Bryan Korn: Writer, Working in Cartoons

Developing television. Script Supervisor on the upcoming Netflix Original animated series Hilda. Contact: [email protected]

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Captain, by Alex Cobble, for R. Wess’ “The Lighthouse Keeper,” as published in American Eldritch no. 1. 

“It is true that Elyse knew there was a skeleton in the basement of the lighthouse, where the spiral staircase continues like a corkscrew into the dark sandy earth…” - R. Wess, “The Lighthouse Keeper” (1951)

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Really enjoyed writing this story as R. Wess, a dusty old horror writer looking back on his earliest published story. 

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I have a story in the Hooked 0_0 app, which  launched last month. It features shorts told in the form of text messages in a handful of genres. The app is only available on iTunes, so as a staunch android user I can’t vouch for the ux or pricing... but I know a few of the writers so there is some good fiction on there!

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The first volume of American Eldritch was published this summer -- it’s a collection of Weird art and literature, a tour through the work of some fresh faces in the old storytelling traditions of the spooky, the arcane, and the ominous. I had the privilege of developing some material for this first issue -- I hope I’ve delivered some toe-curling good humor and horror.

“The Lighthouse Keeper,” is presented as a reprint of an early-career short story by pop horror writer R. Wess. Later, Wess offers the introduction to the letters of Caroline Mary Stone, letters recounting supernatural events that he claims he found under the floorboards of his old century-old South Carolina home. 

“It is true that Elyse knew there was a skeleton in the basement of the lighthouse, where the spiral staircase continues like a corkscrew into the dark sandy earth…” - R. Wess, “The Lighthouse Keeper” (1951)

I’ve been a reader of old spooky fiction since I was a little kid diving deeper into some of HG Wells darker stories, I had a blast writing these. 

The American Eldritch imprint (found on tumbler at  http://americaneldritch.tumblr.com/) published their first book earlier in the year; The Gods of Pangea -- a remastering of  fantasy author Lord Dunsany’s (1878-1957) collection of imagined mythology, an early inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft’s Ctuhulu mythos. It’s illustrations, from artist Sidney Sime, are presented in color for the first time in Pangea.

You can buy American Eldritch Vol. 1 on Amazon.

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On the origin of Magic: the Gathering --

Legend has it that one day his (Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: the Gathering) math friends challenged him "Hey Ricky bet you can't make a pie with FIVE KINDS OF FILLING.

He said: "Just watch me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmNKbyiy4UQ

This is a gag from one of my last Magic Crad Pro videos -- the 3rd of a proposed 10 video series on my Zedruu the Greathearted EDH deck. I got 5 videos in before placing the character on hiatus, but this was one of my favorite (and most coherent) jokes.

It references the "Color Pie", a core design concept for Magic.

The character is still searching for a purpose, but I've had fun making these videos and will probably share more snips.

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Illustration: Arthur Rackham

Mr. Graybar’s Orphans

Smoking coal out of a pipe of petrified dragon’s bone Mr. Graybar leads the orphan children home. The straight and narrow path cleared as peddlers dive and carts veer To avoid the headmaster and his charge. The thirteen ashen orphans jeer the...