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What makes horror movies so scary?

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Supernatural-Adventure-Comedy 'The Night Shift' Wraps

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going steampunk « Filling the Well ; ideas are like oxygen: a journal by Carrie Vaughn

Yes, I am jumping on the bandwagon.

I wore this outfit to a party weekend before last. It was a pretty savvy SF geek/SCA crowd, so the one thing I wasn’t expecting was having to explain what steampunk was (since it does seem to have become a bandwagon over the last year or so). I got questions like, “Are you supposed to be something specific? Like Indiana Jones or something?” I’d say, “No, I’m just steampunk.” And then I’d get, “What’s that?”

Well. It’s harder to explain than you’d think. “An aesthetic combining Victorian sensibilities with science fiction,” is about the simplest I could get, and also not very satisfying. Steampunk is an aesthetic, but it also has an ideological component, regarding inclusiveness, DIY, and a recycle/reuse ideal. That’s one of the things I really like about it — I didn’t buy a single thing for my outfit. (Well, I bought the leather vest at NY Comic Con back in February as a present to myself. Then I built the costume around it. But I didn’t buy the vest for the costume, if that makes sense.) And I’m figuring out that I already have stuff for about three more steampunkish costumes: I dug out my riding jacket that I wore at horse shows back in the day — it still fits, and it’s got that snappy tailored thing that would fit right in, especially with a cravat, prairie skirt, and goth boots. How about the khaki BDU’s I got for my GI Joe costume in the spring, but with a leather jacket and goggles? I haven’t even mentioned my corsets yet.

Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself. So I had to explain steampunk to people, which was unexpected. But a funny thing happened. Because about ten other people dressed steampunk as well. Now, there were about 100 people at the party. Each of us wandering individually kept getting asked what we were supposed to be, and having to explain steampunk. But then we all got together for a steampunk group picture.

And it suddenly became clear to everyone, because we all so obviously came from the same world. You put us all together — with our corsets, crinolines, waistcoats, top hats, leather pouches, ray guns, and of course goggles — and suddenly we were a story.

Unfortunately, the group picture I got is too dark to post. But it was a splendid thing. Here is my costume:

Link to her bloggery contraptabulation thingamabobahicky-----
http://carriev.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/going-steampunk/going steampunk « Filling the Well ; ideas are like oxygen: a journal by Carrie... more

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The Path,.....Cold Steel, Enchantment, and Cthulhu

A really fun and well done Arthurian/Lovecraftian/Swords and Sorcery web-comic, This would be one hell of an RPG setting!

About the Author---

bio
James Riot was born to unstable parents. They were a happy couple, but were perturbed at the idea of having to raise a child...as it would cut into their favorite game of tricking the local kids into eating their own pets. At 20 months, Riot was learning to speak when a doctor told his family that he seemed to be developmentally delayed and possibly mildly retarded. His father took the opinion to extremes, believing that he was profoundly retarded. He took him to the ocean and threw him in. Rescued from death by the horrible denizens of the undersea city R'lyeh, Riot was raised under the sea: playing amidst the massive slumbering form of Cthulhu. This close proximity was not without incident, however, as when Riot emerged from the bosom of the sea 25 years later, he returned to the world of man with malice in his heart and destruction on his mind. A weapon of the Great Old Ones, tempered at the unfathomable depths of the unforgiving sea.Then he discovered whiskey, moved to southern California, and makes a living doing freelance artwork and drawing comics. He lives in Long Beach with his girlfriend, likes re-reading Lovecraft to the point of insanity, Orange Chicken from Panda Express, and B-grade horror movies.
influences
Mike Mignola, Matt Wagner, Mike Allred, H.P. Lovecraft, P. Craig Russell
hobbies
Drawing, writing, drinking.
music
Bad Religion, The Darkest of Hillside Thickets, Sham 69, The Jam, Queen, Billie Holiday, GWAR, Stephen Lynch, The Blues Brothers, The Ramones, The Pixies, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Black 47, Misfits, Rudimentary Peni, The Dwarves, Sloppy Seconds, The Vandals, NOFX, The Clash, The Damned, The Slackers, Agent Orange, Biohazard, The Cramps, The Horrorpops, Oxymoron,The Pillows, The Seatbelts, Foo Fighters, garbage, Greg Graffin's solo stuff, Johnny Cash, Clapton, Hendrix, Kieven Rus, Social Distortion, Murphy's Law, Pennywise, Queen, Reel Big Fish, Strung Out, The Smiths, The Suicide Machines, System of a Down, Zebrahead, etc.
books
Anything by Lovecraft, Poe, and the like. Anything on mythology and/or folklore.
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http://www.needcomics.com/The_Path/page/1/A really fun and well done Arthurian/Lovecraftian/Swords and Sorcery web-comic,... more

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15 Insane Italian Exploitation Comic Covers (NSFW)

Old Italian comics - or fumetti - were filled with lusty vampire babes, horndog... more

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MIX n MATCH!

