoring HELLNOTES. I know the staff and contributors to HELLNOTES - Mark Lancaster, Don Koish, Del Howison, Mike Arnzen, Edo van Belkom, Hank Wagner, Brian Hodge, Mark Justice, Ron Breznay, Sam Smith, Scott Nicholson, Michael Arruda, LL Soares, Chris Welch, Mike McCarty, Dave Wilbanks, Bill Gagliani, William Simmons, Steve Vernon, and Chris Wright - wish to thank the HWA as well for recognizing their efforts to keep the horror community enlightened as darkly as possibly. Thanks to Dave Silva and Paul Olson for entrusting their dream to me. Thanks, too, to all those wonderful and supportive subscribers who help our contributors earn compensation for their hard work and who read! Most of all, thank you so much from me. This makes the long hours at the computer worth it."

As the Blue Angels no doubt know:

"You'll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go"
- from DANGER ZONE as recorded by Kenny Loggins for the film TOP GUN

* Actually, no. Folks like Tom Piccirilli and John Everson have wisely kept their phone numbers to themselves.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ZOMBIES?
Talk isn't heating up on the message boards over the release of George Romero's latest sequel, LAND OF THE DEAD. While it has its audience, it is telling that it also has its apologists (Nobody ever had to apologize for - or explain - the first three). To put things into perspective, LAND OF THE DEAD, facing opening competition from a TV show remake (Bewitched) and a Disney sequel from an ancient franchise (Herbie: Fully Loaded), placed in the top 5 of the new opening movies, but is also in last place for opening movies. This after the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake opened at #1 in 2004, with a theater take nearly three times that of LAND and knocking the #1 movie of that time, The Passion of the Christ off of its perch.

Why is LAND doing so poorly? Our reviewer Kelly Parks has a theory in his review of LAND OF THE DEAD.

This weekend, facing incredibly stiff competition from Steven Speilberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS and a second week of LAND OF THE DEAD, is the opening of UNDEAD. UNDEAD is an Australian Independent comedy tribute to George Romero that has been wowing audiences in the East Pacific rim. Distributed through Lion's Gate Films, UNDEAD will be having an acutely limited release in both the US and the UK. But like SHAUN OF THE DEAD, this one is worth seeking out. The poor audience response to Romero's latest film is causing nervousness among some who have their own zombies waiting in the wings, but as the remake of DAWN, plus SHAUN and now UNDEAD show, the zombies haven't died, they've just got younger!

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA

HAPPY HORROR BIRTHDAY TO-
Actor Will Kemp (THE CAR MAN, MINDHUNTERS, VAN HELSING) is 28.
Actor Bradley Striker (THE BROTHERHOOD, FINAL STAB, WOLVES OF WALL STREET) is 28.

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JUNE 28

From Ellen Datlow
GOBSMACKED BY THE STOKERS
Feo made me do this (Aw right! How many women have said THAT before? -Feo). He called me up and asked if I had anything to say about THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR: SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION winning the Stoker for Best Anthology.

On the Tuesday before the Stoker weekend in LA, I decided that I'd better make up something to have someone read, just in case YBFH won. So I quickly wrote something from me and Kelly and Gavin and emailed it off to Lisa Morton saying: "I know it won't (win) but here you go anyway."

So Saturday night I'm online (what else is new?!) and incidentally wondering if there's any news of the awards. Around midnight NYC time I notice Nick Kaufmann on the HWA BB and IM him, asking if he's heard anything. Nah, but he's was wondering the same thing - and a few minutes later he IM's me to say he's just heard Lee Thomas and John Everson have won in a tie for first novel.

I get caught up in eBay noodling around, and suddenly it's 2am and I'm about to call it a night when I get an email from Lisa Morton saying:

"Well, guess what - it did! Congrats, girl."

I'm gobsmacked! And very pleased. :-)

Hunting up the genre (and non-genre) magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, and collections every year and reminding or begging publishers to submit their material is frustrating and exhausting.

Reading thousands of horror stories and poems is exhausting. Particularly as my full time job (fiction editor of SCIFI.COM) consists of reading and editing.

Writing the summary is especially exhausting-and around February every year I feel burnt out and wonder why the hell I'm still doing it. Yeah, I get free books (and even though I try to get rid of most of them after I've read them, I have two storage lockers and an apartment filled with piles of books that are shoving me out) and I attract notice (positive and negative) by doing my job of choosing what I consider the "best." But for me, the real kick is having an influence on what people read. I'm a zealot. I admit it. When it comes to the stories and books and authors I think are terrific, I'll push them on anyone who will listen. And what a great pulpit the YBFH has been. I've had readers come up me over the years telling me that they discovered so and so in YBFH. Or they decided they wanted to write fantasy or horror because of the YBFH. How cool is THAT?

