I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started watching Darkman (1990) and, honestly, that’s definitely the way to meet Darkman for the first time: no expectations, just something to catch your jaw to keep it from hitting the floor. Darkman is pure Sam Raimi brilliance, paired with the unmistakable sound […]
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20th Annual Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll Results
The results are in for the Preditors & Editors Poll: http://critters.org/predpoll/final_tally.ht I’m so excited to share these with you! Here’s where I came: Author: Wondra Vanian #8 Anthologies: CEA Greatest Anthology Written #3 Anthologies: Corona Book of Horror Stories #15 Horror Short Story: “It’ll Rot Your Teeth”, The Corona Book of Horror Stories #10 Thanks so […]
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Book Review: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
CATEGORY: adaptations, bibliophile, book, book review, book whore, novel, podcast, strange, Welcome to Night Vale
The Welcome to Night Vale novel fits perfectly into a world already created by the podcast while simulatneously existing on its own outside of the podcast — which is exactly what fans of Welcome to Night Vale would expect. If you’re not familiar with the podcast, you’ll find Welcome to Night Vale delightfully strange and […]
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Movie Review: Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
I was a little reluctant to watch Kelly’s Heroes for one reason: I don’t “do” war movies. They just don’t interest me. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that my childhood was set to the soundtrack of the news blaring war updates 24/7, who knows? I just don’t care for them. That […]
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Book Review: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) by Holly Black
The Cruel Prince is more high fantasy than Black has attempted in the past. It’s not just a story with faeries, like most she’s done, but total immersion in Faerie. I loved her modern faerie stories so I was excited to read The Cruel Prince. It didn’t disappoint. I went through the majority of this […]
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Movie Review: Caddyshack (1980)
It’s taken me a long time to put together a review for Caddyshack. Why? Because it was so effing bad that I don’t even want to talk about it. When I was trying to decide which of my 100 Classic Must-See Movies (That I’ve Somehow Never Seen) to watch next, Jay said, “Do yourself a […]
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Movie Review: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
I suppose the first thing that I should say about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is that I never read the book. (I know, shame on me.) It just wasn’t my thing. (Also, the reason I’d never seen the movie.) But, of all the movies on my list of 100 Classic Must-See Movies (That I’ve […]
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Thirteen O’Clock Press Call for Submissions: STRANGERS
Find me your finest, creepiest, goriest, most entertaining Strangers stories (but go easy on the Westerns.) Submission guidelines: Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf, *.doc or *.docx file. The email subject line must read: “SUBMISSION – Strangers – ‘your story title’”. No headers, footers or page numbers. Reprints are OK as long as all […]
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100 Classic Must-See Movies (That I’ve Somehow Never Seen)
I’ll level with ya, folks: I’m a bad cinephile. Though I’ve seen just about every bad horror movie there’s ever been (don’t test me unless you’ve seen Attack of the Killer Refrigerator), there are some massively important mainstream movies that I’ve somehow managed to avoid for the last thirty-five years. But, hey, I like a challenge. […]
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2017: A Year in the life of an Author
CATEGORY: a writer’s life, acceptances, author, publication, publishing, short stories, short story, writer
Last year saw the single biggest setback of my writing career. I’m not going to go into again, though, because it took me too damned long to get over. Let’s focus on the good stuff, shall we? In addition to my very first signings and public speaking events (which made me physically ill for two […]
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Wondra Vanian
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disabled sausage mama, childfree antifa aunty, shameless fangirl, pansexual witch, horror addict, uppity feminist, and neurodivergent author |-/
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