I never love my job more than I do this month. PseudoPod always goes big for Halloween and this year we’ve got a raft of stories including a Stuart family double bill. Click here for Episode 619: The Ghost Guide’s Tale & The Halloween Parade. The first is all him, the second is all me. …
PODCASTS: PseudoPod: The Ghost Guide’s Tale and The Halloween Parade
Nigel Kneale is the quiet, grumpy titan that strides across the background of contemporary British genre fiction. The creator of Quatermass, Kneale’s work is angry, literate and passionately invested in the human condition while remaining totally aware of the damage we do ourselves. If you’ve never read, or heard, him before then you’ve read or …
Late in the game I know, but here’s everyone’s favorite magician, con expert, film director (Those may be the same job three times) and planet-sized Transformer, the one, the only, Mr Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre of The Air. Thanks, folks. Without you, there’d be no us. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzC3Fg_rRJM] When you’ve listened to that, …
So as you saw announced elsewhere, New Suns, edited by Nisi Shawl, has just been announced. Here’s the cover: Which is by the amazing Yoshi Yoshitani by the way. And here’s the Table of Contents: NEW SUNS, ed. Nisi Shawl. Foreword, LeVar Burton The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias Buckell Deer Dancer, Kathleen Alcalá The …
I love writing tabletop RPGs. It was my first published (If not paid) work and it’s something I’ve continued working on up to the present day. In fact, my biggest project this year was an RPG book and it was great fun as are the RPG related projects I’m hoping to announce next year. Here’s …
I cut my teeth on horror with Fear on Four. My stories of the dark were told to me by polite, urbane British not-quite men far past my bedtime on radio. My love for the genre, and for audio, was born there and both continue to this day. Cullen Bunn came to the genre a …
There are a few ways to instantly sell me on a story. This is one of them: ‘Our Final Halloween is about five kids who wake up in an abandoned house. They don’t know why they’re there, how they got there, or whose blood they’re covered in…’ Yep. Sold. I’m in. Especially as the book is written and …
Matt Miner is one of those people, and creators, I’ll cross the street for. His work is grounded, smart, funny as Hell, angrier than you can articulate and always comes from a burning desire to tell good stories and either educate people, make them feel better or both of the above. It’s no surprise at …
PRESS RELEASE: A Wave Blue World offers Free Comics to Supporters of Mark Waid’s Legal Fund
There are some stories that need no introduction, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be told. Apollo 11 is one of them and, in this new graphic novel from the always impressive Self-Made Hero, Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins explore the personal voyages of the three men on the mission through the lens …
Jace Lopaz has a problem. Actually Jace is made entirely of problems. Jace has an exo-skeleton of problems between him and the world which every time he tries to do anything flexes and breaks something. Then falls out of something. And sometimes goes on fire. Jace is Nathan Drake without the luck. Han Solo without …