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News Roundup W/E 2021-08-01

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Podcast News

Recorded a short segment on Hercules Invictus’ Sword and Sandal Special on his Voice of Olympus program. I talk about the indie Kickstarted Pandemic Peplum comics, Band of Warriors #1 and Teoatl #1. It can be listened or downloaded from BlogTalkRadio.

Brand new episode of HP Lovecast Podcast is also online. This is our monthly Transmissions episode. In this episode we interview S. T. Lakata and J. H. Moncrieff. The episode is on our Buzzsprout website or via your podcast app of preference.

Citation News

Just found out that my essay, “Permission to Kill: Exploring Italy’s 1960s Eurospy Phenomenon, Impact and Legacy” which appeared in Michele Brittany’s James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy has been cited in Michael Guarneri’s book Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975.

The book can be purchased at the Edinburgh University website.

HWA Academics Board Update

I’ve updated the HWA Academics/Non-Fiction board with three new CFPs:

  • Beyond Psycho: A Critical Assessment of Joseph Stefano & Horror in The Outer Limits
  • Theology & Vampires
  • Horror Scholar Journal #4

These CFPs can all be found at the board here.

General Neo-Peplum News

Rest in Peplum

David von Ancken passed away at the age of 56. He executive produced and directed the Ben Kingsley miniseries, Tut (2015).

Hyacinth Wijeratne passed away at the age of 74 from a car accident. She was in the Sinhala Biblical epic Christhu Charithaya (1990).

Jean-François Stévenin passed away at the age of 77. He was in The Silence of Joan (2011).

The Forgotten City

The neo-peplum video game, The Forgotten City, was just released and the reviews are coming in: