JANUARY
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From Judi
Rohrig and E.C.McMullen Jr.
PASSING INTO THE REAL OUTER LIMITS
Locus
Magazine is reporting that John Mantley (MY
BLOOD RUNS COLD) has died of Alzheimer's disease.
The 82-year-old former producer of THE WILD, WILD, WEST TV series also
wrote for the S.F. / Thriller show THE OUTER LIMITS and potboilers like
The Untouchables. John's first novel, THE 27TH DAY (SF/Thriller)
was later made into the 1957 movie.
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From Chris
Gage
FANBOY'S
WRITING ON NBC TV FRIDAY NIGHT!
The moment is nigh! This Friday night, January 31st, at 10pm, your local
NBC station will air an episode of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS
UNIT written by your humble servant, the Fanboy
of Fear, Christos N. Gage (THE
BREED, TEENAGE CAVEMAN) - with
my wife Ruth, natch. I'll be your best friend (that's
right, every single one of you) if you watch it. Here's a comics
related in-joke for you: see if you can spot where I used the name of
Paul Howley, owner of award-winning comic book store That's Entertainment
in Worcester, Mass.! Thanks for your support!
SO MUCH
STUPIDITY, SO MUCH TIME TO TRASH IT!
Check out the latest updates to HORRIBLE NEWS. Real Headlines, Lampoon
News! Also some opinion that eats all sacred cows.
Check out
Horrible News.
QUEER FEAR DON'T SKEER QUEERS
Editor Michael Rowe's first QUEER FEAR anthology garnered critical raves
for its frightening yet respectful use of the subject matter, which was
devoted to protagonists and antagonists, victims and monsters, who were
Homosexual, Bisexual, and Transgendered. Now QUEER FEAR II is out and
really getting raves.
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HORROR / THRILLER FLEDGLINGS GET THE BAT BOY
Chris Nolan, director of the mysterious and creepy MEMENTO, has got the
inked paper from Warner Bros. naming him as the next director in the dead
Batman movie franchise. Warner Bros. has taken lots of risks with their
Dark Knight ever since hiring Tim Burton to direct the first one and having
Michael Keaton (whose career was in a dumpster at
the time) sign on as the Caped Crusader.
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CATCH!:
SOME FREE GOODIES!
Yeah, I thought that would attract your penny-pinching attention! But
it's true: It's that time of year when publishers, in an effort to win
awards for their books and writers, are offering entire novels for free.
The catch? You have to be a member of an organization that actually
votes on these awards.
Here is
a list of publishers and writers who are giving out their complete stories
and/or novels for free on the net - to members of specific organizations.
You may have to pay to become a member of these organizations, but then
you get free goodies!
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JOHNNY
DEPP AND HIS FIRST KING ROLE
Okay, if you are a Horror / Thriller fan then you are pretty much a
Depp fan. Of his almost 30 theatrical movies, 10 of them fall into the
categories of Horror, Thriller, or Dark Fantasy. From his movie debut
in A
NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET to his role as Horror movie director
incompetent, ED WOOD, to his presence in three Horror / Thriller movies
all released in 1999 (THE
NINTH GATE, THE
ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, SLEEPY
HOLLOW) which marked both the resurge in Horror movies
and the launch of this website.
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From Judi
Rohrig
101 BEST OF THE BEST
Respected
editor, writer, historian, and HELLNOTES columnist John Pelan has taken
on the task of compiling the Century's best horror fiction for Cemetery
Dance Publications. Pelan has to choose the one BEST published
story representing each year: 1900-2000. Authors will be limited to
one story, too. Volume One will find the best stories for the even-numbered
years, while Volume Two will cover the odd-numbered years. Target date
for is later this year.
From Judi
Rohrig
GREAT CONJUNCTIONS!
New York City's The New School welcomes
Peter Straub (GHOST STORY, THE TALISMAN w/Stephen
King, THE HELLFIRE CLUB, BLACK
HOUSE w/Stephen King),
Gahan Wilson (THE CLEFT AND OTHER ODD TALES, THE
ULTIMATE HAUNTED HOUSE),
Kelly Link (STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN),
China Mieville (KING RAT, PERDIDO STREET STATION),
and
John Crowley (ÆGYPT, LOVE & SLEEP, DÆMONOMANIA)
for a Tuesday, January 28, signing of the just released CONJUNCTIONS
39: The New Wave Fabulists. It all begins at 7:00 p.m. at 66 West 12th
Street, Room 201.
BRAUNBECK
AND THE WOLVES OF THE MIDWEST
FeoNote: I am a mercenary mother as I'm sure you're aware.
So it is damn rare that I allow any news in here that smacks more of
advertising than the actual Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of
a press release. But this latest news from Lone
Wolf Publishing has to be some kind of record, man. This
new disc is like the bonus DVD extras of audio! Check out the following
from Brian A. Hopkins.
