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Die Gerüchte meines Todes ...

Die Gerüchte meines Todes …

Yet again it has been months since I’ve written anything on here, and even longer since I abandoned the blue time-suck of doom (Faceache) and for that I feel kinda bad. Kinda. Hahaha. (Apologies if you’ve tagged me or messaged me in the last six months or so. I promise that I’ll get around to logging back in properly to check that sort of stuff at some point.) As it is every time that I log in I…

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Ich Bin Ein Brexugee

Ich Bin Ein Brexugee

It’s official, I’m an utterly awful blog writer type person. I’ve also been an utterly awful social media type person for a month or so as I’ve been hiding from Farcebook in order to preserve my sanity, what with all the Donary Trumpton fighting in the USofA and otherwise rational people in the UK thinking that the Labour Party offer any kind of… yeah, that’s the sort of thing that I’ve been…

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Really? Really?!?

Ffs, I go away for a few days and look what you get up to. Sometimes it can be nice to be proven right but sometimes it’s also nice when my inherent cynicism is proven wrong. It really would have been nice if the beings with whom I share this poxy little island had made an effort to prove themselves to be something other than jabbering slack jawed xenophobic forelock tugging fucking yokels.

Serio…

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Self Damned and be Published!

Self Damned and be Published!

A couple of days ago, as anyone unlucky enough to be on my Facebook friends list will have noticed, I released a new chapbook: We are the Makers of Maps. (Buy it here, give me your monies!) Over the course of my spamming the hairy hell out of Facebook, Twitter, and even Google+ I got into a couple of conversations with some writer friends. People who have been about this whole wordy thing a lot…

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From the new book, ‘We are the Makers of Maps’

USA: www.amazon.com/We-Are-Makers-Maps-Baader/dp/1533345848/

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Are-Makers-Maps-Baader/dp/1533345848

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We are the Makers of Maps

We are the Makers of Maps

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. -Yi fu Tuan ‘Landscapes of Fear’

So, after what seems like a forever of anxiety driven huhming and hahing I finally approved the proof copy of my chapbook We are the Makers of Mapswhich is, therefore, now available for sale on that there Amazon place. It’s…

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Are We a Wave?

Are We a Wave?

Recently the Canadian author Simon Strantzas issued his Weird Manifesto, see below, I would like to string a few words together to contribute to the discussion. Some, or all, of these words may be utter baloney and I look forward to hearing why.

I posit that if ‘The Weird’ is indeed a thing which is a part of, but distinguishable within, the wider horror literature it has grown from Nicolay’s…

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Free Speech, or Vomiting into the Liberal Abyss

Free Speech, or Vomiting into the Liberal Abyss

Last week there was a brouhaha in the horror fiction community when known fascist David A.Riley (the A is important as there is another genre writer called David Riley who is, by all accounts, a good egg) was appointed to sit on the jury of the upcoming Stoker awards held by the Horror Writers Association(HWA). I wasn’t initially going to write anything about this latest incident as once members…

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The Numbers of the bEast, or How Dame Did Me Wrong For Joe Pulver, the real bEast. Her name was Dame. When she walked into the bar our eyes met through the yellow blue cigarette haze.

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Achievement Unlocked I've had this story, The Downfall of the Good Worker laura McTavish, knocking around my head for a year or more now.

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The Widow

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It's Goodbye from Me and Hello from Him

It’s Goodbye from Me and Hello from Him

It has taken me nearly two weeks to write this post. Due to a procession of unfortunate events which have lead to a drastic change in my circumstances over the last few months I shall no longer be producing fiction nor blogging under the name A W Hendry. That’s not to say that I shan’t be writing -far from it- I have simply had to change my name and so I am retiring this blog as of today. I…

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The Outer Dark | Weird/Horror Interviews with Scott Nicolay

Today sees the launch of a new podcast series from weird renaissance author Scott Nicolay, you can read my review of his fantastic collection Ana Kai Tangata here, which will feature weekly interviews with people working in the weird/horror field. Today’s inaugural show features an interview with Livia Llewellyn, who I have raved about here in the past, which will make for a really interesting…

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Two Hunnerd

It seems that this is the two hundredth post on my blog. Since I started it at the beginning of last year some things have happened,some others haven’t, and in that time I’ve had story published online with another one due out this autumn and I’ve released a wee ebook sampler of my stories. I finished my studies at university but still haven’t landed a job in my chosen career -hey ho.

I wonder…

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Laugh into the Dark

Laugh into the Dark

Nightmare Magazine runs a regular column, ‘The H Word’ which looks at various issues pertaining to horror literature. The most recent column, subheaded ‘Why Do We Read Horror‘ is by Mike Davis of the wonderful Lovecraft Ezine. He begins his piece by bravely giving an example of some of the abuse that he suffered as a child whilst growing up in a religious cult -he has mentioned this on the Ezine…

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Crowd Funding Success!

Not. :/

Well, that was a damp squib of a crowd funding exercise. :D It would probably have helped if I felt confident enough to have pimped the campaign a bit more but I feel awkward enough trying to sell the stories I’ve written let alone asking for donations from complete strangers. :(

Ach well, I’ll leave the campaign running on the off chance that some wealthy weird fiction aficionado should…

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Totally No Homophobe

In which I laugh at a bigot and then get all shirty about the new-new-new left.

Bigots make me laugh sometimes, they really do. I’ve lost count of the amount of conversations I have had over the years that have panned out almost exactly thus:

Bigot: *”Something racist/sexist/homophobic/twatty”* Me: “Um, dude, that’s a bit kinda, you know, racist/sexist/homophobic/twatty” Bigot: “How dare you call…

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