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Mark Samuels: The Book I Would Like To Be Buried With…

Updated: 2010-05-31 14:20:48

The twelfth entry in the Bury Me With... series focuses on the London-based mystical urban miserablist Mark Samuels. "Being buried with a book can lead to later unrest. I think of Dante Gabriel Rossetti having interred, as a tribute, the sole copy of a handwritten volume of his love poems with ...

Crom fictional deity Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Updated: 2010-05-27 14:09:00

, Crom fictional deity From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump : to navigation search For other uses , see Crom disambiguation Crom is a deity created by American author Robert E . Howard He is mainly mentioned in swearing by his character Conan the Cimmerian and worshipped , it is presumed , by the bulk of the Cimmerian people . His name is probably derived from the ancient Celtic deity Crom Cruach with the Cimmerians functioning as proto-Celts in Howard's pre-historic Hyboria 1 edit Nature of the god Crom is a grim and gloomy god , ever watching from atop his mountain in dark clouds and obscuring mists , ready to pass a disapproving judgment on any and all . However he is also said to value courage and tenacity in mortals , even if the human ultimately proves too frail to succeed .

Q&A with INFAMOUS’ Ace Atkins

Updated: 2010-05-25 19:33:21

Formerly a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Ace Atkins is now a full-time novelist, and a true rising star in crime fiction. (No less than Michael Connelly calls him “one of the best.”) With eight books under his belt, his latest is INFAMOUS, a novelized version of Machine Gun Kelly’s 1933 kidnapping of [...]

microcosm twitterzine

Updated: 2010-05-21 05:59:39

Check out editor Stephen M. Wilson’s new twitterzine for poetry, called microcosms. I have a poem in the latest “issue” (“twissue”?) released today and more to come soon. If you don’t know what a “twitterzine” is, then read this article.

Laird Barron: The Book I Would Like To Be Buried With…

Updated: 2010-05-17 11:40:04

It's the tenth instalment of Bury Me With... and the book dark cosmic speculist Laird Barron wants to be buried with is... "T.E.D. Klein’s Dark Gods, a quartet of novellas that hit the stands in 1985 as a follow-up to his famous novel The Ceremonies. Klein, a respected former editor of ...

Win a copy of Adam Nevill’s Apartment 16

Updated: 2010-05-11 21:47:48

Thanks to Pan MacMillan we have five copies of one of the most important horror novels to be published in the UK in years, Apartment 16, by Adam Nevill. (Read Mathew F. Riley's review here). Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty ...

Adam Nevill: The Book I Would Like To Be Buried With…

Updated: 2010-05-10 09:28:20

The ninth featured author is the truly scary Adam Nevill, who tells me about the book that means everything to him... "I read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at the age of sixteen. At that age my relationship with fiction was based upon classic ghost stories, Lovecraft, Robert ...

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Updated: 2010-05-06 17:51:55

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