This has been the last year YBFH will be eligible for the Stoker because a few months ago the membership voted to eliminate anthologies with less than 60% new material. I voted for the proposal but that doesn't mean I'm not pleased as punch to have won this year.

Visit Ellen at scifi.com/scifiction

In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and necessary anarchy.

Including never-before published stories by:

Neil Gaiman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kathe Koja, David J. Schow, Bentley Little, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Melanie Tem, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Lea Silhol, Freda Warrington, Elizabeth Massie, Brett Alexander Savory, Katherine Ramsland, Yvonne Navarro, Thomas S. Roche, Michael Marano, John Shirley, Brian Hodge, and Elizabeth Engstrom

...all at their most brilliant and most outrageous.

Here are dangerous games between lovers, howls from the dark, voyeurs and their victims, disturbed wishes and bitter dreams. Unflinching, uncommon, and underground, these tales vibrate with new life.

Obviously, I'm beside myself with pride to be included among such writers, so for those of you who pick this one up, I hope you enjoy my contribution and think it worthy of inclusion.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Continued at Boffins Create Zombie Dogs

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JUNE 27

STOKER WINNERS
The Stoker awards was the only real news in Horror this weekend and we'll be telling you about it all week long.

Each year, the World Horror Association gives out its Bram Stoker Award to the previous year's Horror work that is recognized as a "Superior Achievement" and not "Best of the Year". The first awards, presented in 1988 for works in 1987, have been rpesented annually ever since. Like the Oscars, these are non-juried awards and any English language work of the previous year is eligible for consideration. This year's Stoker Award winners are:

Novel:
IN THE NIGHT ROOM by Peter Straub

First Novel (tie):
COVENANT by John Everson

STAINED by Lee Thomas

Long Fiction:
THE TURTLE BOY by Kealan-Patrick Burke

Short Fiction:
NIMITSEAHPAH by Nancy Etchemendy

Fiction Collection:
FEARFUL SYMMETRIES by Thomas F. Monteleone

Anthology:
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR, 17th Annual edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant

Nonfiction:
HELLNOTES edited by Judi Rohrig

Illustrated Narrative:
HEAVEN'S DEVIL'S by Jai Nitz

Screenplay (tie):
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondrey and Pierre Bismuth

SHAUN OF THE DEAD by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright Studio

Work for Young Readers (tie):
ABARAT: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker

ODDEST YET by Steve Burt

Poetry Collection:
THE WOMEN AT THE FUNERAL by Corinne De Winter

Alternative Forms:
THE DEVIL'S WINE edited by Tom Piccirilli

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Michael Moorcock

Congratulations to all.

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JUNE 24

FANGO LANDS LANDIS
The surprise of the year with conventions had to be the California Fangoria Convention in Burbank. Far more people - including celebrities - hit the con than was expected. While many people paid top Creationcon dollar to get autographs from the likes of Rob Zombie and Robert Englund, some of the top names in Horror were just wandering around the floor enjoying the con and giving signatures to passerby. No question but that this year's California Fangoria convention was HOT, and Creationcon hopes to repeat that success on the right coast with their New York Convention.

Fangoria Magazine's Days of Darkness convention, returns to The NEW YORK CITY METRO AREA on Sat. & Sun. September 24-25, 2005 at The Crowne Plaza Meadowlands. They've announced that director JOHN LANDIS: (AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, INNOCENT BLOOD, new MASTERS OF HORROR) is joining their ever-growing list of in person stars including CLIVE BARKER, TOM SAVINI and DEE SNIDER!

Hey! Why the hell haven't we reviewed any of John Landis' movies? Not that we could possibly make the slightest impact now, but at least for a freaking tribute!

Okay, in July we'll review AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and INNOCENT BLOOD. It's the least we can do and we always do the least - we can do!

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JUNE 23

From Del Howison
DARK DELICACIES GETTING STOKED!
Do you plan to be in the Los Angeles area this weekend? This weekend is the festivities for the Stokers. On Saturday June 25th at 2 p.m. Dark Delicacies will be holding a book signing in connection with the Horror Writer's Association Bram Stoker Awards. The Stokers are given out every year for the best in horror writing and this year the ceremony and accompanying convention will take place June 24th - 26th at the Burbank Airport Hilton. Dark Delicacies will host a signing that Saturday afternoon featuring authors
David Morrell,
Chuck Palahnuik,
Harry Shannon,
Deborah LeBlanc,
Nancy Etchemendy,
Gary Braunbeck,
David Szulkin,
John Everson,
Nancy Holder,
John Skipp,
Maria Alexander,
Nick Mamatas,
Corrine de Winter,
Bev Vincent,
Rain Graves,
Denise Dumars,
Steve Niles and others.

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA

HAPPY HORROR BIRTHDAYS TO-
Writer, Director, Producer Joss Whedon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV], ALIEN: RESURRECTION, ANGEL [TV]) is 41.
Actor Emmanuelle Vaugier (HIGHLANDER [TV], THE OUTER LIMITS [TV], SHAPESHIFTER, FEAR: THE RESURRECTION, THE SCULPTRESS, MINDSTORM, RIPPER, WISHMASTER 3, WATER'S EDGE) is 29.

