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MARCH

MAR. 31

E.C.McMULLEN JR.'S WRITER'S SITE
Well, I finally did it. I put up my own special place where fans (fans? What freaking fans?) can come visit me and track my writing. I'll be putting up a blog and a message board and all that other stuff. I feel like I'm making an Ego sandwich with extra hubris, but here we go. It's not finished yet, but what there is can be found at

4 Fans Of Eddie



From Chris Gage
IT'S GRAPHIC! IT'S CLASSIC! IT'S GRAPHIC CLASSICS #5!
Regular visitors have seen me extol the virtues of the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series of trade paperbacks, bargain-priced books that present illustrated and comic-format adaptations of classic works of literature. Each volume focuses on a particular author; past editions have featured Poe, Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, and other luminaries in the worlds of horror, mystery and science fiction.

Volume Five, JACK LONDON is now out. I'm not going to do an in-depth review of it, mostly because I plan to review the next two, AMBROSE BIERCE and BRAM STOKER (yowza!), and I don't want to inundate you guys. But just because the latter books might have greater interest for horror fans doesn't mean JACK LONDON has none.

If you think of Jack London as "that guy who writes stories about dogs in the wilderness" (like I did), think again. GRAPHIC CLASSICS #5 bypasses London's better known novels (i.e. WHITE FANG) to focus on his short stories. And while only one or two feature the supernatural, many of them are excellent pieces of crime fiction that hold up powerfully even today. The art by the likes of Peter Kuper, Rick Geary and Spain Rodriguez is nothing to sneeze at either.

Also worthy of note is that all but one of the adaptations in JACK LONDON are 100% original, having never been published anywhere else. Editor/Publisher Tom Pomplun is really hitting his stride with these books, and this worthy series deserves to continue. That's enough reason to try them, but the main reason is that they're damn entertaining! Learn more at graphicclassics.com.


WESTON GALAPAGOS
Del and Sue at Dark Delicacies go all out for their signings, providing food and drink for the writers - though Weston had to bring his own beer (beer at a book signing! Whatta concept!).

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(March 31)
From Edo van Belkom
ART IMITATES LIFE IMITATING ART IMITATING...
Yes, we know about Tony Urban's I WANT TO BE A SCREAM QUEEN reality show. We reported it here. And yes we know about Edo van Belkom's novel, SCREAM QUEEN, about a hot Reality Television game show. We've reported it before and now the novel is in print.

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MAR. 27

TIM - MAY! TURNS PRO-VIOLENCE AND ANTI-FREE SPEECH
Tim Robbins (JACOB'S LADDER) and Susan Sarandon (THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE HUNGER) have been all over the news, beating their breasts about their right to Freedom of Speech. Good for them: that's one of many wonderful things that the U.S. is all about. But apparently Timmy believes that freedom should be reserved for the "Inside Select". One of the outsiders seems to be the Mother of his long time partner, Susie. Allow HER some press time and Timmy behaves with all the grace of a tryannical Televangelist caught with a hooker.

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MAR. 26

H. P. Lovecraft Institute
H. P. Lovecraft Institute

H.P. LOVECRAFT ON CNN HEADLINE NEWS?
Will someone tell me how an author, who has been dead for over half a century, and has never had a blockbuster movie made from any of his stories, rates an appearance on CNN's Headline News?

Well, I guess it helps when a fan and long time Horror/Science Fiction writer like David Bischoff writes a book about you.

Read the full report at CNN.com


THE HORROR OF JUNKeMAIL
Okay, for the last few weeks now I've been deleting an inordinate number of spam emails with Headers that read
TEAR HER APART WITH YOUR BIG BAT...
or
BUST DOWN HER WALLS WITH YOUR BIG SHAFT...
and even
RIP HER WIDE OPEN WITH YOU HUGE TOOL... (sic)
And I'm thinking "That's a rather odd form of greeting!" so I haven't opened them and really have no idea what the hell they are talking about. But if I truly did have such misgivings about this iconic "Her", why be so messy? Wouldn't it be neater and more convenient to just take a gun and shoot "Her"? Or am I being ignorant? Are these emails from "Gun Control" enthusiasts?


AS A CONSERVATIVE, I'M SHOCKED AND APPALLED!
Who among us would have thought that either our President or our vice-president would do something of such obvious collusion as give their former job and current cronies the sweetest plum of the "Rebuild Iraq" pie? And to remove all the guess work out of Haliburton getting the contract, our Administration just HANDED it to them without allowing any competing companies to bid on it? That's what buying the presidency will get ya! Haliburton just got handed the fattest tax payer contract (thus far) in controlling Iraq's oil reserves. And our soldiers haven't even finished the war yet! How many of our fighting boys & girls will get a piece of that pie for THEIR sacrifice? I'm just curious is all. For those of you who may soon be wearing, "My Mother (Father, Son, Daughter) Died In Iraq For Dick Cheney's Cronies And All I got Was This Stupid T-Shirt" apparel, read the following.

