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New Horror 2022 - Day 31
"A Good Student" by Nuzo Onoh (2014)
"Bit by slow bit, his body started to disintegrate like fluffy flakes of white cotton."
I read a story from this book every year, and they are always memorable. Onoh’s stories present such a unique cultural viewpoint that it provides new takes on stories of spirits and ghouls. Another reminder to get my head out of America’s and Western Europe’s ass.
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Dracula Daily - "October" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)
“The men were scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and prayed.”
I’ve been reading Dracula Daily, well, daily since the beginning, and it ends next month. What a journey. I’d never read it before so I’ve definitely not had the typical reading experience. All the travel stuff this month reminds me most of playing the Fury of Dracula board game, zipping around Europe to hunt down the children of the night. As far as the reading, October was the most suspenseful month thus far as the protagonists chased Dracula out of London and pursued him into the east, then are forced to wait and see where he’ll turn up. I’m not actually sure how this is going to end since the 1992 movie adaptation has been all I knew about Dracula proper for a long time and it turns out is not too faithful to the actual novel written by Bram Stoker. And I suppose neither is this chronological reading, but at least this gets through the original text.
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"The End of All Things" by Natalie Leif & Elaine Well (2014)
"I'll look at the lines myself."
I wasn’t quite sure of the message here, and it’s probably a sign of a good story that I found it very compelling but wanted more. The ending evokes a sense of inevitable collapse beneath the weight of the world, that we are all inextricably linked to an entity we cannot escape.
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Darkstalkers 3 (aka Vampire Savior) dev. Capcom (1997)
"Let's stick together until I'm full, shall we?”
Take Street Fighter and throw in supernatural and sci-fi horror figures, and that’s this game. Each of the 18 characters gets their own little arc and ending through the arcade mode, and while I’m sure most people are more interested in the multiplayer aspect, I always found the single player mode an interesting part of these fighting games. This is another instance in which I realize that while I never considered myself a horror fan when I was younger, I was absolutely in for monsters and the supernatural.
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Amer dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009)
"Can’t you see she’s hungry?”
This was a doozy and a strange movie to end the month. Hardly any dialogue and fairly interpretive, it’s also a sharp homage to giallo horror, which I’m not especially versed in. But part of the reason I take on these movie-a-day projects is to check out new works and be challenged, so I’m glad I did. The horror here is in confronting the self, staring inward into the abyss from which there is no escape.
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The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (2022)
"If we want to escape with our delusions of being alive, we have to fight.”
I enjoyed this year’s Treehouse of Horror, even if it was fairly light on comedy. But the comedy in recent years can sometimes be full of some real groaners, so perhaps I just welcome an acceptance by the writers that jokes every other second isn’t their strong suit. The first two segments are straightforward retellings of The Babadook and Death Note (the latter also animated in anime style), but the third segment was especially meta and weird, even as a simple parody of Westworld. That clicked with me because it’s as meta as The Simpsons Game, which I’ve written about before from my perspective of working on the game. That introspective angle also makes it the darkest segment, asking the audience to examine pop culture today and the way we treat the characters in our favorite media.
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Bob's Burgers - "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (2022)
"Everyone wants a piece of you. Sometimes as a sacrifice to the gods.”
This show’s dedication to producing a Halloween show every year is admirable. The episodes are always great, though in recent years they’ve moved away from Halloween itself as the central theme in favor of other spooky familial shenanigans. Louise’s exploration of the nature of popularity was a poignant thread.
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Castlevania - Seasons 3 & 4 (2020-2021)
“Thank you for my second life. I intend to use it well and make wonderful new dreams of it.“
I’d watched the first two seasons some time ago, and waited until the show was complete to catch the rest. While the arc of the first two seasons that were focused on Dracula felt complete, these latter two seasons were more of an extended epilogue, exploring these characters in the wake of defeating a great foe. As a result, there isn’t the same satisfying arc, just a series of interesting encounters and meditations on forming new lives and relationships. It feels like a short story anthology that follows the novel. Reflecting on it, I’d say it’s just the thing to round out the month, some breathy autumnal monologues punctuated by decadent battle sequences.
