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     Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
The Black Glove, Nick Cook's online horror magazine, is out on August 4th. Features include: 'An exclusive interview with award-winning horror poet, writer and editor, Christopher Conlon. Some great book reviews, including Robert Dunbar's MARTYRS AND MONSTERS, Ryan C. Thomas' reissue of THE SUMMER I DIED, and a couple of classics of the genre, Stephen Gregory's THE CORMORANT and Peter Straub's GHOST STORY. Also, our Novel of the Month is Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN. We've got interviews with Allyson Byrd, Gary Fry, William Miekle and James Moore. And if you're into gore, this month's dvd reviews are just what you need, with TOKYO GORE POLICE, DAWN OF THE DEAD, RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION. Plus, DEAFULA and ZOMBIE 3, 4, and 5 get The Black Glove treatment. For the music maniacs Steven Duarte has a concert review for the MARILYN MANSON and SLAYER tour. Plus, we've got several album reviews lined up, including GOATWHORE's new one. And come see who we picked as our feature artist of the month. Ever heard the terrifying sound of THE BLOOP? Stop in and give it a listen. Find out what lurks in this month's SITES OF HORROR We've got more zombies for you in our TOP 13: Just Shoot 'Em in the Head. Tons more articles and horror news coming your way in the August 4th e-issue #2 of The Black Glove': http://the-black-glove.blogspot.com | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
From TBG's Ghost Story review: In the chapter titled 'Edward's Tapes' Eva Galli's voice taunts her captive audience (Don Wanderley's uncle had been recording Eva's fictionalised life story - another piece of oral storytelling for the benefit of posterity): "Could you defeat a dream, a poem?" But to do so would be absurd; dreams and poetry have no meaning - no independent existence - beyond our interpretation, beyond the meaning our imagination bestows upon them. Eva is essentially powerless, despite her boasts, despite her preening - we, the dreamers, allow Eva and her kind to haunt us. She, and we, revel in what the philosopher Michel Foucault termed 'the marvellous play of the imagination'. From TBG's Gary Fry interview: TBG: Whose writing style do you aspire to equal? GF: Nobody's now, though if you'd asked me five years ago, it would have been Ramsey Campbell's. I love his approach - the suggestiveness, the linguistic virtuosity. Indeed, a lot of my early work has his shadow upon it. But with more experience I think I've moved away from Ramsey's idiosyncrasies and towards my own natural voice, which presently has a little more casualness about it, a more chatty tone. I still like trying out linguistic tricks, letting words bounce off each other in terms of meaning and the 'colour' of a phrase. If I do have a distinctive prose style, I think it's still developing; I guess when it feels instinctual - and it does feel that way more and more often lately - then you're heading towards sounding like yourself. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
If you would like to write for The Black Glove, editor Nickolas Cook would be interested in hearing from you. Personally speaking, Nick C has given me licence to write about any horror-related subject which interests me (which is why I've reviewed an 'old' book, namely Ghost Story, for Issue 2), so for me it's a pleasure, not a chore, to write for TBG. Potential staff members can contact Nick at: Nickolasecook@aol.com | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Issue 2 is out now, and includes: * Interviews with Gary Fry, William Meikle, Allyson Bird. * Nick Cook on 'Martyrs and Monsters' by Robert Dunbar, and Lucy Snyder's 'Chimeric Machines'. * 13 Questions with James Moore. * Steven Duarte's dvd and Blu-Ray reviews, including 'Tokyo Gore Police' & 'Dawn of the Dead'. * Steve Jensen on Peter Straub's 'Ghost Story'. And more... The Black Glove: http://the-black-glove.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
From Nickolas Cook's Editorial: There is no originality in American horror cinema. It’s dead! Kaput! Finished! To paraphrase a famous pet store customer, ‘It is no more!’ And where do you think the next creative renaissance in American cinema will come from? Drama? Crime thrillers? Comedies? Please. Let’s be serious. No sir, it has always, and I suspect always will, come from the speculative genres. Horror. Sci-fi. Fantasy. Those are the bread and butter of imagination and creativity. Not f**king chick-flicks. Not cop buddy movies. Not explosive action films. And not teenage sex comedies. They all have their place, of course. But they do NOT progress our creativity in filmmaking. It is the responsibility of the young filmmakers, or the wannabes out there, to stop relying on overblown CGI and video game violence to rule the day. There is nothing new in it. Get back to the basics of horror, people! Why did ‘The Blair Witch Project’ scare the hell out of everybody, and finally beat the top grossing indie film of all time, ‘Phantasm’? The short answer is because they did nothing but set up the scares; we did the rest. It was our imagination that made it work. There is still much to be said for exploiting the seeds of paranoia and fear of the unknown inherent in the human condition. Those things, as simple as they are, still work, by God! Read more here: http://theblackglove.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.123.190 |
I posted on another forum but I wish you both and all - every success with this! |