WashingtonPost.com
USAToday.com

(Financial Times) ft.com
NewsDay.com
IndependentOnline


THE HORROR OF SMART-ASS KNOW-IT-ALLS: WHO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!
The THRILL of being right. The MYSTERY as to why others don't get it and don't want to hear about it. And the SUSPENSE over whether they ever will pull their heads out. No mo needs to be stated, 'Nuff sed, just check out ProtestWarrior.com

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MAR. 25

THE HORROR OF DISCOVERING THAT YOU'RE STUPID
First Sean Penn and now this. Sometimes folks don't realize how incredibly stupid they are until it is shoved right up their nose, and then, of course, they can't tell their friends because their friends remain stupid.

Read Opinion.Telegraph.Co.Uk


PEOPLE WOULD RATHER WATCH WAR THAN OSCARS
And who can blame them? Among the top winners was a man who confessed to drugging and forcibly raping a 13 year old girl, and then fled the country to live out a pampered existence in France (where it seems he carried on his child molesting ways, according to actress Natassa Kinski). He got three Oscars by making a Holocaust flick. All is forgiven now, scumbag. Just stay the hell away from my kids, you sick child raping freak! Or I'll blow yer god damn head off and shove that Oscar down your stump!

Hey! Everybody has an opinion! :-)

Another whiner - er - winner, was a man who seems to win awards by threatening to scream blue murder and hold his breath if he doesn't get his way. This time it was for his infomercial, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, which is not a (ha, ha) documentary in any sense of the word (entirely ficticious is a proper sense of the word). How he mewled about the chance that he might fail to win an Oscar against far better, and far more honest competition. Michael lied in the film. He lied in his acceptance speach. He even lied to the press after he got his award, claiming that the booes he got from the audience during his libelous acceptance slander were made by people he specifically seeded in to do just that.

Don't take my word for it though, read
OpinionJournal.com
SpinSanity.org
Mr.Cranky.com
Hardylaw.net

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MAR. 23

From Weston Ochse
CATFISH GODS: THE MOVIE
Catfish Gods - The Movie. I sure never thought those four words would ever go together when I wrote the story. Even when it was made a part of SCARY REDNECKS and Other Inbred Horrors (w/David Whitman) it never crossed my mind. Yet, last night I finalized the contract with HD4D Cinema Entertainment for “Catfish Gods” to be made from this story.

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MAR. 21

THE MOUTH OF THE SOUTH - WITHOUT A SHOE
Jane Fonda's favorite liberal, Ted Turner (Real name, Robert Edward Turner), must have, like the rest of us, saw the news. He saw happy Iraqi's dancing in the streets, tearing down pictures of Saddam Hussien, and for once, not afraid to show their smiling faces to the cameras. Not looking past the camera to someone when they speak their minds. Freedom is like that at first. The re-building comes later. And that is precisely what's got Captain Outrageous seething. Speaking at a conference in New Orleans, Teddy said that the United States is "going to be in big financial trouble after we pay for this. The thing about war is, we've got to spend all this money to blow Iraq up, and then we have to go out and rebuild it.* It's really bad business."

"Really bad business." Thanks for putting human life and liberty in the proper perspective, Chief! Ted Turner then went on to say that Reverend Martin Luther King could have stopped us from going to war. Ted is apparently channeling again as well.

*something our enemies will never do, though they even expect it of us! Yeah, we're the bad guys here. -feo

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MAR. 20

IN THIS TIME OF WAR, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST!
So for all of you folks who heard the rumors, freaked, and deluged various entertainment magazines with emails begging for the truth to be revealed, here it is:
According to USA Today, imdb.com, and infobeat Entertainment (I don't care to keep checking any more sources), actor Toby Maguire (REVENGE OF THE RED BARON, SPIDERMAN), despite his back injuries suffered while filming his latest movie, "Seabiscuit" (The story of a boy - and his biscuit), WILL appear as Peter Parker in THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (set for a 2004 release). In fact, he just got a super hefty pay raise of $15 million on top of what he made for SPIDERMAN! Jake Gyllenhaal (DONNIE DARKO), on the other hand, who was rumored to replace Toby, WILL NOT be Spiderman and expects no pay raises: so that he can continue the career choices that have brought him such roles as "Bubbleboy" and "The Good Girl". There now, feel more at ease with the world?


