de-lurking time

[mattfinucane]

Hi

Just to say hello.
As an occasional horror/SF writer, I'll probably bore the wig off everyone with self-promotional guff (have appeared in Estronomicon, BHF Book 2, various others, blah blah)... But before I jump in and wallow in shameless self-promotion, thought it best to introduce myself.

(Oh, I have strong opinions on a lot of the books and tales covered here too - just by the way. Lurked for a while, then thought, "ah, sod it: get stuck in".)

Looking forward to long convoluted arguments about Basil Copper...

cheers
Matt

[ramseycampbell]

Welcome, Matt!

[mattfinucane]

Thanks very much!

Would've replied sooner, but <cough> was on a local internet radio station playing some songs and reading a creepy story.

Oddly, though, they asked me to sign the guestbook afterward while the last record played, and the previous guest had been James Herbert(!).

I laughed inanely and made some comment like, "yeah, he was great - better than Sean Hutson anyway - but what's he up to now?"
...Then the sound engineer came in and told us the mics were still on.

Sorry, James. Or can I call you "Mister Herbert, Sir"?

[jayaprakash]

Hah! Nothing like goofing up in style. I'm new here too. I write horror short stories, and they sometimes get published, although they may be more on the nebulous side for some. However I'm also a fan of the various gruesome horror paperback collections from the 60s and 70s that I grew up ransacking from my father's collection, so I have been enjoying this board a great deal.

[mattfinucane]

I dunno, "nebulous" sounds good...

...But it's also hard to beat the sleazy old 70's/80's paperbacks, true.
Shame it's so hard to find that sort of thing done without a protective coating of irony now, but I guess the genre's moved on.

Mind you, there's the occasional flicker of life: there's this guy Adam Baker who's written a couple of fantastically bleak, pulpy novels.

Nebulous or brutally obvious: both are great! (But nothing inbetween, I often find...)