Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Dead Souls by Mark S. Deniz Books. Morrigan Books has over 15 different titles in print, from anthologies and collections through to novels. Please feel free to browse our title list. Creeping In Reptile Flesh. Creeping in Reptile Flesh by Robert Hood “Creeping in Reptile Flesh brings together some of the best from his twistedly evil mind…There are many types of horror here to suit many tastes and all of them will please the discerning reader who enjoys good tales told well.” — Keith Stevenson, Aurealis #43 A detective, hired … Dead Souls. Dead Souls contains twenty-five stories that will only ensure the darkness without enfolds you in its cold embrace … beware … be ready … be damned! Before God created light, there was darkness. Even after He illuminated the world, there were shadows — shadows that allowed the darkness to fester and infect the unwary. … Ghosts of Unspoken Thoughts. The poems of Karen L. 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Writer, publisher, editor, reviewer, film maker, amateur film and music critic and general cad, Mark finds there aren't enough hours in the day for the stuff he wants to do (he wants there to be 25). Friday, July 09, 2010. Vampire Awareness Month has begun! And so, after countless chats, mails, checking over the shoulder, jumping at shadows. we can finally announce that Vampire Awareness Month is up and running. From today until 8th August we'll be talking about films, literature, popular culture, music and all manner of vampire related things for you enjoyment and edification! So hop over to Vampire Awareness Month now, where you'll find P. G. Bell in situ with his introduction to the whole proceedings! Monday, March 22, 2010. Requiems for the Departed - huge TOC and cover announced! Another great anthology from Morrigan Books and yet another fantastic cover from Reece Notley: It has been said before, that every story has already been told. Maybe so. But if you’ve got the gift of the gab, you can tell the same tale as often as you like and still give it a life of its own every time. Requiems for the Departed flaunts that gift seventeen times over with top shelf stories from Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Dave Hutchinson, and many more. The children of Conchobar are back to their old mischievous ways, ancient Celtic royalty, druids and banshees are set loose in the new Irish underbelly with murder and mayhem on their minds. Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business. PUBLICATION DATE: 1st June 2010. Requiems for the Departed Stories: Queen of the Hill - Stuart Neville Hound of Culann - Tony Black Hats off to Mary - Garry Kilworth Sliabh Ban - Arlene Hunt Red Hand of Ulster - Sam Millar She Wails Through the Fair - Ken Bruen A Price to Pay - Maxim Jakubowski Red Milk - T. A. Moore Bog Man - John McAllister The Sea is Not Full - Una McCormack The Druid's Dance - Tony Bailie Children of Gear - Neville Thompson Diarmid and Grainne - Adrian McKinty The Fortunate Isles - Dave Hutchinson First to Score - Garbhan Downey Fisherman's Blues - Brian McGilloway The Life Business - John Grant. Dead Souls. If criticism is an act of translation—and I think it is—then reviewing the excellent 8.25-hour-long Chinese documentary "Dead Souls" is a bit like writing Cliffs Notes for a doorstopper history of the Chinese Communist Party's anti-Rightist purge of 1957-1958 (during which time: anybody who was thought to be against the Party could be forced to work, and many cases, die in farm camps). Still, here we are, and there is "Dead Souls": a massive, imposing work of non-fiction filmmaking that demands attention despite also being the sort of artwork that doesn't really need any of our attention to be great. Like a monolith, this thing just is. It also just happens to be great, sometimes despite and sometimes because of its mega-sized breadth and scope. So if you're thinking about watching or even reading about this movie, you should know that there's a fair chance that it will crush you like a bug and you'll have nobody but yourself to blame. Still, "Dead Souls" is one of the year's best films, whether you enjoy it or not (it may even be the year's best). That's not exactly a recommendation, but it's as close as I can get to one while writing about a movie that that's this, well, big. You might be wondering: what's it like to watch "Dead Souls?" It's mostly comprised of long, unbroken takes. Director Bing Wang deliberately rarely (and tellingly) cuts or breaks a scene up when interview subjects (mostly survivors of the farm camps) occasionally interrupt each other, or when outside noises intrude from off-screen. Still, many of the most enlightening scenes in "Dead Souls" are interview testimonials from thoughtful older subjects, all of whom are allowed to take their time in responding to Wang's infrequent questions. These interview scenes are often shot in flat, but wide camera angles that visually place interviewees within their home or defining environments (often their apartment homes, but sometimes a factory, a courtyard, a hillside, etc.), but in an unpolished way that announces its DIY nature as part of Wang's ongoing "personal" (his choice of word) project. Your eye (and your mind) will wander at more than one point as you watch "Dead Souls." I don't think that's something that Wang planned for, but it is something that will probably happen anyway. But wait, who did you say made this thing and why is it so long? Well, that's a bit of a loaded question. Director Wang makes movies whose elephantine duration seems to reflect his understanding of how his complicated working-class subjects' talk and live. But while he's said in interviews that moviegoers/critics