![]() ![]() ![]() What I've noticed over time is that the literary-pulp combination with horror tends to be the most divisive kind of horror on the market today. ![]() Again, pretty nebulous (and horror leans pulpy by default), but the difference often comes down to how dense or stylistically-driven a work is and the delivery. On the other hand, anything pulp or pulpy is a bit more to the point, action-driven, and can be everything from pure junk food quality to something surprisingly well-constructed. It's a pretty nebulous definition, but that's literature for you. Whether it's in the wheelhouse of traditional literature (like Frankenstein, Dracula or classic Gothic texts) or heavily informed by literary movements (such as modernism and post modernism), these tend to lean on a combination of exploring ideas and experiences, with the plot facilitating this. Just for context, literary horror in this instance means horror texts that lean more towards traditional literature styles, story arcs, and denser forms of prose. In the past three or so years, I've read about 30 horror books that run the full range from gory trash to full blown classic literature, and having just finished The Fisherman last night, I've got some thoughts on a usually divisive mix: literary horror and pulp horror hybrids. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() So without further ado, here is my interview with Sarah Moss. So forgive my vague questions, but I wanted to make sure that this was a spoiler-free conversation. And so it was very difficult to be able to talk about the book and not give away spoilers since it is so short. This book is a novella, and so it isn’t very long. But most of this book deals with the intersection of class and gender and what that looks like in a very interesting way she tells the story. We talk a lot about northern England and what stereotypes might be found there. And so today on the podcast, Sarah and I talk about her novel, what the inspiration was for that. And I’m so thrilled that Sarah Moss is finally coming to the United States. ![]() This one is now out from FSG in hardback, and paperback is out from Picador. We only have about two books of hers out here in the US. When this was pitched to me by the publisher, I was like, “Of course I want to talk to Sarah Moss!” She is very popular over in the UK. But to start us off, I’m gonna be talking to Sarah Moss. I spent the break talking to everyone and talking about new books and planning our reading, which is always very exciting. We have so many wonderful things planned. Welcome to 2020, friends! Welcome to a new season of Reading Women. Today, I’m talking to Sarah Moss about her book Ghost Wall, which is out now in paperback from Picador. And this is Reading Women, a podcast inviting you to reclaim half the bookshelf by discussing books written by or about women. ![]() Kendra Winchester: Hello, I’m Kendra Winchester. ![]() ![]() We weren’t too surprised when we read the report on the Radio Times website yesterday that unconfirmed reports suggest that the series will not be coming back. ![]() Now we receive news that the show will not be coming back for a second series. 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The princess isn't supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first book, "Owly:The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer," was published in 2004. Day Memorial Prize, the Harvey Award, two Ignatz Awards, and the 2006 Eisner Award for "Best Publication for a Younger Audience." His Owly series has won him multiple awards in the comics and graphic novel community invluding the Howard E. Since then, he has devoted himself full-time to drawing. When the economy suffered a downturn, he lost his job "and after much soul-searching decided to follow my heart and draw Owly," he writes. He has worked on a series of design jobs and was employed by Motorola in Alpharetta 2000-2002 doing graphic design/interface design. He is a 1992 graduate of Parkview High School and was graduated from Georgia Tech in 2000 with a master's degree in industrial design from the College of Architecture. In 2010, his book "Owly" was chosen for inclusion on the Georgia Center for the Book's list of "25 Books All Georgians Should Read."Īndy Runton was born in 1974 in Jacksonville, Florida and moved to Lilburn, GA in 1988 and has lived in the Atlanta area ever since, currently making his home in Roswell. Andy Runton is the prize-winning creator of a popular series of graphic novels featuring a kind-hearted owl, Owly, who is always searching for new friends. ![]() ![]() But the play itself is not the novel’s subject it is instead the means through which Bachelder, in one hilarious scene after another, investigates the disappointments and shortcomings of the middle-aged men who gather every year to reenact it. ![]() This grisly moment is at the center of Chris Bachelder’s novel The Throwback Special, which takes its title from the name the Redskins gave the play. It sounded like two muzzled gunshots going off, Theismann later recalled. As Theismann struggled, several other defenders piled on, and his leg bent sideways at the knee, snapping beneath him. New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was the first to reach Theismann, jumping onto his back and dragging him down. The play was supposed to trick defenders into following Riggins, but it failed. In 1985, Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann ran a trick play known as a flea-flicker in which he handed off the ball to running back John Riggins, who then tossed it back to him. ![]() $25.95.Įvery November for the past sixteen years, a group of twenty-two men have gathered at a two-and-a-half-star hotel chain off Interstate 95, “recognized in online reviews for its exceptional service, atrocious service, pretty fountain, and bedbugs,” to reenact one of the most gruesome injuries in NFL history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her short story, THREAD OF THE PAST was inc DAWN IUS is a short-story author, novelist, screenwriter, professional editor, and communications specialist. Dawn also writes young adult paranormal fiction under the last name DALTON. Dawn is the Deputy Editor of the e-magazine published by The International Thriller Writers organization, The Big Thrill, and a book coach and development editor with Author Accelerator. ![]() She is the author of three contemporary young adult novels published by Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster)-Anne & Henry, Overdrive, and the forthcoming Lizzie, April 2018, as well as 15 educational graphic novels for the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, and a TV script for the forthcoming animated Nickolodeon show, Rainbow Rangers. DAWN IUS is a short-story author, novelist, screenwriter, professional editor, and communications specialist. ![]() ![]() ![]() forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon's. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous and reignite a generations-old feud. With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. When he finds her fox bead, he does not realize he holds her life in his hands. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to men. No one in modern-day Seoul believes in the old fables anymore, which makes it the perfect place to for Gu Miyoung and her mother to hide. Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl-he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead-her gumiho soul-in the process. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt.īut after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. ![]() ![]() An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.Įighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret-she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a fan of Kipling, Sax Rohmer, Jack London, Rider Haggard (who is amazing and largely forgotten) and Edgar Rice Burroughs and the myriad of Authors in Adventure magazine. Howard was also interested, as were many in his day, in Theosophy and their weird ideas about Atlantis and Lemuria. For a small example, Conan was a Cimmerian Cimmerians were the Scythians of ancient history, written about by Herodotus. Howard of course had a basic background in classic literature, as most high school graduates did in his day: Shakespeare, The Bible, Beowulf, The Norse Sagas, Arabian Knights, the Greeks and Romans. You have to figure there was a lot of Conan taken directly from the stuff he read, and Conan fans might get a kick out of his literary interests. The man killed himself at age 30, so he wasn’t drawing on a particularly deep reading life. ![]() The main problem with his books are there aren’t enough of them. Howard books Conan and Bran Mak Morn are a sort of peak pulp storytelling of a certain kind, just as his friend HPL’s stories are peak pulp horror. ![]() Conan Doyle to Balzac, Bob Service’s verse to Santayana’s writing, a prize fight to a lecture on art.” I prefer jazz to classical music, musical burlesques to Greek tragedy, A. “My tastes and habits are simple I am neither erudite nor sophisticated. ![]() |