Lurid-Lit returns with a book review...

http://www.lurid-lit.com/?zx=d87352148ceb8591

The REPORTER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Mark Shaw

The short lives and sudden death of a President and the most powerful woman in America...

Another Lurid-lit column this month...

must be the holiday season and Christmas is a coming.....

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/11/holidays-ignored-holidays-depressed.html

A COOL BREEZE has been published

http://www.schlock.co.uk/pb/wp_796220a9/wp_796220a9.html


Thank you SCHLOCK! WEBZINE

Lurid Lit creeps back....

and while I want you  to read it understand that I won't give you a trophy for doing so. Coming tonight.

A COOL BREEZE to be published

Details to follow.

Saugus Ghost Story Winners 2017

https://www.saugus.net/Contests/Halloween/2017/

Congratulations to all winners and participants. God and contest willing I will be back to judge again.

If you are a writer please look into entering next year.

Kudos to Eric Brown for his hard work making this all possible.

Naugatuck Cemetery Walk is Off

The Gods of Halloween have spoken. Two massive storms on successive weekends have devastated the grave yard and clean up can't be done on time.

We'll see you next year Hillside Cemetery.

And should this happen again next year.....

Well we will see.

Happy Halloween.

Link

http://www.schlock.co.uk/pb/wp_35b825b3/wp_35b825b3.html

A PLEA FROM THE DARKEST PLACE is published

MARS FOR EVERYONE is published

Here, take a look....
http://www.fartherstars.com/2017/10/101917.html

A Plea From The Darkest Place to be published

Details to follow.

LURID LIT is back and so are actual books

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/10/the-death-of-bibliophile-is-premature.html

We are not dead yet.

Get Off My Lawn TCM

Has been the resounding accusatory email I have been receiving these days. How dare I attack the creative thread in horror that sustains the hip as well as the hop.

I am a big fan of Roger Corman and see nothing wrong with his humor or even camp in the later Poe films. There is no bigger fan of the Phibes films than myself loving the great Vincent Price and his ability to draw a smirk.

Such can be artfully done. Such examples already noted.

It is just the lack of professionalism in the TCM ads that cause me pause and the overall stupidity of casting and writing in the latter Universal efforts that cause my intestines to knot.

As writers we should take our craft and out genre seriously. Humor has its place and is more difficult to write than straight drama.

Be careful with those efforts and respect your subject and readers.

Cheap is plentiful. Art is unique.

Halloween in Hollywood is a Barrel of Laughs: TCM You Suck

Horror has been a thoroughly flawed product in this country for a long time.

Part of the problem is our flawed educational system which resists true literature, imaginative thought and overall originality.

Part of the problem is Hollywood.

It was Hollywood that gave us Abbott and Costello Meet the... series and it was Hollywood that gave us Son of ..... series as well ______ meets _______All efforts to take the brands it established in the literary driven films and to bastardize the same for cash.

Cash because a growing population was already being less and less educated.

And yes, part of this problem is definitely us.

We don't demand more. We are lazy. We are trained in linear not layer thought. We also love building up something based on a serious literary work and tearing the same down because we are watch we watch and because we secretly loath intellectual talent.

We don't have a problem with physical talent; throwing a ball, kicking a ball or kneeling before a ball. But we all fear someone with an intellect. Egghead, College Boy, Poindexter, Smart Ass; all original and catchy terms to typify our loathing.

Case in point these annoying TCM Halloween promos with class C actors dressed as the Wolfman, Bride of Frankenstein and Blacula. These inane and insulting promos are demeaning.

These are not cute. These are stupid and also well deserved for a mass audience craving CGI and Animation for their children.

For us in the Horror community you should be incensed. But I know you are not. Our Horror community is over populated with over sexed and over slashed non-story telling hacks.

All as trained by Hollywood films.

The immortal Second City Television used to run a skit where some hicks gave glowing movie reviews to films with things 'blowed up'. It was a joke then. Today it is reality. Today it is Hollywood.

But then again for a society and industry that can't take Harvey Weinstein seriously and applauds Ben Affleck keeping their secrets for decades....

You all deserve each other.

Lurid-Lit is back and you are not going to like this

Think about it....

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/09/the-hypocrisy-of-horror-h-p-lovecraft.html

Halloween Cemetery Walk Script

Details will come but we have been asked to write another. These are fun and educational. I love them and love to be part of the community where they take place. Film is great and so is television. Writing for books and magazines is great, but writing for the community and delving into the nonfictional lives of its past residents to bring to present residents is most satisfying.

As I said details and the site will follow.

MARS FOR EVERYONE to be published

A science fiction tale. Details to follow.

SAUGUS GHOST STORY CONTEST

Is around the corner.......

MARS FOR EVERYONE

A short science fiction piece is out for submission.

A ROMANCE is here

Beautiful cover.

http://www.schlock.co.uk/pb/wp_35b825b3/wp_35b825b3.html

They seek out what is decaying and broken.

Lurid-lit is back tonight!!!!!

Well you have to look it up lazy, to see it.

