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As someone who deals with clinical depression on a daily basis sometimes it's hard to see that you're loved by friends and family even though somewhere deep inside you know they do. Hell, it's even hard to love thyself when you're six fathoms deep in the sludge of depression, especially when you just went through two major back surgeries in seven weeks! (And it's because of those two surgeries

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On December 23rd I will be giving away five (5) copies of Shock Totem's Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, 2011, to those who have signed up for my author newsletter, which can be done HERE. (It is free to sign up and easy to unsubscribe if you wish to do so.) Inside this wonderful issue is my holiday memory called Irony is a Cruel Mistress. Also inside these pages are authors such as

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Before breaking into comics last year with his debut title, Beautiful Creatures (Red 5 Comics), Kurtis was a freelance writer, turning his talents to copy writing for Fantasy Flight Games. Once he discovered his passion for graphic storytelling, he pursued the art form relentlessly. His hard work paid off, with three titles hitting the shelves in Spring, 2011. The Intrepids, a bizarre James

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Joe McKinney is the San Antonio-based author of several horror, crime and science fiction novels. His longer works include the four part Dead World series, made up of Dead City, Apocalypse of the Dead, Flesh Eaters and The Zombie King; the science fiction disaster tale, Quarantined, which was nominated for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel

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Joe McKinney will be Hearing Voices' first interviewee on Sept. 16th! For this interview Joe has sent me four "signed" books, which are The Red Empire, Dead City, Flesh Eaters, and Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology to give away to a lucky follower of The Obituary of Sheldon Higdon. Note: You'll have to follow through NetworkedBlogs to win. **Details on how to win will be posted very soon. But the

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September 16th will be the first interview here at The Obituary with a helluva guy and author, so mark your calendars!

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(This is coming to you from my iPad, so let's see how this goes.) First, I apologize for my long absence from updating this here blog. This will no longer happen. Nor was it meant to. From here on I'll be updating this blog on a weekly basis, less any unforeseen problems like back surgery pop up, but I aim to keep it lively every week. Starting this Fall, mid September or so, I'll be starting a

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After all of these years I couldn’t tell you the exact date when depression scarred me. It didn’t arrive in a colorful float in a grand parade or swoop in from the azure sky like a parachutist hitting his or her mark. No, it suckered punched me, and I still bare the black eye it gave me those many years ago. No matter how deep I search my mind and push away the cobwebs and carefully step through

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If you don't know who Lee Thompson is then you should take the time to learn who he is. Lee is a helluva writer who has been all over the digital world promoting his inaugural novel Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children from Delirium. Today, he stops here at The Obituary and discusses the importance on forming a plan, and sticking to your guns no matter what outside voices tell you. And now, my good 

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The Shedby Shaun Lawton Rudy was seventeen. He lived out in the back yard, in a shed that his stepfather helped him convert into an insulated bedroom. Rudy liked it out there, separated from the glowing warmth of the main house, where his mother, stepfather, and younger brother dwelled. It was quieter and darker in the back part of the yard the shed occupied. It couldn't have been more than

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Would you like to see another contest here at The Obituary?

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First and foremost, I wanted to say "Thank You" to all of those who entered the flash fiction contest. I received an enormous amount of entries. The winner will be announced on March 1st. I hope that you all enter the next time as well and help spread the word to others who didn't know about the contest. I had originally planned a new Interview Series for debut in December but will instead roll

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Here are the official rules for the Flash Fiction Contest here at The Obit. Please adhere to the rules. 1. The contest opens for submissions on December 1, 2010 at noon. (Anything submitted before 12 pm EST will be deleted from the contest.) The contest will end on December 31st at midnight EST. (Anything submitted after will be deleted.) 2. In order to enter the contest you must be following

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My short story Hand-Carved Coffins is now for sale here at Darkside Digital for a $1.95. Get yourself a copy and let me know what you think.

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Last December (2009) I started the Guest Blogger Series in order for up and coming writers to get some insights from professionals who have been there as a beginner. To help in some small way. Well December of 2010 is upon us and the last guest blogger will be just that---the last guest blogger. Not because I can't get any more authors to blog but because (with guidance) I've decided to let it

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“Horror? Really? And you seemed like such a nice person…” People see us in a different light when they find out how we spend our days. I love that. We are distinct from them. We travel paths they dare not set foot upon. Sometimes that moment of pride is accompanied by melancholia. Writing is solitary enough a pursuit, is it not? To write horror removes us even further from the society of

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My buddy from overseas is The Obituary's fifth Guest Blogger. If you don't know who Joseph D'Lacey is then you got some catching up to do. He is an author who can take the ordinary and mundane and make it scary as hell. His work invades your brain and nestles in deep; and it won't budge until you've gone insane from the images he creates. Stephen King has been quoted by saying, "Joseph D'Lacey

