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Julia Griffin Creates Horrific Handbags! B-Movie Bags is a new artistic venture which fuses two of Julia's great passions, horror and painting, to create fun and functional art pieces. Bags that have been completed so far include classic images such as Dracula, Nosferatu, The Bride of Frankenstein, and trashy b-movie stuff like The Screaming Skull and Curse of the Cat People. If any discerning female readers fancy their very own designer Horror or B-Movie Bag, or any romantic males want to surprise the woman in their life with a completely different present this Christmas, they should visit: Many thanks to The Horror Zine and best wishes, 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 with a release date of October 27, 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/ Deborah LeBlanc reveals to The Horror Zine why she writes about Southern cemeteries (see link marked LeBlanc) And Now the Nightmare Begins: THE HORROR ZINE Good news! The Horror Zine will be soon publishing a book. And what's in that book, you might ask? All of you! Every contributor to The Horror Zine e-zine between the months of August 2009 through December 2009 are included in this book. Hopefully, this will only be the first in a series of Horror Zine books. So submit your short stories, poetry, and artwork for a chance to be part of this Horror Zine Anthology series. And Now the Nightmare Begins: THE HORROR ZINE Coming soon from BearManor Books TAKE THE BLACK DEATH QUIZ: http://historymedren.about.com/library/bd/blbdq01.htm Here is a book about the Black Death in 1348 England (yes, it's a plug for my book): WE ALL FALL DOWN by Jeani Rector: A gripping novel, set in 1348 England, which follows a young woman as she goes from a structured, sheltered life into one where normalcy falls by the wayside as the deadly bubonic plague invades the land. http://www.amazon.com/All-Fall-Down-Jeani-Rector/dp/1588518728
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Deborah LeBlanc reveals to The Horror Zine why she writes about Southern cemeteries (see link marked LeBlanc)
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Dear Ms. Rector,
