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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Rue Morgue Queer Fear Issue Features Lethe Press

Congrats, Duke (Steve Berman)! You and your fine LethePress (my publisher) got some great ink in the current issue (issue # 186, July/August 2019) of Rue Morgue Magazine, which is the Queer Fear issue. Monica S. Kuebler's article (page 50) covers the nearly 20-year history of Lethe, mentioning such horror luminaries as Lee Thomas.

Lovely!

"After decades of being vilified, LGBT people want nothing more than to be the centre of the story....We're tired of being ignored, treated as if we don't exist or are lusus naturae. We want our turn with the monsters. We demand it."
- Steve Berman, Publisher and Editor, Lethe Press

Stranger Things 3 As An Elevator Pitch


Just going to say this once, because I need to get it out of my system.

Stranger Things Season 3 in an elevator pitch?

Imagine film director John Hughes shares a joint with Stephen King. They scheme up a kids’ small-town horror backdrop fetishizing mid-1980’s nostalgia. 

King immediately suggests a tortured young antagonist who is a borderline sociopath, albeit an impressionable, self-involved sociopath who drives a Camaro and likes him some hard rock music - an archetype plucked from King's horror work from the eighties. 

Hughes posits many scenes involving the young teenage protagonists in mercilessly awkward, and often humorous, plot points, augment by a relentless (and often enjoyable) soundtrack of 1980's pop music.

King and Hughes concur - the story will be resplendent with tributes including (but not  limited to) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1980’s action films, The Goonies, the 1950’s The Blob (1958, with Steve McQueen), the lesser-known The Stuff (1985), John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (any from the series), and Red Dawn (1984).

There. Now that feels better.

But watch it and decide for yourself, of course, true believers.