Anime roundup 2/15/2018: Amping Up
In this week’s viewing: Beatless adds another antagonist, Hakyu Hoshin Engi operates at ludicrous power levels, and more!
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Novedades de enero
Bolivian anthology series Supernova releases the third edition, Editorial Cthulhu has published his third anthology: “HORROR QUEER, Rosarium Publisher announces 2018 plans; magazines, events and more
Anime roundup 2/8/2018: Now You’re Cooking
In this week’s viewing: Hakumei and Mikochi celebrates home crafts, Hakyu Hoshin Engi whips up an unusual recipe, and more!
LATHER/LIVE, RINSE/DIE, REPEAT… IT’S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN!
This week Steve goes in a time circle*This week Steve goes in a time loop*This week Steve breaks out of a time warp and reviews the movie “Happy Death Day,” which is not your average “Sorority Slasher” movie.
Review: Tales from The Lake Vol 4: The Horror Anthology
Be prepared to lose yourself in the darkest recesses of the mind with some of the most talented writers of the creepy macabre in Tales from The Lake Vol 4: The Horror Anthology.
Anime roundup 1/11/2018: Interesting Times
In this week’s viewing: A slow start to premiere week, but big news for the simulcast landscape!
Feliz Año con Novedades de Noviembre y Diciembre
A round up of publications, new issues and events.
Hagridden and Terrors of the South
Everyone is haunted by a wildness that threatens…no one dares to talk about it aloud lest they acknowledge it and make their own inner horrors come true.
Winter 2018 SF Anime Preview
As the year turns, so does the anime season. See what’s coming up soon!
Anime roundup 12/28/2017: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this week’s viewing: Only three finales, because someone’s going into overtime!
Anime roundup 12/21/2017: Who Let the Dogs Out?
In this week’s viewing: Magical Circle Guru-Guru has its final go-round, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness is now explaining other shows, and more!
Anime roundup 12/14/2017: Getting Serious
In this week’s viewing: Land of the Lustrous summons up a new foe, Inuyashiki cranks the body count, Hozuki tries out straight horror, and more!
Anime roundup 12/7/2017: Making a Meal Of It
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki adds culinary horror to its repertoire, Kino’s Journey cooks up a bunch of leftovers, and more!
Remember those books about genre movies?
I suspect we may come to miss the books whose authors took us through a genre, giving shape to its history and signposting us to recommended movies.
Comic Review: The Last Hunt
Amigo Comics short series The Last Hunt includes elements from all of our favorite genres – and beyond.
Anime roundup 11/30/2017: Hero Complex
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki and Kino’s Journey get bored and decide to let smoeone else be the hero, and more!
Review: Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction is a gallery of literary wonder edited by Michael Sims
Anime roundup 11/23/2017: Time Out Of Mind
In this week’s viewing: Hozuki’s Coolheadedness and Kino’s Journey make with the flashbacks, Guru-Guru gets stuck, and more!
Exclusive Excerpt: Black Alithe by Nicholas Fife (a Folklore: Affliction Tale)
From the world of Folklore: The Affliction, we bring you an excerpt from the tale of Black Alith
Anime roundup 11/16/2017: Child’s Play
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki and Guru-Guru explore parental failure, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness says the Messiah is a very naughty boy, and more!
REVIEW: NOT ANOTHER ZOMBIE BOOK: “HELL IS EMPTY…” by Mark Rounds
After a two-week absence, Steve returns with a book review. Complimentary—and scathing—Steve talks about Mark Rounds’ first book.
Anime roundup 11/9/2017: Sea Change
In this week’s viewing: Kino’s Journey shows some range, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness fractures another fairy tale, and more!
A. Merritt on Film: Burn, Witch, Burn!
Tod Browning’s adaptation of A Merritt’s Burn, Witch Burn! was less faithful to the source material than a Mexican film based on the same material, but was technically a much better film.
Horror on the radio: the BBC broadcasts The Omen and Hammer’s The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula
Seventy-nine years after Orson Welles terrified America with The War of the Worlds, BBC Radio productions of The Omen and The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula prove that the medium retains its power to chill.
Anime roundup 11/2/2017: Switching It Up
In this week’s viewing: Land of the Lustrous takes another strange turn, Guru-Guru notices a new season has started, and more!
Scide Splitters: Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
Jim C. Hines, known for his fantasy novels, tries his hand at humorous military SF and presents us with an unlikely group of heroes—Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse.
Anime roundup 10/26/2017: Two Can Play At That Game
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki introduces its antagonists to each other, Land of the Lustrous explores alien relationships, and more!
A. Merritt on Film: Seven Footprints to Satan
Taken as a spiritual successor to The Cat and the Canary, Seven Footprints to Satan is not too bad. That said, it is a shame that First National missed the chance to give filmgoers a full-blooded A. Merritt adaptation.
HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#2—MR. MERCEDES)
In the second of three Halloween-type posts about recent Stephen King movies and TV shows, Steve checks into Mr. Mercedes, a book/TV series about a killer who uses a car as a deadly weapon!
HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#1—IT)
In this first of three Halloween-y columns examining several media adaptations of Stephen King works, Steve talks about the new movie, and what’s wrong with IT.
About Author
Steve has been an active fan since the 1970s, when he founded the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association (PESFA) and the more-or-less late MosCon in Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID, though he started reading SF/F in the early-to-mid 1950s, when he was just a sprat. He moved to Canada in 1985 and quickly became involved with chairing or helping run Canadian cons, including ConText (’89 and ’81) and VCON. As a fan, he’s published a Hugo-nominated (one nomination) fanzine, New Venture, and he’s founded two writing groups (Writers’ Bloc and Writers of the Lost, Ink). He’s emceed and auctioned art at many West Coast and Northwest conventions including one Westercon. As a writer, he’s published a couple of books and a number of short stories (including one in Compostella [Tesseracts 20], and has collaborated with his two-time Aurora-winning wife Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk on a number of art projects. As of this writing he’s the proofreader for R. Graeme Cameron’s Polar Borealis and Rhea Rose’s Polar Starlight publications. He’s been writing for Amazing Stories off and on since the early 1980s. His column can be found on Amazing Stories most Fridays.
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