A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Wikimedia Commons It's another fourth Monday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie review! In a Book-To-Movie (BTM), we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. A few years back, we had a BTM for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and its movie adaptation. However, the movie we reviewed was actually a segment in Roger Corman’s anthology film, "Tales of Terror", which features three of Poe's short stories, including "Black Cat". And I'll tell you now, I liked that version far more than the version that we're going to review today which is the 1934 Universal adaptation starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. I like Corman's version better mostly because it stays more faithful to the original short story than Universal's does. However, even though Universal's "Black Cat", directed by Edgar Ulmer, strays (excuse the pun) far from Poe's short stor...

Credit: Wikipedia When I apologised for missing last month's book to movie in last Wednesday's blog hop post , I said I would try to make it up with something movie- and prose fiction-related. Well, prose fiction includes the authors who make it, so I wanted to tell you about a Stephen King short film that’s been lost to the masses’ memories almost since it released in the mid 1990s. And of all things Stephen King, this move was a musical that starred Michael Jackson! Don’t believe me? Read on and maybe you will.  In the 1990s, Stephen King came out with a short musical film that he wrote and that starred Michael Jackson. King is definitely not known for making musicals whereas Michael Jackson’s been nearly synonymous with them (music videos).  However, according to Screen Rant , Jackson had a story idea for the film and asked King to write the story in which he did. The movie was eventually titled “Ghosts” and released in 1996. However, almost since then, it’s been lost to so...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. In this monthly blog hop, we are presented with an optional question in which this month’s is When you are working on a story, what inspires you? I’ll answer that one in a little bit. I also have some news on my Book-To-Movie review series and the progress of my upcoming book of short fiction. So, keep reading! IWSG Question of the Month Again, the optional IWSG question for May is When you are working on a story, what inspires you? There are several things that inspire me while working on a story. These are anything from my favourite authors in the science fiction and horror genres to movies in those same genres. Because of that last one and my love for the medium of film, I often write as if my story were a movie. That means, wh...