I love you, but…
I watched Ghost Story for the first time in ages—decades—yesterday afternoon. I’m not sure how critical response was to it at the time, but it does not stand up well to age. It looks a little like a movie of the week, except for the nudity. You’d think that with icons like Douglas Fairbanks and [...]
Two movies
Though the official death toll nationwide from Hurricane Ike is something on the order of fifty, an article in today’s Houston Chronicle indicates that there are over 400 people still unaccounted for two weeks after the storm passed through. Granted, some—indeed one hopes many—of these may simply be from people who don’t have access to [...]
Wrong Newman
Newman’s gone. No, not the one on the right, but the big one. Paul. The guy who’s been part of the life of anyone who has watched movies over the past fifty-some years. Titles too many to mention. Roles from Butch Cassidy to Judge Roy Bean to Buffalo Bill, and many fictional characters to boot. [...]
Gabon
It’s one of those countries I’ve heard of, but know nothing about other than that it is in Africa. A quick check tells me it’s on the western coast, just below the place where the continent juts westward. This is the location for the new Survivor, and it looks daunting. I guess we would have [...]
The President leads into Criminal Minds. Coincidence?
I’m reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. About 100 pages in. It’s a very mild story at present, though it’s very well written and perceptive, and we learn a lot about the characters through their actions. I’ll be interested to discover why the uncle was in jail. Since I haven’t read even the dust jacket [...]
Couch potato
Today marks a safe point for Texas vis-a-vis hurricane season. Since the 1850s, only three hurricanes have ever struck Texas after Sept. 24. Of course, since 1989, zero hurricanes had struck where I lived before now, so we can’t say we’re completely in the clear, but we can breathe easier.
Ike probably isn’t a topic of [...]
Ike tidbits
I’ve had The Story of Edgar Sawtelle on my to-be-read pile for a couple of months and I finally picked it up earlier this week. So far it is a sedate story about a family on a farm where the eponymous young boy can hear but can’t speak. It also has a lot of dogs [...]
Lost in the shuffle
I would say that we are pretty much back to normal both at home and at work. I know that some of my neighbors and co-workers are still without power, though. Some things inside the house got shuffled around while the power was out—they’re slowly finding their way back to where they belong. Candles perched [...]
Ghost town
I received a rejection letter from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine yesterday. It was a form rejection that claimed they didn’t have time to make personal responses…but at the bottom there was a handwritten personal response. The editor told me she liked the story a lot and hoped to see more from me. So, of course [...]
One week later
This time last week we were watching the tides lap onto the coast at Surfside and Galveston, wondering what the night held in store for us. We fared much, much better than many. Some of my coworkers are still without power, some have serious damage to their homes to contend with. People in the area [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