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JUNE 22

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY - Its BRUCE! And not just ANY Bruce, but THE Bruce! BC gets a lot of love from the Horror community and we're no exception! Actor / Writer Bruce Campbell (THE EVIL DEAD, THE EVIL DEAD II, MANIAC COP, MOONTRAP, SUNDOWN, MANIAC COP 2, DARKMAN, MINDWARP, WAXWORK II, ARMY OF DARKNESS, CONGO, ESCAPE FROM L.A., MENNO'S MIND, SPIDERMAN, BUBBA HO-TEP, MASTERS OF HORROR [TV], IF CHINS COULD KILL, MAKE LOVE: The Bruce Campbell Way!) is 47 but could pass for 46, easy.

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JUNE 21

HAPPY HORROR BIRTHDAYS TO- Writer / Director Larry Wachowski (THE MATRIX, ANIMATRIX, THE MATRIX: Reloaded, THE MATRIX: Revolutions) is 40. The next birthday boy has dedicated the largest body of his work to documenting all of those who created fictional Horror and Thriller in various media. By doing so, he has become part of the genre himself. Happy Birthday to Writer David J. Skal (DARK CARNIVAL: The Secret World of Tod Browning, HOLLYWOOD GOTHIC, THE MONSTER SHOW, V IS FOR VAMPIRE, SCREAMS OF REASON: Mad Science in Modern Culture) is 53.

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JUNE 20

Life in Clearwater was quiet, even a little dull for Grim, but it was better than the time he'd spent on the streets of Seattle. His biggest worry was being caught playing paintball in the salvage yard by Old Man Wallen. Then the strange girl arrived, abandoned at a roadside diner. Drugged, sick, with no memory of her past.

For more on this and Brian's new collaboration with Mark McLaughlin and Shane Ryan Staley, check out Brian Knight.com.

For more news, check out Shadow Writer.

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Ever since this Aussie made a name for herself in the movie DEAD CALM, she's never strayed too far from Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense movies. Happy Birthday to
Actor Nicole Kidman (DEAD CALM, MALICE, TO DIE FOR, PRACTICAL MAGIC, EYES WIDE SHUT, THE OTHERS, BIRTHDAY GIRL, PANIC ROOM, DOGVILLE, THE HUMAN STAIN, THE STEPFORD WIVES) who is 38.
Actor Candy Clark (THE BIG SLEEP, Q, BLUE THUNDER, AMITYVILLE 3D, CAT'S EYE, AT CLOSE RANGE, THE BLOB [1988], BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CHERRY FALLS) is 58.
Writer, Director Roberto Rodriguez (EL MARIACHI, DESPERADO, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, THE FACULTY, SPY KIDS, SPY KIDS 2, SPY KIDS 3-D, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO) is 36.
Writer Weston Ochse (SCARY REDNECKS:And Other Inbred Horrors, NATURAL SELECTION, APALACHIAN GALAPAGOS, SCARECROW GODS) is 40.
And on Sunday-
Actor Mia Sara (LEGENDS, SHADOWS IN THE STORM, APPRENTICE TO MURDER, DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS, CAROLINE AT MIDNIGHT, THE MADDENING, UNDERTOW, BIRDS OF PREY [TV]) is 38.
And on Saturday -
Actor Kim Dickens (VOICES FROM THE GRAVE [TV], "TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.", ZERO EFFECT, MERCURY RISING, THE HOLLOW MAN, THE GIFT) is 40.

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JUNE 17

SOMETIMES YOU GET AN IDEA AND...
Author and comic book writer, R. S. Rhine has long been involved with writing and participating in the Horror genre and its many mediums: From SickCom to his upcoming SATAN'S 3-RING CIRCUS OF HELL. But his latest idea, GIRLS AND CORPSES Magazine, has gone through the freaking roof!

Coming soon: GIRLS and CORPSES and Rhine will be interviewed on KROQ-FM RADIO 106.7, the #1 radio morning show in the Los Angeles market! The KEVIN and BEAN SHOW!

ROBERT STEVEN RHINE will be on KROQ-FM RADIO to discuss the phenomenal success of his GIRLS and CORPSES horror/comedy magazine, which has received one million 'unique' visitors in its first 3 weeks. 1,000,000!!! - Not "hits" VISITORS!

Rhine will reveal to Kevin and Bean where the bodies are buried ... so to speak.

Also ...

MAXIM MAGAZINE U.K. will feature a two page photo spread in their September 2005 issue on Girls and Corpses and R.S. Rhine's new book release "SATAN'S 3-RING CIRCUS OF HELL."

For up to the minute news on Robert's doings and appearances, go to SATAN'S 3-RING CIRCUS OF HELL.