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A Dance for the Dead by Nuzo Onoh: Book Review
A Dance for the Dead by Nuzo Onoh: Book Review
Ife and Diké are sons of King Ezeala of Ono Clan. As princes, their people and father expect them to take wives and have sons to ensure the survival of their bloodline. But Ife is a carefree dancer who loves drinking Palm Wine. Plus, despite that his father arranged his marriage three years ago, he has no intention to carry out the arrangement. Diké is the first born and lead warrior. When the…
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Join is today as we discuss #AfricaRisen!! 445PM to 5PM Pregame with @isisasare and @brisbookish!!! 5PM to 6PM @shereereneethomas, @authorzknight, and @penprince gives us the behind the scenes on editing Africa Risen! Reposted from @seahorsestories 🚀Book Tour and Review🚀 Thank you so much to @tordotcompub, @shereereneethomas, @penprice, and @authorzknight for providing the Weirdos and I from @b2weird with finished copies of Africa Risen! I'm so glad we could do a tour for this beautiful story collection. Africa Risen is a speculative fiction collection full of beautifully written stories by BIPOC authors! As with any short story collection, there were certain stories I enjoyed more than others, but I really loved this collection overall. There was only one author I was already familiar with going into Africa Risen, so this book introduced me to quite a few new-to-me writers that I will definitely be keeping an eye out for! Here are some VERY brief and honestly insufficient descriptions of a few of my favorite stories from Africa Risen: "March Magic" by WC Dunlap: A group of witches gather to conjure a dream into reality. "IRL" by Steven Barnes: A virtual reality kingpin burns his digital empire to the ground to revenge an IRL attack on his family. "Rear Mirror" by Nuzo Onoh: A group of priests face off against the spirit of a dead woman who does not want to be cremated. "The Sugar Mill" by Tobias B. Buckell: A real estate agent tries to sell a former sugar mill but is haunted by the ghosts of those who died there. "Ghost Ship" by Tananarive Due: A woman smuggling an illegal cat onto a ship finds that getting caught with the pet is the least of her worries during the voyage. This is only a few of the stories I loved! There were some I couldn't even begin to try describing in one sentence. Africa Risen is available now! Check out the hashtags #B2Weird and #B2WTours to see more Africa Risen posts from the tour! #AfricaRisen #shortstories #bipocbooks #bipocauthors #speculativefiction #scififantasy #scifibooks #bookstagram #SistahScifi (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmmAIYv4Hz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Books by Nigerian Authors
Literary Fiction: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Graphic Novel: Malika: Warrior Queen by Roye Okupe
Mystery: Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
Fantasy: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Historical Fiction: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Horror: The Sleepless by Nuzo Onoh
Romance: The Spider King’s Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
Science Fiction: Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Short Stories: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Thriller: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Auto/Biographies: Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
History: The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria by Judith A. Byfield
Poetry: Sahara Testaments by Tade Ipadeola
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Nuzo Onoh - the Queen of African horror who is terrified of ghosts
British-Nigerian horror writer Nuzo Ono tells the BBC that she sleeps with a “bright light on”.
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'A Dance for the Dead' by Nuzo Onoh
‘A Dance for the Dead’ by Nuzo Onoh
Diké is a powerful warrior and the heir to a Kingdom. He is beloved by his village and even leads a warrior cult that terrifies their enemies. That is, until his younger brother attempts to get out of an impending marriage. What is intended to be a few days hiding in a hut, becomes a terrifying ordeal when Diké finds himself trapped inside the secret shrine of their village warrior deity. As he…
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Africa Risen review
Big thanks to Netgalley, Tordotcom, and the authors for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!
