![]() ![]() You celebrated your twelfth birthday by turning out the lights at your party and reading from a horror novel. Golden is a native of Massachusetts, where he still lives. ![]() He recently edited the two-volume tribute to Rick Hautala, Mister October, and has three new releases in January: the novel Snowblind, the collaborative anthology Dark Duets, and the graphic novel Cemetery Girl (written with Charlaine Harris and illustrated by Don Kramer). ![]() He is a frequent figure in the “Buffyverse,” having written or co-written dozens of novels, comics, and episode guides, and he has also written in the world of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. He has received awards and nominations for nonfiction books ( Cut: Horror Writers on Horror Film), graphic novels ( Baltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships, co-authored with Mike Mignola), anthology editing ( The New Dead), and alternative forms (the Ghosts of Albion webseries, co-authored with Amber Benson). His first novel, Of Saints and Shadows, was published by Berkley in 1994 and inaugurated his series of urban fantasies centering on the vampiric hero Peter Octavian other popular series include the “Prowlers” and “Body of Evidence” books. Surely there are few authors who can match Christopher Golden in terms of both the astonishing amount of acclaimed work he has produced, and the number of different genres and forms he has mastered. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In a brief unraveling of his life, he sheds light on what it means to be an assimilated immigrant, a self-destructive dipsomaniac, a loving father and husband with a marred albeit joyous childhood, an introspective aging adult and an empathetic society man. Not the rather grand Descartian proclamation “I think, therefore I am,” but rather a more pragmatic philosophy of “I am, therefore I think.” From the profane to the most discerning of life’s elements, Craig writes his memoirs with a charming nonchalance that I attribute to his Scottish heritage.Īction creates thought, not the other way round. As evident from his most notable stint as a host for a late night talk show and his previous writings, Craig really is unapologetically himself – conscientious, illimitable and of course thoroughly entertaining. He spins and weaves intricate emotions with exceptional brevity and boundless wit. ![]() One of the interesting quirks of the aging process is that events that seemed to have little or no impact at the time resonate with a thunderous importance later on, like an expertly constructed detective novel.įrom the very beginning, I settled on two words which described this book perfectly: delightfully sad. ![]() ![]() ![]() For him, bedding her was a means to an end. Did the duke truly want her? They’d agreed to a marriage of convenience, no more. ![]() Someone wanted me after all, and that someone is a duke.īut then . . . ![]() Well, it is my cold pleasure to inform you now, sir-you were gravely My home, and told me no respectable man would ever want me. You cast me out into a storm, barred me from That accomplished, Emma turned her attention to another letter.ĭo you recall the last time we saw one another? If not, permit me to remind you. She would write a note and send it in care of Fanny, asking her pass it along when Miss Palmer returned to the shop. Once word got about that the duke had married, perhaps,įanny. Emma was merely a seamstress in their eyes. No one even knew a Duchess of Ashbury existed yet. ![]() A message delivered fromĪshbury House would raise eyebrows. Her first priority was sending a note to reassure Miss Palmer, but Emma wasn’t certain how to do so. She sat at the writing desk, pulled out a sheet of paper, unstoppered the ink, and dipped the quill. Her gaze skipped over the tasseled upholstery and vases of flowers and went straight to the humblest furnishing in the room: The next morning, Emma took herself to the morning room. ![]() ![]() Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry - a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Here are four tales - The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() ![]() But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it's discovered that the young man's heart has been skillfully removed. ![]() In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. ![]() |