should not look too much into his work's metaphorical meaning, he clearly does not make films that can easily be used as mirrors by his subjects. Wang's movies are open-ended cinematic collages, much like the films of American documentarian Frederick Wiseman. They capture a certain quality and therefore speak for (and often quite well about) the issues faced by their economically disadvantaged subjects. But documentaries like "Dead Souls" are essentially for upper middle-class moviegoers who are hopefully implicated just as much as they are informed by Wang's anti- institutional narratives. These movies show you how economic and political systems are primarily supported: through punishing, alienating labor that effectively wipes out and/or diminishes individual workers' personalities and beliefs. Still, based on the evidence of films like "Dead Souls" (and "Bitter Money," a great 2.5-hour Wang-helmed doc released earlier this year), it seems that Wang knows (on some level) that his subjects are neither from the same economic class as his viewers, nor are they a monolithic entity defined exclusively by their respective bank balances. His subjects are each unhappy in their own ways, and that makes his movies—and their knowingly complicating views of post-industrial Chinese life— that much more challenging. But how do you get into "Dead Souls"? With some effort, though obviously not the same amount of effort it takes to, say, push an overburdened funeral cart carrying a massive, full coffin up a steep hill and into a newly-dug grave (as we see in an early scene at about the 45-minute mark). There's some background noise partway through this scene; it could either be the sound of fireworks exploding or the loud groans of a coffin as it's being lowered into the ground. Either way: what you see is what you feel is what you get. So if you can't force your way in (or intuitively get in) to the beginning of this scene, you probably won't be able to get into "Dead Souls." But if you tough it out for a few minutes, Wang's subjects start to look more and more like the fully-formed characters that he basically treats them as. One mourner (Yanlin, the eldest son of Zhinan, the deceased) wails and tries to jump into the open grave while two grave-digging volunteers struggle to push the dead man's casket into a hole within the grave. "You can't behave like this," another mourner says to Yanlin, still above- ground. But in time: Yanlin does slide into his dead father's grave and does try to get into the densely packed subterranean hole within the grave, the one that now houses his dad's casket. "Call the fengshui master to calm the situation," says a worried mourner, this one trying in vain to keep Yanlin out of the mini-grave within the grave. Here's a pearl of drama and human interest that viewers will find at the heart of almost every scene in "Dead Souls." You just have to be willing to let Wang do a fair amount of digging before he shows you something worth writing home about. Simon Abrams. Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times , Vanity Fair , The Village Voice, and elsewhere. ANTHOLOGY UPDATE. DAIKAIJU! GIANT MONSTER TALES 1, 2 and 3 are now available on Amazon. Check them out here. STORIES / NOVELS / ARTICLES SOLD. A transhuman story titled "Through the God Partition" had been accepted by Cosmos Magazine: the Science of Everything for publicated sometime in 2015. WHAT'S OUT THERE? A dark-crime/horror novel Scavengers is currently doing the rounds. I'm getting a lot of comments along the lines of "It's a great read, but unfortunately we're looking for something a bit more conventional." (I paraphrase!) Robot War Espresso , a SF novel about robots, coffee and mortality, is undergoing major revision. NEW BOOKS. A reference collection of my ghost stories (1986-2015), Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories , has been published by IFWG Australia Publishing as a standard hardcover and a deluxe limited edition hardcover (both featuring images by Nick Stathopoulos), plus a two-volume trade paperback, and e-book edition. More i nfo here. See also my dedicated Peripheral Visions site. My epic fantasy novel Fragment of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead was published by BorgoPress/Wildside Press in Feb/March 2013 and is available in trade paperback and e-formats from online stores and selected bookstores. Visit the Fragments of a Broken Land site. Creeping in Reptile Flesh , first published in 2008 by Altair Australia Books in a limited format, has just been reprinted by Morrigan Books and is still available from Smashwords in a variety of e-book formats and on Amazon in book form and for Kindle. Rob was Featured Author on the very excellent IDEOMANCER SPECULATIVE FICTION website during January, February and March 2003. On the site you will find a then new story, "Nobody's Car", as well as two reprints -- "Rotten Times" (which was shortlisted for an Aurealis award in 2000) and "Necropolis" (from Day-dreaming on Company Time ). There is also a new interview conducted by Deborah Biancotti. Check out the site at www.ideomancer.com . Note : you'll have to go to the Previous Issues section now! Time marches on! New interview by Kathryn Linge for the Australian 2010 Snapshot project here. Recently accepted stories, awaiting publication. "Through the God Partition" is to to be published in Cosmos Magazine: The Science of Everything , date to be announced. "Soul Killer", first published in ZVR Diplomacy , as part of the Zombies vs Robots fiction project, edited by Jeff Conner, IDW Publishing, July 2013, will also appear in Volume 2 of the compendium edition (if it happens). Published stories / novels / articles since 2005. "Black Lake's Fatal Flood" re-printed