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This is a blog by Andy Duncan, a fiction writer, teacher and journalist, mostly in that order.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

A blanket correction

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My wife, Sydney, is quite right to point out that the copy of Worse Things Waiting that I bragged about earlier is not my sole possession, ...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Horror: Another 100 Best Books

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My Clarion 2004 student Andy Wolverton says nice things on his ever-interesting blog about Horror: Another 100 Best Books , edited by Step...
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More on the Wizards anthology

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My Clarion 2004 student Andy Wolverton asks: Any release date on Wizards ? Co-editor Gardner Dozois tells me it should be out in May or Ju...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Bruce Chrumka asks ...

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When can we look forward to your next fine book, Mr. Duncan? Bruce, my wife, Sydney, was watching over my shoulder as I typed this, and she ...
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Friday, July 21, 2006

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 3 and 4

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The second week of TNT's Stephen King anthology series, like the first week, gave us one hit and one miss. The hit was "The End of ...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

The slippery slope

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I was delighted to get a comment from my N.C. State creative-writing classmate Trish Shore, whom I've been out of touch with for -- Gosh...

Cornwell and the Ripper

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Thanks to my Clarion 2004 student Charles Schoenfeld (and his wife, Becky) for the detailed comment (at the next post below) on Donald Rumb...

Ripper tours

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In response to my previous post, my Clarion 2004 student Trent Hergenrader writes: Have you done a Jack the Ripper walking tour in London?...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Ripperology

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Knowing my lifelong fascination with outre Victoriana, Gregory Frost passes along the latest "Jack the Ripper identified" headlin...

More American Gothic

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The photo I posted earlier of Sydney and me in the front yard inspired New York City writer and artist Kris Dikeman, one of my students at C...
Saturday, July 15, 2006

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 1 and 2

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I've been looking forward to this TNT anthology series of Stephen King adaptations, and the first episode did not disappoint. In "...
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Dead Man's Chest

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In the middle of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , the two rancid pirates Pintel (of the bad hair and teeth) and Ragetti (of ...

American Gothic

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This photo documents just how happy Sydney and I were to be doing yard work on the Fourth of July. It also documents our ongoing efforts to...
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Sunday, July 09, 2006

Incest and folk dancing

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I am amused by a quote on Andrew Wheeler's blog , from the British composer Arnold Bax : You should make a point of trying every experie...
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In brightest day

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Knowing my lifelong love of comic books, Sydney couldn't resist taking a photo of me at the intersection of old U.S. 40 and Green Lanter...
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The Grantsville lighthouse

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Turns out the Noah's Ark replica under construction in our town of Frostburg isn't the only roadside Christian attraction with a mis...

Horrors in the 100 Aker Wood

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On Saturday, Sydney and I discovered that the drive from Frostburg, Md., to Morgantown, W.Va., takes only an hour by interstate (in good wea...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Clueless again

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On his blog, Jeff VanderMeer says the fact that award-winning fiction writer Joe Hill is Stephen King's son was, until recently, ...
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The Frostburg Ark

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If not for a couple of intervening houses of little curiosity value, the back deck of our new house would afford a fine view of the Noah...

Timely name changes

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I just read on Arthur D. Hlavaty's ever-interesting blog that the Bernard Kerik Complex, a Manhattan jail, has hastily reverted to its...
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I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
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