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Mar

19

2021

Reptiles, Fairies and Gremlins, Oh My! PNW Horror Collection Virtual Launch 3/19, 7 pm

Originally published for OLY ARTS by Molly Gilmore. Jonah Barrett wouldn’t be insulted if anyone said their first book was monstrous. That’s because Barrett’s short-story collection Moss Covered Claws, dropping March 18, is all about monsters. Barrett of Olympia, a filmmaker, fantasy writer, and OLY ARTS contributor, is launching the book with an online reading and talk at …

Jan

29

2021

An Original Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner Silvia Moreno-Garcia

People tend to think of mushrooms as the fleshy food items found in the produce aisle, each one growing in isolation and popping up suddenly after the rains. But a mushroom is only one fragment of a fungus colony. When a mushroom pops up, it’s because the mycelium, a network of long microscopic fibers, has …

Aug

18

2020

Viewers Love “Lovecraft Country”

Sunday night marked the debut of “Lovecraft Country,” an HBO series based on Seattle author Matt Ruff‘s novel of the same title. The series is produced by a stellar team that includes Misha Green (who wrote the first episode) and Jordan Peele. Here’s the summary of the show: Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the …

Mar

6

2020

1

remark

Reading for a Pandemic

Kirkland, WA was the site of the first reported cases of coronavirus in the US. The governor of WA, Jay Inslee, declared a state of emergency (as have CA and MD). Large tech employers have instructed employees to work from home and one school district has closed for up to two weeks while they transition …

Oct

31

2018

Small Spaces

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

When are scarecrows truly creepy? When it is close to Halloween! And– when they stalk children and seem to have been making people disappear for over a hundred years. But I get ahead of myself. Eleven-year-old Ollie finds a distraught woman threatening to throw a book into a raging river. Ollie saves (steals) the book …

Oct

24

2018

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt

How about some fairy tale horror set in Colonial New England? In Laird Hunt’s In the House in the Dark of the Woods, we have the story of a woman named Goody, who goes out one day to pick berries. Naturally, she stays out after dark and gets lost. But she gets found by a …

Mar

23

2018

Matt Young author photo by Tara Monterosso

Reading with… Matt Young

Published in Shelf Awareness March 14, 2018 Matt Young is a Marine Corps veteran, teacher and writer. His work can be found in Incoming: Veteran Writers on Coming Home,Consequence magazine, Split Lip, Word Riot, Tin House, River Teeth and many others. He teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington State. He is …

Sep

28

2017

There's Someone Inside Your House

There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

This chilling high school slasher story has all the elements of romance that are expected from Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss), with the added thrill of a suspenseful whodunit mystery and increasingly gruesome horror. –Lucy, teen reviewer for Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Get a copy from Queen Anne Book Company or …

Oct

31

2016

New Annotated H P Lovecraft

The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft edited by Leslie Klinger

If you are a Lovecraft fan then this is the book for you. A bio of Lovecraft, 900+ pages of stories with commentary from a respected Lovecraft scholar. And it feels like it has the weight of the forbidden knowledge… –Bruce DeLaney, Rediscovered Books, Boise, ID Impressively creepy all year long, this is available at …

Aug

5

2014

2

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Hot Zone

Contagion. Epidemic. Pandemic.

I don’t know how it happened, but there’s not a lot in this world that I’m afraid of. Not really afraid of, anyway. Clowns are rather terrifying (and also NOT FUNNY), but in spite of what movies may tell me, I don’t believe that they’re all cleaver-wielding homicidal maniacs waiting to slaughter me in my …

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