Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues | Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
Nov.07.2009
Dean Estes is a longtime resident of San Francisco. He contributed a few stories, sidebars, and one illustration to Morbid Curiosity magazine. His topics have included the phenomenon of sleep paralysis and "night terrors" and an experience of small-town prejudice on the Fourth of July....
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Nov.06.2009
An ex B-movie actress with a background in theatrical sword-fighting, Dana Fredsti works with big cats at an exotic feline conservation center, loves good wine, bad movies, zombies, and surfing. Under the nom de plume Inara LaVey, she’s written stories such as “Succubusted” and a novel...
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Nov.05.2009
To celebrate the release of Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, a new book drawn from the pages of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity, Pegasus Books Downtown hosts a reading November 7 at 7:30 p.m. All stories guaranteed true!
Featured readers:
* Darren Mckeeman hunts the Zodiac
* A. M....
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Nov.05.2009
Allegra Lundyworf has been a suburban goth, a freight-hopping squatterpunk, a hardware store soft-butch, a curly-horned rock violinist, a mild-mannered receptionist, a leader of mobs of curious and hungry pedestrians, and a keeper of hundreds of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. She currently helps...
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Nov.04.2009
LGBTQ contributors were the heart of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. To celebrate the release of a new book drawn from the magazine's pages, Books Inc. on Market hosts a reading on November 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Featured stories:
* Claudius Reich survives a nail bomb on Old Compton Street,...
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Nov.04.2009
Dorian Katz is a visual artist who has shown her work most recently at the Museum of Death in Hollywood and at the Climate Theater in San Francisco. She is in the graduate studio art program at Stanford University. Her artwork appeared in 8 of the 10 issues of the magazine. Her only story, “This...
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Nov.03.2009
Claudius Reich describes himself an aging Bohemian who lives in San Francisco. Some of his stranger essays have been published in the books Lend The Eye A Terrible Aspect and Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries, as well as in five of Morbid Curiosity magazine. He has written about why we...
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Nov.02.2009
Over the next little while, I plan to host the contributors to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues here at my blog. There are 50 of them in the book, ranging from award-winning mystery writers to people who’ve had a single story published. They are grandmothers, gay activists, artists, lawyers, hair...
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Nov.01.2009
Can Morbid Curiosity cure the blues?
To celebrate the release of a new book drawn from the pages of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity, Dark Carnival Bookstore hosts a reading today, November 1, from 2 to 3 p.m. All stories guaranteed true!
Editor Loren Rhoads will read and discuss...
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Oct.27.2009
It had to happen. The reading in Half Moon Bay this last Saturday had the smallest audience yet: three (two SOs and a close friend) plus the bookstore staff. I felt terrible for having asked my readers to slog through October traffic over the hill for so little benefit. They were wonderful, though...
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