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Yes, very boring. I worked a lot over the weekend (which means reading for the Best Horror #3) but I got to watch one other movie.
I re-watched A History of Violence directed by David Cronenberg and based on a graphic novel I've not read. I enjoyed the movie as much as I did the first time I saw it on the big screen. Great acting by Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, and Ed Harris.
Seemingly mild-mannered family man and diner owner in a rural town becomes local hero when he kills a couple of thugs who try to rob the place and commit mayhem. Soon, there's a visit from out of town thugs who say he's a different guy from Phillie. Really well-done.
I read stories from a number of single author collections. So far, best horror collection of the year, hands down is Laird Barron's Occultation. There are three originals in it and one reprint that appeared for the first time in S.T. Joshi's Lovecraftian anthology (2010), Black Wings. And four stories I published in previous years.
I started reading a couple of other collections and found the stories so unremittingly depressing that I had to skip to some other books.
Right now I'm about 3/4 of the way through the excellent (but mostly not horror) original anthology Songs of Love and Dying edited by George R. R. Martina and Gardner Dozois. The stories are interesting and varied, and although the cover sort of implies that the book is paranormal romance, it's not. Most of the stories so far are dark fantasy and there are at least two hard-edged horror stories by M.L.N. Hanover (a pseudonym) and Marjorie M. Liu. I'll finish the last six stories tomorrow.
I re-watched A History of Violence directed by David Cronenberg and based on a graphic novel I've not read. I enjoyed the movie as much as I did the first time I saw it on the big screen. Great acting by Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, and Ed Harris.
Seemingly mild-mannered family man and diner owner in a rural town becomes local hero when he kills a couple of thugs who try to rob the place and commit mayhem. Soon, there's a visit from out of town thugs who say he's a different guy from Phillie. Really well-done.
I read stories from a number of single author collections. So far, best horror collection of the year, hands down is Laird Barron's Occultation. There are three originals in it and one reprint that appeared for the first time in S.T. Joshi's Lovecraftian anthology (2010), Black Wings. And four stories I published in previous years.
I started reading a couple of other collections and found the stories so unremittingly depressing that I had to skip to some other books.
Right now I'm about 3/4 of the way through the excellent (but mostly not horror) original anthology Songs of Love and Dying edited by George R. R. Martina and Gardner Dozois. The stories are interesting and varied, and although the cover sort of implies that the book is paranormal romance, it's not. Most of the stories so far are dark fantasy and there are at least two hard-edged horror stories by M.L.N. Hanover (a pseudonym) and Marjorie M. Liu. I'll finish the last six stories tomorrow.
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