In part one of my Chinese cinema trilogy, I chat with Dan Halsted the lead programmer at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon. He is the Indiana Jones of Kungfu cinema who unearth 8,000 pounds of 35 MM prints that are now traveling the world being screened everywhere. In this interview, we go deep on how he rescued the prints of these classic movies. We also get into must-watch classics and talk about the film scene in Portland, one of the aspects of PDX I miss since returning to San Diego.

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In the last years, Eric Guignard and his imprint Dark Moon Books have become a  leader in high-quality short horror fiction. In part by releasing excellent anthologies but also the Exploring Dark Fiction series.   Five books into the series am always excited to see a book of this series in my mailbox. All five books are not just entertaining but the type of collection that teaches the art of the horror short story. This series does such a wonderful job of highlighting an author and showing many sides of their skills.  

Each book comes with: 

• Six short stories. • An author interview. •  Complete bibliography. • Academic commentary on each story by Michael  Arnzen, Ph.D.  

So I am excited to welcome  Author, Editor, and publisher Eric Guignard,  and we are also joined by author and academic Michael Arnzen who teaches horror fiction at Seton Hill.  In this episode, we talk about each book in this important series.   There is a lot to learn every if you have not read the books, but anyone interested in the craft of dark short fiction should be interested in this series. 

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In this episode of  Postcards from a Dying World we speak with  Daniel Kraus the man hired by the Romero estate to finish the novel  George A. Romero was writing at his death. The director of Night of  Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and many more created the zombie genre in  1968 and this novel The Living Dead will serve as his final statement.

In this interview, we talk about the influence of  Romero, How Kraus came up as an author, working with two famous masters of horror and the nuts  and bolts of taking Romero's unfinished novel, and the hard work it took to finish the 700-page book.

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s The Death and Life  of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top  10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards, YALSA Best  Fiction for Young Adults, and was a Bram Stoker finalist.

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In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I talk to the author of the novel American War Omar El-Akkad. This novel is a Cli-fi Dystopia about a second American civil war that stands as a political allegory for Omar to shine a light on the War on Terrorism.

Omar El Akkad was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a  teenager and now lives in the United States. As a journalist, he covered the war on terror on the ground. For the next decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper  Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists.

This interview was recorded on the Sunday before the American election and Omar's insight into global conflict is important if you have read American War or not. I think the book is a great read but the interview is interesting just as much for Omar's wide experience as a journalist. What does cover the War on Terrorism on the ground tell us about the current knife's edge America is balanced on?

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In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am excited to welcome Writer, Producer, and Director Brannon Braga. His first job in Hollywood was writing for Star Trek the Next Generation before being the showrunner of Voyager and Enterprise. He also wrote two films in the Star Trek franchise. A three-time Emmy nominee Braga is currently working on The Orville and Cosmos.

In this episode, however, we are talking about his first film as director an adaptation of Clive Barker's classic anthology series The Books of Blood. The first twenty minutes of the conversation is about Horror fiction, Clive's influence, and Braga's working relationship with the master of the Dark Fantastique. Then Braga and I get into the nuts and bolts of writing this film.

The film The Books of Blood plays in interesting ways with structure and story Braga has much to teach writers about the craft of horror storytelling with this film. I am excited that he gave us some insight into the process. We also nerd out about Clive Barker deep cuts, the genius of Stephen Graham Jones, Paperbacks from Hell, and a little bit of Star Trek and The Orville.

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This episode of Postcards is a special one. Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of several groundbreaking books in the bizarro sub-genre, but he was always on the more horror end of the genre. He becomes the first returning interview. So go back and listen to Episode 6 that was recorded in 2017.

Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. This is a spoiler-filled discussion on the nuts and bolts behind the writing of this book a must-listen for writers. Fans of the Loop will enjoy the peek behind the curtain.

If you stick around you'll get a little Cronenberg and Prince of Darkness talk too! 

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Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices.  This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well.

In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings.  They carrying the flag for Butler in one of the most exciting ways possible. Starting with Butler's classic novel about the horrors of Slavery Kindred. The book went on to win the 2017 Bram Stoker award for the best graphic novel.

This year they followed that release with an adaptation of Butler's most popular book The Parable of the Sower. This interview is a fun look at the process beyond the creation of the books, the choices the team made adapting the novel, and of course the importance of Octavia Butler.

John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.

Damian Duffy Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on computers & culture, and social media & global change.

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This is one of my favorite episodes yet! Rose O'Keefe is the owner and editor of the world's most prolific cult publisher Eraserhead Press. Besides the mainline Eraserhead has Deadite Press, Fungasm and more for imprints. Over almost two decades in business, Rose has published hundreds of weird books. With a passion for planning and thinking several steps ahead, Rose has been one of the major voices of a literary movement.

Since most of my books were published by Deadite and Eraserhead I have had the pleasure of working with Rose. I wanted to give the world a deeper look at Rose the artist.

I have included links to Eraserhead books on Bookshop.org. Pick a local bookstore and pick some up.

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