Tag: paranormal
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Aylett’s Inferno
An Essay by Bill Ectric on Steve Aylett’s Shamanspace This essay first appeared in the book Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology; Published by Sein und Werden Books, Copyright 2016 by Sein und Werden and Bill Ectric. All rights reserved. WARNING: This review contains spoilers. —∞— “Of making many books there is no end, and much study…
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Dead Men Naked, Book Review
Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…
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Analogue Recording and Hauntology
From Celluloid Wicker Man, here is Adam Scovell writes “There seems to be an overt connection between analogue recording technology (of both the visual and aural varieties) and the narratives surrounding paranormal activity in 1970s British fantasy television.” He goes on to say: Of course, there are no doubt connections between the interest in such…
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Her Body Electric
First up, here is Gary Westfahl to give us some background on actress, writer, and psychic researcher with a PhD from the University of California, Thelma Moss, also known as Thelma Schnee: She wrote screenplays for two episodes of Science Fiction Theatre: “The Negative Man” (story by Ivan TORS) (1955), “The Throwback” (1956); and…
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Ghost Recognition
Cool news from our friends at Wormwoodiana: “Three stalwarts of the classic ghost story have combined to launch new awards for the best ghost story and the best ghost story collection each year. The journals Ghosts & Scholars and Supernatural Tales and the literary society A Ghostly Company will jointly sponsor the awards. The winners will be chosen by votes of…
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Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system…
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Extraordinary Paranormal Noir
A blog called Film Noir of the Week reviews Séance On A Wet Afternoon, saying: This is the story of a mentally unstable woman who believes that she communicates with the dead. Her hubris demands that she control and improve her fate, and so she turns to crime in order to satisfy her goals. Séance on…