Workers in Chinese iPad factories forced to sign pledges: Not allowed to commit suicide ( Read more... )

I must have been about eight or nine when we went down to Corning AK to see my Grandmother and Grandfather (my Dad's parents). This is my oldest memory of my Grandpa's farm. I think my two uncles [Bob and Skip] must have been told by my grandparents that they had to keep me occupied. Why else would two teenage boys put up with a couple of young ( Read more... )

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From Media Critic Paula R. Stiles: an unabashed horror and science-fiction fan from back when girls weren’t supposed to be horror and sf fans. She’s also written a few zombie stories, herself, one of which has appeared in John Joseph Adams’ anthology, The Living Dead II ( Read more... )

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Well, I thought I'd let some of you know that I recently experienced the Dalek Shakespearean Festival's production of The Tragedy of Macbeth. It had a lot of charm, although quite frankly I couldn't point out any performer as being superior to any other performer. Much of the performance was predictably grating and mechanical to the ears, ( Read more... )

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At the beginning I thought this video was strictly an animated homage to Lovecraft's Deep Ones. However as the scene progressed, I could see the incidental nods toward the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Gustav Holst.

This is delightful:

MARS
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Aspen Mountain Press has contracted my new horror novella Contagion’s Shadow.

If our bacteria killed the “Martians,” what did their contagion microbes leave behind for us?

One hundred and fifteen years after H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds a deadly contagion, the walking sickness, [from Wells' Shapes of Things To Come] has returned to infect the ( Read more... )