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     Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Matt Cowan. I'm a big fan of Ramsey Campbell and have been since I first read Ancient Images many years ago. I live in Indianapolis, Indiana in the U.S. My favorite Campbell short stories are "Just Waiting", "Down There", "Worse Than Bones", "The Ferries", "The Brood", "The Other Side" and "The Scar" but I pretty much really like all the ones I've read. I write short articles for Vintagehorror.com about the old time horror writers such as M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson and recently sold my first short story to Bound For Evil. It was the free promo chap book that came with pre-orders from the site, "The Collective of Blaque Reach". It's an honor to be here with all of you.  | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.24 |
Hi Matt & welcome. My copy of your chapbook is on my kitchen table at the moment | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.51.224 |
Welcome Matt - into our dark, little den. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.144.40.190 |
Hi Matt! Big welcome from a stressed gcw. Cath up soon. gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.144.40.190 |
Catch up rather, though Cath may well be up... Wibble. gcw | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Greetings, Matt. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Welcome, Matt - good to have another new voice around here. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Hi Matt - welcome... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.93 |
Welcome aboard, Matt! I'll look out for your story in BOUND FOR EVIL. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.2.133.184 |
You made it, sir. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
Thanks for all the greetings. I've been singing the praises of RC's work on various other boards and thought it would be good to be on the one at his own site. It's great to meet all of you. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
For those of you who mentioned having a copy of my "Collective of Blaque Reach" chap book, if you get a chance to read it, let me know what you think. I really haven't heard from anyone outside my friends and family what they thought of it. Thanks. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 84.43.109.20 |
You got stuff for sale Matt? Don't be shy....Give us the links and we may well a-buyin'! gcw | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Hi Matt and welcome! :-) | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.108.241 |
Welcome aboard, Matt. I live in Indianapolis, too -- Westfield, actually. (We're practically neighbors!) | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
Thanks to all for the welcomes. Gcw, I promise I didn't come here to try and sell stuff. I just saw that a few people said they had a copy of my story that came out as the bonus chap book story that came with Bound For Evil, and was wondering what they thought of it. If you want to see what the cover looked like you can check out the link below. http://departmentofdeadletters.blogspot.com/2008/02/bound-for-evil-arrives-monda y-february.html Chris morris, Very cool! I live in Lawrence, In. on the North east side. Good to run into a fellow Hoosier here. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.178 |
Matt: What are your theories of structure in relation to film vs. prose vis-a-vis genre/non-genre narrative super-structures?... Please provide detailed answers with examples.  Welcome! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.144.16.7 |
Matt, No sir, I wasn't accusing you of just coming here touting for business! Lots of people here have stuff available. it was a genuine interest. gcw | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"Matt: What are your theories of structure in relation to film vs. prose vis-a-vis genre/non-genre narrative super-structures?... Please provide detailed answers with examples." My response would be yes, and GHOSTBUSTERS. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
Matt: What are your theories of structure in relation to film vs. prose vis-a-vis genre/non-genre narrative super-structures?... Please provide detailed answers with examples. Humm, Let me think on that one for a while.  Matt, No sir, I wasn't accusing you of just coming here touting for business! Lots of people here have stuff available. it was a genuine interest. gcw Cool, I just didn't want to come off wrong. that is the first thing I've sold so far but have sent some stuff out and am working on some more to send out. All of it is short story horror. Thanks again, everybody. } | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Don't worry about it. It's tout tout tout here. Not me though, I'm crap. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.10.157 |
My response would be yes, and GHOSTBUSTERS. *Sigh*...  ... I was really looking for "no" and "not GHOSTBUSTERS"... yet again you disappoint me, Albie.... Me, I'm the resident tout-virgin here.  Nobody push me in a volcano or nothing. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.19 |
Hi there, Matt. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszJ7fFFHr0 | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Welcome, Matt! | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
"Hi there, Matt." Hello. Good to meet you. "Welcome, Matt!" Hello Mr. Campbell, It's a great honor to be on your message board. Your work has always captured my imagination and inspired me to want to write. In fact, I think Ancient Images was the first adult horror novel I ever read. Matt | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
His name is Matt, he is welcome - he is a welcome matt, does that mean we walk all over him? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.206.77.173 |
No, Weby. We just get the opportunity to see how much of a twart you are. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
"His name is Matt, he is welcome - he is a welcome matt, does that mean we walk all over him?" Can I at least be a haunted welcome Matt, or one in front of a big spooky house?  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
What's a twart? I think i issed this off the end of my last post.  Good day to you young Mr Matt, I hope you enjoy the board. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Missed off the last post even. I can't be the only person who saw the pun inherent in the phrase "Welcome Matt". I might be the only one who thought it was funny (It was Friday afternoon after all) | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.109.131 |
>>>I can't be the only person who saw the pun inherent in the phrase "Welcome Matt". I might be the only one who thought it was funny (It was Friday afternoon after all)>>> I had a chuckle at it. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.35.170 |
Hello, Matt, and welcome. Best, Richard | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.19.155 |
Hello Matt. Read your chappie this morning - thoroughly enjoyed it. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
Hello Richard and Lincoln, It's good to meet you both. "Hello Matt. Read your chappie this morning - thoroughly enjoyed it." Lincoln, thanks. I really appreciate that. I haven't been able to get much feedback on it yet. Glad you liked it. | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.189.89 |
A belated hello from me, too... | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
"A belated hello from me, too..." Thanks, Steven. It's a pleasure to meet you. |