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-- Saturday, November 20, 2004 --
L.L. Soares Short Story Online at Twighlight Times
 Soares wrote this story in college 20 years ago! It it also the first story he ever sold, but the magazine went closed before they could publish it. "It took 20 years, but it's nice to finally see it in print!" says Soares. Twighlight times has also noted taht there may be a print version of this webzine next year. So the story may be published in print during 2005. You can read it here.
L. L. Soares was born two days before Halloween. His work has appeared in such places as Cemetery Dance, Gothic.Net and the anthology The Best of Horrorfind 2. His story "Second Chances" received an Honorable Mention in sixteenth annual edition of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and fellow author Laura Cooney.
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HWA New England Chapter Meeting in Worcester, MA
 Several members of the HWA New England Chapter got together last weekend at the Brew City Pub in Worcester, MA, for good chat, food, and beer. Morven Westfield was good enough to snap some pictures of them all. You can view them here.
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-- Friday, November 19, 2004 --
Necronomicon Press: One-of-a-kind Rarities for Sale!
Necronomicon Press is now offering numerous one-of-a-kind items for sale including a painting by Rhode Island's landmark pulp fiction horror author H.P. Lovecraft (see picture to left). It's not often that rarities such as these go on the market.
In addition to signed items by Lovecraft, there are several original manuscripts & signed rarities from Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, and August Derleth among others!
Click here to enter the rare items gallery.
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St. Joshi's "H.P. Lovecraft - A Life" Available From Necronomicon Press
 S. T. Joshi: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, full color cover art by Jason C. Eckhardt (see pricing below). 3rd trade paperback printing, with a new afterword by the author. $29.95, xii, 708 pp. Click here for details & ordering information.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) has, in the over sixty years since his death, become both a legend and an enigma. He has come to be regarded as the leading American writer of horror fiction in this century and continues to be a major influence upon the field today; but his life, work, and thought remain poorly understood, and many myths about the man and his work persist. In this, the first full-scale biography in more than twenty years, S. T. Joshi--the leading authority on Lovecraft--has gone back to primary sources to set the record straight on the many-faceted "gentleman from Providence": his early interests in science, mythology, and literature; his involvement in the "amateur journalism" movement; his towering presence in the pulp magazines of the 1920s and the fantasy fandom of the 1930s; and the posthumous rescue of his work by friends and devotees. Along the way, Joshi probes the literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical forces that shaped Lovecraft's work and thought, provides capsule portraits of his close friends and colleagues, and studies the growth and development of all aspects of his creative work. Written from a sympathetic but critical perspective, Joshi's biography dispels many of the myths about Lovecraft the man and win new converts to his distinctive literary work.
"Even for a reader relatively familar with Lovecraft's work and with the gothic legend of his life, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life will contain illuminating surprises." -- Joyce Carol Oates
"S. T. Joshi's admirable biographical study of Lovecraft provides the inevitable foundation for all future study of that enigmatic author." -- Harold Bloom
"A magnificent book which supersedes every other study of Lovecraft’s life--the definitive biography of Lovecraft, full of insights into his work. I found it compulsively readable and endlessly fascinating. It deserves to be classed with the major literary biographies." -- Ramsey Campbell
"S. T. Joshi's impressive new biography can only add to his reputation as the most formidable scholar in the Lovecraft field." -- Jack Sullivan
"Lovecraft has finally found his Boswell: erudite, insightful, comprehensive, and--for a change--sympathetic. It's probably the first biography that Lovecraft himself would have approved of." -- T.E.D. Klein
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-- Thursday, November 18, 2004 --
Maelstron Books To Publish Wilson's SINS OF THE FLASH
 Jon F. Merz's Maelstrom Books will publish SINS OF THE FLASH by David Niall Wilson in Winter 2006 as a limited edition hardcover. Wilson has posted a page on his website to promote the book: "Writing the SINS OF THE FLASH."
SINS OF THE FLASH BLURB: Christian Greve is a photographer with a dream: he wants to be famous for his art, and he's willing to do anything to make that dream come true. He'd already be famous if it weren't for the damned models. They conspire against him - moving just enough at the last moment to spoil every shot. They laugh at him; their faces smirk in photograph after photograph. Their cruelty has imprisoned Christian in a world of family portraits, weddings, and screaming babies. But all of that is about to change...
"Psychos are everywhere." That's what a grizzled old street cop told detective Tommy Doyle on the day his dad walked in on a convenience store robbery and got his body riddled with bullets. "If you let your guard down for even a moment, they slip past your defenses. And they steal things - the people you love, even your sanity." Tommy knows it's true. Because he and his partner have a new problem...
Women are showing up in hotel rooms - their makeup eerily perfect. Each woman is found intricately posed, as if waiting for the flash of a camera. And each of them is very, very dead.
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-- Tuesday, November 16, 2004 --
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital To Air in Australia
 Channel Se7en [sic] will air Kingdom Hospital on 16 November 2004 at 9:30 PM AEDT. Click here for their Kingdom Hospital page.
The rich arena of modern medicine is funneled through the wildly inimitable perspective of America's most popular novelist and master of horror for a surreal story of a haunted high-tech hospital plagued by child ghosts, eerie psychics, freaky forces of nature - and bizarre surgeons - in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
Based on the cult Danish mini-series The Kingdom, from Europe's most distinctive contemporary filmmaker Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville), Kingdom Hospital weaves a dark, terrifying tale threaded with stunning visual effects, macabre mysticism and twisted humor.
It also draws heavily from Stephen King's own personal near death experience in 1999 when he was nearly killed by and out of control minivan while he was walking near his home in Maine. The series, which intertwines absorbing storylines involving 22 characters in continuing roles stars Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd and Ed Begley Jr., among many others.
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-- Monday, November 15, 2004 --
Golden's Ghosts of Albion - Part 3 Online!
 From Christopher Golden and Amber Benson, we now have Part Three of GHOSTS OF ALBION: EMBERS. This is the third of five parts, with a new part available to view every Monday at the site:
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ghosts/embers/
A full electronic press kit is also available:
www.efanguide.com/~amber/embers/
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