From The Cryptkeeper
IN CASE YA DIDN'T KNOW, WE'RE LETTIN' YA KNOW!
For those horror fans who did not know yet, we wanted to announce our U.S. Haunted House Directory at hauntedhouses.us. If you are looking for a great haunted house or attraction to visit this upcoming Halloween, our directory is a great place to start. The site is broken down into different states, so you can easily find haunted attractions near you.

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MAR. 18

"THEY KILLED GOD!"
"YOU BASTARDS!"

Horror in the Superstitious world raises its head again. Jesus on a potato chip, his Mom on a beach post, and now this: Did God really talk through a carp? Or was it Old Scratch up to his tricks again? Whatever, a fish shouting dire prophecies, in Hebrew, in a Jewish deli, was beat to death with a club (if prayers don't work, use a big freaking bat! Years of roaming gangs of fag bashers could have told ya!). If it was the Devil, then we've all been saved by a club wielding Christian. If it was God, then we've all been saved by a club wielding Christian. Jews the world over can now take heart. Whenever some screwed up Goyim blames the Jews for killing Christ, they can all say, "Oh yah? Vell what about that CARP?" But don't bother fish basher, Luis Nivelo. He is sick of hearing about it.

Observer.co.uk.


SWAG MAG ACCORDING TO MIKE
Self styled "Brutal Horror" author, Mike Philbin, aka Hertzen Chimera tells us the following:

Well, a sad day for gross-out horror, people.

My publisher Massacre Publishing just got BANNED from advertising my latest trade paperback short story collection (co-written with Alex Severin) in a mass-market goth-fetish mag called SWAG. And I quote from their own press releases, "For those who live on the wild side!"

Their reason? The word fist.

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JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A FAN DOESN'T MEAN THEY LIKE YOU.
I don't haunt the fansites of actors who make their living making DVD movies that, brand new, cost $5.99. Call it snobbery if you like. Still, the Lorenzo Lamaseseses' of the world have their small, if rabid, fans.

Former World Champion Kickboxer (1987) Olivier Gruner (NEMESIS, VELOCITY TRAP, INTERCEPTORS) is one such actor. He's made 23 films and not one has grossed more than a single payday for the TV cast of Friends. Still, he has his fans. Or had his fans may be more apropos. To paraphrase a quote from SCANNERS, "He has fans: He doesn't want them, but he has them." I don't know what this fansite did to cheese off Olivier, but check out this laughably sad link to the fansite formerly known as The Gruner Web.

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MAR. 14

SPELL CHECKIN' HELL

It's Albert Einstien's Birthday today so let's do something smart!

©AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Going over some stories I wrote and printed out back in the days of DOS and Windows 3.11 (when I would write with Notebook and WordPerfect), I am rather amazed at my superior grammar. What happened to me? Did I get lazy? Well, in a way, yes.

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Report by Judi Rohrig
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY THIS WAY COMES
Friday, March 21, Ray Bradbury will make an appearance and sign books at Form Zero Books in Los Angeles, CA (downtown LA near little Tokyo) in an event sponsored by the Columbia College Chicago West Coast Alumni. You must sign up in advance with Sarah Schroeder by phone 818-655-5288 or FAX 818-655-8438. Be sure to ask Susan about the starting time, too.

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MAR. 13

4 PRELIMS FOR MEDIUM RARE
Medium Rare Books Publishing, LLC would like to congratulate the following authors for making the H.W.A. Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot for Works Published in 2002.

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DOH! HAPPENS!
The slate of nominations for the 2003 International Horror Guild Awards, but NOT the final recipients, will be announced at the World Horror Convention in Kansas City on April 19, 2003. The final awards recognizing outstanding achievement in horror/dark fantasy for the year 2002 will be announced on May 23."

Continued at Story Time.



LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR HARRY
Andy Fairclough at HORROR WORLD has given our boy, Harry Shannon his own message board (hosted in Germany no less!). I've no idea what will actually happen on the message board since the old coot is too busy writing and taking care of his toddling papoose to talk much. But if you are a fan of his books THE BAD SEED and NIGHT OF THE BEAST, why not drop by?
guestbooks.pathfinder.gr/read/HarryShannon

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MAR. 12

BIRTHDAY ANNOUNCEMENT
Today is my Father's birthday. He's E.C. McMullen and I'm Jr. So Happy Birthday Pop! Now the world knows about it!



Supernatural Fiction Writers
Supernatural Fiction Writers

YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT BUT...
Since 1985, the SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS tomes have been a staple of libaries across the U.S. and Canada. The two volume set is a compendium of essays on the writers of Supernatural fantasy and Horror and a great resource.