The Blue House: Dilman Dila
3/5 stars
I thought the concept of this one was interesting, an android attempting to remember her life and identity when she was a human, but had trouble with all the memory.sys and security.sys stuff.
March Magic: WC Dunlap
5/5 stars
I enjoyed the imagery in this one.
Irl: Steven Barnes
5/5 stars
I really enjoyed this story. Shango seems pretty unbearable at first, but he really comes through. I also liked the alternate/future version of justice and the intricacies of it.
The Deification of Igodo: Joshua Uchena Omenga
3/5 stars
This was an interesting story, but not really my thing.
Mami Wataworks: Russell Nichols
5/5 stars
I was somewhat confused by this one at first, but once I got a hang of the setting, I quite enjoyed the post-apocalyptic scene.
Rear Mirror: Nuzo Onoh
5/5 stars
This one was very entertaining. I liked the idea and imagery of an angry ghost tormenting the people going against her last/burial wishes.
Door Crashers: Frank’s Zeph
3/5 stars
The concept of this was intriguing and I think it really felt like it was going somewhere toward the end. However I was confused for most of the story.
The Soul Would Have No Rainbow: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
4/5 stars
I liked how we jumped between the past and the present for this one. I also liked the mythological feeling the story has.
A Dream of Electric Mothers: Wole Talabi
5/5 stars
This one was interesting. I liked how it took contemporary beliefs and carried them forward to be adapted into a sci-fi world. The imagery was also very vivid in this one.
Simbi: Sandra Jackson-Opoku
5/5 stars
This is a pretty quick story, but I liked the variation on Mami Wata.
Housewarming for a Lion Goddess: Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
5/5 stars
I liked this story a lot. There’s a lot of imagery in it and the narrator had a dual-story thing going on.
A Knight in Tunisia: Alex Jennings
5/5 stars
This was definitely interesting. The shape of this world was somewhat confusing to me, but I liked the concept.
The Devil is Us: Mirette Bahgat
3/5 stars
I thought this was going to go somewhere but then it didn’t really, so…
Cloud Mine: Timo Odueso
5/5 stars
I liked this one and where it seemed to be going. I can definitely feel a larger character arc for Salim.
Ruler of the Rear Guard: Maurice Broaddus
4/5 stars
This was an interesting picture of future-America (or really a slightly exaggerated current America) and how people might find their way out of it.
Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition): Tlotlo Tsamaase
2/5 stars
TW implied rape
I liked the ending of this, but the rest do it was fairly graphic and I wasn’t a fan.
The Sugar Mill: Tobias S. Buckell
5/5 stars
This story does a good job of showing the predatory nature of land development and of how ‘white vegans’ often prioritize animals over human lives. I liked the ghosts in this story, and I thought it was a funny touch that they enjoyed watching reality TV.
The Carving of War: Somto Ihezue Onyedikachi
4/5 stars
Interesting, but I was kind of confused.
Ghost Ship: Tananarive Drive
5/5 stars
This one head a good vibe to it. It feels like one thing at the start and then it becomes something else. I do wish we’d gotten to see Burden again though.
Liquid Twilight: Ytasha Womack
4/5 stars
This was a light story, though I don’t think I totally understood the ending. There are some implications there that I think I get, but it’s hard to tell.
Once Upon a Time in 1967: Oyedotun Damilola Muees
4/5 stars
I liked all the different magical creatures in the story.
A Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner: Alexis Brooks de Vita
5/5 stars
TW/ FGM, rape
Unpleasant business but it has a satisfying ending.
The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library: Tobi Ogundiran
5/5 stars
This was a fun little thriller/horror story. I enjoyed the anticipation of what would happen.
When the Mami Wata Met a Demon: Moustapha Mbacké Diop
4/5 stars
This was another horror-esque story, but it ended on a lighter note.
The Papermakers: Akua Lezli Hope
5/5 stars
I thought this one was cool. The paper magic and process of making paper are interesting to me.
