Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, A Review

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King Scribner’s 2014 Hardcover 1st edition 437pp ISBN: 978-1-4767-5445-1 A Review by Gene Stewart He mentions James M. Cain on the dedication page but this streamlined killer thriller has other echoes, more contemporary ones. Lean prose, … Continue reading

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Gorey Edward’s Final Stance by W B Kek

The rung of a ladder is small; It’s round like it’s not there at all. You cut it half through With a saw from beneath Then their weight as they climb makes them fall. / W B Kek, “Gorey Edward’s … Continue reading

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A Band That Does Not Hide Behind Its Music

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Inflation is up, the guy in the middle Is getting screwed by the balance of cost Economy slowing, death-rate increasing, Hungry kids dying, everything’s lost. Nobody lives when living is torture, Nobody wants to live in pain. Generation, malcontent, evolutionary … Continue reading

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Ben Franklin, Space Alien Psycho Killer

Rat Stew A Column by Gene Stewart for Tom Sadler’s APA Zine The Reluctant Famulus Ben Franklin stood out. Even set against the blazing lights of the Founding Fathers, brilliant men all, he dazzled. He was so brilliant the likes … Continue reading

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Review of Death in the City of Light by David King

Death in the City of Light by David King Crown/Broadway, 2011, 1st ed. 345pp, biblio, notes, index, 8pp b/w photo insert This book is sub-titled The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, referring to Dr. Marcel Petiot, who murdered, dissected, and … Continue reading

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Review of The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey

The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey Henry Holt 2005 First edition, hc 14pp color photo insert Frontispiece map Selected Bibliography Twenty or so miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge but still within San Francisco city limits lie the Farallon Islands. … Continue reading

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Review of Flicker by Theodore Roszak

Flicker by Theodore Roszak Bantam mass market pb May 1993 1st edition $5.99 cover price 575pp The flicker in the title refers to movies, the fluttering light-and-dark going on behind the images as film moves through the camera at 24 … Continue reading

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FB LitChat w/ JC & SL

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”–H.P. Lovecraft. It’s not just horror I search for. It’s that ‘something else’ that might inspire awe, too. A shifting in the writing focus? Hmmmm… We’ll see. Anyway, good Wednesday morning, friends. On the … Continue reading

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Pay Writers For Their Work

You want free writing from writers? To put on your Ezine? So you get free ISP too, right? Free art? Free web design? Oh, it’s in print. So it’s on free paper too? Free ink? Free printing, shipping, storage, and … Continue reading

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