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ANOTHER
FICTION EDITOR LEAVES GOTHIC.NET
Rumors abound but you can trust your intrepid reporter - (me,
you idiot!) - to sort out the wheat from the chaff! Was it even
a month after Ohioan, Kealan Patrick Burke, (he
of the suspiciously Irish-sounding name) snatched the post of
Fiction Editor at Gothic.net
away from the hulking continent that is Seth Lindberg, that he began
whining that he may not be "Gothic" enough for Gothic.net?
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From
Mike
Rodin
HORRORFIND WEEKEND III
Planning
for the 3rd annual Horrorfind Weekend 2003 is well underway. Over the
next few weeks a new web site will go up, BIG guests will be announced
and massive promotions will start.
A few confirmed
guests already onboard are Doug Bradley (HELLRAISER),
Traci Elizabeth Lords (FIRST WAVE), Bill
Mosley (Choptop, also in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES)
- many more BIG guests to be confirmed soon.
We'll have
lots of Movie/TV celebrities, horror authors, Halloween and haunt industry
speakers/events, supernatural, and much more being planned.
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THE
CLOCK IS TICKING
Think you have all the time in the world to make your dreams come true?
This article will give you an idea of just how much time you have -
in seconds.
Read Seconds
Of Life.
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YOU
MUST HAVE JAVA SCRIPT ENABLED TO SEE THIS SITE |
From
Hertzan
Chimera
RIBBED FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE
The living embodiment of The Marquis De Sade" (Feo
News 2001) may have been quiet for some time but he has
been applying himself in a sinister direction. Along with his
delicious cohort in evil, Alex Severin, Hertzan Chimera has given
unholy succour to a fine collection of sex-horror nastiness. A
28 story collaboration of the most disturbing sex-horror literature
ever written since the goodly Marquis hung up his quill.
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LISTEN
UP YOU PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS!
The last few "Collector's Editions" of Sam Raimi's ARMY
OF DARKNESS have been a mixed blessing. Two of the DVD releases,
a Collector's Edition and a Collector's Edition Director's Cut Bootleg
Edition (which were pretty much the same thing but
with different covers) both had "The original Director's Ending"
which further goes to show how a director can louse up their own story
(not that Scott, Speilberg, or Lucas is reading
this but...).
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From Judi
Rohrig
SETTIN' A SPELL WITH CARROLL AND DATLOW
"What
it always boils down to, you write about what bites you." So says
novelist Jonathan Carroll in a new interview published by Rain
Taxi, an online publication out of Minneapolis, MN. Novelist
Carroll and his editor, Ellen Datlow, obviously shared some time between
panels at last fall's World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis to visit
with interviewers Alan DeNiro and Kelly Everding, and it was time well-spent.
The interview in in-depth and eye-opening.
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From Judi
Rohrig
STARS DESTINATION IS NET ONLY
Chicago
bookstore owner Alice Bentley made it official. She's closing the doors
of her Stars
Our Destination Bookstore in Evanston, IL. "After
long thought and number-crunching, I've decided to close down my storefront,
and go to just doing mail order," the message posted at her website
sfbooks.com
said after several announcements for new arrivals in her store.
HORROR-WEB
PRESENTS: CHAT WITH CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
Horror-Web presents chat with award-winning, L.A. Times best-selling
Author Christopher Golden, Saturday January 25 at 9PM EST (8
central, 7 mountain, 6 pacific). Not only are we chatting but
we giving away prizes!
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from Internet
Wire
ALYSSA MILANO ANNOUNCES CUSTOMIZED MEMORIABILIA AND WEB CHAT
LOS ANGELES, CA - Alyssa Milano (THE CANTERVILLE
GHOST [TV], EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE, POISON IVY II, DEADLY SINS, FEAR),
Safe
Searching, Inc. and WebPhotos
Entertainment announced today that Alyssa Milano will host
an on-line chat with fans on Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 11:00 am Pacific
Standard Time.
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from Internet
Wire
THE GAME IS AFOOT, WATSON! NO HOLMES: THE GAME IS A METER!
Beware! There’s a brand-new “Hound” on Masterpiece Theatre
Online: pbs.org/masterpiece.
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THE
PREDITORS & EDITORS READER'S POLL
What is it about? It's about a popular vote for what you like in Horror,
Thriller, Mystery, suspense, and more. What does it mean? I'm not sure,
but we're listed there a bunch of times under the categories of
Non-Fiction e-zine
feoamante.com
Print/Electronic
Horror Novel published in 2002
Monica J. O'Rourke: SUFFER THE FLESH (Prime Books)
Horror Short Story published in 2002
E.C.McMullen Jr.: WHAT'S WRONG WITH MILDRED? (Random
Acts of Weirdness anthology, Catalyst Press),
Short Story (All other genres) published in 2002
E.C.McMullen Jr.: SOME PEOPLE (Decadence anthology,
Prime).
