Tag: Aleister Crowley

• 30 Years of Future: Essential Cyberpunk

  Via iO9, Diana Biller writes: It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read. Read More

  Bill Ectric

  June 27, 2015

  Aleister Crowley, Alfred Bester, Altered Carbon, Bruce Sterling, cyberpunk, Darick Robertson, Diana Biller, io9, James Tiptree Jr, John Shirley, K. W. Jeter, Katsuhiro Otomo, Lewis Shiner, Masamune Shirow, Melissa Scott, Mirrorshades, Pat Cadigan, Philip K. Dick, Richard Kadrey, rudy rucker, Warren Ellis, William Gibson

• Forrest Aguirre’s Fantastic Fugue – Interview by Bill Ectric

  Forrest Aguirre is an American fantasy and horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on Leviathan 3. His fiction has been published in numerous genre periodicals and in the collection Fugue XXIX. His first novel is Swans Over the Moon. He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent. Zoran Zivkovic,…

  Bill Ectric

  July 22, 2013

  Aleister Crowley, Bible, Borges, Brian Evenson, Dante, fantasy, Forrest Aguirre, Fugue XXIX, historical fiction, history, horror, horror writers, Jorge Luis Borges, Mason & Dixon, Old Testament, Rikki Ducornet, Science Fiction, Swans Over the Moon, The SF Site, Thomas Ligotti, Thomas Pynchon, Zoran Zivkovic

• Bill’s Bookshelf Number 3: The Ghouls

  The Ghouls Edited by Peter Haining Published in 1971 by Stein and Day They pulled out all the stops on this one: Introduction by Vincent Price, Afterword by Christopher Lee, Dedication to Boris Karloff, quote from Alfred Hitchcock leading into the Editor’s Foreword, all designed with the “classic horror movie fan” in mind. The inside…

  Bill Ectric

  October 14, 2011

  Aleister Crowley, Alfred Hitchcock, anthology, Barbara Steele, Black Hole Reviews, Book Reviews, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Feathertop, Gaston Leroux, H. P. Lovecraft, Mario Bava, Mark Hodgson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Haining, Scott Ashlin, Somerset Maugham, The Ghouls, Vincent Price

• Mark Teppo’s Unifying Theory of Urban Fantasy and Aleister Crowley’s Bad Rap

  “Aleister Crowley gets a bad rap,” says Mark Teppo,  guest-blogging on Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstaic Days. “As a fabulist,” continues Mark, “(Crowley has) a boundless imagination that is like quicksilver and lightning in a bottle. Yeah, I know, that verges on nonsensical, but whatever it is, it must be in constant motion, right? Violating all sorts of…

  Bill Ectric

  November 29, 2008

  Aleister Crowley, Ecstatic Days, Joseph Campbell, magic, Mark Teppo, myth, urban fantasy