Houarner is a smart, intelligent
talent who has a gift for writing with serene beauty
about the most atrocious things.
Ed Bryant, Locus |
"...a writer
to keep an eye on."
Ellen Datlow, ed., 10th Annual Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror "One
thing is clear -- reading one Houarner story does not,
necessarily, prepare you for the next."
Algis Budrys, editor of Tomorrow SF, author of Rogue
Moon, Hard Landing, Who?
"...the raw power and depth
of his imagination combine to give him the ability to
truly transform the reader."
Darkecho
"...Houarner is
a gifted writer with a facility for fine characterization..."
Hellnotes
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NEWS...
The Oz Suite has arrived!
Available at www.eibonvalepress.co.uk,
www.amazon.com,
and www.horror-mall.com,
The Oz Suite is a collection of three novellas published by
Eibonvale Press in both hard cover and trade paperback.
The stories use bits and pieces of the Wizard of Oz mythos
in stories about alien invasion, emotional breakdown, and
trauma. Needless to say, Oz gains some sharp edges as characters
engage psychological, surreal and supernatural realities.
“No We Love No One” follows a young and dangerous
boy who survives a very strange “alien” invasion.
It was originally published in the out-of-print Damned: An
Anthology of the Lose edited by Dave Barnett, and was included
in the Honorable Mention list for 18th Annual Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror from St. Martins Press.
“Bring Me the Head of That Little Girl Dorothy”
is about a woman who occasionally believes she is the Wicked
Witch of the West, and is narrated, in part, by Nikko, King
of the Flying Monkeys.
“The Wizard Will See You Now” centers on the
life-long quest by a surviving son for the reason and meaning
behind a father's sudden, mad, and deadly attack on his family.
I never said this was L. Frank Baum's or even Judy Garland's
Oz.
There's also an Afterword where I talk about my need to play
with and riff on a few bars of the whole “Oz”
thing.
If you're curious, you're welcome to read the story openings
- click here.
And remember, the holidays are coming and nothing says “I
love you” like books! The Oz Suite trade paperback is
$12, the hardcover, $35. C'mon, it's better than fake diamonds!
In other news.....
My wife Linda Addison received the Bram Stoker award in the
Poetry category for her collection, Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful
Grey Ashes – so go check her out at www.lindaaddisonpoet.com!
Road From Hell was well-received in a review in Rue Morgue
76; here are a couple of quotes:
"One of the most underrated authors working in the genre
today, Gerard Houarner blends beauty with violence on every
page of his latest novel Road From Hell. Houarner, whose style
is heavier than a waterlogged corpse, weaves a wicked tale
featuring his trademark floating nightclub, Painfreak, contract
killer Max, the great god Kali, zombies and lots of anguish."
"Where Houarner's talent truly shines is in his ability
to dissect human relationships. His focus on the pain and
suffering one can experience simply by caring for someone
else easily outweighs his superb knack for describing the
physical pain his characters either suffer or inflict."
So what are you waiting for? Visit www.necropublications.com
to buy directly from the publisher, or if you need amazon.com
supersaver action, check this
out. Or visit www.horror-mall.com
It's also better than fake diamonds!
Shroud Press published the anthology Abominations, which
included my story “Devoured by Her Enigmatic Smile.”
The books is available from the
publisher, or Amazon.com.
Tales of the Unanticipated accepted "On the Wind That
Blows Hard from Below,” which will appear in either
issue 29 or 30.
Hear Them Roar, an anthology edited by C.J. Henderson and
Patrick Thomas that includes work by Linda Addison and, well,
me, is back in print in electronic
form.
During the summer, Linda and I attended Necon and Fangoria,
and also appeared on Jim Freund's legendary WBAI FM radio
show, Hour of the Wolf. What happens at Necon stays at Necon,
and though our Fangoria appearance on a horror panel was blown
up spectacularly on a big screen behind us, it is, alas, now
gone forever.
But Jim records and posts his program, so if you'd like to
hear Linda, or even me, talk and even read our work (I did
an abbreviated version of Dead Cat's Lick, for those of you
curious about that character), check out the June 28th 2008
show at: http://www.hourwolf.com/toc.html
My contributions to www.storytellersunplugged.com
have continued on the 4th of every month:
April - Folklore and Legends, Urban and Otherwise
May - Filters
June - Frames
July - Advice. Huh! What It good For?
