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Goth Chick News: Stoker Winners Are Going to Need a Bigger Mantel…

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Each year around this time I experience a fit of jealousy for those lucky few individuals who receive a Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Not only are there far fewer of them than Oscars or Emmys, but let’s be honest, they are far cooler to look at. Interestingly enough, you will never find one for sale or auction, as clearly horror writers at this level are never hard up enough for money to sell their trophies (believe me, I’ve looked)….

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Goth Chick News: Grab a Pen, Here Comes Your 2020 Reading List

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If you live somewhere that, like Chicago, has been experiencing temperatures incompatible with human life recently, then thinking about a lounge chair, a book and an umbrella drink wearing anything less than a Tauntaun skin is pretty darn appealing. And with perfect timing, here comes the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot hot off the press from the The Horror Writers Association (HWA), providing a categorized list of reading material. Now all you need is the lounge chair, an umbrella…

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Goth Chick News: Well This Was Inevitable

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There’s no stopping the juggernaut that is Stephen King. Granted, there is quite a lot of distance between “in development” and a finished product, but after looking into each of these King-related projects, they all seem to be past the “development hell” stage where many projects languish eternally. So, in addition to recent reboots of Carrie, It: Chapter 1 and Pet Semetary which we’ve already seen, here’s the list of King big and small screen projects we can look forward…

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Goth Chick News Reviews Stephen King’s The Outsider

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If it seems like I’ve been talking about Stephen King a lot lately, you’re right. King has experienced a significant renaissance over the last few years, not only cranking out quite a lot of fresh new stories but seeing his work both old and new getting treatments for the large and small screen. The Book Hub recently tallied up all the King tales about to be part of your entertainment lineup. Movies It: Part 2 Revival Pet Sematary Firestarter Hearts…

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Goth Chick News: In Hollywood, Dead Is Sometimes Better…

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As we have observed for many years now, what’s old is new again: for movies, TV and most assuredly for Mr. Stephen King. King is enjoying a massive renaissance that started with his first post-addiction novel Doctor Sleep in 2013 then juggernauted straight into his detective novels (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) and seems to have culminated in King now taking over both the big and small screens. The elder statesman of horror is back with a serious vengeance. In the wake…

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Goth Chick News Reviews: End of Watch — Stephen King Wraps Up a Trilogy

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As you may know from past articles, my literary relationship with Stephen King has seen more horror-themed infidelities and follow-on love fests than Ozzy Osbourne’s marriage. Frankly, I had pretty much thrown King over permanently for his more intellectually acrobatic son Joseph King (aka Joe Hill) until nearly three years when in a fit of nostalgia over The Shining, I picked up Doctor Sleep. And just like that, Stephen King moved back into my library. So when the first book…

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The Top 50 Black Gate Posts in April

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Good to see Star Trek is still enormously popular with our readers. The most widely read post at Black Gate last month was William I. Lengeman III’s review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the latest installment in his ongoing Star Trek Re-Watch (his review of ST III was #2 last month). Or maybe we’re just old. The most popular category last month was Vintage Treasures (that’s my favorite too!) When I get old enough, my eyesight will fade enough that I can’t…

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Goth Chick News: 2013 Bram Stoker Award Winners

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Back in March, we gave you the list of nominees for the The Horror Writers Association’s 2013 Stoker Awards for superior literary achievement in horror, in a variety of categories. The Bram Stoker Awards were instituted in 1987 and the eleven award categories are: Novel, First Novel, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Screenplay, Graphic Novel, and Non-Fiction. The 2013 awards were distributed at the Association’s annual award banquet on May 10, 2014, at the…

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Goth Chick News: Coveting Bram Stoker – 2013 Award Nominees Announced

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Regarding the actual item you get to put on your mantel; as awards go, forget the Oscar statue and give me a Stoker any day. You have to admit – it’s pretty darn cool. The Horror Writers Association (HWA), who have been honoring the premiere writers in horror and dark fiction since 1987, announced their nominees for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards last week. So if you don’t have time to sit cross-legged in the horror section of your fast-dwindling…

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Goth Chick News: The Kids Who Put You Off Kids – Where Are They Now?

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By this time, it’s no surprise to any of you that The Shining is one film I just can’t get enough of. I like the source material of course, but the movie version never gets old and I can say that with some authority, having seen it about a gazillion times (and written about it here a fair amount as well). Back in 2010, inspired by a then-recent documentary on the Stanley Hotel (the real Overlook) I did some of…

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