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The Pillowghost Stories So Far

Weirdmonger — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:02:00 GMT

PillowghostThe Last BalconyIn The Post-War CityIntowardsPillowgeistThe WeatheringPowderghost

Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?

Weirdmonger — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:52:00 GMT

Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace? I wrote this on my blog on 16 October 2009:====================Pre-internet, I had masses published 1987 - 1995. Please see partial bibliography HERE as evidence. So, was I the first

'Cern Zoo' retrocaused itself?

Weirdmonger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:39:00 GMT

A new review of this book HERE today has stirred me to peform the "retrocausality" waltz even more strictly come dancing. Previously reported by myself from World News HERE.This review (a generally good one) also says: "

Nemonymous Two (2002) - as 'real-time reviewed' by Karim Ghahwagi

Weirdmonger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:04:00 GMT

Nemonymous Two (2002) - as 'real-time reviewed' by Karim Ghahwagi HEREDuring October / November 2009Climbing the tallest tree in the world: A sense of adventure, foreboding, tradition- the image of the tree. 'When we were students or prof

ANONthology - authors revealed

Weirdmonger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:00 GMT

http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2009/11/anonthology-the-authors-are-revealed/ Above is where it's beginning to happen: This is indeed exciting. Although I didn’t enter the competition, I am eager to know the results.My detailed

Cern Zoo Nicked

Weirdmonger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:49:00 GMT

Yesterday, in Nick Jackson's review of 'Cern Zoo', he ended his detailed (and, imo, enthralling and typically Jackson well-crafted) appreciation with these words: These stories are like a subliminal question run

A review of 'Cern Zoo' by Nick Jackson

Weirdmonger — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Nemonymous, 9, ‘CERN Zoo’ Reviewed by Nick Jackson.The individual stories in this collection are as different as pebbles on a beach. There is, in fact, a rather nice little story entitled “Pebbles” and, to continue

Pillowgeist

Weirdmonger — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:27:00 GMT

There is something about a pillow on a bed, one that has just been slept on, its pressed-flower-embroidered pillowcase still in the midst of ‘pillowfight’ with its own soft sinkable innards ... ripe for turning or plumping-up befor

"Occidental and surely accidental"

Weirdmonger — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:28:00 GMT

Discovered below from the web archives of my old DFL website, i.e. from Rhys Hughes in 2000. Reprinted here because I think it is hilarious and vintage arch-Rhys-Hughesian.I hope he doesn't mind: In an ocean of fi

Pillowghost

Weirdmonger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:19:00 GMT

Pillowghost (coined as an expression here) can often sound like 'poltergeist' but is in fact something quite different and far more dangerous because its name seems sweeter than poltergeist – more appealing to parents who like telling s

Karim Ghahwagi's Real-Time Review of NEMONYMOUS TWO

Weirdmonger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:53:00 GMT

A remarkable review of NEMONYOUS TWO (2002) still on-going here:http://www.knibbworld.com/campbell-cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=39403#POST39403One of the stories inspired Joel Lane's acclaimed novella: "The Witnesses Are Gone".&nb

The Last Balcony

Weirdmonger — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:58:00 GMT

I have just written a short-short entitled THE LAST BALCONY that can be read here: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=3552I am hoping that 'The Last Balcony' as a title may be at least the 'working title' of the DFL B

All Gods Angels, Beware! - Quentin S Crisp (Part 2)

Weirdmonger — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:56:00 GMT

CONTINUED FROM HERE: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/all_gods_angels_beware__quentin_s_crisp.htmA Cup of Tea"I would read a section like this before I had to rest myself by looking up, only to find myself in a world of the 'dull smoke-colou

All God's Angels, Beware! - Quentin S Crisp

Weirdmonger — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:50:00 GMT

I’m starting another of my real-time reviews on this page, i.e. of "ALL GOD'S ANGELS, BEWARE!" by Quentin S. Crisp (Ex Occidente Press 2009). I shall attempt to draw out all the fiction's leitmotifs and mould t

DFL's Last Bow

Weirdmonger — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:24:00 GMT

I am very pleased to report that it is planned that the ultimate all-encompassing last-bow DFL fiction collection will be published during 2010 by Ex Occidente Press.

Black Static - issue 13

Weirdmonger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:00 GMT

I’m starting another of my real-time reviews. This time it is of the fiction stories in TTA Press's ‘BLACK STATIC’ - Issue 13 (October / November 2009). I shall attempt to draw out all the fiction's leitmotifs an

The Ozymandias Site

Weirdmonger — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:10:00 GMT

A story in the CERN ZOO book. The Ozymandias Site"Our Five were on the verge of all-out civl war..."This is a substantial SF story. Well-written. Significant, too. How significant, I'm not sure, as I am not a curre

CERN Zoo - A DFL Real-Time Review (Part 3)

Weirdmonger — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:04:00 GMT

CONTINUED FROM HERE: http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2009/10/cern-zoo-dfl-real-time-reiew-part-two.html Turn The Crank"Jonas was standing outside what had been Woolworth's plucking a quiet tune out of his acoustic guitar."But

Shoals

Weirdmonger — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:23:00 GMT

If the future speaks to us we are truly the Dead who Speak back to it.Above quote from 'Cern Zoo' review HERE. "Most of all the dead, from mortuaries, from under cataracts of rubble, made their anonymous presence – not a

CERN Zoo - a DFL real-time review

Weirdmonger — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:26:00 GMT

I shall be starting another of my real-time reviews on this page. This time it is of the stories in Megazanthus Press's CERN ZOO - Nemonymous Nine (June 2009). This review will be written here ... slowly, savou

The Cern Zoo book post-predicted the Collider's sabotage of itself from the future

Weirdmonger — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:28:00 GMT

Has anyone been following the latest news on the Hadron Collider that it's sabotaging itself from the future?http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl This is indeed predicted or post-predicted by th

Early template for blogging

Weirdmonger — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:47:00 GMT

Pre-internet, I had masses published 1987 - 1995. Please see partial bibiography HERE as evidence. So, was I the first inkling of an 'Internet' junkie - by, almost at will it seemed, during that early period, h

Women with their backs to us

Weirdmonger — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:33:00 GMT

There was an exhibition of paintings of women with their backs to us. I, as a woman, wondered why anyone would think to paint these paintings or arrange such a display of mixed motives: scornful watchfuless, loving care at a distance, stalking, pinin

Pirate (two)

Weirdmonger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:51:00 GMT

There was a book on my bookcase – among an eclectic collection of other books – entitled ‘Pirate’ that I cannot recall seeing there before. That seemed strange as it was at the level of the bookcase to where

Nostalgia

Weirdmonger — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:06:00 GMT

Nostalgia is intellectualisation of an earlier self within the setting of an alien self that one has since become.