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Edited by Joe Vaz & Vianne Venter
| “Like a serial-killing zombie clown’s suitcase, the Something Wicked Anthology is full of deliciously wicked surprises, packing more stellar stories into its pages than anyone has a right to expect. Guaranteed scares, superb illustrations and stunning production values from the doting godparent of South African shocks – don’t read after midnight, and don’t miss out.”
– SL Grey
“[Editors] Joe and Vianne are talent-spotters of writers and illustrators par excellence, and superb editors. Definite recommend!” – Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City
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Posted in News | Tags: AA Garrison, Abi Godsell, Anthology, Damien Filer, Davin Ireland, Glen Damien Campbell, Ivor Hartmann, Jason Kahn, Joe Vaz, M Scott Carter, Michael Bailey, Michael Hodges, Michael John Grist, Paul Marlowe, Scott Brendel, Vianne Venter, Vincent Sammy, Volume One, William Mitchell | Comments Closed
by Vianne Venter
I first heard of phookas when I was a child, watching the Jimmy Stewart movie, Harvey, about a giant playful and invisible phooka. When I read about the phooka of lore, though, I learned it is a darker creature. Though it has a borderline malevolent personality, I wondered what would happen if pushed to the edge. |
Issue 20 (Apr 2012) |
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Posted in Interviews | Tags: C.S. Fuqua, Interview, Issue 20, Vianne Venter, Writers Cornered | Comments Closed
In association with the Open Book Festival we invite you to come join us at The Book Lounge on the 22nd of September 2012 (4pm – 5pm) for our Official Launch of Something Wicked Volume One.
We will be joined on stage by Arthur C Clarke winner Lauren Beukes and a couple of our authors will be showing up to read some extracts and and sign books.
We hope to see you there for this wonderfully exciting event.
Books will be on sale at the event or get yours now at The Book Lounge, or through our online store.
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Posted in News | Tags: AA Garrison, Abi Godsell, Anthology, Damien Filer, Davin Ireland, Glen Damien Campbell, Ivor Hartmann, Jason Kahn, Joe Vaz, M Scott Carter, Michael Bailey, Michael Hodges, Michael John Grist, Paul Marlowe, Scott Brendel, Vianne Venter, Vincent Sammy, Volume One, William Mitchell | 3 Comments »
by Vianne Venter
In my hometown there was an apocalypse. The mills all closed, the work moved elsewhere. People lost their jobs, their homes. Neighborhoods that had once been filled with working families became centers of poverty and drug abuse. People took jobs making less money than they had ever made, (and they were the lucky ones), many more went on public assistance and pride, both personal and civic, crumbled. The neighborhood I described is the neighborhood in which I grew up.. |
Issue 20 (Apr 2012) |
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Posted in Interviews | Tags: Angel Propps, Interview, Issue 20, Vianne Venter, Writers Cornered | Comments Closed
interview by Vianne Venter
This story came out of a love of Lovecraft and Arthur Machen -- especially Machen, in this case. Machen's stories and novels are some of the most wonderful and terrifying out there, I think, but one thing that bothers me in some of them is a sense of female characters as both victims and objects of horror. I wanted to write a story that both paid homage to everything I love about Machen and addressed or turned the tables on this issue a bit. The story also came out of a lot of broader thinking I'd been doing about love and relationships. |
Issue 19 (Mar 2012) |
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Posted in Interviews | Tags: Interview, Issue 19, Nick Scorza, Vianne Venter, Writers Cornered | Comments Closed
interview by Vianne Venter
In my first attempt at the story, she wasn't blind. That was okay, I suppose, but I'm always looking for ways to push the stories and ideas just a bit further. There have been an uncountable number of horror stories about a pretty young woman being menaced by a murderous nutjob. You've read it, I've read it, so what's the point in rehashing it? Quite why I settled on her being blind as opposed to anything else, I don't remember now. It made her stand out a little more, gave the story some of the energy I needed to push through it. |
Issue 19 (Mar 2012) |
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Posted in Interviews | Tags: Interview, Issue 19, Peter Damien, Vianne Venter, Writers Cornered | Comments Closed
interview by Vianne Venter
I’m not sure what I believe. I like to think that when we die it is however we think it will be. |
Issue 19 (Mar 2012) |
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Posted in Interviews | Tags: Chris Stevens, Interview, Issue 19, Vianne Venter, Writers Cornered | Comments Closed
interview by Vianne Venter
I think we have it in us, but we have a fair amount of growing up to do first. It would take a concerted, worldwide effort to do so, and we’d need motivation everyone could get behind. In the short term, I don’t know that we could do it out of sheer curiosity or a drive to explore, but a threat to the species might be enough to scare us all into line. |
Issue 19 (Mar 2012) |
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