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JUNE 16

Felicity Mason, star of the upcoming Lions Gate Film UNDEAD, and writers/directors the Spierig Brothers will be signing autographs and meeting their UNDEAD fans at the following locations. An authentic German gas mask signed by the UNDEAD directors and star will be given away at each appearance!

The Dungeon
836 N. Highland
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, June 18
11:30pm - 12:30am

SUNDAY, June 19

The Forbidden City
1718 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
11:30pm - 12:30am

Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash
1045 Westwood
Los Angeles, CA 90024
6:00pm-6:30pm

MONDAY, June 20th

Hollywood Book and Poster
6562 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
4:30pm-5:00pm

Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
7:30pm-8:30pm

TUESDAY, June 21st

Floyd's Barbershop
7300 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046
12:30pm - 1:00pm

Golden Apple Comics
7711 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046
5:00pm-5:30pm

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JUNE 15

Feo Amante

MICROSOFT CENSORS FREEDOM
Hey, you know, it was inevitable. Its not just that this site is run out of the USA, but since I use words like Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom, from time to time, I am bound to get into trouble. There are certain countries - like China - that have an ice frightened fragile leadership. One that, apparently, leaps out of its own pants in fear of words like Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom. Well they've added some extra protection to their Internet from the likes of Freedom loving folks like me. It was recently announced that Microsoft, a company that couldn't possibly exist in any other country except the United States (How can I say that? Can you think of any other country anywhere that has a software company like Microsoft?), is now giving an extra blanket of comfort to the frightened grannie leadership of China. They do this by helping the Chinese government censure their people whenever anyone uses words like Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom (see why we need hackers to keep snapping Microsoft's back? Caveat: PO virus senders and spammers remain unheralded assholes).

Here, here, here, here.

I guess it serves the interests of Microsoft to insure that competition can't be born in other countries since Gates seems powerless to abort such births in the US.

To be fair, Microsoft is not the first US company to assist dictators in repressing their people. The first US company that gave such solace to the Chinese government was Yahoo! in 2002. After that it was Google in 2004. Yes, Yahoo and Google are not all about Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom and all the other pabulum they fart on any given advertisement. Like Microsoft, they are solely about their wallet and it seems they have no concern in regards to how they fill it.

This, that, and the other thing.

There are those apologists that try to distract from this issue by pointing out that Bill Gates runs his own self-named charity that generously gives billions to needy people world wide. Some of those people Bill helps apparently need to oppress, arrest, and imprison members of their populace when someone uses words like Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom. I wonder how much money Bill Gates tosses about to relieve some of the suffering he's causing? Will his charity pay for the bullets used to kill Chinese citizens who get caught, with Microsoft software, using words like Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom a few too many times?

Needless to say, neither NBC at msnbc.com or Newsweek online are reporting this. Not even at their ScienceTech section. Particularly absent among their own political bloggers. Especially absent at Chris Matthews HardBlah! (in fact, its rather pathetic to see how studiously they avoid the issue). This is mainly being reported by the rest of the world. And the world is reporting how American media companies are aiding oppressive governments in squeezing their people even harder. Hey world, don't hate us for our two-faced American companies, just stop dealing with them!

Would you like to help Chinese citizens circumvent their government and the repressive will of some anti-American software companies?

Check out peacefire.org and eff.org (yes that same entity you've always seen linked at the bottom of this page since 2000) to see how you can help for free!

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA

We couldn't stand it, but hey: your mileage could vary!

From Rue Morgue
SCRAP METAL MARVEL
But perhaps you can't make it to Los Angeles because you are stuck in Toronto, Canada. Well lucky YOU!

RUE MORGUE Magazine Presents CineMacabre's special screening of Shinya Tsukamoto's TETSUO: THE IRON MAN

Thursday, June 16, 2005 @ 9:30 PM exclusively at
The Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Canada

Shinya Tsukamoto's self-financed, homemade experimental sci-fi/horror debut hit the world with the force of an atomic blast. It brought Japanese cinema back to the attention of the international film community, paving the way for every Japanese director that has emerged since, from Takeshi Kitano to Takashi Miike to Hideo Nakata.

Boasting kinky sex, Expressionist, Svankmayer-esque stop-motion scrap animations, and the brain-pounding industrial score by noiseman Chu Ishikawa, TETSUO is a bold venture into experimental filmmaking, a violent dsytopic vision of a world - not far from our own - where man and machine meld to make monsters.

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO - Director Herschell Gordon Lewis (BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!, COLOR ME BLOOD RED, MONSTER A GO-GO, A TASTE OF BLOOD, THE GRUESOME TWOSOME, SOMETHING WEIRD, THE DEVIL WEARS CLODHOPPERS, GORE-GORE GIRLS, BLOOD FEAST II: ALL U CAN EAT) who, when he wasn't making horror, made various core densities of porn. Herschell is 79. How does a Paleontologist make the birthday list on a Horror Thriller website? He routinely uses his brain. In this case, our next Birthday boy has worked as consultant on Monster movies. So a big Happy Birthday to Paleontologist / Science Consultant Jack Horner (JURASSIC PARK, LOST WORLD: Jurassic Park, JURASSIC PARK III) who is 59.