A Soul of Small Places: Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo
5/5 stars
TW mentions of rape
This one is good, has a satisfying arc. I also like the ‘monster’ in this one.
Air to Shape Lungs: Shingai Njeri Kagunda
4/5 stars
The narrative here is in an unusual style. Interesting story though.
Hanfo Driver: Ada Nnadi
4/5 stars
This one is an entertaining story about misadventures with a hover bus. I did have some difficulty with it since it’s written in dialect.
Exiles of Witchery: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
5/5
This one is probably one of my favorites from the anthology. There’s magic and mayhem and solidarity, with a dash of danger.
The Taloned Beast: Chinelo Onwualu
5/5 stars
TW/ rape, abuse
An overall good story about accepting who you are and standing with other people against the world.
Star Watchers: Danian Darrell Jerry
3/5 stars
I feel like this one had a lot of potential but doesn’t really have a lot of follow through. I want to know more about the Star Watchers and their community, and I think a slightly longer story could help with that.
Biscuit and Milk: Dare Segun Falowo
4/5 stars
This one was…weird, lol. It was definitely interesting and I think I liked it, but it is very weird.
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Horror from Around the World
Arctic
Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
I Remember You - Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
North America
Ghost Summer: Stories - Tananarive Due
Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror - Eden Royce
Caribbean & South America
The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories
Five Midnights - Ann Dávilla Cardinal
The Summer I Ate the Rich - Maika & Maritza Moulite
Cockfight - Maria Fernanda Ampuero
Thus Were Their Faces - Silvinia Ocampo
Europe
The Twenty Days of Turin - Giorgio de Maria
Such Small Hands - Andrés Barba
Middle East
Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi
Africa
Unhallowed Graves - Nuzo Onoh
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Amos Tutuola
Asia
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
Dark Water - Kōji Suzuki
The Devourers - Indra Das
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef - Cassandra Khaw
The Sacrifice - Rin Chupeco
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Episode 29: Queen of African Horror with Nuzo Onoh
Episode 29: Queen of African Horror with Nuzo Onoh
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Halloween comes early in this episode. Alan chats with with the African Queen…
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New Fiction 2022 - October
Short Stories & Chapters
"Leonora" by Everil Worrell (1927)
"The Hollow Man" by Norman Partridge (1991)
"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)
"The Door" by Ann R. Loverock (2020)
"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T.E.D. Klein (1972)
"The Dead Wagon" by Greye La Spina (1927)
"Soft" by F. Paul Wilson (1984)
"Beelzebub" by Robert Bloch (1963)
"The Black Phone" by Joe Hill (2004)
"The Angle of Horror" by Cristina Fernández Cubas (1996)
"The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber (1949)
"The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson (1950)
"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2014)
"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling (1888)
"Scales" by Cherene Sherrard (2017)
"The Aztec" by Carmen Baca (2020)
"The Reaper's Image" by Stephen King (1969)
"The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier (1840)
"When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald (2008)
"The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (1987)
"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015)
"Unseen—Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (1919)
"The White Cormorant" by Frithjof Spalder (1971)
"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain (1870)
"The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens (1866)
"Rearview" by Samantha Hunt (2020)
"The Green Bowl" by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)
"A Good Student" by Nuzo Onoh (2014)
Dracula Daily - "October" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)
Comic Shorts & Single Issues
"Swamp Monster" by Basil Wolverton (1953)
"The Portrait of Sal Pullman" by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard (2019)
"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James & Abby Howard (2019)
"Rainbow Sprinkles" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Nimit Malavia (2018)
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!" by Jack Davis, et al. (1953)
"The Harvest" by Shannon Campbell & Pam Wishbow (2016)
"In Each and Every Package" by Reed Crandall, et al. (1954)
"Roots in Hell" by Richard Corben (2016)