It's also $250 bucks!

Still, if you are a collector (and who isn't?) you may want to have these two volumes (already pricey, they get incredibly collectable incredibly fast!).

In addition to informative essays on folks like Robert Aikman, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen King (natch, S.K.!) and more, this two volume set also contains essays by feoamante.com contributors Monica J. O'Rourke, Christopher Treagus, Michael T. Huyck Jr., and E.C.McMullen Jr. How can you go wrong?

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MAR. 11

WESTON COMES TO THE DARK SIDE
Weston Ochse, co-writer of SCARY REDNECKS and Other Inbred Horrors, will be at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank CA., USA this Sunday, March 16, at 2:30pm to do signings of his new book, APPALACHIAN GALAPAGOS (co-authored with David Whitman [DEAD FELLAS] who will not be present). Book purchase at Dark Delicacies is required for all seeking an autograph. Those not making a purchase will NOT be allowed a free autograph (Hey! They went to the trouble of setting this up for yall so ingrates need not attend!). All you gracious folks in the area can haul your carcass over to
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Boulevard
Burbank, California, 91505
1-888-DARKDEL



Report by John Merz
SAVE LAWSON!

Okay, so you've heard of the "Save Farscape" campaign that fans of the sci-fi channel's show have launched to try and save it from the cutting room floor. In fact, many television series have been buttressed by such campaigns (Save Firefly is another). But what about fans doing the same thing for a series of novels?

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Report by Judi Rohrig
C'MON, BUBBA, LET'S DO IT!
While the wait for general distribution continues, Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP will be shown this week at the South By Southwest Film Filmfest in Austin, TX. The film, based on the story by Joe R. Lansdale, will play at
midnight on Wednesday, March 12, at the Alamo Theater.

And speaking of Lansdale, the Texas writer will be interviewed by David English on BookCrazy Radio Network on Thursday, March 13. The program is set to air beginning at 2:00 p.m. and repeating every four hours.

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MAR. 7

SPACESTATIONS AND GRAVEYARDS
Science Fiction and Horror have been intimate siblings ever since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) became the Mother of Science Fiction with her Book THE MODERN PROMETHEUS (FRANKENSTEIN) and the Mother of Horror with her book THE MODERN PROMETHEUS (FRANKENSTIEN).

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Appalachian Galapagos: A Scary Rednecks Collection

FOR A FEW SCARY REDNECKS MORE
Writers Weston Ochse and David Whitman turned the small press publishing world upside down when DarkTales released SCARY REDNECKS: And Other Inbred Horrors. It was Horror. It was Comedy. And it was one of the best selling small press collections of the 1900s.

The success of the book spoiled these two rotten and they have since languished in chapbook and novella hell. As the years passed, they tormented their newborn fans with an interminably long waiting period for more backwoods horror in a jugular vein. Oh sure, you could blame this publisher or that publisher, but why speak ill of the dead?

At long (and I mean REALLY long) last, APPALACHIAN GALAPAGOS: A Scary Rednecks Collection is now available from Medium Rare Books.

I VAUNT TU BE A SCDEAM QVEEN!
“I want to be a Scream Queen”, the new Reality TV show in which aspiring actresses attempt to land a starring role in the upcoming horror movie HYBRID entered production on March 3, 2003. The show will begin by featuring the producers, Tony Urban and Chip Hajel as they began a rigorous application process which included more than 3,000 applicants all vying for a shot at movie stardom.

Continued at Horror Movies.

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MAR. 3

SHOCKING SHANNON
Shocklines
Online Bookstore will be running a contest starting this week. For a limited time, anyone who purchases Harry Shannon's NIGHT OF THE BEAST from their site will have a chance to win a $100.00 gift certificate to buy even more of their amazing merchandise.

Shocklines is run by Matt Schwartz, creator of the original Horrornet.com, credited for being the incubator for the new wave of Horror writers. Its message boards and chatroom were the cyber salons for such folks as Mike Oliveri, John Pelan, Rain Graves, Brian Keene, Ryan Harding, Regina Mitchell, Weston Ochse, Teri Jacobs, Mike Bracken, Geoff Cooper, John Urbancik, and some clown named Feo Amante to name but a few.



SAM & TWITCH GO ALL X-FILES
Todd McFarlane Productions is introducing a new monthly comic book. Beginning in May, CASEFILES: Sam and Twitch will be hitting comic book store shelves with a "refreshing and bold new twist" on these classic New York City detectives first introduced in the pages of Spawn.

For the rest of the story go to spawn.com.

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