Sorry to drop off the face of the earth without an explanation, guys.  I ask your indulgence a little bit longer: I'm in job training for something fun, and I don't want to talk about it for fear of jinxing it before I have jumped through all the hoops.

I finally got myself to one of the classic horror screenings at the Brattle Theatre: The Wolf Man ( Read more... )

 "I always pictured Life as this great crackling formless thing," said Miss Flitworth nervously.  "Like an electrical storm in trousers."

--Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man (paraphrased from memory because I don't have the book at hand)

I've been wondering about this for a while.  There are certain terms that supernatural horror readers/writers tend to ( Read more... )

Ah, here we go: "Moonlight and Love Song", written by Anonymous for Teenybuffalo.  Short and witty, suggests a lot more than it says, funny but surprisingly poignant.  Enjoy!

What a wonderful day!  I got up before my family woke and drove back to the House of Etre to give Boromir his morning walk, and after that I checked my e-mail.  Somebody wrote me fic for "The Wolfman", 2010 vintage--it's great.  Funny, touching and sad.  I would link to it right this minute, except that the archive is showing an overload error.  ( Read more... )

[I'm participating in Yuletide for the first time ever.  This is an open letter to my anonymous benefactor.]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I hope you're as excited as I am, because I'm over the moon about being involved in Yuletide this year.  First of all, thank you for signing up and for choosing my request.  I realize that I requested some rare fandoms ( Read more... )

I sent in my fandom nominations for Yuletide.  Well, I guess this means I'm really doing it.  Man.  I hope I don't regret this.  I hope some of them make it through the selection process.  I hope I write and receive good ones.  This has taken on the significance of First Communion and a sorority initiation and the secret lodge rituals of the ( Read more... )

Technically I'm still on vacation.  I have internet for the day, though.  Time enough for a brief jolt of fannishness.

1.  I just found "Wolfman" fic which is actually good.  The only other stories I've seen are rubbish on ff.net where Mary Sue Talbot inherits the estate after the events of the 2010 movie.  Comparisons are odorous; this is a fine ( Read more... )

Did ever werewolf roll his soul in guilty dreaming,
And wake to find that soul with peace and virtue beaming?

OK, so "The Wolfman" (2010) just came out on DVD, and I stayed up much too late tonight watching it.  Then, being me, I watched all the extras.  I knew there were a lot of deleted scenes, most of which didn't make it into the finished movie ( Read more... )

(I want an old-school icon of Larry Talbot from the original Wolf Man.  This will probably entail my developing icon skills at last, but I am resigned.)

I just checked out Guy Endore's Werewolf of Paris from the school library.  Despite sounding like a Jules Verne-vintage translation from the French, it was written in English in the 1930s.  It looks ( Read more... )

I wrote a few lyrics for The Wolf Man; or, the Silver Bullet.  These have been running through my head for weeks, in unfinished form, so I thought I'd better write them down.  You know how I said that I measure all fandoms by how well I can filk them to G&S?  Welcome to how it feels to be me.

( Spoilers for the movie, in case anyone's still worried about that. No spoilers for Gilbert and Sullivan, but this will probably be funnier if you're already a fan of theirs. )