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New
to the site!
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More stories sold
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Now added:
Stories
Online by Robert Hood
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Critical comment
on my stories
• What's Out
There? Various writings -- in editorial limbo
• Read
my Atheling award-winning article, "Divided
Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla".
• "Ghosts -- Treat Them Gently" by M.R. James
• Tales of King Komodo: a graphic novel by Mike Bogue and Todd Tennant
• What's happened to The
Drakenswode Correspondence?
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Additions to the Daikaiju!
Anthology site
• The
Guidolon Project: An Ongoing Report
• Daikaiju! reviews
• Information on the sequels to Daikaiju!
• Hoodwinked!
Cartoons by Robert Hood
• Man
and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga
and its Metaphorical Undercurrents -- an article
that appeared in Borderlands Magazine #7, 2006
• A
Giant Against Giants:
Ultraman for the New Millennium -- an article that
appeared in G-Fan #77
• Updates have been made to the lists of Evil
Doll movies and Ghost
movies that appear in the Obsessions
section of this website (April 2007)
• A full
list of films based on The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters
is here!
• Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World is also here!
• Clarion South Pseudo-blog
(which may or may not develop into something more extensive...)
• Custom-made Godzilla
DVD covers for multi-disk cases (courtesy
of Craig Neufeld)
ROBERTING
ON!
Comments
and commentary on films and TV shows.
Latest:
Spider
Forest, Burnt
Offerings, J-Horror
Anthology: Legends, The
Host, Devour,
Half
Light, Inner
Senses, Mary
Reilly, Dead
Meat, The
Red Shoes [Bunhongshin], Sorum,
The
Maid, Urban
Legends: Bloody Mary, Gamera
the Brave, Watch
Me, LovecraCked!
The Movie, Transformers,
The
Return, Severed,
Snoop Dogg's
Hood of Horror, The
Quick and the Undead, Dead
and Deader, The
Dead Will Tell,
The
Gravedancers, Konga,
Yongary,
Monster from the Deep, Flight
of the Living Dead, The
Meeksville Ghost, Night
of the Living Dorks , The
Booth [Bûsu],
Angel
On My Shoulder, Trespassers,
Kraa! The Sea
Monster, Komodo
vs Cobra, Grindhouse,
Baby: Secret
of the Lost Legend, Zombie
Town, The Horseman, Showdown of the Godz, Big Man Japan, Monster X Strikes Back, Zombie Strippers, Onechanbara, Monster From Bikini Beach, Prom Night, Devi, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Attack of the Slime People, I Am Omega, The Land That Time Forgot, Fallen Angel and Whirlpool, Monster island, Ogre, Tokyo Gore Police, Transmorphers, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, Snuffin' Zombies
Book
Reviews
The
Creature From the Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon,
Paul Di Filippo, DH Books, 2006 -- off-site
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NEWS!
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BACKBRAIN for
the latest
29 September 2009
My story "Behind Dark Blue Eyes" (which is to be published in the upcoming anthology Exotic Gothic 3, edited by Danel Olson) has met with a very positive response from the publisher at Ash-Tree Press. It is to be the lead story.
28 September 2009
A review of the anthology Dead Souls, edited by Mark Deniz, calls my story "Sandcrawlers" "one of the top stories of this anthology". The "Anthology of Darkness and Mayhem" has just been launched and is now available from the publisher's website. Full review
2 September 2009
An excellent review of Creeping in Reptile Flesh has appeared on the Australian horror review website, Scary Minds.
1 September 2009
Just published in Dead Souls, an impressive and gritty new Horror anthology edited by Mark S. Deniz and published by Morrigan Books, is my story "Sandcrawlers" -- a particularly nasty tale featuring my hardboiled character Michael Crowe and based on the real-life Wanda Beach Murders of the 1960s. The "Anthology of Darkness and Mayhem" includes authors such as Ramsey Campbell, T.A. Moore, Paul Finch, Kaaron Warren, Gary McMahon, Tom English, Robert Holt, and many more. It is now available from the publisher.
Also completed is a new horror story inspired by the God Machine song "Ego". It will appear in an anthology compiled in dedication to God Machine's album Scenes from the Second Storey.
