Goth Chick News: Just in Time for Holiday Gift-Giving: Frankenhooker
Over the long weekend I received an anonymous email entitled “Goth Chick Fodder” which at once triggered several different responses in my tryptophan-addled mind.
First, I was wary. I mean, there was a real chance this could be some sort of nasty virus reminiscent of what the character of Dennis Nedry did to Jurassic Park in the first movie, and undoubtedly visited upon me by some Fundamentalist Christian group (Goth Chicks are in constant peril of this sort of thing for some reason).
Then I became skeptical. It could just as easily be an advertisement from a purveyor of medieval restraint devices and clothing made from petroleum products; which happens so frequently it’s gone from being interesting to boring and is now swinging back to mildly interesting again. After all, who doesn’t like a good, sturdy set of wooden stocks and a rubber corset?
Finally, curiosity got the best of me and being woozy from a carb-overdose, I threw caution to the wind and opened the email, crossing my fingers that the contents would be simply what they said they were: something interesting to tell you about.
I’m still not sure how to qualify what I found but here it is; you decide.
It was a major media announcement.
Frankenhooker Now Available on Blu-ray!
Wait. What?
Hal Duncan’s The Book of All Hours is a dazzling, fascinating, frustrating work. A duology consisting of 2005’s Vellum and 2007’s Ink, it plays with structure and story in powerful ways, while also seeming to fall back too easily into black-and-white absolutes and traditional forms. The oddity of the book is that although in some ways it appears radically new, in other ways, as one reads further into it, it comes to feel more and more familiar.
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