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JUNE 14

RIDING WITH THE CREEPERS
In September, writer David Morrell, will be releasing his new Horror novel, CREEPERS. Morrell, known for mainly writing Thrillers, is taking his method of well-researched fiction to a new level for this book. For one thing, this fiction work is based on an actual world wide group of people known as Creepers.

As David explains on his CREEPERS website, he's been one of these types of people since his childhood.

"In my afterword to CREEPERS, I describe how traumatic my childhood was and how I used to escape family arguments by exploring abandoned buildings. At the time, I figured I was the only person weird enough to do that."

"When I checked the internet, I was amazed to discover thousands of sites devoted to urban explorers around the world. Their nickname is "creepers," which seemed a terrific title."

Check out the full story at CREEPERS.

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JUNE 13

WESTON ARRIVES
Weston Ochse (NATURAL SELECTION, SCARY REDNECKS and Other Inbred Horrors) made a signing appearance at Dark Delicacies bookstore over the weekend. In addition to Weston, writer/director Gabe Bartalos and his SFX artist, Al Magliochetti (TERMINATOR 2, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, SKY CAPTAIN) were on hand to sign copies of Gabe's directoral debut, SKINNED DEEP. Also on hand was Writer/Director Don Mancini (All the CHILD'S PLAY movies).

Drop-in visitors included Horror/Thriller writer Harry Shannon (BAD SEED, NIGHT OF THE BEAST) and Horror short story writer Maria Alexander (President of the LA chapter of the Horror Writers Association).

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Writer Whitley Strieber (THE WOLFEN, THE NIGHT CHURCH, THE HUNGER, COMMUNION, THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) is 60.
In a little over a year, this actor did three Horror/Thriller movies then disappeared. Wherever he is now, a Happy Birthday goes to
Actor Forrest Cochran (THE BROTHERHOOD, FINAL STAB, THE BROTHERHOOD 2) who is 27.
This actor stars in a lot of Made-For-TV Horror and Thriller movies. Happy Birthday to the very-busy-but-still-under-the-radar
Actor Missy Crider (POWDER, EYES OF TERROR [TV], THE BEAST [TV], QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY [TV], ALIEN CARGO [TV], THE OTHERS [TV], MULHOLLAND DRIVE, FRAILTY) is 31.
This guy frightens everybody with his real life. Anyone can inflict pain and fear on another person, but when someone does it to themselves, you can only watch in slack-jawed awe!
Performer Steve-O (JACKASS [TV], DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, BLIND HORIZON) is 31.
And on Saturday -
From the beginning this child actor started in Horror Thrillers and has never left! Happy Birthday to
Actor Ivana Baquero (ROMASANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT, ROTTWEILER, FRÁGILES, FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE: THE CHRISTMAS TALE) who is 12.
Watch for Ivana in her upcoming movie by Guillermo del Toro, PAN'S LABYRINTH.
Actor Adrienne Barbeau (THE DARKER SIDE OF TERROR [TV], THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, SWAMP THING, THE THING [1982], CREEPSHOW, CANNIBAL WOMEN IN THE AVOCADO JUNGLE OF DEATH, DUE OCCHI DIABOLICI, BURIAL OF THE RATS [TV], THE CONVENT, RING OF DARKNESS [TV], GHOST ROCK) is 60.
Actor Joshua Jackson (SCREAM 2, APT PUPIL, URBAN LEGEND, CRUEL INTENTIONS, THE SKULLS, GOSSIP, OCEAN'S ELEVEN, CURSED) is 27. Joshua shares a June birthday with fellow URBAN LEGEND alumni, Robert Englund.

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JUNE 10

DEAD BY DAY bandmembers Seth, Ralis, and Stephan are ready to tear your soul apart!

QUICK BITES
I had a blast at the Fangoria convention over the weekend. Got to meet old buds and make new ones. I hung out with Robert Rhine, the mad creator behind GIRLS AND CORPSES magazine, and SATAN'S 3-RING CIRCUS OF HELL (I wrote the forward, you know, the part that nobody ever reads)

So after, out of sheer ego, I decided to check out my google ranking stats - how I rank with other Horror websites. To my surprise, my google ranking is equal to the big money folks at Fangoria.com, horror-web.com, queerhorror.com, upcominghorrormovies.com, Horror.net, and Horror.com, and the possibly, maybe, eventual horrorchannel.com! Pretty rotten folk with whom to room in the tomb! Coolness! Except I don't work out of a freaking skyscraper! I'm kinda like the Lloyd Kauffman of Horror Thriller websites. Or I would be if Lloyd didn't have his own website at Troma.com.

