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Evermore (anthology)
''Evermore'' is an anthology of short stories about or in honor of Edgar Allan Poe and edited by James Robert Smith (author), James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey. It was released in 2006 in literature, 2006 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 2,000 copies. Contents ''Evermore'' contains the following tales: # "Introduction", by James Robert Smith (author), James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey # "All Beauty Sleeps", by Joel Lane # "The Clockwork Horror", by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre # "The Impelled", by Gary Fry # "The Resurrections of Fortunato", by John Morressy # "They Call Me Eddie", by Rick Hautala & Thomas F. Monteleone # "Cloud by Night", by Melanie Tem # "Poe 103", by Ken Goldman # "From the Wall, a Whisper", by Kealan Patrick Burke # "When It Was Moonlight", by Manly Wade Wellman # "In Articulo Mortis", by Trey R. Baker # "Night Writing", by Charlee Jacob # "Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer", by Thomas Piccirilli, Tom Piccirilli # "An Author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Smith (author)
James Robert Smith (born June 28, 1957) is an American author. His first novel, '' The Flock'' (), was published August 2, 2006, by Five Star. The Flock ''The Flock'' is a 2006 novel by James Smith. ''The Flock'' is a contemporary eco-thriller about what can happen when man violates nature, and when nature fights back. Plot A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme park development, and the swamp's inhabitants are none too happy. It doesn't help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds: terror birds. This flock of beasts has escaped the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, relying on stealth, cunning, and killer instinct. The creatures have been living in secret. As the developers push to have the recently discovered animals exterminated, a billionaire rogue environmentalist steps in to protect these rare, predatory creatures. A naïve young Fish and Wildlife officer finds himself caught in between these two forces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kealan Patrick Burke
Kealan Patrick Burke (born in Dungarvan, Ireland) is an author. Some of his works include the novels ''Kin'', ''Currency of Souls'', ''Master of the Moors'', and ''The Hides'' (Bram Stoker Award nominee), the novellas ''The Turtle Boy'' (Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2004) and ''Vessels'', and the collections ''Ravenous Ghosts'', ''The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others'', ''Theater Macabre'' and ''The Novellas''. He has also appeared in a number of publications, including ''Postscripts'', '' Cemetery Dance'', ''Grave Tales'', ''Shivers II'', ''Shivers III'', ''Shivers IV'', ''Looking Glass'', ''Masques V'', ''Subterranean #1'', ''Evermore'', ''Inhuman'', ''Horror World'', ''Surreal'' Magazine, and ''Corpse Blossoms''. Burke also edited the anthologies: ''Taverns of the Dead'' (recipient of a starred review in ''Publishers Weekly''), ''Brimstone Turnpike'', ''Quietly Now: A Tribute to Charles L. Grant'' (International Horror Guild Award Nominee, 2004), the charity anthology ''Tales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Anthologies
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Allan Poe In Popular Culture
Edgar Allan Poe has appeared in popular culture as a character in books, comics, film, and other media. Besides his works, the legend of Poe himself has fascinated people for generations. His appearances in popular culture often envision him as a sort of "mad genius" or "tormented artist", exploiting his personal struggles. Many depictions of Poe interweave elements of his life with his works, in part due to Poe's frequent use of first-person narrators, suggesting an erroneous assumption that Poe and his characters are identical. This article focuses specifically on the historical Edgar Allan Poe making appearances in fiction, television, and film. Comics There have been over three hundred comic book adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's works as of 2008, possibly more than that of any other American writer. Since then, the number of Poe adaptations in comics has exceeded that of any other comparable period. In addition to direct adaptations, a number of comics have taken Poe as a ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Chappell
Fred Davis Chappell (born May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997–2002. He attended Duke University. His 1968 novel ''Dagon'', which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic. His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Award. Bibliography Books Poetry * * ''Backsass'', LSU Press, 2004. * ''Bloodfire: A Poem'', LSU Press, 1978. * ''C'', LSU Press, 1993. * ''Castle Tzingal'', LSU Press, 1984. * ''Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle'', Iron Mountain Press, 1981. * ''Earthsleep: A Poem'', LSU Press, 1980. * ''Familiars'', LSU Press, 2014. * ''Family Gathering'', LS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Rasnic Tem
Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author. He was born in Jonesville, Virginia. Rasnic attended college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative writing at Colorado State University. He married Melanie Kubachko, and the couple took the joint surname "Tem". They had four children and lived in Colorado. Rasnic Tem's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver, but to quote Joe R. Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 200 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award and a nomination for the Bram Stoker Awards. Bibliography Novels * ''Excavation'' (1986) *''Daughters'' (2001) (with Melanie Tem) *''The Book of Days'' (2002) *''The Man On The Ceiling'' (2008) (with Melanie Tem) * ''Among The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Starrett
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. Biography Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father moved the family to Chicago in 1889 where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago ''Inter-Ocean'' in 1905. When that paper folded two years later he began working for the ''Chicago Daily News'' as a crime reporter, a feature writer, and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled ''The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet"''. Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Piccirilli
Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer. Career Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Some of his stories were included in Eden Studios' zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder. Awards Piccirilli was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). He is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America, a final nominee for the Fantasy Award, and the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of " Best Poetry Collection". Bibliography Novels *''Dark Father'' (Pocket, 1990) *''Shards'' (Write Way, 1996) *''Inside the Works: A 3-Way Collection of Hardcore Horror'' (Necro Publications, 1997) (with Gerard Daniel Houarner, Edward Lee) *''Hexes'' (Leisure, 1999) *''The Deceased'' (Leisur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as ''Astounding Stories'', ''Startling Stories'', ''Unknown'' and ''Strange Stories'', Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary ''Weird Tales'', and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction. Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. In 2013, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation inaugurated an award named after him to honor other North Carolina authors of science fiction and fantasy. Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Tem
Melanie Tem (née Kubachko; April 11, 1949 – February 9, 2015) was an American horror and dark fantasy author. Melanie Kubachko grew up in Saegertown, Pennsylvania. She attended Allegheny College as an undergraduate, and earned her master's in social work at the University of Denver in Colorado. She married Steve Rasnic and the couple took the joint surname Tem. She developed breast cancer in 1997. In 2013, it recurred, and metastasized to her bones, bone marrow, and organs. She died at age 65 on February 9, 2015. Personal life Melanie Tem met her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem, at a writer's workshop and they were married for 35 years. Tem also mentored students through critiquing and private workshops. When Tem wasn't writing, she worked as a social worker and administrator with the elderly, disabled, and children. Melanie and her husband have collaborated on several novels such as ''Daughters'' (2001), and ''The Man on the Ceiling'' (2008). On collaborating with her husban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. Prevalent elements of the genre include ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, the Devil, witches, monsters, extraterrestrials, dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds, serial killers, cannibalism, cults, dark magic, satanism, the macabre, gore and torture. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas F
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
