FEATURED FICTION - HORROR
Penny Dreadful: A Serial Novella
> HERE KITTY, KITTY, KITTY
If I was right about her, I could be in danger. I was never afraid of the dark. So, why did I feel this way? "I know this sounds kind of kooky, but why don't we take a stroll in the cemetery?" Read the second part of Travis Black's spine-chilling story.
PUSHING THE DAGGER OF PERCEPTION THROUGH THE DRAPES OF NARRATIVE ESSAY > "The important thing was to have found a writer, a brilliant writer, who escaped all the schemes they had so worthily dismantled for us at university." It was at university that TIM PARKS, the greatest living English novelist, discovered Henry Green. His "short circuitry of thought and syntax" has remained with him ever since.
Fiction - MONSTERS
> "Virginia called us that night and then she only called us a few more times. The calls stopped. The next week she didn't show up for class. It was odd, but so was she, so neither one of us thought too much about it until we got a phone call from a man called Earl Hagbard." Read Anita
Dalton's short story.
LITERATURE IN CYBERSPACE II PREVIEW
> Avant-pop? Ambient fiction? Neuromantic? Designwriting? Fiction installations? Lit-hop? Guillaume Destot and Andrew Gallix have met MARK AMERIKA, the embodiment of the future of literature. They offer you a sneak preview of their exclusive non-virtual interview with the cybermaster: AN AMERIKAN IN PARIS.
Vox Populi Column
> ANIMAL EXTINCTION: IRRATIONAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR "There is undeniable human arrogance afoot when it is claimed that the dinosaurs were a species that failed." By Tom Waltz.
Buzzwords Column > Andrew Gallix brings you cutting-edge LITERARY NEWS from around the world (watch for ongoing exclusive features on the new Parisian literary movement called the neo-Hydropathes).
Fiction - THE FORAGER
>"Most were men just older than himself, late thirties, early forties; they weren`t bums, indeed a few of them had a few quid, new motors, were building their own houses, family men. Yet as he took in their faces, he was struck by the same pervading degeneracy and low-life guile." By Bruce Downie.
Musik Sans Frontieres Column
> WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER: DEAD MUSICIANS ON THE INTERNET
"Ever wonder where Jerry Garcia had his ashes scattered? What Kurt Cobain wrote in his suicide note? Or, as I did listening to his final recording of "My Funny Valentine," if Chet Baker simply couldn't take it anymore?" By Vincent Abbate.
> AMERICAN FEAR: A REPORT FROM THE NRA FRONTLINE
"Two full halls, displaying enough raw guns and ammo to maintain a cozy dictatorship in South America for a few months. If you can shove it into a gun and blow it out of the other end, they've got it here on the floor. Smokeless gunpowder. A guy in camouflage that's so mind-bendingly real a dog may well come over to piss on him at any second. I keep my eyes peeled, but no such luck." By Cliff Montgomery.
Are & Be Column
> INTERNATIONAL MUSIC IN REVIEW
"The so-called 'French touch' of Daft Punk or Air is one thing, but here is something too rarely heard of: Frenchies playing rock with lyrics in English." Guillaume Destot reviews albums by Phoenix, Hobotalk and Stevie
Wonder. Eclectic or what?
3 A.M. Book Reviews
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New 3 A.M. writer James Brundage taps into the world of KURT VONNEGUT with a review of GALAPAGOS.
3 A.M. Films
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"There's no business like show business, and nobody knows this like the men who made DR. NO." James Brundage deconstructs the James Bond phenomenon.
"No experience even remotely compares with true eros, with long and lavish love-making . . . Never does the world seem so freshly painted, so brightly enamelled, so new, for heaven's sake, as after the best sex." A new lick of paint, anyone? Read the health warning first! World-famous novelist Tim Parks on "intelligently pert breasts" and "perceptively warm thighs."
Acclaimed S&M artist SARDAX tells Andrew Gallix that Art is a stern mistress.