20 July 2009
The publication of my short YA novel Robot War Espresso (Twelfth Planet Press) has been moved to 2010, due to ... ahem ... technical difficulties (that is, I haven't finished writing it yet -- and it's getting longer).
On that subject, I have created a Robot War Espresso blog, which features articles relating to robots in fiction and the real world -- and later information on the book. Check it out occasionally.
17 June 2009
"Behind Dark Blue Eyes" has been accepted for inclusion in Exotic Gothic 3, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree Press). Expect publication in September.
17 June 2009
Old news now, but at Conjecture, the 48th National SF Convention in Adelaide, held on 5-8 June, 2009, I won a Ditmar Award for Best Fan (Unpaid) Writer for my review/commentary blog Undead Backbrain.
My work had been nominated in several categories of the Ditmar Awards (which are Australian achievement awards in SF equivalent to the US Hugo Awards) -- including Best Short Story for "Moments of Dying", Best Novella for "Creeping in Reptile Flesh", Best Collection/Anthology for Creeping in Reptile Flesh (Altair Australia Books), and the Atheling Award for Criticism and Review for the article "George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead" in Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2). You can see the full list here.
16 April 2009
An interview with Australian horror writer Kaaron Warren, who has recently sold three novels to new UK imprint, Angry Robot, has just gone up on the site. Kaaron is a terrific -- and disturbing -- author (well, her work is), and the interview is definitely worth checking out! Here's the link.
10 April 2009
Starting today in the Unnatural History section of the website! Mike Bogue and Todd Tennant's graphic novel serial, Tales of King Komodo. It features an original giant monster creation in a series of punch-ups with man and various daikaiju opponents. Beautifully drawn, the serial originally appeared in the pages of G-Fan issues 83 to 87, but it is appearing here for the first time in colour. It is made up of five episodes and I will be putting one episode up each week -- though I will hold off on the final one for a while as it has only just appeared in the pages of G-Fan -- you will have to grab a copy of that excellent magazine to learn about KK's ultimate fate. So, for today: enjoy Episode One of Tales of King Komodo.
27 January 2009
The Australian professional genre awards -- in the form of the 13th Annual Aurealis Awards -- took place on 24 January at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, and I was there hoping to receive an award in the Best Anthology/Collection category for Creeping in Reptile Flesh. Unfortunately, my book was running against Sean Williams' Magic Dirt: the Best of Sean Williams (Ticonderoga Press) and it was announced as the winner. Very deserving, of course, and not unexpected -- and Sean was so generous in his acceptance speech, I was forced to abandon my plans for terrible retribution. Sean is one of our great writers and he more than deserves the piece of curved glass and the kudos, and I certainly don't begrudge him the victory. In the words of the Perpetual Runner-Up, it is simply an honour to get on the shortlist with him.
The Judges' report on Creeping in Reptile Flesh read: "An impressive, very personal and thematically cohesive collection of stories from horror writer, Robert Hood, and nicely laid out by Cat Sparks. Creeping shows the significant contribution Robert has made to the Australian horror genre." It's excellent that Cat received some well-deserved kudos there, too.
20 December 2008
I haven't been updating news here with much frequency, a slackness I'll have to redress in the new year. Meanwhile, here's some of the latest writing news.
- "Kulpunya" has been published in Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree Press) to (so-far) good reviews.
- My new collection of horror stories, Creeping In Reptile Flesh (Altair Australia Books), was launched at this year's Conflux by Jack Dann. It is available for purchase here and here.
- Creeping in Reptile Flesh is a finalist in the Best Collection category in this year's Aurealis Awards, up against Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams (Ticonderoga Press).
- The titular novella from the new collection, "Creeping in Reptile Flesh", has been listed in the worldwide 2008 Best Short Story list compiled by the folk at Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth (who, insanely, try to read everything published in the speculative fiction genre)
- The Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth team listed both "Creeping in Reptile Flesh" and "Unravelling" from the same collection on their all-Australian list.
- "Sandcrawlers" will be re-printed in Dead Souls, edited by Mark S. Deniz, Morrigan Books, expected March 2009.
- An as-yet-unfinished novella, Robot War Espresso, has been accepted by Twelfth Planet Press for publication as a chapbook in 2009.