A ROMANCE to be published

The Gothic horror tale of ghouls and obsession will be published later this month. Details to follow.

IN PEACE has been published

My science fiction tale can be found here http://www.fartherstars.com/2017/06/62217.html
Thank you E. S. Wynn

My God this is a long spring, long summer whatever the Hell you call it.

Work, work, work at a day job that will be lessening. The writing work is coming.....

CURTIS LAWSON joins me on LURID-LIT

Now

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/06/book-review-black-pantheons-collected.html

TROUBLED is in print

Available NOW.....

Going Gothic in A ROMANCE

This is going to be my return to old school mayhem. Pathology and the dead.....To be concluded soon....

TROUBLED to be published

Via the UK. Thank you SCHLOCK! WEBZINE. Details to follow.

We are a witness to....

history in this issue of Lurid-Lit.....

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/05/book-review-diary-of-dr-john-polidori.html

IN PEACE to be published.

In June in FATHER STARS THAN THESE. More details to follow. Many thanks to E. S. Wynn, publisher.

Lurid Lit is back and we now move into ART

The art of Gary Wray, an imaginative, creative and extremely talented man...

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/04/artist-review-gary-wray.html

In Peace is in the works

I am writing a new science fiction tale that I most excited about. IN PEACE is a simple story about government; the kind of government we are leaving behind: cruel and dismissive.

It is a reminder of what exactly humanity is --- inhumane.

MY TIME WITH THE DEVIL

MY TIME WITH THE DEVIL has been published

Check out my visit with the all time canasta cheater was like:

http://www.schlock.co.uk/pb/wp_426dc0be/wp_426dc0be.html

Here is another link

https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/kidnapped-guest-b

log-dark-dreamers-by-mark-slade/

Thank You For The Mention

Thank you to Mr. Mark Slade who invited me on the project. Here is his article on Horror Addicts:

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhorroraddicts.net%2F&h=ATMdpY9golv0dQhRK6u3qzjc8IefuBnkja8VMgrcomTYqYdSJ7m340tc2VFt4bfggBpmaf94jm7AHGfewwQD38eM7W5kgCsJ5r3FstW3hmRd9QatV804wtczn9kk_nxRUwZJ6kjEZPX4hgq7B8y1MBQkDw2IPojbjY8

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES has been published

My newest science fiction tale appears in FARTHER STARS THAN THESE.

http://www.fartherstars.com/2017/03/3917.html

Vampyr a forgotten classic

comes to lurid-lit

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/03/film-review-vampyr-1932-carl-theodor.html

Enjoy a rare classic....

Lurid-lit IS BACK

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/02/news-real-news-not-fake-or-very-fake.html

A thought for everyone involved in the arts.

On Sale TODAY!!!!

In PAPER and includes SCORCHED.

Meryl Streep should love my review of film....

http://www.lurid-lit.com/2017/02/film-review-that-is-reviews-from-mill.html

If not the Hell with her.........

Editor's Notes: Really? A Photo?

I love these narcissists on social media who take photos of themselves with their "books". Hey, if it is self-published the writing community doesn't count it unless you have the history. Hey, shave and wear something better than you go to bed wearing......  

In other words be professional and act professional. The state of literature world wide is in ruins as it is because of the hyper sexual and hyper political climate we live in. The state of literature world wide is in ruins because it has lost all honesty because of fake diplomas and correctness.

Be a professional and promote a return to the freedom of letters.

SCORCHED and Schlock! Quarterly

Available FEBRUARY 9TH

I will drop the HAMMER on LURID-LIT

Momentarily, my dear friends. Momentarily....

More nightmares!!!!

Good. We are having nightmares. Great. The nightmares are constant and vivid and the memory of those nightmares plays into my head as the light of day blinds my eyes.

More horror is coming.

More weird and wonderful tales are spilling forth to delight.

I am blessed that the creative process is still strong.

I am blessed it wasn't simply circumstance.

SCORCHED to be published again...

in the all new SCHLOCK! QUARTERLY. In print and for purchase. Details to follow.

POLLY WANTS MY SINS is here...

The Age Old Struggle

To many writing and watching and reading and living the horror genre is an affront to God. Being a fan will ultimately send to fires of Hell.

If this were to be true I don't think I would necessarily mind after all I would know everyone there.

Seriously though this is a non-injurious practice whatever the form. In my case I do not pray to the vampire or seek solace in the teachings of the werewolf. I practice and experience art.

Horror is an art form much like comedy and romance and in my heart of hearts I believe the Lord enjoys a good story of the spirit every now and then just as he does a mural in the chapel.

Horrorftictionbooks.com is no more

Good luck to Neil in the emerald isle as Horrorfictionbooks.com sails into the sunset as he personally so notified me yesterday. It was fun being a part of this e-zine but like all experiences in life change follows.

His choice to close this banner is personal and not due to a dearth of subscribers.

We wish him well with his new venture and he will always be welcome as a friend.

Polly Wants My Sins to be published

A controversial short tale because of the religious imagery was originally accepted by WEIRDBOOK magazine but another magazine had the balls to print it. Details to follow.