Celebrate George Clayton Johnson’s 86th Birthday at Mystery & Imagination

GCG86 COMPGeorge Clayton Johnson celebrates his 86th birthday on July 11 at Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale.

Johnson wrote the first aired Star Trek episode, had multiple Twilight Zone credits, co-authored the novel Logan’s Run, and the script for the original Ocean’s 11.

See you July 11, 2 p.m., at Mystery and Imagination, 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91204

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Night Terrors III Signing at Mystery & Imagination on 3/7

image001Night Terrors III contributors Taylor Grant, Eric J. Guignard, Kevin David Anderson, Dennis Etchison, Tracy L. Carbon and John Palisano will sign on March 7 at Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale.

Kelly Dunn will also be on hand to sign Mutation Nation.

See you March 7 at 2 p.m. at Mystery and Imagination (238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91204.)

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Darke Phantastique Signing at Mystery & Imagination on 11/6

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Editor Jason V. Brock compares his 700-page collection Dark Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things with other towering works — Dangerous Visions in sf and Dark Forces in horror. William F. Nolan, a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achivement Award winner agrees: “The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated… A masterwork.”

Mystery & Imagination Bookstore will host a signing on Thursday, November 6. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Signing begins at 6 p.m.

Nolan will be there, plus Joe R. Lansdale, Dennis Etchison, Nancy Kilpatrick, Sunni K. Brock, Jason V. Brock, Cody Goodfellow, J.C. Koch, Wnedy Rathbone, E. E. King and Misty Dahl.

Purchase of a copy of Darke Phantastique is required, and the authors will sign up to two other things. (They’ll have books available for purchase.) The location is 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA. 

This is an anthology of unpublished or new horror and science fiction, poetry, and scripts that collide with Magical Realism. Further information can be found on the Darke Phantastique Facebook page.

The Table of Contents follows the jump.

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A Very Trek Day in Glendale 7/12

JulyPosterThere will be an open meeting of the Alameda Writers Group today, Saturday, July 12th, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Glendale Central Library featuring a panel moderated by Access Hollywood’s Scott Mantz and joined by –

  • Mark Altman, Castle (2009, co-producer), Necessary Roughness (2011, producer), Femme Fatal (2012, as executive producer) Free Enterprise (writer/producer), for which he won the AFI award as Best New Writer.
  • Walter Koenig, Star Trek’s “Chekov,” also a screenwriter and author.
  • Marc Cushman, author, TV writer, teacher, and Saturn Special Award Winner for his series of books  “These Are The Voyages: TOS”.
  • John D.F. Black, writer, WGA winner, Edgar Allen Poe Award Winner, Emmy nominee, Hugo nominee; wrote and produced for first Star Trek, plus Next Generation, also wrote screenplay for the first Shaft movie.

Then at 2:00 p.m. Glendale’s Mystery & Imagination Bookshop will celebrate George Clayton Johnson’s 85th birthday.

Johnson wrote the first aired Star Trek episode, had multiple Twilight Zone credits, co-authored the novel Logan’s Run, and the script for the original Ocean’s 11.

(Mystery and Imagination, 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91204.)

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Celebrate George Clayton Johnson’s 85th
at Mystery & Imagination

11x17_GCG85 SMALLGeorge Clayton Johnson celebrates his 85th birthday on July 12 at Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale.

Johnson wrote the first aired Star Trek episode, had multiple Twilight Zone credits, co-authored the novel Logan’s Run, and the script for the original Ocean’s 11.

See you July 12, 2 p.m., at Mystery and Imagination, 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91204

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Visit To A Bookshop

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

By John King Tarpinian: Sometimes you get lucky. I happened to be going over to my neighborhood bookshop, Mystery and Imagination, to show them an article in the current Los Angeles Magazine, which just happened to have a quote by Guillermo in it. As I was in front of the bookshop there was Guillermo, he waved at me, we shook hands and came into the bookshop. He was home for Christmas, taking a break from his duties in Canada. While Guillermo was in the shop he took the liberty to sign a couple dozen books of his the shop had in stock. More copies of his newest book, Cabinet of Curiosities, a set of the new Penguin Horror series he edited and some first editions of The StrainThe Strain was one of the things he has been working on in Canada. One of the nicest men you’d want to meet.

Cabinet of Curiosities

Marc Scott Zicree

Marc Scott Zicree

By John King Tarpinian: Today Marc Scott Zicree gave a lovely talk at Mystery and Imagination in Glendale, CA and signed copies of the book he wrote about Guillermo del Toro’s collection of “stuff”, Cabinet of Curiosities. I cannot do justice to a review of this book. I should add that Guillermo is in Canada working two projects back-to-back but he sent down customer signed bookplates for anybody who bought the book, copies are still available with both Marc’s signature and Guillermo’s bookplate.

Guillermo needs no introductions but a little background on Marc might be helpful.  Marc is best known for the definitive book on the Twilight Zone, The Twilight Zone Companion.  He has written for such shows as Star Trek, TNG, Deep Space Nine, The New Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, and Sliders, among others. As you can see he’s done a thing or two on his own. Marc is currently producing/writing/directing for his current project, Space Command.