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--John Wright

Waverly Hills Sanitorium

via the Louisville and Kentucky blog:

Dave Sim's Glamourpuss #2

The second issue of Dave Sim's Glamourpuss, which was reviewed in the last issue of the SLM, will be on the stands in July. You can learn more at Sim's blog, and see an example of his photorealistic approach below:

Now more than a rumor

The Southern Literary Messenger is now at work with Fantastic Horror to produce joint issues (or a joint issue) for October. Much of the material will be themed according to the season and we hope to see that the FH and SLM material are complementary in approach and subjects.

This is still 3 months off, so there are details to work out, but I hope to have much more to say in a month or so.

Gratuitous Borges

"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books — setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them... A more reasonable, more inept, and more lazy man, I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books."

at Wikipedia
at The Modern Word
The Garden of Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden of Forking Paths


If you find this Borges inappropriate or disturbing, please write an angry letter and address it to:

Department of Annoying Borgeses
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505

Gratuitous Hedge Mazes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_Maze

http://www.labyrinthos.net/graphics05.htm

http://www.labyrinthos.net/f_homepage.htm

Interview with Mark Samuels

The third issue of the Southern Literary Messenger, due out August 1st, will feature an interview with horror writer Mark Samuels. He'll talk about his new book Glyphotech and answer a few questions about some of his favorite writers.

For more information about Samuels, visit his site at the link above or read about him on the blog at Fantastic Horror.

Gratuitous poetry

"Psychology and Other Pathologies" by Tom Greening

More gratuitous Vivaldi

From Youtube.com

The epigraph of SLM #2

There is no greater Monster in Being, than a very ill Man of great Parts.

The Spectator, No. 6, Wednesday, March 7, 1711. Richard Steele.

Now accepting fiction and poetry

Now that there are two issues out, I've decided to start hunting for fiction and poetry. The guidelines have been correspondingly updated at the blog, forum and main site, and I hope that readers will respond.

Submissions may be sent to submissions@southernliterarymessenger.com.

Fantastic Horror 6

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