Check my google stats by using the Page Rank feature of the Google toolbar. Don't have one? Get it Here.

June 11 - 2 PM. Dark Delicacies. Burbank, California. Weston will be signing his novel SCARECROW GODS. Also at the store, Gabe Bartalos will be signing copies of is DVD SKINNED DEEP. Please contact Del or Sue if you intend to come to ensure you have a copy waiting. If you can't make it but want a personally inscribed copy, now is the time to do it. To visit or contact -
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd. Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A, is located in Burbank near the corner of Burbank Blvd. and Pass Ave. (look for Frankenstein on the sidewalk!).

June 12 - 2 PM. Azteca Mexican Elvis Restaurant. Garden Grove, California. Sponsored by Bad Moon Books, Weston will be holding a Mexican Elvis Book Signing at Azteca Restaurant. You'll find him just inside the door basking in Elvis memorabilia signing copies of Scarecrow Gods. This is where it began folks. A little over a year ago while sitting around this same table and ogling Mexican Elvi through martini goggles, a group of friends led by Brian Keene convinced Weston to submit his novel to Delirium Books. Now, riding on the forward edge of the book's success, Weston will come full circle and wants to share the moment with you. So stop by even if you don't want a copy of the book and share the Elvis love with a fully stocked bar, hors d'oeuvres and over 1,000 items of Elvis memorabilia.
Azteca Mexican Elvis Restaurant
12911 Main Street, Historical
Downtown Garden Grove, CA, 92840

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JUNE 9

THE RETURN OF WESTON
If you plan to be in the Los Angeles area this weekend, you may want to know about the following -
On Saturday June 11th at 2:00p.m. Dark Delicacies bookstore has the pleasure of hosting a signing with author Weston Ochse (NATURAL SELECTION, SCARY REDNECKS and Other Inbred Horrors) featuring his new book SCARECROW GODS. Joining Weston will be writer/director Gabe Bartalos signing the DVD of his film SKINNED DEEP.

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA

Gregory Despres was allowed into the U.S. looking like this. Now despite what you may read at moveon.org or other drivel, looking weird is NOT against the law. I look similar to this on my good days. But Gregory here, came across the border carrying a Chain Saw covered in what appeared to be BLOOD; a homemade sword; a hatchet;, a knife, and brass knuckles! THEY LET HIM IN!

As for laws governing our borders, check out the following story from the Washington Post

Man With Stained Chain Saw Let in to U.S.

The customs agents followed the law to the letter, and they HAD to let him in and let him go! Go blog THAT beeyatch!

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO - Actor Johnny Depp (A NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, FREDDY'S DEAD: The Final Nightmare, ED WOOD, DEAD MAN, THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, THE NINTH GATE, SLEEPY HOLLOW, FROM HELL, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: The Curse of the Black Pearl, SECRET WINDOW) is 42. Johnny shares a June birthday with his NIGHTMARE co-star, Robert Englund. Actor James DeBello (CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA, SCARY MOVIE 2, SWIMFAN, CABIN FEVER) is 25. Actor Andrew W. Walker (AFRAID OF THE DARK, THE SECRET PACT, THE SCORE, WICKED MINDS, SABRINA: The Teenage Witch, LIES AND DECEPTION [TV]) is 26.

From Robert S. Rhine
FANGORIA'S DAYS OF DARKNESS 2005 WEEKEND
Well, we kicked some major corpse butt at Fangoria's Weekend Of Horrors in Burbank. The two day con was jam packed with pierced, tattooed, bloodied and freaked-out fans who grabbed the final collectors copies of CHICKEN SOUP FOR SATAN, SATAN GONE WILD, and GIRLS & CORPSES T-Shirts.

Continued at Satan's 3-Ring Circus of Hell.

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JUNE 8

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
Actor Lexa Doig (JUNGLEGROUND, WHILE MY PRETTY ONE SLEEPS [TV], TEEN SORCERY, CODE NAME PHOENIX, NO ALIBI, JASON X) is 32.

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JUNE 7

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO- Actor, Producer Colleen Camp (BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, DEATH GAME, CAT IN A CAGE, APOCALYPSE NOW, DEADLY GAMES, TRIAL BY TERROR, CLUE, TRACK 29, SLIVER, DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE, SHE CREATURE, THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, EARTH vs. THE SPIDER, TEENAGE CAVEMAN, TRAPPED) is 52. Actor Karl Urban (HEAVEN, THE IRREFUTABLE TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, GHOST SHIP, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY) is 33. Karl shares a June birthday with fellow CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK alumni Keith David.

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JUNE 6

From Matthew Warner A REALLY SCARY PODCAST Fans of Matthew Warner (THE ORGAN DONOR, DEATH SENTENCES) will want to download the June 3 ReallyScary.com podcast, which includes a recording of him reading "Landini the Magnificent," winner of the Twilight Tales flash fiction contest at the 2004 World Horror Convention. Then mark your September calendar to get another story he's performed at cons, "Backwards Man," from Dark Discoveries magazine.