Author published in 2002
Monica J. O'Rourke
Brian Knight
The poll
for 2002 is open from Jan. 1 to Jan. 21. So what
the hell? Only a few days are left. Hustle on over to critters.org
and take the Preditors Poll and vote for us if you like our stuff.
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From Judi
Rohrig
THE ROAD LEEDS TO A COOL SIGNING!
The Borders Bookshop in Leeds, England is likely to be a busy place
come Thursday, January 23. Signing and reading there will be Simon Clark,
Ramsey Campbell, Mark Morris, and Peter Crowther. Billed as NORTHERN
CHILLS, it all starts at 7:00 p.m. Leeds time!
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From Judi
Rohrig
DELECTABLE AND YES, DARK!
It
may be a New Year, but it's business as usual for some seasoned authors
as they beat the bushes signing their works. Joe R. Lansdale will be
signing copies of his new A FINE DARK LINE and his last Hap & Leonard
mystery CAPTAINS
OUTRAGEOUS at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA, on Friday,
January 24, beginning at 1:00 p.m. (PST.) The next afternoon, January
25, at 2:00 p.m., Dark Delicacies will play host to Ray Bradbury who'll
be signing his newest, LET'S ALL KILL CONSTANCE. Joining Ray will be
P.N. Elrod, who will be placing pen to open page of her new vampire
novel, COLD STREETS.
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BATTLEFIELD
EARTH CAPTURES ANOTHER MAJOR eBOOK AWARD AS TOP SCI-FI BESTSELLER
HOLLYWOOD, CA - (INTERNET WIRE) - 01/13/2003 - BATTLEFIELD
EARTH, the epic science fiction adventure by L. Ron Hubbard
(FEAR),
captured its 2nd eBook award when CyberRead
Inc., one of the largest eBook distributors on the Internet,
announced their top science fiction and fantasy bestsellers for 2002
with the CyberRead Award.
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HECK
HAS ANOTHER GO
Victor Heck's first novel, A DARKNESS INBRED, which has has been called
a whole bunch of good stuff by reviewers, has been re-released by House
of Dominion Books, an imprint of Prime Books, with an all-new look and
a lower price. Visit Victor's updated website PaddedRoom.net
to see the new cover.
HAIRY
NEWS FROM IGOR
Last night's chat with Special Guest Harry Shannon went well last night.
It was just about standing room only! :) As usual we were very casual
and sadly I had to step my foot down and get down to business.The transcripts
of the chat will be posted later this week and you can find them at
the following URL: horrorweb/chat.html.
Unfortunately only most of it will be there, as Wench had to restart
her system. But you'll get the gist of it all.
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MCFARLANE
HAS THE STORY BUT WE GOT THE SCOOP!
Up at Spawn.com
is the full story of Todd McFarlane (SPAWN)
and Clive Barker's (HELLRAISER,
COLDHEART
CANYON) signing at Meltdown Comics in North Hollywood. Though
the story is "dated" Dec. 12, spawn.com's newsletter is only
now mentioning the item. feoamante.com was there with E.C.McMullen and
reported on the cool time, verifying that Todd and Clive did indeed
stay late to make sure all their fans were taken care of - no divas
they.
Check out
our story at Fanboy.
Check out their story at Spawn.com.
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HAIRY
CHAT
Horror-Web will be conducting Chat with our own Harry
Shannon (NIGHT
OF THE BEAST) on SUNDAY Jan 12, 2003 at 8 PM EST (5PM
PST & 7PM CST). Everyone is welcome!
To attend the chat please visit HorrorWeb/Chat.
REALITY TV CROWNS ITS SCREAM QUEENS
First,
“Survivor” made household names out of everyday Americans. Then,
“American Idol” gave singing hopefuls their chance to become
recording stars. Now, “I want to be a Scream Queen!” is about
to turn five aspiring actresses into horror movie icons.
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AS PROPHESIED
BY ROHRIG
A few staffing changes for the weekly e-magazine HELLNOTES become effective
with the February 6, 2003 issue. At that time, the new editor and publisher
will be Judi Rohrig.
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PROPS
FOR GARRETT
THE
RESTLESS DEAD
by HUGH B. CAVE |
"Give
me my propers / when I get home."
Otis Redding sung it in 1965 and it became Aretha Franklin's anthem
in 1967. As in a little proper respect. Back in 2001, Garrett
Peck wrote a review of Horror writer Hugh B. Cave's THE EVIL RETURNS.
Hugh's latest novel, THE RESTLESS DEAD (Leisure
Horror), just hit the bookstores (though
Borders customers will have to wait another week in most areas
- I don't know why).