"Mars Is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury, Wally Wood, et al. (1953)
"Save the Last Dance for Me!" by Dennis O'Neil & Pat Boyette (1969)
"Infected" by Bruce Jones, Richard Corben, Steve Oliff (1982)
"Unpleasant Side Effects" by Kerry Gammill, Sam F. Park, Mar Omega (2010)
"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)
"Ill Bred" by Charles Burns (1985)
"Don't Go to the Island" by Sfé R. Monster & Kalyna Riis-Phillips (2016)
"Some Other Animal's Meat" by Emily Carroll (2016)
"Greed" by Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire, Travis Lanham (2013)
"Goin' South" by Nancy Collins, David Imhoff, Jeff Butler, Steve Montano, Renée Witterstaetter, Electric Crayon, Simon Bisley (1995)
"Winnebago Graveyard #1" by Steve Niles, Stephanie Paitreau, Jordie Bellaire, Jen Bartel, Alison Sampson, Aditya Bidikar, Mingjue Helen Chen, Sarah Horrocks (2017)
"Seed" by Fiona Staples, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Dougherty, Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Marc Andreyko (2015)
"Kill Screen" by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly, Eva de la Cruz, Clem Robins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rowena Yow, Shelly Bond (2015)
"The Fool of the Web" by Patricia Breen, Roel, Brenda Feikema (1997)
"Fortune Broken" by Sandy King, Leonardo Manco, Marianna Sanzone (2015)
"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
"The Speed of Pain" by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, Steve Wands, Will Dennis (2018)
"Gestation" by Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Doug Garbark, Nic. J. Shaw (2014)
"Chemical 13!" by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)
"Hello, My Name Is..." by Nadia Shammas, Rowan MacColl, Licha Myers, Chris Sanchez (2021)
"Sea of Souls" by Jenna Lynn Wright, Alvaro Feliu, Juan Francisco Mota, Ricardo Osnaya, Erik Lopera Tamayo, Jorge Cortes, Robby Bevaro, Maxflan Araujo, Walter Pereyra, Taylor Esposito (2022)
"Crush" by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, Becka Kinzie, Zakk Saam (2018)
"The End of All Things" by Natalie Leif & Elaine Well (2014)
Video & Electronic Games
Silent Hill dev. Team Silent (1999)
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow dev. Cloak and Dagger Games (2022)
Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)
Bride of Frankenstein dev. Paul Smith, Steve Howard, Timedata Ltd. (1987)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors dev. LucasArts (1993)
Darkstalkers 3 (aka Vampire Savior) dev. Capcom (1997)
Movies
Smile dir. Parker Finn (2022)
The Mummy dir. Karl Freund (1932)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers dir. Don Siegel (1956)
The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011)
The Picture of Dorian Gray dir. Albert Lewin (1945)
The Uninvited dir. Lewis Allen (1944)
The Other Side of the Underneath dir. Jane Arden (1972)
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn dir. Timo Vuorensola (2022)
Terrifier 2 dir. Damien Leone (2022)
Ravenous dir. Antonia Bird (1999)
The Experiment dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel (2001)
Ganja & Hess dir. Bill Gunn (1973)
Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)
Eyes Without a Face dir. Georges Franju (1960)
Under the Shadow dir. Babak Anvari (2016)
Amsterdam dir. David O. Russell (2022)
Deadstream dir. Joseph Winter & Vanessa Winter (2022)
In My Skin by Marina de Van (2002)
Evolution dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović (2015)
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness dir. Shimako Satō (1995)
Celia dir. Ann Turner (1989)
Censor dir. Prano Bailey-Bond (2021)
Halloween Ends dir. David Gordon Green (2022)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari dir. Robert Wiene (1920)
Black Adam dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (2022)
Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)
Eve's Bayou dir. Kasi Lemmons (1997)
Monster (aka Humanoids from the Deep) dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami (1980)
The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)
Medusa: Queen of the Serpents dir. Matthew B.C. (2020)
Medusa dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (2021)
Prey for the Devil dir. Daniel Stamm (2022)
It Follows dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)
Amer dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009)
TV Episodes
The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (2022)
Bob's Burgers - "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (2022)
TV Series
Costume Quest (2019)
Castlevania - Seasons 3 & 4 (2020-2021)
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Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action will be published on April 22 via Stygian Sky Media. Priced at $40, all proceeds from the horror anthology go to Climate Outreach.