From Del Howison
HEY YOU PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS!
Do you plan to be in the Los Angeles area this week of June? If so, you may want to know about the following -
On Tuesday June 7th at 6:00p.m. Dark Delicacies has the pleasure of hosting a signing with writer/actor Bruce Campbell. Mr. Campbell will be signing his new book HOW TO MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be given out with the purchase of the book.
Do you plan to be in the Los Angeles area the second weekend in June? -
On Sunday June 12th at 2 p.m. author/editor Joseph Monks will sign his short story collection STUFF OUT'A MY HEAD. He will be joined by Hart Fisher to sign their anthology SEX CRIMES. Hart will also sign his DVD FLOWERS ON THE RAZORWIRE. Rounding out the signing will be author Christa Faust signing her books NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET: Dreamspawn.

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO-
Actor Robert Englund (SLASHED DREAMS, EATEN ALIVE, THE FIFTH FLOOR, DEAD & BURIED, GALAXY OF TERROR, A NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET [entire series], THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, C.H.U.D. II, NIGHT TERRORS, THE MANGLER, WISHMASTER, URBAN LEGEND, STRANGELAND, PYTHON, JASON VS. FREDDY and so much more!) is 56.
Actor Jason Isaacs (DANGEROUS LADY, DRAGONHEART, EVENT HORIZON, RESIDENT EVIL, HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS) is 42. Jason shares a June birthday with fellow "Dangerous Lady" alumni, Susan Lynch.
She's only been in two movies so far, but they were both Horror / Thriller, so an encouraging birthday wish to
Actor Heather Peace (BASKET CASE 3, THE DEVIL'S TATTOO) who is 30.
Hollywood everything Chris Stavrakis (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD [1990], DIABOLIQUE, CHILDREN OF THE LIVING DEAD, DOGMA, REIGN OF THE DEAD, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES) who is 34.
And on Sunday -
Writer Judi Rohrig (Feoamante.com columnist, Editor of Hellnotes, Horror gadfly, various short stories) who is mumble something years old today.
Actor Susan Lynch (CIRCLE OF POWER, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, DANGEROUS LADY [TV], DOWNTIME, IL GIOCO, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, FROM HELL, HAPPY NOW, MORLANG) is 34.
Musician Niko McBrain (IRON MAIDEN [drummer]) is 53.
Actor Tomoko Nakajima (FUTARI, PARASITE EVE, MPD PSYCHO) is 34.
Actor Mark Wahlberg (FEAR, THE BIG HIT, THE CORRUPTOR, PLANET OF THE APES [2001], THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE) is 34.
And on Saturday -
Actor Kieth David (THE THING [1982], THEY LIVE, LADY KILLERS [TV], FINAL ANALYSIS, NAILS [TV], THE PUPPET MASTERS, GARGOYLES [voice], THE GRAVE, SPAWN [TV], PRINCESS MONOKE [voice], PITCH BLACK, FINAL FANTASY [voice], 29 PALMS, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, CRASH) is 49.
Actor Angelina Jolie (CYBORG 2, HACKERS, THE BONE COLLECTOR, Laura Croft: TOMB RAIDER, ORIGINAL SIN, LAURA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: The Cradle of Life, TAKING LIVES) is 29.
Actor Sean Pertwee (EVENT HORIZON, TALE OF THE MUMMY, FIVE SECONDS TO SPARE, SEVEN SECONDS TO LIVE, DOG SOLDIERS, EQUILIBRIUM, THE PROPHECY: Uprising) is 40.
Actor Bruce Dern (MARNIE, "HUSH ... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE", THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT, FAMILY PLOT, BLACK SUNDAY, "AFTER DARK, MY SWEET", THE HAUNTING [1999], THE GLASS HOUSE, MONSTER) is 69 and the only living actor who can claim roles in 2 Alfred Hitchcock movies.

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JUNE 3

QUICK BITES
Brett Savory of Chizine and the writer's contest has an email update.
"The ChiZine email server has been acting up recently, so I need to change the email address for the current ChiZine/Leisure short story contest to savory@rogers.com."

SEX AND HORROR OH MY!
Teri A. Jacobs sold her first story when she was only 13! Now she is about to appeal to the grave masses with a sequel to her popular first novel, THE VOID.

That sequel is, SECRETS OF THE BONES -

The Grigori, fallen angels of the old Testament, have escaped their prison in heaven and once again seek to spawn ravenous sons - with Rani their prey, their pawn for exquisite pain and sex . . . but she is another's pawn as well.
One man, a master in the art of necromancy, murdered her son years before and holds his tortured soul ransom - her life for his peace. Because within her flesh and bone lie divine secrets and the keys to controlling the angels.

