Plagiarist Alert

Sep 30, 2009 14:28

Recently Shock Totem received a story from one Richard Ridyard. It didn't take the slush reader long to recognise a Stephen King story under the superficial rewordings. Not a particularly obscure one either, it's "The Boogeyman" from Night Shift. K. Allen Wood, editor of Shock Totem, writes about it here, with examples of just how blatant the theft ( Read more... )

plagiarism, stephen king, shock totem, richard ridyard

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kaolinfire October 4 2009, 06:27:43 UTC
nobody by that name at GUD last I checked.

Agreed, seriously stupid. Has an amusing habit of changing names for dead people and rewording every sentence without changing the story.

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