August - Intimacy
September - An Ambivalent Defense of the Dark
Lastly, I posted pics from various activities over the past
few months on the Flickr galleries (just go to the Life Online
tab) – a bunch of stuff from our Arizona and Salt Lake
city trips, the Oz Suite cover, some misc. NYC stuff under
'Round the Way.
Hi everybody, and welcome to the new site.
Created by Natalia
Lincoln, the original site was launched in 2000 and has
basically remained the same since except for news updates.
With Natalia busy with her new novel, The
Mirror, day job, travels and music career (Odalisque
in Ashes) there just hasn't been enough time to get together
for the necessary revisions that come with 8 years of life
and writing.
So with Natalia preparing to go off to foreign lands and
semi-permanent touring, I began looking for someone to take
over. Fortunately, Nick Kaufmann, man about town and 2007
Stoker nominee, (www.nicholaskaufmann.com)
did all of the leg work when he had Marcy Italiano (www.theweblizard.com)
revise his website to great effect.
So Marcy's gone to work on a new design and tightened the
ship a bit. I've updated my bio to include little things like,
well, let's see, oh yeah, getting married and such, as well
as the bibliography, Max and Dead Cat pages. There's also
a flckr photo site attached with covers and other pictures
which will be fun to add to over time. (By the way, Brian
Addison took the picture featured above, and you should check
out his work on his flckr
site!)
Marcy is also revising 2007 Stoker nominee Linda Addison's
site, now at www.lindaaddisonpoet.com
GO MARCY!
In other news, Cemetery Dance #58, the Charlie Grant tribute
issue, is out and about and includes a story from me, “In
the Faith of Our Fathers,” as well as stories from,
of course, Charles Grant, and Sarah Monette, Karen Heuler,
Ian Rogers, JG Faherty, Dena Martin, Stephen Graham Jones,
and an excerpt from Scavenger by David Morrell. The Usual
Suspects make their appearances. Pick it up at Horrormall
or the Cemetery Dance site, or wherever leading horror magazines
are sold.
By the way, in case I haven't mentioned it, yet, my wife
Linda Addison's poetry collection, Being Full of Light, Insubstantial,
from Space and Time, was nominated for a Stoker Award in the
poetry category. It is, of course, still available from Space
and Time as well as amazon.com
I've been blogging as usual at www.Storytellersunplugged.com,
which was also nominated for a Stoker for 2007. There are
some new bloggers which you might want to check out like the
legendary Wayne Allen Sallee, and Alexandra Sokoloff's entries
on the 24th should be required reading for anyone thinking
about the film industry. Favorites like Brian Hodge, Jim Moore,
Beth Massey, and that shy fellow John Skipp, are still contributing,
as well.
In January, I wrote about handling good and bad reactions
to writing in Rejections, Reviews and Other Dubious Reactions:
http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2008/01/page/3
February, I talked about some of my experiences returning
to service as Space and Time's (http://www.spaceandtimemagazine.com)
Fiction Editor under new publisher Hildy Silverman in The
Slushiness of Slush http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2008/02/page/3
And for March 4th entry, I talked about The Business of Writing.
In other news.....
A very kind thread/review of Road From Hell appeared on the
Dorchester
forums.
For some reason, I find myself inhabiting yet another niche
in the virtual universe. Find me, link to me, or do what you
will with: http://www.linkedin.com/GerardHouarner
I don't know what it means, but according to fantasybookspot.com,
my story, They Play In The Palace of My Dreaming, was one
of the two top viewed on the Heliotrope site. http://www.heliotropemag.com/Issue02/palace.html
I've been studied – “She'd Make a Dead Man Crawl”
from the anthology Mojo: Conjure Stories was discussed as
part of an article on transcendent zombie love written by
Frances Auld, Ph.D. (Visit
Dissections) I must say, I feel much more intelligent
by having one of my stories considered worthy to be written
about by a Ph.D.
Gabrielle Faust was kind enough to interview me for her blog,
and you can see the results at: http://www.gabriellefaust.com/archives/345
Linda and I will be at the World Horror Convention in Salt
Lake City, Utah, March 27-30.
I'm scheduled for the following:
Horrific Folklore panel, Thursday, 3/27 at 9PM
Urban Legends as Fodder for Horror Stories, Thursday, 3/27
at 10PM
Making Lovecraft Accessible to the 21st Century, Friday, 3/28
at 12 noon
Mass autograph signing, Friday 8-10
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