| Insanity | 9.11.2008 |
I am sitting here watching 12 Monkeys and can't help but be reminded of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. The asylum scene strikes a chord with me. And that chord is resonating in strange ways. From there I jumped to the movie Session 9. And then to a book series published by DarkTales titled The Asylum.
Dark Tales put out many fine books and was a launching point for some authors who have been growing nicely. JF Gonzalez and Weston Ochse come to mind readily. There are many more, but my brain is tired and can't think of them all. They did manage to get a novel by JM Stracynzki the creator of Babylon 5.
But that isn't where I am going with this. I am lamenting the passing of DarkTales. I discovered them just in time for them to go out of business. It seems like the small press industry has a bit of a high turnover rate. Sometimes it is simply the best of intentions not being fully realized. And sometimes it was a bit worse than that. 2008 is seeing the passing of a different aspect of the small press. Shocklines.com is closing it's doors. They are well known for offering a tremendous variety of small press publishers works.
As fans of horror we need to make a stand against the entropy at work. Often new publishers and sites rise up in the void created, but we would all be better off if there were not these random voids to fill. Cemetery Dance has been around for a long time and are quite well established. As is Nightshade and Earthling and Delerium. I can't list them all, these are just the first few that come to mind. We need to support them in their insanity. They are crazy enough to try and make a go of publishing. Almost as crazy as the authors who happily sign a deal to have 300 copies of their book published. I don't fault (entirely) the publishers who limit the quantities, rather I think the readers are not fulfilling their obligations to authors and publishers. We need to create more of a demand for these books.
Bloody MonkeyZ
Dark Tales put out many fine books and was a launching point for some authors who have been growing nicely. JF Gonzalez and Weston Ochse come to mind readily. There are many more, but my brain is tired and can't think of them all. They did manage to get a novel by JM Stracynzki the creator of Babylon 5.
But that isn't where I am going with this. I am lamenting the passing of DarkTales. I discovered them just in time for them to go out of business. It seems like the small press industry has a bit of a high turnover rate. Sometimes it is simply the best of intentions not being fully realized. And sometimes it was a bit worse than that. 2008 is seeing the passing of a different aspect of the small press. Shocklines.com is closing it's doors. They are well known for offering a tremendous variety of small press publishers works.
As fans of horror we need to make a stand against the entropy at work. Often new publishers and sites rise up in the void created, but we would all be better off if there were not these random voids to fill. Cemetery Dance has been around for a long time and are quite well established. As is Nightshade and Earthling and Delerium. I can't list them all, these are just the first few that come to mind. We need to support them in their insanity. They are crazy enough to try and make a go of publishing. Almost as crazy as the authors who happily sign a deal to have 300 copies of their book published. I don't fault (entirely) the publishers who limit the quantities, rather I think the readers are not fulfilling their obligations to authors and publishers. We need to create more of a demand for these books.
Bloody MonkeyZ
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