A short zombie story inspired by Franz Kafka, my Prague homeboy, and written for the www.RedRoom.com weekly blog competition.
A short zombie story inspired by Franz Kafka, my Prague homeboy, and written for the www.RedRoom.com weekly blog competition.
The two-bedroom apartment is sparkling clean, so clean that Mr. Smith can eat food off the floor if it drops. He often drops food; he gets excited and his hands shake. Food falls, he picks it up and places it in his mouth. After, he cleans obsessively, frantically, scrubbing the walls, scouring the kitchen, bleach [...]
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
“True Blood” in haiku.
Dear Sam Merlotte:
You seriously need to relocate your bar.
I think your parking lot is haunted.
Love,
Z
At the moment I have a totally healthy obsession with the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by Charlaine Harris, the novels that have become the HBO phenomenon known as “True Blood.” I say my obsession is healthy because it’s my staple obsession, going back to childhood: My absolute and utter fascination and love of the supernatural. Monsters, [...]
I’m quite tired of the “gorno” and “torture porn” genres of the horror film and I agree with the British Board of Film Classification’s decision to not sell “Grotesque” in the UK. I only wish they’d manage to do that with “Hostel” before this disgusting genre took over horror movies. It’s a shame that so [...]
I read my first Stephen King novel when I was 12 years old. The book was Carrie and the year was that of the Gulf War I, 1992. Thus began a love affair with King’s books that has continued to shape my life until today.
This year I turned 30 and I’m even more in love [...]
I *heart* horror films. It’s probably not a healthy thing to *heart* but I can’t help it. I love horror movies so much that I even found a way to incorporate theories of horror in my university dissertation and hopefully soon-to-be-published first book. Oh yeah I so did. Since I am of the recently unemployed, [...]
From the bestselling author of The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon comes an utter peice of drivel. It is so very rare that a movie is better than the book and in this case, I would say don’t even bother with the book. Harris seems to have grown complacent with his Hannibal Lector [...]
After the finale of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Cell, his most recent release after the Dark Tower epic came to its close. Being a ridiculously avid Stephen King fan (though not his Number 1 fan, thank you very much Annie Wilkes) I am always curious to see [...]
In A Glass Darkly is known as one of “the classics of occult fiction” and one of the first novels that portrays strange occurrences from an observer’s detached perspective. When I was researching horror for my novel Terata Americana of the Raving Variety, I read numerous references to this novel, which is actually a collection [...]
One of the things I love almost as much as old movies themselves are modern movies made in the old movie style. The gritty film, the glamour, the manner of speech. I love to see whether modern actors are able to capture something of that Hollywood heyday, the real days of the Silver Screen, not [...]
since my ear feels like an evil fairy with a blowtorch lives inside and wants to liquify my brain, i am trying to keep a low profile. an earache is just the worst. i have no appetite, no balance, and occasionally what feels like a nail driving through the side of my head.
which leads [...]
True Bloodiness
While your article is a thoughtful examination of some of the more interesting moments of “True Blood” Season 2, I disagree with you 98%. When compared with the books, which are straightforward and far more compelling than what we see on screen, the television adaptation makes no sense. The plot goes hither and thither, never [...]
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