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My Zombie Pinup Contestants!

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TIRING OF SEQUELS & REMAKES, LOW-BUDGET FILMMAKERS SET OUT TO PRODUCE AN ORIGINAL FEATURE

Mobile, Alabama based independent filmmaking group Fighting Owl Films is set to produce an independent feature in the city utilizing local talent. The feature, titled “The Night Shift”, is based on Fighting Owl Films' short film of the same name which proved an online hit, was positively reviewed in "Fangoria" magazine's online edition earlier in 2009 and has screened in several festivals across the United States.

A supernatural adventure-comedy, “The Night Shift” centers on Rue Morgan, the undead night watchman at Pinewood Oaks Cemetery. Rue, along with his buddy Herb, a limbless corpse, spends his nights trying to keep the cemetery’s cantankerous residents in, and his days dreaming of a date with hard-nosed day-shifter, Claire. It’s an okay afterlife until a scourge of supernatural occurrences leave Rue not only watching the cemetery, but also watching his back!

The short film’s positive reception coupled with the disillusionment with Hollywood’s current output of remakes and reboots encouraged the filmmakers to pursue their dream of turning the original “The Night Shift” into a feature length adventure film. Thomas Smith, the film’s writer/director and co-producer, is hoping to recapture some of the cinematic magic of the 80s Amblin films he grew up with that had a lasting influence.

“Growing up as a child of the 80s, the world depicted on film had a completely different atmosphere,” Smith says. “The films possessed a graininess and lived-in look that added an extra dimension of realism. There also seemed to be a greater emphasis on character and storytelling and less of the headache-inducing flash and sensory overload that’s become so commonplace today. It was the era of ‘Gremlins’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Indiana Jones’, films everyone could enjoy, not just children or adult audiences. That’s what we’re hoping to recapture with ‘The Night Shift’.”

The independent feature has secured its cast. Returning from the short to reprise their roles of Rue Morgan, Claire Rennfield and Herbie West are Khristian Fulmer, Erin Lilley and Soren Odom, respectively. New additions to the cast include Andrew Crider as Adramalech, the villainous vengence demon with an affinity for western wear, Jordan Woodall as Curly and Jonathan Pruitt as the mysterious Captain Roderick Blake. The film, currently in pre-production, is expected to begin shooting in May 2010.

For more information on Fighting Owl Films and “The Night Shift”, visit them online at www.fightingowlfilms.com and www.thenightshiftmovie.com.

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Sexism in horror novels: the real monsters aren't the ones you think

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Book of Blood Red Band Trailer: Clive Barker Can’t Catch A Break

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Mobile filmmakers offer 'Night Shift' online

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A Darkness Rising: Author Pacione Introduces himself to Current.com

I am Nickolaus Pacione, a horror writer who was featured at Gotihcfest 2007 and this is a short story write up for an anthology that I got featured in. Also in this anthology is a writer I found in an anthology I bought prior to Gothicfest to invite the publisher of the anthology with me as a signing mate for the event. I don't regret it one bit, and I am giving more information about the anthology here. I was featured in there as the closing story titled "Damnation Observes" and this is edited by Jordan Bobe of Indianna.

Horror for me as a writer is in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson to name a few of the core influnces who've shaped my style of horror fiction. Damnation Observres for me is a bizarro horror story that is written entirely clean. No sexual content, graphic lanuage of swearing for that matter. I've been published on different small press magazines and also in the paying market a few times with respective short stories in horror, Science Fiction, and some true ghost stories here and there.

I was discovered by an author named Nicholas Grabowsky in 2004 and was published on EbooksOnDisk.com in their anthology Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror. Been e-published since the age of 20 so that gives you some idea how long I've had a website. I was working on horror since the age of fourteen, did a wide range of horror styles but I will not touch erotic horror with a ten foot pole as a writer. I toyed with horror from an explicit violent style to a quiet horror approach on a few stories. Even Science Fiction for me will range from creature fiction to Cyberpunk Fiction (the cyberpunk style for me is something that comes almost quite easy because I've been raised around electronics and technology.)

