Tag: Tamper

• 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 […]

  Bill Ectric

  June 22, 2014

  Bill Ectric, Book Reviews, Fortean, Hardy Boys, paranormal, psychology, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Tamper, William S. Burroughs

• Seeing Things! Strindberg and Kittelsen

  Alchemy, schizophrenia, sinister wizardry, religious fanaticism, and even a knowing wink of humor, The Inferno, by writer August Strindberg (1849-1912), is an early example of the “unreliable narrator” literary device, in which the reader learns that the storyteller is seeing things from a distorted perspective.  There is some disagreement as to how much of The […]

  Bill Ectric

  March 25, 2011

  apophenia, August Strindberg, gnomes, hallucination, pareidolia, psychosis, Richard Shaver, Tamper, The Inferno, Theodor Kittelsen

• Raw Head and Bloody Bones!

  Talk about one thing leading to another! When my brother and I were kids, we delighted in the scary stories our dad used to tell, especially the one about a fellow called “Raw Head and Bloody Bones,” apparently a revenant seeking revenge for being skinned alive. My wife and I spent Christmas at my mother’s […]

  Bill Ectric

  January 2, 2011

  American Folklore, Bloody Bones, Council For Literature of the Fantastic, Grolier Encyclopedia, Jeff Vandermeer, John Locke, Laurell K. Hamilton, Mary F. Lyons, Rawhead and Bloody Bones, Rhys Hughes, S. E. Schlosser, Tamper, The Book of Knowledge

• Tamper in the Real World?

  When I see the word “tamper” in the headlines, I’ve got to talk about it! The title of my novel, Tamper, is taken from an expression used by sci-fi writer Richard Shaver  in the 1940s when he claimed that the cavern-dwelling mutant descendants of ancient aliens were “tampering” with his mind.  Maybe Lee Speigel knows about Richard Shaver, maybe he doesn’t, […]

  Bill Ectric

  October 2, 2010

  Air Force, Flying Saucers, Lee Speigel, nuclear missiles, nuclear weapons, Tamper, UFO, UFOs

• 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

• Notes on My Novel

  Tamper strives to balance mainstream storytelling with some of the more modern conventions, sometimes called meta-fiction, without alienating fans of either style. This gives fans of both meta-fiction and mainstream fiction something to talk about. To borrow a phrase from Cory Doctorow, it “brings more people into the tent.”  In his book, The Modern Weird […]

  Bill Ectric

  March 7, 2009

  Henry James, mainstream fiction, metafiction, S. T. Joshi, Sleepy Hollow, Tamper, Thomas Ligotti, Thomas Tryon, Washington Irving, Weird Tales, writing, writing tips