Tag: horror writers

• 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

• Jeremy C. Shipp – Light, Darkness, Imagination, and Ectoplasm

     Jeremy Shipp is a writer with staying power. I’ve only read one of his novels, the surreal Vacation, but I’ve been reading collections of his short stories, which I’ve downloaded onto my Kindle iPhone app, and looking forward to more. I only recently became aware of this 2010 interview  with Mr. Shipp by Richard…

  Bill Ectric

  June 30, 2013

  Attic Toys, bizarro, horror, horror writers, Jeremy C. Shipp, macabre, Richard Romero, short stories, Vacation, Yuma Sun

• Creepy Cut-Up, sort of

  Astral Weeks columnist Ed Park finds that horror story quotes take on a life of their own (via the Los Angeles Times). While assembling my notes for a review of the Library of America anthology “American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny” (Library of America, two volumes, edited by Peter Straub: “From Poe to the…

  Bill Ectric

  December 9, 2009

  American Fantastic Tales, anthology, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fantastic Tales, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, horror writers, Nabokov, Peter Straub, Tennessee Williams