By Carl Slaughter: Fantastic Fiction at KGB needs your help. By June 14th, 2017, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel want to raise a minimum of $4,500 to host the famous, longstanding, monthly reading in New York for 3 more years … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards®. Superior Achievement in a Novel Hand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books) Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William Morrow) Langan, John … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has released the Preliminary Ballot for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards®. This is not the list of finalists, but the list which HWA members will choose among when they vote to determine the finalists. The final … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of this year’s Specialty Press Award and Richard Laymon President’s Award. The Specialty Press Award winner is Borderlands Press. Since its founding in 1990 by Elizabeth and Tom Monteleone, Borderlands Press … Continue reading
(1) VITA BREVIS. Arnie Fenner’s tribute at Muddy Colors to artists and cartoonists who passed in 2015 is excellent. (2) DOCTOR STRANGE. “First Look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange” at Yahoo! Movies. The first official glimpse of Benedict Cumberbatch … Continue reading
Stephen Jones and R. L. Stine will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Horror Writers Association on May 10th as part of the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet at the World Horror Convention 2014 in Portland, Oregon. Stephen Jones’ 125+ published … Continue reading
Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird, an award-winning documentary about the cartoonist noted for mingling horror with humor, opens at Laemmle’s Music Hall in Beverly Hills on November 22. Chosen as Best Documentary at the San Diego Comic-Con Independent Film Festival and designated a … Continue reading
Richard Matheson (Twilight Zone’s “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” The Legend of Hell House) and his son Richard Christian Matheson (TV, movie and short story writer) are the first authors to be announced as Guests of Honor at World Fantasy Con … Continue reading
The Hosts of Fantastic Fiction at KGB are raffling off donations from well-known sf and fantasy authors, editors, artists, and agents to support the reading series. Among a myriad of prizes are a signed galley of Catherynne Valente’s Deathless (plus a … Continue reading
American writer David Case has been selected as a guest of honor for World Horror Convention 2010. Full press release appears after the jump. [Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]