Christmas I recieved
Fat Face by Michel Shea
Cold Print by ramsey campbell
and...
The Horror From the Hills by Frank Belknap Long

anyone else get any books?

Santa gave me:
Women As Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek, no mythos\horror elements at all. But my favourite writer of the last few years. Kafkaesque, nihilist, dystopian with an amzing use on the language (note its translated so big ups to the translator to).

I was introduced to her by the adaption of her book in to a film 'The Piano Teacher' (2001) A great film on its own merits.

Who else? don't be shy - and don't feel restricted to 'the mythos'

Couple or so new titles:

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti: an exquisitely produced edition collecting much of his work published since Noctuary. Already o.p. from Dutro Press, but a trade edition is forthcoming from Mythos Books.

Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin R. Kiernan: a sequel to Low Red Moon, and in a weird way sort of a Goth-equivalent to the Harry Potter books. It deals with the Children of the Cuckoo, human children stolen and raised by the Hounds of Cain, who are identical to Lovecraft's Ghouls, who reside in the Land of Dreams beneath an old yellow house on Benefit Street in Providence, RI. I quite enjoyed it.

Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas: his latest Punktown novel. You're never look at one of those "Plush Cthulhu" dolls the same way again....

Old Man's Beard by H. R. Wakefield: the last of the Ash-Tree edition of the works of this classic ghost story writer that I needed. (Now if I could just find the A. M. Burrage titles I need!)

plus I picked up several issues of the British pulp Tales of Wonder containing CAS appearances.

BTW: I'm writing six columns a year for Weird Tales now.

Best,
Scott

Scott, tell me about weird tales. I would like to write for it.

rutledge_442 Wrote:
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> Scott, tell me about weird tales. I would like to
> write for it.

I don't have any input on the editorial side, I am simply a columnist for the mag. However, if you check out this link, you should find most of your questions about submitting to WT answered. (It helps to be good, though....)

[www.darkfantasy.org]

Best, Scott

Thank you Scott! I will try to subscribe to it.
And sorry to bring this up again, but did anyone check out NAPA?

For personal reading and my research:

Guide to Greece Vol 1 & 2 by Pausanias
The Orientalizing Revolution by Walter Burkert
On Creaturely Life by Eric Santner
Poetry's Touch by William Waters
Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys by Janet Kaplan
The Fall by Albert Camus
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
Island by Aldous Huxley
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
India: A History by John Keay

List subject to monsterous growth within the next 30 days. ;)

NAPA is the same one to which Lovecraft belonged. The well-known Lovecraft scholar Ken Faig is now an officer in its historical branch, The Fossils. There are also several fantastic-oriented apas, among them FAPA (Fantasy Amateur Press Association), Esoteric Order of Dagon (Lovecraft/weird fiction oriented), REHupa (Robert E. Howard United Press Association), and also a British-based ghost story apa whose name escapes me at the moment (for which I apologize profusely, but at least I remembered its existence!). I belong to EOD and REHupa.

Scott

NightHalo -

You might enjoy reading "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American/English Literature" by Dr. Kastor -
A tragically true, but entertaining look at the state of lit-ed
in the US - I gave one to my teacher daughter, who, having been raised in my house has the misfortune to have read the major writers in both areas, and is painfully aware of the idiocy of public school curricula (generally - and particularly in Oklahoma). Recently, a student's mother brought an action against the school for promoting witchcraft - the students were required to read (state curriculum) "The Crucible" - Last year a biology teacher lost her job entirely for proclaiming that the male and female skeleton has an equal number of ribs, whereas all good bible thumpers know that Adam has one less, and so all men do.

Scott Connors Wrote:
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> you should find most of your
> questions about submitting to WT answered. (It
> helps to be good, though....)
>
> Best, Scott

A prominent sci-fi writer (though I won't say who) once told me that it also helps to suffer from a particular sort of angst in order to be published in the new WT, too....

calonlan Wrote:
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> NightHalo -
>
> You might enjoy reading "The Politically Incorrect
> Guide to American/English Literature" by Dr.
> Kastor -
> A tragically true, but entertaining look at the
> state of lit-ed
> in the US - I gave one to my teacher daughter,
> who, having been raised in my house has the
> misfortune to have read the major writers in both
> areas, and is painfully aware of the idiocy of
> public school curricula (generally - and
> particularly in Oklahoma). Recently, a student's
> mother brought an action against the school for
> promoting witchcraft - the students were required
> to read (state curriculum) "The Crucible" - Last
> year a biology teacher lost her job entirely for
> proclaiming that the male and female skeleton has
> an equal number of ribs, whereas all good bible
> thumpers know that Adam has one less, and so all
> men do.



I'll give it a good look indeed. I have a huge cache of books I would like to read, but right now it is all work and no play for this girl. But then again, what bibliophile has ever had enough time? ;)



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