Archive for the ‘horror’ Category
By
Mike Holliday •
Nov 5th, 2009 •
Category:
alternate worlds, Ambit magazine, body horror, censorship, horror, humour, Iain Sinclair, interviews, Lead Story, New Worlds, punk, Savoy Books, surrealism, William Burroughs
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. Mike Holliday talks to Savoy co-founder Michael Butterworth about all this and more, including the guidance Butterworth received as a young writer from J.G. Ballard.
By
Ballardian •
Jul 2nd, 2009 •
Category:
alternate worlds, architecture, body horror, celebrity culture, consumerism, features, horror, Lead Story, medical procedure, Michael Jackson, pastiche, science fiction
“As Michael Jackson reached middle age, the skin of both his cheeks and neck tended to sag from failure of the supporting structures. His naso-labial folds deepened, and the soft tissues along his jaw fell forward. His jowls tended to increase. In profile the creases of his neck lengthened and the chin-neck contour lost its youthful outline and became convex.”
By
Mike Holliday •
Jun 20th, 2009 •
Category:
crime, death of affect, fascism, features, horror, Lead Story
Mike Holliday gets to the bottom of the 1968 obscenity trial brought against Bill Butler and the Unicorn Bookshop, for stocking Ballard’s ‘Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan’. As prosecuting counsel Michael Worsley asked of Ballard’s work, “Is this not the meanderings of a dirty and diseased mind?”
By
Simon Sellars •
Oct 18th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, body horror, H.P. Lovecraft, horror, medical procedure
Ballard on horror fiction: ‘There are sudden glimpses of the shocking and unspeakable in my fiction too, so there is a certain overlap’.
By
Simon Sellars •
Aug 5th, 2008 •
Category:
alternate worlds, America, Ballardosphere, body horror, consumerism, death of affect, film, gated communities, horror, humour, micronations, urban revolt
Parallels between Ballard’s Kingdom Come and Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
By
Simon Sellars •
Jul 16th, 2008 •
Category:
alternate worlds, features, H.P. Lovecraft, horror, Lead Story, Pacific, Savoy Books
What is the connection between J.G. Ballard and H.P. Lovecraft? Artist John Coulthart is well placed to offer some insight into what he terms ‘superficial style at the service of a unique imagination’.
