Macabre Republic

Where Lovers of All-American Gothic Reside

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Autumn Lauds: Poems for the Halloween Season

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Hello again to everyone out there in the Land of the Red, Black, and Blue.  Yes, it certainly has been a while since I posted here.  Las...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Jack-o'-Lantern Abecedarium: Halloween Gourds a la Gorey

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It's been fifty years since twenty-six children perished at the hand of a single man.  The sinisterly surnamed Edward Gorey, though, w...

Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#1

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[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here .] #1. "By Bizarre Hands" A Southern Gothic shocker set on Halloween,...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Trick or Treat!

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Hand over some candy while you still can.  This gourd is ready to start carving if you don't satisfy its craving. I decided to do ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#2

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[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here .] #2. "Master of Misery" We've seen already on this Countdown tha...
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Joe Nazare
I'm a former college professor (Ph.D., NYU) whose teaching and research often focused on American Gothic literature. My love for the Gothic, though, first developed as a child. I grew up on Scooby-Doo cartoons, Universal Monster movies, innumerable games of Clue, the books of Stephen King (and then anything in the horror genre I could get my hands on), The Silence of the Lambs and The X-Files. Perhaps not surprisingly, I work today as a writer in the horror/dark crime genres; my fiction and poetry can be found online and in print, in magazines and anthologies such as Shroud, Pseudopod, Harvest Hill, Death in Common, and Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes. My short story "Midnights Drearier" (an American Gothic riff on "The Raven") is available as an ebook from Damnation Books (www.damnationbooks.com). I've formed this daily blog to express my passion for American Gothic, but I also hope to build a community of fellow aficionados--those who readily inhabit, and travel undaunted through, the Macabre Republic.
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