Church of the Latter-Day Geek Stirs Controversy Down Under
I recently came across an interesting couple of news items related to a church in Australia that has scheduled a fantasy and science fiction service. The idea is the brainchild of the Uniting Church’s pastor, Avril Hannah-Jones, who is a fan of the fantastic in popular culture. From the Unsettled Christianity website: What started as […]
CALL FOR PAPERS: Theology and the Undead
CALL FOR PAPERS Theology and the Undead The academy and pop culture alike recognize the great symbolic and pedagogical value of the undead (or reanimated dead). Vampires and zombies possess an important ability to enable reflection in a variety of personal and cultural ways. This has been explored variously from consumerism to racism to the […]
News of the Fantastic – April 2, 2011
Following are news items for the fantastic including horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal for the last few weeks. These items can be accessed daily as they are posted through my Facebook page and Twitter account. ‘Insidious’ review: An old-style horror movie “Insidious” is a respectable attempt at a type of horror movie they […]
Leslie Dale Feldman: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone and Politics
I am always on the lookout for good books that probe various aspects of the fantastic in popular culture in depth. Not long ago I came across such a book that looked at the political views of Rod Serling as expressed in his television show The Twilight Zone. The book is Spaceships and Politics: The […]
Forthcoming Book by John Kenneth Muir: Horror Films of the 1990s
In my last post I provided an update on a volume I contributed to, so I might as well follow that up with another similar project. A while ago I was flattered to have John Kenneth Muir ask me, along with a handful of other writers, to write some brief capsule reviews as a part […]
Update on Butcher Knives & Body Counts
I am pleased to share an update regarding the book Butcher Knives & Body Counts (Dark Scribe Press, forthcoming). The volume’s editor, Vince Liaguno, sent an email to contributors today with word that plans are in place to have physical copies of the book in hand in time for some exposure to librarians and booksellers […]
PBS Documentary: Four Days at Dragon*Con
Thanks to the email list for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts I learned about a documentary that will be broadcast courtesy of American Public Television. The documentary is titled Four Days at Dragon*Con. From The APT website: Every Labor Day weekend, tens of thousands descend upon Atlanta for the largest convention […]
LOTTD Favorite Villainess – My Choice: Clash’s Medusa
That group of horror bloggers, the League of Tana Tea Drinkers (LOTTD), of which I am a part, has come up with the theme for their latest roundtable group of posts. By early April those participants will have posted on their favorite villainess. It’s been a while since I’ve done something on the lighter side, […]
Donald Tyson: The Dream World of H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential writers on contemporary horror. As such, he has been the focus of a number of biographies, including H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi (Necronomicon press, 1996), and the documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, directed by Frank Woodward. More recently, a new biography has […]
Paul Meehan: Horror Noir
Paul Meehan returns once again to discuss the latest example of his wonderful work in the fantastic. In the past he has visited here to discuss his books Saucer Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow Press, 1998), and Cinema of the Psychic Realm (McFarland, 2009), and Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction […]
