Originally published in separate posts on Facebook on January 2, 2013. Who’s nicer? Horror writers or science fiction writers? Well, there’s a very small percentage of self-published horror authors who are some of the most frightening human beings who have committed prose to print, because their interest is exclusively in the gore, to the exclusion of any […]
(Sigh) The key problem with banality is that it prevents people from thinking. They plug in their bromides and platitudes and they sit back and think they’re clever, but really, it’s a substitute for thinking; it’s just quoting something somebody else has said, without examination. For instance, somebody said today, of Jerry Lewis, “The French […]
And now we come to that interesting life passage where you spot an interesting, well-funded theme anthology helmed by someone who was once your friend, but whom you haven’t seen for more than twenty years — and who abused your relationship so badly at the time that mutual friends reacted with open relief when you […]