- Other publications for this year are detailed here. All up, the year saw 9 new stories published, one collection, two academic columns, a major interview with George Romero, assorted film and book reviews, and various other journalistic pieces. Several novels got a little closer -- but so far, no cigar. A few accepted stories await publication.
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August 2008
- "Remainders"
in the thematic anthology Voices, edited
by Mark S. Deniz and Amanda Pillar, Morrigan Books,
2008 (comprises six discrete but connected short stories:
"1928", "1948", "1968",
"1988", "2008" and "Epilogue")
- "Zombie
Au Gratin" in Scary Food, edited
by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press 2008 -- this is a book
being published as part of the Australian SF community's
Paul Haines fundraising project.
- "Creeping
in Reptile Flesh", "Unravelling"
and "Getting Rid of Mother"
are all previously unpublished stories due to appear
in my collection Creeping in Reptile Flesh,
to be published by Altair Australia Books. It can
be pre-ordered now from here.
- "Romero:
Master of the Living Dead", an interview
with George A. Romero in Black Magazine,
issue 2, due September. The issue also includes my
interviews with Aussie filmmakers Jon Hewitt ("Acolytes")
and Steven Kastrissios ("The Horseman").
- "Evolution
of the Zombies"
-- a short piece to accompany the above mentioned
Romero interview.
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July 2008
My five-part story "Moments of Dying"
has appeared in the inaugural issue of Black
Magazine. Part 1 ("First Moment of Dying")
was first published in Shadowed Realms #11
in 2006, but the remainder are previously unpublished.
Also in Black #1 is an interview (which
describes me as "Aussie Horror's Wicked Godfather"!!).
It's a terrific magazine, which includes much of great
interest apart from the above -- including a new story
by Stephen King). You can pick up a copy from your local
newsagent (in Australia anyway).
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March 2008
Read
a Lovecraft-inspired story, "Call of Cthulhu's
Mum" here.
2
March 2008
Newly
added: a repository of my stories
online, on this site and outside it. This will expand
as time goes by. First off, a meta-fictional piece on
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, called "Dear
Mary".
1 March 2008
My
story "Pseudomelia of the Masses" -- an SF
comment on the current working climate -- has finally
surfaced in the excellent anthology, The Workers'
Paradise, edited by Russell B. Farr and Nick
Evans and published by Ticonderoga Publications. Buy
a copy here!
27
February 2008
A
ghost/horror story set in and around Alice Springs and
Uluru, "Kulpunya",
has
been accepted for Exotic Gothic 2,
by editor Danel Olson. It will be published by Ash-Tree
Press in Autumn 2008.
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February 2008
I've
just been nominated in the Best Fan Writer
category of the Australian 2008 Ditmar Awards, for the
film reviews on this site. Members of the Natcon (Swancon
this year) get to vote. Unfortunately I won't be there
in person, but if any of you reading this are going,
you can check out the reviews here
and then vote for me with all due enthusiasm!
The
most recent reviews are on this
page.
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February 2008
Both
the US paperback and hardcover editions of Daikaiju!
3: Giant Monsters vs the World are now available
from Amazon.
Updates to the website,
giving a full contents list, have also been made. Go
take a look at the great line-up -- and then buy a copy!
16
February 2008
On
Undead Backbrain
I've been providing information on a slew of new
giant monster films. Go there
to check them out!
28
January 2008
The
Giant Monster Movie List has now be updated
and added to Undead
Backbrain.
27
January 2008
I've
just been to Brisbane for the Aurealis Award
Ceremony for 2007 -- the annual awarding of
kudos to Australian speculative fiction writers -- where
I was presenter (and not a nominee) in the Horror Short
Fiction section. The Award went to Anna Tambour. Congrats,
Anna! Meanwhile my partner Cat Sparks won the Award
for Best SF Short Fiction for her story "Hollywood
Roadkill". She then went on to win the Golden Aurealis
Award -- the Best of the Best Convenors' selection --
for short fiction. She was suitably shocked! Pics here.
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January 2008
So far,
the Big Event of 2008 (from a purely biased POV, of
course) is the release of producer J.J. Abram and director
Matt Reeves' new giant monster film Cloverfield.
The first real US Godzilla? Read my
thoughts on the matter.
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