It features short stories by such genre luminaries as Stephen King, Clive Barker, Joe Hill, Josh Malerman, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Tremblay, Joe R. Lansdale, Adam Nevill, Richard Chizmar, and Tananarive Due.
Other contributors include Gemma Amor, Laird Barron, Philip Fracassi, T.E. Grau, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Sarah Langan, Tim Lebbon, Nuzo Onoh, Sarah Pinborough, and Priya Sharma.
The 344-page hardcover collection is edited by Seán O'Connor. Horror journalist Sadie Hartmann penned an introduction.
Pre-order Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action.
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The autumn and its contemplative condition of death and decay induce flirtations with the illusory, the uncanny, the weird and the eerie, and of course, the horrific. “A Sonospheric Corpse” derives inspiration from the surrealist technique, “exquisite corpse” in which each participant adds a contribution in a sequence. What follows is a phantasmagorical soundscape composed under similar conditions; collectively produced by way of differing forms of sound media with each contributor unaware of the other contributions made.
Featuring contributions from; Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, John Cussans, Erik Davis, Gabriele de Seta, Lindsay Hallam, Nuzo Onoh, Richard Gavin, Brian Evenson, Vesperalia, Vincent Le and many more...
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Brioxy and Sistah Scifi Book Club present Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (#WorldFantasyAward winner!)
Our next meet up is 11.22.23 - “Rear Mirror” by Nuzo Onoh
Editor Zelda Knight says the following of Rear Mirror, "As manifestations of the past, ghosts play a crucial role in cross-examining and revising history. Their presence also emphasizes that the natives’ resistance to colonization and Christianity continues well into the afterlife. This concept is brilliantly explored in “Rear Mirror” by Nuzo Onoh, wherein the corpse of a woman being taken for a Christian cremation ceremony refuses to cooperate until she is finally buried as per her preferred indigenous rites."
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Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People, edited by Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, Broken Eye Books, 2019. Cover art by Meredith McClaren, info: brokeneyebooks.com.
Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People is an anthology of urban weird fiction. These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore the genre of weird fiction, tales not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the strange ways the city affects us. The city, the weird: gather together enough people and strange things happen. That’s just fact. It’s inevitable really. just try keeping them apart. impossible. they just keep clamoring and fiddling and getting into everything and strangeing up the place. Can’t say why. You just learn to accept it. even to thrill at it. the ups, the downs, the everchanging nature of it all. It’s unpredictable. It’s exhausting. And it’s fascinating.
Contents:
Introduction: Toward a Weirder Tomorrow – Scott Gable
Walk Softly, Softly – Nuzo Onoh
Y – Maura McHugh
Night Doctors – P. Djèlí Clark
The Chemical Bride – Evan J. Peterson
Patio Wing Monsters – S.P. Miskowski
Underglaze – Craig Laurance Gidney
The Vestige – Lynda E. Rucker
The Cure – Tariro Ndoro
Kleinsche Fläche of Four-Dimensional Redolence – D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Nolens Volens – Mike Allen
Vertices,” Jeffrey Thomas
Like Fleas on a Tired Dog’s Back – Erica L. Satifka
Urb Civ – Kathe Koja
Over/Under – Leah Bobet
A Name for Every Home – Ramsey Campbell
Tends to Zero – Wole Talabi
My Lying-Down Smiley Face – Stephen Graham Jones
Luriberg-That-Was – R.B. Lemberg
The Sister City – Cody Goodfellow
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South Africa’s Mad God Face Off With Devils In Bruising New Doomer
~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~
MAD GOD is a hell of a name for a band. It's brash, frightening and, if there is a God, probably true. Literature is replete with tales of madness, from throne room to darkest cavern. After all, what could be more frightening than insanity? Worse still, what if God were bonkers, too? It's an idea pregnant with possibilities and this week, the Johannesburg trio of Tim Harbour (guitar, vox), Evert Snyman (bass), and Patrick Stephansen (drums) gives birth to another album of vignettes from our mad, mad world.
