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FUZZY WARBLES for your mood organ: VAMPIRES! PAC MEN! SPACE INVADERS! WHO WILL SAVE US???

The ‘S‘ on his chest doesn’t stand for ‘Superman’. It stands for SCIENTIST.

Scientist (AKA Hopeton Brown/AKA Overton Brown) gave Reggae Dub mass appeal by creating a series of sci-fi themed concept albums packaged in cartoon cover art. Using B Movies, UFO conspiracy theories and video games as points of reference, albums [Read it all...]

Armadillocon brings sf authors, books and discussion to Central Texas

Looking for a geeky diversion this weekend?

There’s none we can suggest more highly than the 33rd annual ArmadilloCon, where variety of well-known sf, fantasy and horror writers will read works, sign books and debate weighty subjects ranging from what books belong on a college-level sf reading list and why people just can’t get [Read it all...]

McKinney's zombie plague shows no sign of waningMcKinney’s zombie plague shows no sign of waning

Joe McKinney's latest features a rather sultry looking cover zombie.

San Antonio author Joe McKinney is certainly doing his part to keep zombie fans in reading material.

Flesh Eaters (Pinnacle), the third in his four-book zombie series, recently hit the shelves, and his story “The Day the Music Died” graces the new zombie anthology Holiday [Read it all...]

Made in S.A.: Stoker Award-nominated author Joe McKinneyMade in S.A.: Stoker Award-nominated author Joe McKinney

Riding High: Prolific horror author Joe McKinney.

We last did a Q&A with Joe McKinney back in 2009, after he’d just released his second novel, Quarantined. Since then, he’s co-edited the zombie anthology Dead Set, put out two more novels — the zombie epic Apocalypse of the Dead and hard-boiled crime tale Dodging Bullets [Read it all...]

MST@OT: Zombie Nightmare!

MST@OT featuring "Zombie Nightmare"

Get ready to laugh until your face hurts, because this Friday night, September 17 at 10:00 PM, the Overtime Theater is having their monthly screening of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Sure you may have seen all of these shows when the were originally broadcast back from 1988 to 1999, but [Read it all...]

David Liss stays busy

THE NEW DEAD: Chock full of gut munching AND David Liss.

As if writing historical thrillers, urban fantasy, comics and zombie stories hasn’t kept San Antonio’s DAVID LISS busy enough, he’s also kept his schedule full of local appearances. Check it out.

Wednesday, Feb. 16 at  7 p.m.:  David will be reading his aforementioned zombie short story, “What Masie Knew,” the same day as its [Read it all...]

Joe McKinney has class

Joe McKinney

Aspiring horror writers take note. San Antonio zombie maestro JOE MCKINNEY will be teaching  a one-day seminar at GEMINI INK on writing modern horror.

The session is Saturday, April 10, noon to 5 p.m., and registration deadline is Wednesday, April 7. We know the deadline’s a few months away, but it doesn’t hurt to register early since the [Read it all...]

McKinney reaches a Pinnacle

McKinney signs on the dotted line.

More big news on the zombie front!

SAPD Detective and zombie-fiction writer JOE MCKINNEY has scored a three-book deal with Kensington’s PINNACLE BOOKS line, bringing his trilogy about the zombie takeover of the Alamo City to bookstores everywhere.

Pinnacle will rerelease Joe’s first novel, Dead City, in September 2010 with [Read it all...]

Is Zombies Live an Oxymoron?Is “Zombies Live” an Oxymoron?

Just in time for Halloween, Dia de los Muertos or the perpetually threatened undead invasion of San Antonio comes ZOMBIES, a new live music venue dedicated to horror rock and generally gothic good times. The club is located at 12285 Nacogdoches in the Northern Hills shopping center next to SOHO’s and in the same center [Read it all...]