Visit Teri at her website: Welcome To Oblivion.

Kelly Parks

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JUNE 2

From Mike Philbin
NIGHTMARE EXCESS
Still reeling from the nightmare excesses of CHIMERAWORLD #1? Relax a while and enjoy the ambient tones of sadness, depression, degradation and utter hopelessness of CHIMERAWORLD #2, the pure power-chords of deep, deep despondency.

Those were the rather vague (and purposefully so) guidelines to this title. The idea was not to set a theme but to set a tone, a palette, an atmosphere. From nearly 100 submissions the final 23 stories were chosen. They are some of the most seriously despondent stories ever assembled together into one gloomy collection.

Get your box of razor blades ready 'cos here's the finalised TOC:

Damp - Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis
The Dance - Brian W Keen
The Stagnant Ponds - Kurt Newton
A Taste For Deformity - Dustin LaValley
The Abortion People - David L Tamarin
It's Your Turn - Derek Gunn
Twisted Justice - Michele Acker
This Colossal Wreck - Anthony Cain
C.U.N.T. - William D. Carl
The Fort - Glen Alan Hamilton
Asking For It - Quentin S Crisp
Embalming 101 - J. M. Heluk
At The Orphanage - Charles Richard Laing
Dream Lover - Ken Goldman
Blind Feeling - Nicholas Alan Tillemans
Grey Love - Suzanne Church
Fizz - Eric Shapiro
Little Boy Blue - Tony Richards.
Birdcage - Karen James
Sin And Sorrow - John Meany
Abraham Lincoln's Children - Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The Final Wait - Richard Lee
The Forgotten - Destiny West

From Del Howison
DARK DELICACIES
If you plan to be in the Los Angeles area this week, you may want to know about the following:
On Friday June 3rd at 2:00p.m. Dark Delicacies will be hosting a signing for writer and filmmaker Brian Pulido (LADY DEATH). Brian will be signing his three new graphic novel series: NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET #1, FRIDAY THE 13th SPECIAL #1, and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE SPECIAL #1.

What's more, June 3 is Del Howison's birthday!

Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA

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JUNE 1

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO-
We start this list off with a writer whose work was so profound that many a modern day Televangelist has been so befuddled as to quote from this writer's works; believing it to be in their Bible! In fact, Dante's interpretation of what the afterlife must look and feel like, not only contradicts the Christian bible, but is widely held (by western Christians who apparently don't even read their bible) as THE actual view of what happens to a person after death. In essence, more western Christians believe in Dante's version of the afterlife than they believe in their Bible's vision (and they probably never read Dante either!)! So happy birthday to
Writer Dante Alighieri (THE DIVINE COMEDIES, INFERNO) whose remains - what remain of them - are 740 today.
Since he started his own production company, he's become THE American actor of Mysteries and Thrillers. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to,
Actor Producer Morgan Freeman (ELECTRIC COMPANY [TV show, among his many characters were Count Dracula and The Mad Scientist], THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, OUTBREAK, SE7EN, KISS THE GIRLS, ALONG CAME A SPIDER, THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, DREAMCATCHER, THE BIG BOUNCE, UNLEASHED) is 68.
Actor Tara Moran (TOUCHING EVIL II [TV], TOUCHING EVIL III [TV], SPOOKS [TV]) is 34.
Actor Terri Polo (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [TV], THE ARRIVAL, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1997 [TV], VAN HELSING CHRONICLES [TV], BRIMSTONE [TV], THE UNSAID, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE) is 36.
Actor Jonathan Pryce (MURDER IS EASY, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, BRAZIL, THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS, HAUNTED HONEYMOON, MAN ON FIRE, DEADLY ADVICE, DARK BLOOD, STIGMATA, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN) is 58.
This next person, is probably one of the most highly recognized voice character actors because, though his appearance credits are few, they have been in high profile television shows.
Actor Rene Auberjonois (ONCE UPON A DEAD MAN [TV], KING KONG [1976], THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME [TV], EYES OF LAURA MARS, ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT SCARY [TV], MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE, SCOOBY-DOO AND THE GHOUL SCHOOL [Voice], PIRATES OF DARK WATER [Voice], GABRIEL KNIGHT: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned [Voice, Video Game], LEGACY OF KAIN: Soul Reaver II [Voice, Video Game], BLOOD OMEN II: Legacy of Kain [Voice, Video Game]) is 65.
Actor Edward Woodward (INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED, SITTING TARGET, THE WICKERMAN, CALLAN, 1990 [TV], HANDS OF A MURDERER [TV], THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, DARK REALM [TV]) is 75.

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THE BREED Starring Adrian Paul (THE HIGHLANDER), Bokeem Woodbine, and Ling Bai (THE CROW), This Alternate History movie is part Horror, Part crime, part S.F. and all Vampires. From the screenplay by our own Christos N. Gage and Ruth Fletcher Gage.