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My tale of fundamentalist fear, ”Whatsoever a Man Soweth,” is now online in the summer issue of Tales from the Moonlit Path. It was inspired by a nightmare last fall, when it actually looked like Sarah Palin might end up a heartbeat away from the U.S.presidency. I racked up 16 rejection letters before I finally [Read it all...] The SAN ANTONIO HORRIFIC FILM FEST is coming up soon so now is the time to put the finishing touches on your creepy, blood soaked masterpiece. Early submission deadline for the festival is July 15th, with the final submissions due by August 16th. You can find out all the details and download the submission entry [Read it all...] FRET was Comedia A Go-Go’s entry into the Bloodshots 2008 Filmmaking Frenzy competition. It didn’t win, but that goes to show the quality of the other entries because this movie is a nearly perfect little morsel! That’s our good friend Brant Bumpers (from The Darkness) in the starring roll and, wait, is that some [Read it all...] Hats off to horror homeboy JOE MCKINNEY. His new book Quarantined (Lachesis Publishing, 2009), is now on sale at Amazon and Lachesis. In the book, a deadly flu outbreak threatens to wipe out the populace of San Antonio. The military quarantines the Alamo City to halt the spread of the disease. Amid the chaos, homicide [Read it all...] Here’s my new illustration for Stephen King’s ‘SALEM’S LOT. It’ll be featured in the forthcoming massive art book KNOWING DARKNESS: ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING. Book details, plus brief thoughts about my approach to this piece, can be found at my blog. 'SALEM'S LOT by John Picacio [Read it all...] If you were a kid growing up in San Antonio in the ’70′s, do you remember Project Terror? Do you remember that infamous voiceover intro (see above)? How about Screaming Meemies in the early ’80s? If you weren’t around then, you missed out! Project Terror was a cheesy, b-movie horror showcase that aired [Read it all...] Joe McKinney San Antonio-based writer JOE McKINNEY hit the literary scene in 2006 with DEAD CITY (Kensington, 2006), a zombie tale that moves with the speed of the super-fast reanimated corpses in the recent DAWN OF THE DEAD remake. His latest book, QUARANTINED (Lachesis Publishing, 2009), ventures into apocalyptic sf, and he’s also published [Read it all...] This classic of San Antonio cinema takes you back to the simpler age of the nuclear family. What To Do In A Zombie Attack Created by San Antonio’s Lone Bannana Productions (that’s not my poor spelling, the extra “n” stands for “Nifty”!), written by Paul Scofield and directed by Joey Carrillo this 1950s educational [Read it all...] The short story “The Circus” has been sitting on my hard drive longer than anything else I’ve written. It’s undergone two major rewrites, been rejected by horror mags as too light and fantasy mags as too dark. Last fall, it was accepted by a magazine that went belly up before it could publish the story. So, [Read it all...] |
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