I did Gothicfest 2005 as a signing author, the first author they got on board then I got on again for 2007's incarnation where I met two members of the Current TV video crew. I would like to see them do more with the writers instead of writing them off as vendors. Gothicfest is a unique festival in the sense it also brings writers together too. Jeff was originally going to make the festival something for bands, but I suggested to him that he also brings in the small press authors who normally won't get books carried in bookstores (reason being the technology the books are published with is known as a print on demand.)

I grew up in Glendale Heights and Roselle, Illinois. Horror for me was drawn from DuPage County's macabre history. I am very candid when sharing macabre details as Joe and Reme knew from Gothicfest 2007. I was very candid about Billy Porras' homicide, and the scars on the back of my head (from when I got stabbed) and the disfigured left index finger from a factory accident.

I published my work with lulu.com myself originally then my publishers started using lulu.com to get their work out there. Naked Snake Press started to embrace what Lulu.com had to offer and published longer books hence their imprint NSP Books. This is home of my third installment of the House of Spiders series, and this is co-written by Barb Shenouda. I will let her introduce herself later on here as some of my Tabloid Purposes line ups will eventually do the same when they start figuring out the video technology to really have fun with this.

I mentioned Tabloid Purposes IV briefly on here so you can go ahead and check that out. Especially if you fall more on the Harder side of Gothicism. Tabloid Purposes is what they call the print version Tales From The Hard Side. I grew up on heavy metal music and Biohazard is one of my influences for the darker horror approach I began to write and love doing.

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More Detailed Guidelines..

Editor: Nickolaus Pacione
Query: Send notes here or to npacione@gmail.com

Going more into detail what I am looking for as far as fiction goes for Ethereal Gazette: Issue Seven. The last video I did I was very sketchy about it -- and I do again apologize for that. Everyone was rushing me and here's the complete details for issue seven. This is the local author issue and I will consider authors from the Chicago area as long they don't write erotic content of any form.

Horror, science fiction, weird inspirational, and science fiction (not space opera damn it) being between 2200 words to 8800 words (the minimum is 4400 words and the maximum being 16,000 words.) I am a paying market but not a high paying one (I pay for stories via PayPal.) If you're an author who writes horror, science fiction, and other genres I am looking at fiction here but no sexual or alt romance of any kind. Weird Inspirational Fiction or Weird Inspirational in general is if you come from a Christian background but read authors like Richard Matheson and intrigued by shows such as Coast to Coast AM. I won't serialize a longer story just will have it as the closing story in the magazine.

This isn't too hard to get submissions for this, right?

I guess with blogger "watch dogs" who support the mid-list bastards who go around sabotaging other publications that I've done it is more a challenge these days than most. Especially since one asshole went and created a fake Ethereal Gazette: Issue Seven on Wordclay.com and a fake Tabloid Purposes V. They so want me to close shop but I refuse to close. This is the real McCoy. You're getting the submission details right from the source.

The submission window for this one is open a hell of a lot longer than Issue Five was because I had a system failure, and these things often kill a small press but it won't destroy mine. Literary Fiction I am looking for this but as long it has a weird fiction tinge behind it. Nothing perverse, but yes I will look into controversial subject matters from the hip hop, Gothic, and other subcultures represented in Chicago as long it isn't what I think it is.

I want pro-Christian friendly stories as well as the agnostic front too. Just keep in mind I want no alternative sexuality laced fiction of any form. I encourage the Shatner on the Plane style here so if you get stuck think Richard Matheson.

send to etherealgazette@gmail.com (stories as .doc or .rtf files.) Chicago area authors are the exclusive market for Issue Seven. Christian authors expecially welcome this time around. As in if you have a testamony from a dark background you're welcome to send it -- to mix things up with the horror stories.Editor: Nickolaus Pacione Query: Send notes here or to npacione@gmail.com Going... more

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Bairns Island by Richard Davies. A Ghostly tale from Norfolk.

Boating Holidays can be very scary!

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Richard Davies. Author. Short Story Page.

Read my short stories at Storiesville.com Horror, Ghosts, Pirates, Murder. All the... more

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Tabloid Purposes IV

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