The boy is maybe eight or nine, redheaded, skinny and bruised. His ankles are purple and rope-burned. The gash in his neck is as pale as raw bacon; they’ve drained the blood from his body. Sometimes, depending on the menu du jour, they leave the chilled blood for me in a stainless steel thermos jug beside the corpse’s head. But not today.
Through some ironic twist of fate, the phone call from the morgue came while Jim Cooley sat watching Frankenstein on one of the cable channels.
So when a friend who worked in the environmental cleanup business told me about a particularly bone chilling job, I decided to investigate and write about it. I would explore the horror of reality, confident that I could handle the transition and blend these two passions into a unique and powerful article. It was a terrible mistake.
McClure’s Kramer & Zondi novels are wonderful. They display the ugly reality of Apartheid almost without comment. The irony is in the spaces, in the things not being said – and they can be both horrible and very, very funny. The humour is almost never absent, even when the reality is truly horrifying, and it’s what makes McClure’s novels such good reads.
An interview with brine author Adrienne Jones
In the past year I’ve read three women’s fiction novels about a gal who returns home for a family emergency only to discover the real problem is her own sheltered life, until a mysterious stranger awakens her spirit, and her vagina.
Books made of asbestos, money, and floppy disks.
A treatise on this website’s goals and dreams.
Just another face in the crowd. Just an old man on a bench.
An interview with the authors of Orgy of Souls
When will Horror come back? Why did it go away? Is there a Horror renaissance? What is Horror? Do you care about Horror as much as I do? No you don’t. Yes I do. No you don’t. Yeah? Yeah! You wanna take it outside? Let’s go!
Justin lives in Lexington, KY with his lovely wife and their two canine kids. Visit www.popstewcomics.com or justin3000.blogspot.com to get all the skinny on Justin, who is actually, not skinny at all.