'Grotesque and Inexorable' (2018), besides being a vocabulary expanding mouthful, will have fans of H.P. Lovecraft whipping out their magnifying glasses, looking for signs his influence throughout. What's behind those glowing eyes? Is that perhaps a ritual knife? And what of that ghastly cephalopodic tail? It all beckons us to venture closer, to stroll deeper into the bush. Only here in nature's primitive darkness can we see clearly.
This is not an interpretive dance through Lovecraft's greatest hits, however. What Mad God have assembled is essentially a horror anthology, each of its six chapters bearing witness to some monstrosity -- real or imagined. All of them are unimaginably terrifying.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is
fear of the unknown." (H.P. Lovecraft)
The parade of deplorables kicks off in the cemetery, where apparently if there is no rest for the wicked, then neither will there be respite the just. "Haunting the Graves of the Unhallowed" is like a nod Unhallowed Graves and perhaps The Reluctant Dead by the pioneering author of African horror, Nuzo Onoh. Mad God bring a Goyaesque gravity to the song, with the witchy metallic grit of early Yob or the bitter-sweet ire of Trouble -- all caged with the expansive song structure made a staple of the genre by the godfathers of doom, Black Sabbath. That's for those of you reaching for a point of reference in this slow-burning, bubbling cauldron of toxic stew. It won't take long for you to acclimate to the flavor, and with repeated spins you'll be easily picking up on the Mad God distinctives.
If the first track draws upon the supernatural, "The DeZalze Horror" is grounded in grizzly physical reality. In January of 2015, the papers greeted South Africans with the strange story of a millionaire and his family massacred at the DeZalze Golf Estate golf resort outside of Cape Town. Henri van Breda, was the apparent lone survivor and claimed amnesia about the whole event. He evaded justice for a year-and-a-half, until all evidence in the investigation confirmed that the 20-year old Henri had indeed wielded an axe against his father, mother, brother, and sister (the latter being the sole survivor).
Mad God's mean, sludgy swagger makes this track a fitting bedfellow with Church of Misery's bevy of serial killers. Tim's guitar chugs along like someone pacing hallways, Evert and Patrick's rhythm section makes me think the bump and drag of the axe's head along the floor, while Henri laments the shocking outcome of his brutal rage. A bluesy, fuzzy interlude brings us the 911 call, and the drums pound like sunken heartbeat, resigned to the awfulness and permanence of one's decision.
Last month, the band chose "I Created God" as the album's first single. "This song was written after watching a Charles Manson documentary, following his death in 2017," Tim Harbour explains. Though Manson remains the perennial muse of songwriters, he hastens to add: "This song does not condone the actions of the cult leader, but rather delves into the psyche and motives of both him and his followers around the time of the murders that took place in 1969." As one might expect, the lyrics aren't pretty, underlying the band's thesis that despite the beauty and good in the world, the ugliness of evil is never far behind and is often three steps ahead. Unlike the notorious fascination of Uncle Acid & the deadbeats for Charlie, Mad God's musical characterization of Manson and his Helter Skelter scenario is somber, with his mad ramblings echoing through the song's final stretch.
"The Crawling Chaos" follows, a reference to the short story written by Lovecraft, but based upon a dream of a companion, poet Winifred V. Jackson. A hazy, Alice in Wonderland ambience opens this opium fever dream, in which an accidental overdose leads to a misshapen landscape mired by 50 foot waves, outsized flora, and bizarre trip beyond the Milky Way. The song is perhaps emblematic of the horrors lying dormant within each of our mind, not to mention the subtext of addiction.
"No Prayers, No Fires" is my favorite of the lot, for it led me down another fascinating rabbit trail. This one took me all the way to one Herbert George Wells -- yes, the self-same H.G. -- who wrote a non-fiction book speculating about the future of society. Central to his book, 'The Future in America: A Search After Realities' (1906), a travelogue of impressions from his first visit to the States, was the Oneida Community of New York. Once hailed as a triumph of human cooperation and communal living, there were now "no prayers, no fires upon the deserted altars of Oneida any more forever..." Their leader, a cultic figure by the name of John Humphrey Noyes, wanted to bring about Christ's fabled millennial kingdom (which was all but an obsession of 19th century religionists), but the enterprise fell upon scandal and financial ruin. The evil groove of this song is key to its success and the band is in fine form for the duration.
At last comes "Wild Hunt," which returns us to the spirit realm for a romp through the underworld, with faintly human apparitions fastened upon their ghostly steeds in pursuit some unknown prey. Legend has it that those among us unfortunate enough to see a vision of the Wild Hunt will be met with sure calamity. It's not a fast song, as we've become conditioned to by bands that tend to go nuts with the "wild" part. Mad God's take is, in fact a sad one -- more in the spirit of Reagers-era Saint Vitus or more recently, Pallbearer. These departed spirits are "bound by eternity" to chase after desires they could never be satisfied in their former lives, nor in this pale existence. It's a tasteful conclusion to the album, though it does leave one with a feeling of melancholy.
Mad God's Grotesque and Inexorable drops this weekend and can be pre-ordered here. Of all the surprises we've been treated to in 2018, this is perhaps the grimmest and most tantalizing -- not unlike a Lovecraftian monster.
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Grotesque and Inexorable by Mad God
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'Grotesque and Inexorable' (2018) is the 2nd full length release by Johannesburg doom metal band, Mad God. Mad God was formed in 2014 by Tim Harbour, Tim Harrison and Patrick Stephansen with the intention of bringing doom metal to South Africa, as it is one of the most underrepresented metal genres in the country. 2015 saw Mad God release their first split, 'Unholy Rituals' alongside Johannesburg stoner act Goat Throne. The following years were good for doom metal, the Temple of Doom shows put on in Joburg became a regular event for stoner, psychedelic and doom metal music showcasing some of South Africa’s best talent such as Ruff Majik, STRAGE, Corax, Pollinator, The Makeovers and many more.
In 2017, bassist Tim Harrison left the band and was replaced by Jarred Beaton and in July that year, Mad God released their first full length album titled 'Tales of a Sightless City,' which gained a fair amount of traction among online stoner and doom circles such as Stoned Meadow of Doom and MrDoom666 on YouTube as well as receiving favourable reviews from popular review sites such as Angry Metal Guy and Doombringer. That same year, Mad God did their first tour to Cape Town and staged a show with The League of Doom (Cape Town’s very own doom and stoner event organisers) as well as played at Krank’d Up Festival alongside acts such as Vulvodinya, OHGOD, Intervals, and Memphis May Fire. Shortly after, the tour the band took a hiatus to focus on writing new material and bassist Jarred Beaton was replaced by Pollinators lead singer and guitarist, Evert Snyman.
'Grotesque and Inexorable' is an exploration into new musical territory for Mad God. After the release of 'Tales of a Sightless City,' Mad God have been aiming to evolve their sound to something darker and more unique.
This album draws on much gloomier themes and the lyrics reflect this turn. The music itself is both dirtier and more progressive and as a band we tried to introduce a wider variety of influences including death and black metal as well as more traditional and heavy metal sounds, even including some '70s progressive rock.
The album title also reflects this change in sound. In other words, "disgusting and cannot be stopped." The band adds, "As Lovecraftian fan boys we had to throw the word grotesque in somewhere!"
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