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If you live in the Northeast of the country then you heard a thunderous boom on July 15th. Your windows probably rattled, car alarms wailed, and dogs barked in the night. What you didn't hear was me giggling like a school girl while my Necon cherry was being popped. And it felt good. Necon is like a friend with benefits. It's the best way to describe it. I say this because most conventions are

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You want a free short story to read? Then head on over to The Bag and the Crow's  blog site and read my short story "A Murder of Crows". Once you've read it feel free to stop back and leave a comment; they're always helpful. Stay Evil! Sheldon

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“Guidelines? We Don’t Need no Stinkin’ Guidelines!” As I write this, Shroud is in the middle of another submission period and approaching the three hundred mark in terms of individual subs. The stories run the gamut--as they always do--and demonstrate the rich (and perhaps insidious) range of ideas these writers’ imaginations can conjure. To-date, I have read about carnivorous furnishings,

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Timothy Deal is the editor and publisher of Shroud Publishing LLC, a Milton, NH publisher of dark speculative fiction. In 2007, Tim launched Shroud Magazine, the Journal of Dark Fiction and Art (a Black Quill nominee), which in 2008 was selected by Ingram Periodicals for North American retail distribution through the Barnes & Noble retail chain. He has edited three anthologies, two of which were

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Douglas E. Winter writes in his article 'Darkness Absolute: The Standards of Excellence in Horror Fiction' that "the best horror fiction is often that which breaks the perceived rules." (Winter, 124) You ask yourself what are these perceived rules? Perceived being the key word here. My answer to you would be: Hell if I know! Just kidding. Theses perceived rules or 'principles' are guidelines

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The first time I read "Cabal" was when I bought the hardback during its release when I was a teen. I loved it then and I still love it today. Although I have seen the film version 'Nightbreed' I really don't recall that much of the film. I'd have to see it again for old time's sake. But the book (or novella) always stayed with me. Maybe it was the backdrop of the Midian Cemetery being home to

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So the majority of people 'have' seen the film version of 'The Shining' by Mr. Kubrick, right? But how many of them have read the novel by Stephen King? Wow, only a few hands shot up into the air. And the hand in the back that intermittently raised and lowered in its progression only to finally heave itself up fully? We all know you're just bullshitting. Running with the crowd so put your hand

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Author’s Note: The following piece was published under the title “Why History 101 is Important” and appeared as a guest editorial in the January 15, 2003 issue of Hellnotes which, at the time, was a newsletter sent out once a week via email to subscribers. On re-reading the piece, I realized the topic is still very relevant to new writers who are emerging today. While I was at the last

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The Obituaries' Guest Blogger Series reveals its third guest blogger to be none other than fan favorite Horror/Suspense Author J.F. Gonzalez!  He is a phenominal writer who has the smarts and talent to scare the living hell out of his readers. J. F. Gonzalez is the author of several acclaimed novels of terror and suspense including Survivor, Clickers (with Mark Williams), Clickers II: The Next

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If any of you have ever seen the short film (an hour long) that was a part of the 'Masters of Horror' series, then you may like the film better. Just because it had dialogue. And because Stuart Gordon kicks ass! Witch-House I feel could've been better told through the characters instead of mouth fed to us through narration (at least it wasn't in 1st person). I would've like to have felt what

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For the most part many of you have seen the film 'Rosemary's Baby'. I haven't seen the film in a long time and it was refreshing to read the novel. I began to read it back who-knows-when but never got around to finishing it. This time I did. And even as I read it I couldn't help but think of Mia Farrow as the title character, Rosemary Woodhouse. In my mind I kept wondering as I progressed

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If you've been wondering how you can get 'The Obituary of Sheldon S. Higdon' banner to post on your site. Well now you no longer have to worry because here it is for your borrowing pleasure! * If you do post it please let me know so I can check out your site. Dig it?  ;)

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Do you like Frogs? Do you like Fish? Do you like tiaras? How about towns that were once great but have become nothing more than a decayed shell of itself? (Pittsburgh being one.) Do you love the coast? How about that fishy smell that wafts through the air and jolts straight up your nostrils? If you've answered yes to all of the above then you'll love H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'.

