It's dark out there…
Posted by Chris on November 16, 2008 at 7:46
Posted in: Book News, Reviews
Well, it is 6:30 and I've been up for an hour – working nights for a certain large retailer does wreck havoc with your sleeping pattern on your shifts off, but I digress…
This rather spiffing review of We Fade to Grey – which I hasten to add was from a purchased copy – has given me the impetus to offer the following:
Anyone who orders a copy of the hardback from now until last post for Christmas will also receive a free "subscription" to the first three chapbooks within the relaunched Triquorum series next year.
The three in question are, and all published in February:
The Red House by David J Thacker: a 13,500 word dark fantasy on a past childhood between three friends and a secret they share… this is this author's first ever story acceptance (he's since placed a story in the recent SFX magazine competition book), and if I do say so myself he's a talent to watch – very Graham Joyce-like, the fusing of a mainstream story with a fantastical edge.
Allegro by Clifford Royal Johns: an sf tale of 13,700 words where the entire population have a great turn of speed.
"Cross the River" by Jeff Crook: a 16,000 word supernatural tale concerning a group of American Civil War re-enactors.
… back to a digression: Cape Fear – Martin Scorcese's remake of the Mitchum/Peck original – it has been ages since I last watched it but picked up the dvd for a bargain price on Friday and it is just superb: to my shame I've not watched the original, but De Niro would take some beating as Max Cady.
The ironic thing I noticed with Scorcese's version is the fact that it almost looks like it was directed by Hitchcock, compounded by Bernstein's adaptation of Herrmann's original score, yet the original was directed by J Lee Thompson – not Hitchcock.
(Being a bit of a film geek there is another tenuous Hitchcock link – not the Saul Bass credit sequence or Bernard Herrman: the first to guess it by 1st December will also receive any other Pendragon book, if they order the hardback of We Fade to Grey).
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