Personal / Website News
Gold Ninja Video’s Fury of Achilles Write Up
I recently interviewed Justin Decloux about his release of Fury of Achilles via his Gold Ninja Video imprint.
I’ve compiled his responses with my impressions into a nice write up of the Blu-ray. It can be read here. I strongly encourage purchasing a copy of the Blu-ray, it’s limited to 500 numbered copies.
H. P. Lovecast Podcast
New episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast is now online! In this episode Michele and I talk about “Every Hole in the Earth We Will Claim As Our Own” by Gemma Files and “Eye of the Beholder” by Nancy Kilpatrick both from the Dark Regions Press published, Lynne Jamneck edited anthology, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror.
This episode can be streamed from our Buzzsprout website or via your podcast app of preference.
McFarland Horror Book Sale
McFarland Publishing is doing a promotion during October for their horror books: if you use the code SPOOKY25 during check out, you’ll get a 25% discount.
There are three books I am involved with that are part of this promotion:
- Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays
- Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
- Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series
This is a great opportunity to pluck these books up!
Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference CFP
The CFP for the 2022 AnnRadCon is now LIVE! Open until the end of December, AnnRadCon 2022 will be hybrid, both online and in person. The CFP can be found at the AnnRadCon page at the StokerCon website. Please share far and wide!
Michele at HWA Halloween Haunts
Michele has an article up at the Horror Writer Association’s website for their Halloween Haunts series going through the month of October.
Michele’s article is a “how to” feature called “How To Make a Spooky Zig Zaggy Mini Halloween Journal.” There is a contest open as well: if you leave a comment (you don’t need to be an HWA member) you have a chance to win the journals Michele made.
General Neo-Peplum News
History of the World Part 2
Looks like a sequel to Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I is in the works! Per this article at Variety, it sounds like it will be a series on Hulu with Brooks writing and producing.
For those curious, Tatiana Prorokova writes extensively about History of the World: Part I in her essay “Laughing at the Body: The Imitation of Masculinity in Peplum Parody Films” that appears in The New Peplum.
Women in Classical Video Games Cover Reveal
Bloomsbury will be releasing a new book called Women in Classical Video Games edited by Jane Draycott and Kate Cook. Here is the cover reveal:
Salomé Footage Found
Per an article at Benzinga, 2 minutes of footage of the 1918 lost, porto-peplum film Salomé has been found.
