Thanks to the massive popularity of The Last Of Us on HBO, it seems like mold is everywhere. But in the following email interview about his body horror, urban dystopia, and eco fiction novel The Marigold (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), in which a sentient mold is ruining Toronto, writer Andrew F. Sullivan explains why his story owes nothing to the video games that inspired HBO’s big hit.
In a movie full of colorful characters, Aliens‘ bad ass space marine Jenette Vasquez still managed to stand out. It is just too bad we don’t get to know her better. Or rather, it was… Now, fans of this bad ass soldier can get to know her better, and her family, too, in V. Castro’s new novel Aliens: Vasquez (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about it, Castro discusses the scope of this military sci-fi space opera horror story, as well as how her own heritage informed it.
Over the course of her more than thirty-five year career, Ellen Datlow has edited numerous collections of horror short story collections, including twenty annual installments of The Year’s Best Fantasy And Horror and a dozen more in The Best Horror Of The Year series. But in the following email interview about her latest anthology, the aptly titled Body Shocks: Extreme Tales Of Body Horror (paperback, Kindle), she says this is, “probably the most visceral and graphic anthology I’ve ever edited.”