Archive for 2005
Let’s try something new
We’re going to be trying some new, starting today. Every now and then we’ll put out a general call for questions to our readership and have our columnists answer them on a different day later in the month.
If you’ve got a publishing, writing, or horror related question, please post it in the comments to [...]
Blue Lightning On the Brain
As near as I can tell, every writer has two pivotal moments in their life. The first comes when they read that book (or short story, or play, or dirty limerick that starts with “There was an old man from Nantucket”, or whatever) that somehow crystallizes writing for them, making it real and vibrant and [...]
Ya Gotta Have A Gimmick
A few weeks ago, I was invited to do a guest blog on M.J. Rose’s Buzz, Balls, and Hype. I thought you might enjoy it here. To the two of you who have read it, Mea Culpa; to all of you, Happy Holidays and a safe and healthy New Year. Also, sorry I’m [...]
Party Favor
Note: If this blog seems out of date by the time it’s posted on the 25th, it’s because I’ll be in Michigan, trapped in a household where the microwave is about as technically sophisticated as it gets. Anyway, I wanted to welcome new writers to the blog, as well as wish everyone a Merry [...]
The Blog Before Christmas
by Jeffrey Thomas
Well, you’re probably too busy wrapping presents and sipping spiked eggnog right now to read my Christmas Eve essay here at Storytellers Unplugged, but I’ll plug on nonetheless. In fact, I’m writing this entry ahead of time, on the 20th, because tomorrow night I’m heading off to spend the holidays with my wife’s [...]
The Power Of Blood
I received an unexpected visit tonight from my son, Christopher’s, paternal grandfather, Chuck (for clarity’s sake, I should note that Chris is not my birth son, but since I’ve helped raise him since the age of two, I don’t consider him a “step-son”). Visits from Chris’s Grandpa Chuck are very infrequent, and always interesting. [...]
A Christmas ghost story
By Jeff Mariotte
I don’t know if Charles Dickens originated the Christmastime ghost story with his “A Christmas Carol” or if that subgenre of horror predates him, but by now it’s a grand tradition, familiar to generations of horror writers and readers. It’s common in Britain to read ghost stories around the fireplace during the [...]
Who In Hell Is This Guy?
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Readers
by Justine Musk
The first book I ever bought was BLUBBER by Judy Blume. I was six. It cost me two dollars at the chain bookstore in the mall of my small Canadian hometown. My friend, Andrea Jackett, also six, bought the same paperback, and later that day or the next day I went [...]
So You Want to Be a Redneck
By Weston Ochse
The thought had never crossed my mind. I’d made fun of them in junior high school. I’d stolen girls from them in high school. I was a preppy kid who wore jeans and polo shirts. What the hell did I know from rednecks? Sure, I lived [...]