in Cthulhu: Deep Down Under , edited by Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira and Bryce Stevens (Horror Australis, 2015). "Footprints in Venom" in Insert Title Here , edited by Tehani Wessely for FableCroft Publishing (March 2015) . "Escena de un Asesinato" re-printed in Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2013 , edited by Paula Guran and published by Prime Books, and in Focus 2012: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction , published by FableCroft Publishing (October 2013) . "Flying Death", a Rocketeer novella, in The Rocketeer: Jet-Pack Adventures , edited by Jeff Connor, IDW Publishing, Sept. 2014. "The Shark God Covenant" in Dimension6 Speculative Fiction e-zine, Issue 3, 2014 and in a full volume of the year's stories, Dimension6 Annual 2014 . "Dark Mechanics of the Game" in COSMOS Magazine: The Science of Everything , Issue 56, April/May 2014. "Soul Killer" in ZVR Diplomacy , as part of the Zombies vs Robots fiction project, edited by Jeff Conner, IDW Publishing, July 2013. Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead , Robert Hood, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013. "Garuthgonar and the Abyss", published as e-book by UndeadBackbrain Publications, 2013. "Dark Witness, published as e-book by UndeadBackbrain Publications, 2013. "Escena de un Asesinato", Postscripts #28/29: Exotic Gothic 4 , edited by Danel Olson, PS Publishing, July 2012 . "Walking the Dead Beat", Damnation and Dames , edited by Amanda Pillar and Liz Grzy for Ticonderoga Publications, 2012. " Desert Madonna", Anywhere But Earth , edited by Keith Stevenson. Coeur De Lion, November 2011 . "Making Fish out of Men: Gothic Uncertainty in Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan", 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 , edited by Danel Olson, The Scarecrow Press, 2011. "Wasting Matilda", Zombie Apocalypse! edited by Stephen Jones, Robinson UK/Running Press US, October 2010. "Primal Etiquette", Orb: Greatest Hits. Issue #8: The Best of Orb , ed. Sarah Endacott, EOD, September 2010 . "Ego", Scenes From the Second Storey , ed. Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall, Morrigan Books, September 2010. "Getting Rid of Mother", The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fifth Annual Volume , ed. Bill Congreve, MirrorDanse Books. September 2010. "Behind Dark Blue Eyes", Exotic Gothic 3 , ed. Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press, December 2009 "Sandcrawlers", Dead Souls , edited by Mark S. Deniz, Morrigan Books, 2009. Re-print. "Kulpunya", Exotic Gothic 2 , edited Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press, 2008 . "Remainders", Voices , edited by Mark S. Deniz and Amanda Pillar, Morrigan Books, 2008. [This comprises six discrete but connected short stories: "1928", "1948", "1968", "1988", "2008" and "Epilogue"), which introduce each section of the anthology .] "Zombie Au Gratin", Scary Food , edited by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press 2008 (fundraiser for Paul Haines). "Creeping in Reptile Flesh", Creeping in Reptile Flesh , Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books 2008) "Getting Rid of Mother", Creeping in Reptile Flesh , Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books 2008) "Unravelling", Creeping in Reptile Flesh , Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books 2008 ) "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" in Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , vol. 2, edited by Benjamin Szumskyj (Equilibrium Books, Aust.) [column] "Abandoned", Trust Me! , edited Paul Collin (Ford Street Publishing, 2008) "Fafrotskies", Black Box , edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press, 2008) "The Ossuary: Ghosts, Monsters and Chainsaws" in Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , vol. 1, edited by Benjamin Szumskyj (Equilibrium Books, Aust.) [column] "Call of Cthulhu's Mum", Conflux 5 Progress Report , February 2008 -- read it here. "Pseudomelia of the Masses" -- an SF tale speculating on the near-future of work -- accepted for publication in The Workers' Paradise , edited by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans, Ticonderoga Press, 2007. "In the Service of the Flesh", Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007 Edition , edited Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, 2007 [reprint] "Flesh and Bone", Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World , edited Robert Hood and Robin Pen, Agog! Press/Prime Books, 2007 "Monstrous Bright Tomorrows", In Bad Dreams: Where Real Life Awaits , edited Mark Sin Deniz and Sharyn Lilley, Eneit Press, 2007 "Dear Mary", Conflux 4 Program , September 2007 -- read it here. "Luxury Goods", Fantastic Wonder Stories , edited Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Press, March 2007 "Gold and Black Ooze", Dr Who Short Trips: Destination: Prague , edited Steve Savile, Big Finish, July 2007 "God of War", Borderlands , issue 8, 2006 "First Moment of Dying", Shadowed Realms #11, edited Angela Challis "A Giant Against Giants: Ultraman for the New Millennium", in G-Fan #77, 2006. "Birthmark", cØck, edited by Keith Stevenson and Andrew Macrae, Coeur de Lion Press, 2006. "Man and Super-monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents", Borderlands #7, 2006. "Touched", Fables and Reflections #8, edited by Lily Chrywenstrom, 2006 . "Cross-currents", Cosmos , Issue 5, November 2005. "Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla", in King King Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape , edited by David Brin (BenBella Books, 2005). "In the Service of the Flesh", Aurealis #36 , 2005. "
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