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Rue Morgue October
In Poe, Hugo Award winning editor Ellen Datlow celebrates Poe's 200th birthday by assembling nineteen original stories inspired by the master. Standout tales include Kristine Kathryn Rusch's decidedly vicious "Flitting Away," about a woman who is beaten and left for dead after a date rape, Laird Barron's "Strappado," concerning a group of aristocratic art aficionados who attend an underground exhibit and discover that they are destined to become a permanent part of the coll...

Last night I watched the first four episodes of the seventh season of Monk. Enjoyable, except for the BIG plot error in the Mr. Monk and the Genius episode that totally screws up the denouement. How do these things happen? Doesn't anyone watch these things before they're aired? If anyone cares, I'll post what it is in a comment.

I also watched a sexy, smart, strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies, a 1950 western with Walter Huston as T.C. Jeffords, profligate owner of a cattle ranch name...

Last night I watched the first four episodes of the seventh season of Monk. Enjoyable, except for the BIG plot error in the Mr. Monk and the Genius episode that totally screws up the denouement. How do these things happen? Doesn't anyone watch these things before they're aired? If anyone cares, I'll post what it is in a comment.

I also watched a sexy, smart, strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies, a 1950 western with Walter Huston as T.C. Jeffords, profligate owner of a cattle ranch name...

Photos from Chillies and Chocolate and the Poe reading

Here are three new reviews From The Tomb of Dark Delights


The Nebula Awards Showcase 2009

Troll's Eye View

Twists of the Tale

A new Mindmeld is up and here a bunch of anthologist were asked exactly how they put together anthologies. Some of our responses were so long (guilty, as charged) that a second half is being posted next week. But here you can see Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)

POE: 19 NEW TALES READING AT ENOCH PRATT CENTRAL LIBRARY
Thursday, October 15, 2009
6:30 p.m. in the Poe Room
Enoch Pratt Central Library,
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

Ellen Datlow is currently tied (with frequent co-editor Terri Windling) as the winner of the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization's history. She has also won several Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award for Best Editor, and the Hugo Award for Best Edi...