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The Obituaries' Guest Blogger Series started December 1st of 2009 with John Shirley. As of this blog Nate Kenyon has become the 2nd and current guest blogger. Nate appeared on Feb. 1st. All the guest blogger's run for 2 months, although their blogs remain up as older posts. The new guest blogger will be up April 1st! As of today I have the entire year lined up with guest bloggers. Six guest's in

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For this tale of horror I am squarely on the fence. I like it but at the same time I'm not a huge fan of it. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Higdon ol' boy, how so? Why so squarely and not roundly?" First of all I'll ignore your latter thought and only answer the former. As to why I'm split down the middle. (Hold all crude jokes to that last sentence). I liked it because---as a

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There are only a few constants in this life of ours. One. Death. Two. Taxes. And Three. Richard Matheson rules! He rules so much that Stephen King has credited Matheson as being the biggest influence on him as a writer, so much so that King took Matheson's name, Richard, and used it in his pen name Richard Bachman. (And if you like music then you should be able to figure out what band gave him

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In Lovecraft's 'The Music of Erich Zann', the narrator begins by telling us that he no longer can find the Rue d' Auseil--a street--on any map. And on this street there's an old creepy, crooked house that he lived in, briefly, during his University days. This automatically made me think of 'Pickman's Model' in the sense that Lovecraft used the creepy house tool in that tale as well. The creepy

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Can love make a man mad or can love tame a madman? In this case it’s both. Through the cellars beneath the Paris Opera House lives the Fiery Face and the Shade who wears a cloak and a felt hat, kicking at the darkened corners of the cellars. These two ‘beings’ seem like kittens compared to the Opera Ghost who haunts every aspect of the House. For Erik, as he is known, is smart, crafty, and madly

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I’d like to spend a few minutes talking about this crazy business we call publishing. First things first: am I qualified to make these observations and a prediction or two? Maybe, maybe not; I’ve never worked in the thick of things in New York City, never held a position at a publisher or agency or PR firm. But I am a writer with a few mass-market novels under his belt, and I work in marketing

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In 2005, Nate Kenyon sold his first novel, Bloodstone, to Five Star Publishing (Thomson Gale). Bloodstone was published a year later to critical acclaim, named a Bram Stoker Award finalist in hardcover, winning the P&E Horror Novel of the Year, and becoming one of Five Star’s all time bestselling speculative fiction titles. In 2007, mass-market paperback publisher Leisure Books signed him to a

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"From the deepest depths of punk rock's 1970s primordial wastelands, through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into the bloodstained arenas of 1990s heavy metal, Eerie Von witnessed it all. Beginning as the unofficial photographer for punk legends The Misfits and later taking charge of the bass guitar as a founding member of underground pioneers Samhain and metal gods Danzig! The evil

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Long ago I read "Pickman's Model" by Ol' Howey and after all of these years later I still find it a real good story. Not mind blowing but a really good story. Maybe that's because nothing horrifies me or maybe it's because the story was written in the 1920s and what was considered ghastly or terrorizing or outright morbid back then isn't so effective on readers today. I'd assume the latter. The

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Joyce Carol Oates wrote in her essay "The Art of Madness" that the 'nightmarish image lay at the core of the artist's inspiration'. My question to that statement is does the 'nightmarish image' create the inspiration/art or does the inspiration/art create the 'nightmarish image'? She continued by giving an example such as The Rape by surrealist Magritte, noting that by combining the female

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First the hair. Okay. So since the rumour mill has died down I have finally decided to reveal what it is that actually lies beneath my Boston beanie. Now some of you thought that I was completely bald, wearing a fake ponytail dangling from the backside. Others thought I had some sort of horseshoe hairdo with the aforementioned ponytail wig. Others even thought that my pet hedgehog, Junk Biter,

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Five reasons I wear black, even at Christmas--are five reasons I write noir... Introduction An acquaintance of mine who talks (unaffectedly) like an Elmore Leonard character confronts me: "Why you always wearing black, man? That a Goth statement or what? Ain't like, you know, it's non-conformist, all the people wear black". I just shrug and say, "It's the closest thing I've got to being part

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The brand new banner for this site was done by my good buddy Chad Gennuso. Chad is very talented and a very nice guy. Chad Gennuso is an artist and painter who specializes in both freehand and digital airbrush. He has ten years experience in custom airbrushing, and has also freelanced as a model kit painter. He recently finished working on the stop-motion animated movie called, "Coraline"

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“The horror, the horror...” said Brando in Apocalypse Now. An expressionistic film, it was nevertheless a portrait of the real life excesses and mundane atrocities of the Viet Nam war. But Poe and Lovecraft and those great Derleth anthologies---even the most fanciful and eldritch of those stories---are also about real life. They’re about death and guilt and the fear of being trapped; they’re

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Yeah, you heard me right. JOHN SHIRLEY! John Shirley is the author of numerous books and many, many short stories. His novels include Bleak History, Crawlers, Demons, In Darkness Waiting, and seminal cyberpunk works City Come A-Walkin', and the A Song Called Youth trilogy of Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. His collections include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild

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So here I am. I finally have an actual blog site where anyone can leave comments about my thoughts, ideas, suggestions, or rants. Just about no topic is off limits for me to write about here on this site I call, The Obituary. I'll write about funny experiences I've had or about writing. Talk about films or comics. And have a discourse about politics and social issues.  I may even bring up the

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