Here’s the live stream video of the author readings event at HP Lovecraft Film Fest, San Pedro 2016
LINK: http://livestream.com/HPLFF/HPLFF2016Friday/videos/121532588
Reading roster in order:
Introduction by Cody Goodfellow
Toren Atkinson
Les Klinger
Ian Welke
Nathan Carson
S.P. Miskowski
Michael Griffin
Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Here’s an audio interview I did with Sean Thompson AKA Spooky Sean to discuss my book The Lure of Devouring Light and other subjects. There’s a little overlap with the written interview Sean posted on book release day, but the questions and answers are mostly new.
So far, it appears The Lure of Devouring Light is being well-received by most readers and reviewers. Latest evidence is this fantastic new review on the This is Horror site, written by Bob Pastorella.
Tag line: “A fearless writer who doesn’t just turn the intensity knob up, he rips the damn thing off the control board.”
Link HERE.
My thanks to Bob Pastorella and This is Horror… speaking of which, I’ve really been enjoying the TIH podcast, on which Bob co-hosts with Michael David Wilson. Check out that podcast HERE.
This quite flattering review of The Lure of Devouring Light just appeared on the blog of Adrian Shotbolt, aka Beavis the Bookheed, this morning.
tl;dr summary version: “Griffin has a wonderful ability to create realistic images through his words, particularly with his deft use of descriptive language, crafting delicious stories of dark, weird horror. This is a fantastic collection and I highly recommend it.”
Thanks, Adrian!
The previous post was a quick “Ask Lovecraft” mini-interview with Leeman Kessler playing H.P. Lovecraft. Of course, Leeman is also an actual person, and in the following video, he interviews me as himself.
Note: the image below is not a video window, but an image of a video window. Tricky, eh? If you want to watch the brief interview, use this LINK.
http://livestream.com/HPLFF/HPLFF2016Friday/videos/121529164
I had a chance to ask a question of H.P. Lovecraft for his popular “Ask Lovecraft” video series. Here it is on YouTube.
You too can follow the always-amusing Ask Lovecraft on Twitter: @AskLovecraft.
Today is the official release date of the Autumn Cthulhu anthology. The paperback and Kindle versions are both available from Amazon HERE. Note that there’s a “Matchbook” deal so if you buy the paperback first, you can then buy the Kindle version for the reduced price of $1.99.
I previously listed a Table of Contents, but the sequence has been scrambled around, plus three stories were added once the Kickstarter met all stretch goals. Here’s the final Table of Contents:
Introduction – Mike Davis
The Night is a Sea – Scott Thomas
In the Spaces Where You Once Lived – Damien Angelica Walters
Memories of the Fall – Pete Rawlik
Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees – Laird Barron
There is a Bear in the Woods – Nadia Bulkin
The Smoke Lodge – Michael Griffin
Cul-De-Sac Virus – Evan Dicken
DST (Fall Back) – Robert Levy
The Black Azalea – Wendy N. Wagner
After the Fall – Jeffrey Thomas
Anchor – John Langan
The End of the Season – Trent Kollodge
Water Main – S.P. Miskowski
The Stiles of Palemarsh – Richard Gavin
Grave Goods – Gemma Files
The Well and the Wheel – Orrin Grey
Trick… or the Other Thing – Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
A Shadow Passing – Daniel Mills
Lavinia in Autumn – Ann K. Schwader
I had a chance to see a proof copy last weekend at H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in San Pedro, and it looked great. See?
I can’t wait to receive my own copy to keep! Great job to Mike Davis, and everyone who helped Mike and Lovecraft eZine Press put this one together. That’s a hell of a roster of writers. I’m very proud to have a spot in this book.
It’s wonderful to see pictures of my new book in the hands of readers.
Anya Martin (DO NOT look directly at the cursed frog idol):
David Bridges, with one hell of a mail day:
Kelly Young:
Jim Serfling, proving that Kindles are people too:
Harry Dibrell:
S.P. Miskowski:
I’ve seen quite a few other copies in the wild, and signed many of them, but these are the only new pictures I have since the last blog on this subject HERE. If you have your own copy of The Lure of Devouring Light you’d like to show off, send me the photo or post it to social media. My enthusiastic thanks to everyone who has already done so!
Des Lewis has begun one of his real-time reviews (in which he posts to his blog about his ongoing reaction to a book he’s reading) of The Lure of Devouring Light.
The link to that post is HERE.
As I post this, he’s only gotten as far as the first, title story… and his reaction is interesting, because (as you may already know if you read my early “What’s in the book” post) I originally wrote this story as a submission for the Classical Horror anthology edited by Des, and he ended up rejecting the story. This is not a case of sour grapes or “I told you so” on my part, nor defensiveness on Des’s part. It’s genuinely interesting to see an editor revisit a story which he rejected years ago.
I won’t keep re-posting this link as more stories are read and reviews, so if you’re interested, you’ll just need to bookmark the above link and check back. My thanks to Des Lewis for the time and attention.
Saturday was release day for The Lure of Devouring Light. Because that weekend I was in San Pedro for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, as was my publisher Ross E. Lockhart of Word Horde, we posted this interview (conducted a few days earlier) with Sean Thompson to the Word Horde site while the convention fun was in full swing.
An Interview with Michael Griffin on Wordhorde.com
I’ll have much more to say about the convention later, but for now, check out the interview.
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