OCTOBER 25, 2011 1:55AM

October 25th - Recession Specials

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I’m one to celebrate the wide world of possibilities opened up by e-publishing.  It’s making millionaires of imaginative young women.  Maybe it's romantic naivete on my part, but I love that it can be DIY and democratic, so anyone can try to find an audience if they want to.  If a lot of it is garbage unworthy of publication, so what?  I want to be able to find my garbage on Amazon one day years later and smile.

I also believe many of the independent e-publishers will be the Weird Tales, Science Fiction Magazine and other classic pulp anthology collections/periodicals of today.  They’ll be where we find our next Asimovs, Lovecrafts, Bradburys, McCaffreys.

I certainly enjoy One Buck Horror, a collection of short little spooky fictions for only 99 cents.  I recently downloaded volume 2 and liked all of the stories.  Ones that stand out include “What Swims These Waters” by Daniel Ausema - who knew you could make a story about not being able to feel your feet? – “Holes” by Sean Logan, an urban tale of drug addiction and monstrosities from other worlds, and “The Afterlife of Ellen Easterling” by Michael Penkas, haunting both for its ghost and its serial killer.  David Bischoff and Adam Howe also present us with their excellent and compelling stories “Beastie” and “3 Monkeys”, respectively.

The e-books come with another fun pleasure: original and sensational cover art (see above by artist Shawn Conn.  Pulp covers are quite an artform, and many times with the pulp anthologies of old, the prose inside could be bad, but the cover was the real artistic triumph, the piece that told the story and evoked the imagination.

There are 3 volumes currently out, and a “sister e-publication” called One Buck Zombies.  I’ve yet to be interested in prose about zombies, but I will give it a shot.

Why not? I only have ninety-nine cents and a good night’s sleep to lose.

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Great idea~~

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October 25, 2011 01:37 PM

I'm a fan of the old horror movies that are now cult classics, myself. Posted a piece about "Carnival of Souls" today if you want to stop by. Rated.

Erica K

October 25, 2011 04:52 PM

I LOVE the idea of the One Buck Horror. A fiction "Blue Light Special" in a way. Read away and lose some sleep.

While I'm also big on getting something very good at a low price, I also have this love of very low, low budget badness (for aesthetic, see: John Waters, Mike Kelley, Museum of Bad Art, etc).

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