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Writer and poet Ardath Mayhar has passed away
See Ardath's fiction HERE A tribute from Joe R. Lansdale for Ardath:
Ardath Mayhar died in the very early hours of February first. I knew Ardath Mayhar for many years. I think somewhere near 37 years. She was the first writer I read that had written about East Texas in a manner that made me realize I could do it too. It was a story titled “Crawfish” in an Alfred Hitchcock anthology. And to find out she actually lived in East Texas was even more amazing. Frankly, I didn’t know if the name was that of a man or woman at the time, but when my wife and I moved to Nacogdoches, she was one of the first people I met. We became dear friends. Ardath was close to our entire family. We went to conventions together, and when we were both working to establish ourselves as writers (she had already been published a little, as I said, both as short story writer and poet)we grumbled at the publishing world together. We talked at least an hour daily for years. Later, we spoke to each other less due to my raising children, and her husband being ill, but we always kept in contact. I loved her dearly. She was such an inspiration. I like to think we shared inspiration with one another. She was more like an aunt than a friend. Her death has been washing over me as I sit here, and it’s a sad and painful wash. But, she was not in good shape toward the end. She told me just last week that she was ready to go. That she didn’t mind at all. She told me she loved me and my family. I told her the same. And I do. And I always will. -- Joe R. Landsdale, February 1, 2012 The article Joe wrote for Ardath Mayhar is HERE. The February issue of The Horror Zine is a double Bonnie and Clyde issue! See the Morbidly Fascinating page HERE and learn more about Bonnie and Clyde from John Gilmore's
See the newest John Gilmore "true crime" book On the Run With Bonnie and Clyde HERE Read all about John Gilmore on Tina Hall's website, The Damned Interviews
The Horror Zine has won first place for Best Poetry Ezine and Second Place for Best Fiction Ezine from the Preditors and Editor's Readers Poll! An email to The Horror Zine from Anne Rice
With all the attention to vampires of late, I've done a lot of thinking about my series, The Vampire Chronicles. Actually, it was never a true series, but a string of eccentric independent books involving many of the same vampire characters. My love for my hero, Lestat, drove the series, but I also delighted in creating other vampiric heroes, especially Marius and Armand. Since I finished the Chronicles in 2003, I'm feeling very free to enjoy all the inventive new material being written by Charlaine Harris, and I've become a real fan of her Sookie Stackhouse, both in print, and on HBO. But for me, the challenge today is to create a new hero, Toby O'Dare, and an angel, Malchiah, who guides Toby on new adventures as he seeks to interfere for good in various situations to which Malchiah assigns him. I'm finding angels as compelling as vampires, and my new book, Angel Time, will indeed be the first of a true series. The possibilities for Toby and Malchiah are wonderful fun. But there is a dark side to these books as well, the under current of evil that Toby must resist, and Toby's own evil past, which at times comes to threaten him. Will readers like this new series as much as they liked the Vampire Chronicles? I don't know. I know that I am enjoying writing it just as much, and perhaps that counts for something. Therefore, my new book, Angel Time, is a metaphysical thriller that was released in October of 2009. I suppose I'm out to prove that seraphim can be as interesting as vampires, though they have distinctly different intentions. Thanks for the space on your News Page, Anne Rice. http://annerice.com/ TAKE THE BLACK DEATH QUIZ: http://historymedren.about.com/library/bd/blbdq01.htm
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