Tag: Ray Bradbury

• Marc Zicree on the Ray Bradbury/Rod Serling Controversy

  Bill Ectric

  November 26, 2016

  Marc Zicree, Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, sciencce fiction

• Close Encounters with Ray Bradbury

  Collage by Bill Ectric. That’s Bradley Mason Hamlin with Ray Bradbury in the lower right corner. Collage by Bill Ectric.

  Bill Ectric

  June 7, 2012

  Brad Hamlin, Bradley Mason Hamlin, I see You Never, Jay Mejia, jota, Literary Kicks, mystery island, Ray Bradbury, San Diego Comic Con

• Bill’s Bookshelf # 4: Alfred Hitchcock Presents…Books

  By the early 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock was riding an enormous wave of popularity. His television program, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955 – 1962), had made the director a household name. 1960 saw the release of his highest grossing and arguably most famous film, Psycho, followed sensationally in 1963 by The Birds. I’m a “baby boomer.” Watching…

  Bill Ectric

  May 31, 2012

  Alfred Hitchcock, Algernon Blackwood, anthology, book study, fantasy, gnoles, gnolls, gnomes, Henry Kuttner, Jr, Lord Dunsany, mystery, mystery radio, Psycho, radio, Ray Bradbury, Robert Arthur, Science Fiction, suspense, The Birds, The Mysterious Traveler, The Three Investigators, trolls

• The Devil’s Generation: Bill’s Bookshelf No. 2

  For the second installment of Bill’s Bookshelf, I’ve chosen another anthology, The Devil’s Generation (1973, Lancer Books, Inc.), edited by Vic Ghidalia. Each story involves kids, from an unborn baby to teenage punks and everything in between, but the book contains few, if any, actual stories about the devil. Satan was having a heyday in…

  Bill Ectric

  July 6, 2011

  Algernon Blackwood, Amazing Stories, anthology, Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Book Reviews, Clifford D. Simak, Henry Kuttner, Lancer Books, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil’s Generation, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vic Ghidalia, Weird Tales, William Castle, William S. Burroughs, writers, writing

• Close Encounters with Ray Bradbury

  Lower right: Bradbury and Hamlin, from the collection of Bradley Mason Hamlin It so happens that three writers I greatly admire live in California. Two of them know me. They are Brad Hamlin and Jay “jota” Mejia. As far as I know, those two have never met  one another, but they have, on separate occaisions, met the third and most famous of the trio –…

  Bill Ectric

  August 9, 2008

  Bradley Mason Hamlin, Jay Mejia, jota, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction