Trick or Treat! One commenter selected at random gets a copy of Craig Laurance Gidney’s story collection The Nectar of Nightmares.
Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Dame Carmen Callil, who founded the feminist Virago Press, passed away at the age of 84. Virago reissued classic works by women that had been allowed to languish as well as popular fiction of previous decades that had also faded from memory or been erased. In 1972,
October 19th, 2022. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 5 comments |
For many people, the mention of Japanese horror cinema will most likely bring to mind the series of colorful monster movies that Toho Studios brought to the world, starting with 1954’s Gojira. But while those Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Kong and assorted kaiju-eiga films were undoubtedly a lot of fun, as any horror fan would tell you, they are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the field of Japanese horror, or J-horror as it is known today. From the increasingly sophisticated horror fare of the 1960s to the unbelievably gore-drenched and pyrotechnic displays of the late ‘90s and 2000s,
October 19th, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Oh...and the men used the name "The Great Northern Expedition" to throw people off as to their actual destination, even…
Oh, it IS, Marion! It is!
Sorry if I mislead you in this detail, Paul...the voyage by ship was only the first leg of the quintet's…
The geography is confusing me--how does one get to a village in Tibet by ship? And even the northernmost part…
Oh, this sounds interesting!