On
the very first page there is a blurb from this site regarding
ol' Hugh. However, unlike blurb IDs from places like HellNotes
and Masters Of Terror, the blurb ID for feoamante.com is listed
as "Feo Amante" and many people have come to associate
the name of the site with me (it's my nickname).
So for the sake of clarity, I, Feo Amante, didn't write it. Is
this a big deal? Not at all. This is just a way another way to
promote my reviewers and, in this case, give Garrett Peck his
Proper Respect!
|
Read Garrett's
review of Hugh B. Cave's THE
EVIL RETURNS.
From Judi
Rohrig
OH, ROMERO, ROMERO, WHERE ART YA, ROMERO?
This
Saturday and Sunday, January 11 and 12, the American
Museum of Moving Images in Queens, NY, will present a
film retrospective of filmmaker George Romero. And lo and behold, Romero
will be there to introduce some of the films himself!
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SCREAMFEST
2003 CALL FOR ENTRIES
Los
Angeles, January 6, 2003 -
SCREAMFEST, the biggest Independent Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles
has announced its call for entries for 2003. Now in it's third year
SCREAMFEST is looking for submissions from filmmakers across the globe
to fill the following categories for both film and scripts; Horror Feature,
Horror Short, Horror Super Short (under 10 minutes),
Horror Comedy, Documentary (haunt or horror related),
Horror Animation, Horror Animation Short, Horror Animation Super Short,
Student Horror Feature Film, Student Horror Short and Student Horror
Super Short.
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SIMON
CLARK: HE SEZIT, I POSTIT
|
SIMON
CLARK: HE SEZIT I POSTIT
 Simon
Clark is attending Spookycon!
The convention will be held at the Holiday Inn, Chinatown, San
Francisco, 9-12 January 2003.
If
you're there be sure to say 'Hello'. In addition to the convention,
Simon will be signing books and chewing the fat at Borderland
Books from 7pm on Thursday, 9 January 2003. All Welcome!
Bookstore
location:
Borderland
Books
866 Valencia Street
San Francisco
415 824-8203
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HORROR-WEB
HAS A HARRY CHAT
The Horror-Web's special guest this week, Sunday January 12th, is
Harry Shannon. What makes him
special is his renaissance-man approach in that not only is he a writer,
but also a singer, actor, and therapist. His writing
style is down to earth and vibrant. The Horror-Web's natural instinct
was to invite him to chat and pick his brain; to learn about the many
faces of Harry Shannon. What will he bring to the table? Only that chat
will tell.
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GAK
NOW HAS OWN SITE!
For the longest time, Horror artist Gak, has been an extension name
to feoamante.com. But a long term misfire of free time (when
I have it, Gak has nothing to report, when he has huge updates, I'm
busy scrambling!) have left his site bereft for a while. But
now Gak has gakart.com
and it rocks (courtesy of NecroDave)! So
check it out. Right now! As for me, I'm scrambling to re-direct all
of Gak's image links to the new site!
CONGRATULATIONS
DVD JON!
cnn.com
msnbc.com
abcnews.com,
for whatever reason, doesn't want to report on the outcome of this story.
Their last entry is from 2001. My respect falls for them every week.
foxnews.com, HA! Foxnews! That's a good one! Like they would ever
have a science section! They don't even have a technology section!
The closest they get to reality is their weather section! Can't scare
off the superstitious crackpot audience now can we?
linux.com
zdnet.com
anti-dmca.org
and of course
nanocrew.net
It should be noted that the challenge against Jon Johansen is brought
to you by many of the same folks who challenged technologies
such as video tape and DVD - and now make billions off of it.
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MYSTERIOUS
GALAXY'S JANUARY EVENTS
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore is based in Southern, California, USA in
general and San Diego in Particular. If you are going to be in this
area in January - For whatever reason! I'm not asking! Your business
is your own! - you may want to check out the following events:
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J.R.R.
TOLKIEN IS ELEVENTY ELEVEN
If Tolkien had not died at the ripe old age of 81 in 1973, he would
be 111 years old today. The same age as his fictional character Bilbo
Baggins, whose birthday begins the LORD
OF THE RINGS saga. To his family, friends, and fans, we wish
the memory of former Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, a very Happy Birthday.
This Friday night, try to find a nearby pub or gathering where a fellowship
of Shire fans will toast the departed master's memory.
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From Judi
Rohrig
MIKE GETS A QUICKIE AT TWILIGHT TALES
Chicago's
Twilight
Tales will be back with their usual Open Mike Night this
coming Monday, January 6, though with a slight twist. After-words Bookstore
manager (and TT regular) Lisa Rogers Lowrance
will open the evening with a quickie lesson, "You and Your Microphone,"
for those contemplating participation in Open Mike or maybe just as
a refresher course.
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