Tag: dero

• A Deliciously Macabre Cult Movie

    The best horror movie I’ve seen in a while is called The Stranger From Afar, or it’s original name, Marebito. Here are excerpts from a review on Midnight Eye:  “Can I face the terror to which the only escape is to kill myself?” Shinya Tsukamoto, director of the cult films Tetsuo and A Snake…

  Bill Ectric

  July 7, 2018

  cult movies, dero, detrimental robot, Film, Hollow Earth, horror, Japanese Film, macabre, Marebito, Midnight Eye, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Shinya Tsukamoto, Takashi Shimizu, The Stranger From Afar, underground

• A Shaver Mystery Mystery

  Two things we appreciate here at Bill Ectric’s Place are literary research and the Richard Shaver Mystery, so here’s a fun article by Marq Jonz, aka Mark Jones, from his Dero-influenced blog, The Abandondero. Excerpt: The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.com) lists “Return of a Demon” as Richard S. Shaver’s first published story.  Fantastic Adventures published…

  Bill Ectric

  December 7, 2012

  dero, Fantastic Adventures, Mark Jones, Marq Jonz, Ray Palmer, Return of a Demon, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Science Fiction, The Abandondero, Ziff-Davis

• Art by Mikey Georgeson

  Anyone familiar with the Richard Sharpe Shaver and the Shaver Mystery will, upon close inspection, recognize the above painting by Mikey Georgeson as a representation of Shaver’s claim that his welding torch had somehow become attuned to the evil underground mutants known as Deros (Shaver was a welder before he began writing for Amazing Stories magazine).  This is…

  Bill Ectric

  May 4, 2012

  Amazing Stories, Corporate Records, dero, Mikey Georgeson, Minty Polo, Richard Shaver, Sartorial Contemporary Art, The Shaver Mystery

• Enter Shavertron

  Some of you know I like to lose myself in arcane archives, looking for unexplained mysteries and secret histories. Enter Shavertron, a website created by Richard Toronto, and a major influence on my novel-in-progress, Tamper. The following is a direct quote from one of Mr. Toronto’s many editorials: The original Shavertron was a fanzine devoted…

  Bill Ectric

  March 20, 2009

  Amazing Stories, archives, Bill Bliss, dero, Doug Skinner, fanzine, fringe, Gene Steinberg, Jim Pobst, Mary Martin, middle earth, Pulp Magazines, Ray Palmer, research, Richard Shaver, Science Fiction, Shavertron, Surrealism, Tamper, The Shaver Mystery, UFOs