The Best Publishing House Names in the Weird Fiction Small Press

The weird fiction small press is filled with great publishers.  They publish some of the best, most creative work written. They also publish a dump truck load of crap.  And not one of those normal dump trucks.  I'm talking about those huge earth movers you see on the Discovery Channel.  That is a lot of crap.  The one thing that the small press is really great at is picking colorful names for their publishing companies.  They aren't satisfied with names like HarperCollins or William Morrow, or even Penguin. Tor, to them, is just a waste of a great opportunity to display their creative minds.   The founders of those companies were pussies.  If they had any balls they would have come up with these great company names before the pioneers of ...

HWA Ignores WHC like the Girl They Hooked Up with the Night Before

The HWA and the WHC were all buddy-buddy in Salt Lake City and Toronto. Two relatively popular cities.  OK not popular but at least on some people's list of vacation spots.   Both awards ceremonies came off without a hitch and were a well attended event.  And  moving into the 21st century in Salt Lake City they even broadcast the event over the web.  So what would make this great relationship sour in the weeks following the success of the Stoker Weekends at both Toronto and Salt Lake City? Winnipeg.  That's right Winni-fucking-peg. Yes, blame the Canadians once again.  Or really blame the HWA for acting like a college football player the morning after slipping a mickey to the pretty girl at the fraternity party.  Disappearing in the morning...

What We Need Right Now is More Zombie Fucking!

What We Need Right Now is More Zombie Fucking!

Paranormal Romance meets zombie fiction. Yes, I said it, Paranormal Romance meets Zombie fiction.  Fuck vampires and ghosts.  We need some good down-home zombie sex.   I know there are women out there that read paranormal romance and are just slightly off mentally and that a good reanimated corpse fucking would do the trick. 

Horror Literature Quarterly: Epic Fail!

HORROR LITERATURE QUARTERLY has closed its doors in one of the most awesome examples of epic fail as can be.  HLQ started out as some grand experiment trying to gather the greatest in horror fiction while putting up airs of superiority and self righteousness and failed in grand epic-ness after only four issues.

WARREN ELLIS Meets Writing Deadline: Editor Rejoices

WARREN ELLIS Meets Writing Deadline: Editor Rejoices

For the first time in the history of comics, Warren Ellis has actually met a deadline imposed suggested hoped for by his editor.

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Up From the Underground Version 3.145 Now Live
Douchebags Roam Freely on Horror Message Boards
Twilght Creates Resurgence of Crappy Vampire Wannabes
Still Stupified by the WHC 2009 in  WINNIPEG: WTF!
WHC 2010 is Already Better than WHC 2009 Based on Just Website Design
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I like horror. I like Dean R. Koontz, Stephen King, Clive Barker, and any number of best selling horror authors (and even Frank Perretti! Damnit!). I like my books to go fast and not let up throughout...

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The Best Publishing House Names in the Weird Fiction Small Press

The Best Publishing House Names in the Weird Fiction Small Press

The weird fiction small press is filled with great publishers.  They publish some of the best, most creative work written. They also publish a dump truck load of crap.  And not one of those normal...

HWA Ignores WHC like the Girl They Hooked Up with the Night Before

The HWA and the WHC were all buddy-buddy in Salt Lake City and Toronto. Two relatively popular cities.  OK not popular but at least on some people's list of vacation spots.   Both awards ceremonies...

Leave Us Comments, Please. We Need the Positive Reinforcement

As you can see and probably chose to ignore is that you have the ability to comment on stories.  Now since UFTU does not exist in a vacuum and I know that you are reading my little news articles...

Horror Literature Quarterly: Epic Fail!

HORROR LITERATURE QUARTERLY has closed its doors in one of the most awesome examples of epic fail as can be.  HLQ started out as some grand experiment trying to gather the greatest in horror fiction...

WARREN ELLIS Meets Writing Deadline: Editor Rejoices

For the first time in the history of comics, Warren Ellis has actually met a deadline imposed suggested hoped for by his editor.

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20 Questions with TIM LEBBON

Tim Lebon is an amazing author that is making a name for himself in the US and has caught the eye of several publishers and established writers. He is the author of Until She Sleeps from Cemetery Dance...

20 Questions with WRATH JAMES WHITE

Wrath James White is a big dude. I first met him at Horrorfind 2003 when he read with Jack Ketchum and Ed Lee. I think at the time Wrath even made Jack Ketchum blush and say "oh my god" which...

20 Questions with BRIAN KEENE

Brian Keene is the author of The Rising, Fear of Gravity, and Terminal. He was the fiction editor at Horrorfind.com and has just been named a co-editor for Cemetery Dance Publications Grave Tales comic....

20 Question with KEALAN PATRICK BURKE

Not only is he the author and editor of all this stuff below, he probably has one of the strangest names in the horror fiction industry. He is the author of the short novel The Hides (Cemetery Dance Publications),...

20 Questions with GEOFF COOPER

For some reason I didn't write an introduction to Geoff Cooper's 20 Questions.  Or, if I did, I can't find it for the life of me.  Either way this was done back in 2005- or 2006.  I don't...

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Brian Keene is the author of The Rising, Fear of Gravity, and Terminal. He was the fiction editor at Horrorfind.com and has just been named a co-editor for Cemetery Dance Publications Grave Tales comic. When he got these 20 questions I assumed he was still bald but at his last signing he had grown some hair so the bald questions may be dated. But they are funny. Visit Brian at his website.

He is awaiting the release of the sequal to The Rising entiltled City of the Dead from both Delirum Books as a limited signed edition (which has sold out) and a mass market paperback from Leisure Books. He lives in Pennsylvania where his wife gives him an allowance to buy comics.

 

**This 20 Questions was originally published back in 2005.  I don't exactly remember the date.  But it was in 2005.  I know that because, well, Brian's baldness goes in waves.  Much like a sine wave, and much like judging distance in the universe by the pulsations of a Cepheid Variable star, you can gauge the passage of time by his fluctuating baldness.
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Bring Me the Head of ST Joshi! PDF Print E-mail

I like horror. I like Dean R. Koontz, Stephen King, Clive Barker, and any number of best selling horror authors (and even Frank Perretti! Damnit!). I like my books to go fast and not let up throughout the entire story. I like that I don't have to really think about the book after I turn that last page. I like that I don't have to think about the characters and the themes and anything else about what the author is trying to say other than those visceral scenes of monster on man, monster on oak tree, oak tree on man rape and liters of blood.

I like Dixie cup horror. I am proud to admit that.

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