by mike | Sep 29, 2016 | Books, California, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Writer’s block has been around since primitive men and women had difficulty deciding what to scrawl on cave walls. This 2012 post would have been relevant even back then. Okay, I don’t mean to belittle a malady that is prevalent among so many writers. It’s just that...
by mike | Sep 26, 2016 | Books, Bookstores, Editing, Films About Books, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
It is pretty well accepted that reading books can influence people in many ways, both positively and negatively. But can they drive readers to madness and murder? In the Mouth of Madness, the bizarre 1995 film—its title is an homage to H.P. Lovecraft’s At the...
by mike | Sep 22, 2016 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Last week’s post from 2012—as this one is—addressed two cross-genre, sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and Aliens. Trust me, the praise will not be as effusive for Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection. Still, they’re part of the quadrilogy and deserve some thoughts, so here...
by mike | Sep 15, 2016 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The four-film Alien series—the ones with Sigourney Weaver—easily merited a couple of posts, which I first presented back in 2012. Alien, the 1979 gem that successfully crossed science fiction with horror, is a super movie and easily in the top fifty to sixty films...
by mike | Sep 12, 2016 | Books, California, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
During my many decades—or is that centuries?—living on this planet I have encountered a number of people who’ve shared the same childhood nightmare. In it, they awaken one morning to discover that their mother is not their mother, or their favorite uncle is no longer...
by mike | Sep 8, 2016 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
Why can’t folks just enjoy cheesy B movies for what they are? I wrote about one of my favorites in a 2012 post. Okay, a confession: of all the things that creep, crawl, fly, slither, swim, burrow, or move around by means of propulsion other than two legs, the ones...
