Litquake & "The Search for the Next Elvira"

AUTHORS & BOOKS
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I'll be speaking tonight at Litquake, San Francisco's literary festival. Come by, have a drink, say hello.
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"I’d Prefer Not To: Writers Talk About Day Job Hell"

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Litquake teams up once again with San Francisco’s legendary Porch Light Storytelling series to present an eclectic mix of authors telling tales about the worst jobs they’ve ever had—without using notes or memorization.

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Marta Acosta, Robert Mailer Anderson, Jack Boulware, Dave Eggers, Milta Ortiz, Alvin Orloff, Eric Spitznagel, Frank Portman, and Cameron Tuttle

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Monday, October 8

7:30 pmPorchlight

Swedish American Hall

2174 Market Street

Admission: $15.00

(Tickets available through Ticketweb)

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Review of The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries by Karen Koehler. "Koehler’s wryly clever, action packed fiction seems to feed on two arteries: the current action oriented horror/fantasy cinema, and to a lesser extent, paranormal romance fiction." (Hellnotes)

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Review of Megan's Mark by Lora Leigh. "The hero and all his kind are not born but created in labs from a mixture of human and animal DNA. " (The Tyranny of Reading)
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MOVIES & DVDS
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Review of "The Brides of Dracula" staring Peter Cushing. "I haven’t seen too many Hammer films...but the ones I have are all pretty similarly paced: not a lot happens for 80 minutes, then there’s a big finale with a fire or explosion, and then the film ends immediately once the villain is dead, without a single word uttered from the heroes to wrap things up. I love that." (Horror Movie a Day)
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A list of horror movie classics of the 1940s, including my faves "Cat People" (1942) and "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943). "Dubbed the definitive voodoo/zombie film, this tale about a nurse who moves to Haiti to care for a plantation owner's wife is packed with enough voodoo hoodoo and reawakened bodies to make the local cemetery seem just plain dead." (CTV)
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TELEVISION
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Interview with Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira, about her career and "The Search for the Next Elvira" reality series. "They will also have to be fearless and have a fantastically cheesy sense of humor and real true love of the horror genre. ..And no modesty and no shame. Oh, for God's sake, no. Immediately they're out if they have any sense of shame whatsoever. How could I have done this for so many years if I had any shame?'' (Miami Herald)

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