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Like a Dead Man Walking, by William F. Nolan, Centipede Press,…
Like a Dead Man Walking, by William F. Nolan, Centipede Press, 2014. Cover art by David Ho, info and preview: centipedepress.com.
“Sherlock Holmes…Interdimensional demons…Aliens…Killers and child predators…Time travelers…Vampires…Even the end of the world, in more ways than one…All are contained within these pages. From the darkest corners of imagination to the precipice of human achievement, William F. Nolan delivers the goods in this assortment of recent works: his first all-new collection in his long and storied career. Working with editor Jason V Brock (Milton’s Children), Nolan brings to shocking life not only debauched murderers and depraved loners, but also fascinating portraits of personal reflection; the heroes of yore in poetry; pages from Nolan’s notebook; and an exclusive, intimate interview with his beloved friend, the late Richard Matheson (I Am Legend). Centipede Press is pleased and proud to offer this fantastic new assemblage of tales from an acknowledged master of the dark fantasy and science fiction genres, complete with insights into the stories, and a probing intrtoduction from editor Brock: This is not only Nolan’s most recent collection, but likely his very best. Come along for the ride and discover things that may (or may not) be Like a Dead Man Walking…You are sure to enjoy the journey. This signed limited edition is just 300 copies. The dustjacket is the work of David Ho. Each copy is signed by William F. Nolan, Jason V Brock, and David Ho.”
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Dead Reckonings No. 14, edited by June M. Pulliam and Tony…
Dead Reckonings No. 14, edited by June M. Pulliam and Tony Fonseca, Hippocampus Press, 2014. Info: hippocampuspress.com.
“A Review of Horror Literature.”
Wagner and Vincent on Simmons – Hank Wagner and Bev Vincent (Dan Simmons, The Abominable)
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: The Grin Beneath the Flesh
From Horror to Homage – Richard Bleiler (J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett, eds., Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe; Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. The Grimscribe’s Puppets)
Joel Lane: In Memoriam – Robert Butterfield
Other Realities—Alternate Readings: Two Views on Jason V Brock (Jason V Brock, Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities)
Outlier – Jonathan Johnson
Brock as Intriguing New Voice – Darrell Schweitzer
Malignant Mothers – Richard Bleiler (John Boyne, This House Is Haunted, Sophie Hannah, The Orphan Choir)
What Happens After – Sarah Simms (Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds., After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
571 Forrester Lane Eats Babies – Matthew McEver (Sonja Condit, Starter House)
Triskaidekaphilia – Jonathan Johnson (Jonathan Thomas, Thirteen Conjurations)
Submitted: My Stamp of Approval – Tony Fonseca (Reba Wissner, A Dimension of Sound: The Music of The Twilight Zone)
Religious Fanaticism Run Amok – Antoinette Winstead (L. Andrew Cooper, Burning the Middle Ground)
Fifty Years of Ramsey Campbell – S. T. Joshi (Ramsey Campbell, Holes for Faces; The Kind Folk; and The Last Revelation of Gla’aki)
Two Veteran Storytellers Demonstrate How It Is Done – Robert Butterfield (Darrell Schweitzer, The Emperor of the Ancient Word; Tony Richards, The Universal and Other Terrors)
Zombie Scholarship Earns Respect – June Pulliam (Jennifer Rutherford, Zombies; Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland, eds. Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror)
Sequel Deserves to be a Forgotten Chapter – Braden Dauzat (James Wan, dir. Insidious: Chapter 2)
Haunted from Within and Without – Richard Bleiler (Ellen Datlow, ed. Hauntings)
A Darker Piece of Darkness – John Edgar Browning (Ellen Datlow, ed. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 5 and Blood and Other Cravings; Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories)
The Lovecraftian Magickal Mystery Tour – Leigh Blackmore (Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H. P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic)
A Smorgasbord of Weird – S. T. Joshi (Lois H. Gresh, ed. Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk!)
Portrait of the Mythos-Maker as a Young Man – Tony Fonseca (S. T. Joshi, The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H. P. Lovecraft)
Second Time’s the Charm – Leigh Blackmore (H. P. Lovecraft, The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works)
Covens, Witchcraft, and Murder, Oh My! – Antoinette Winstead (Debbie Viguie, The Thirteenth Sacrifice: A Witch Hunt Novel)
Zombies Are People Too – June Pulliam (Jonny Campbell, dir., In the Flesh)
The Weird Scholar – S. T. Joshi
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Los Angeles Morgue Files: “Twilight Zone” Writer Charles Beaumont 1967…
Charles Beaumont (January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as “The Howling Man,” “Miniature,” and “Printer’s Devil,” but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. As best-selling novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, “[Charles Beaumont was] one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre.” Beaumont is also the subject of a documentary, Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, by Jason V Brock.
Illness and death
When Beaumont was 34 and overwhelmed by numerous writing commitments, he began to suffer the effects of what has been called “a mysterious brain disease.” He began to age rapidly. His speech slowed and his ability to concentrate diminished.
“He was rarely well,” his friend and colleague William F. Nolan (who went on to co-write the science fiction novel Logan’s Run) would later recall. “He was almost always thin, and with a headache. He used Bromo-Seltzer like most people use water. He had a big Bromo bottle with him all the time.” Other symptoms were of the professional as well as physical persuasion, Nolan went on: “He could barely sell stories, much less write. He would go unshaven to meetings with producers, which would end in disaster. You’ve got to be able to think on your feet [as a script writer], which Chuck couldn’t do anymore; and so the producers would just go, ‘We’re sorry, Mr. Beaumont, but we don’t like the script.'”
Some (including friend and early agent Forrest J Ackerman) have asserted that Beaumont suffered simultaneously from Alzheimer’s and Pick’s diseases, but it has also been speculated that the condition was related to the spinal meningitis he suffered as a child. The former diagnosis was echoed by the UCLA Medical Staff, who subjected Beaumont to a battery of tests in the mid-1960s. As recalled by Nolan, the UCLA doctors sent Beaumont home with a death sentence: “There’s absolutely no treatment for this disease. It’s permanent and it’s terminal. He’ll probably live from six months to three years with it. He’ll decline and get to where he can’t stand up. He won’t feel any pain. In fact, he won’t even know this is happening.” Nolan himself sums up what happened: “Like his character ‘Walter Jameson,’ Chuck just dusted away.”
Several fellow writers, including Nolan and friend Jerry Sohl, began ghostwriting for Beaumont in his final years, so that he could meet his many writing obligations. Privately, he insisted on splitting these fees.
Charles Beaumont died in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 38. But at that time, said his son Christopher later, “he looked ninety-five and was, in fact, ninety-five by every calendar except the one on your watch.” Beaumont’s last residence was in nearby Valley Village, California. He left behind his devoted wife Helen, and two sons and two daughters. One son died in 2004 of eerily similar circumstances. The other, Christopher, is a successful writer in his own right.
Charles Beaumont is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.
