V Is For Villains are issuing a two-pronged assault. The new Murder in the Art will be coming out as an album and as a book. Mr. Agitator (aka Nick Santiago) answered a few questions for us.
Bands work as …
Archive for the ‘Writing & Poetry’ Category
Husbands and Lap Dogs Breathe Their Last
Apr
12
Mainly Murder Press just published playwright David Steven Rappoport’s Husbands and Lap Dogs Breathe Their Last: A Cummings Flynn Wanamaker Mystery. He and I are regulars at the Owen Society for Hermetic and Spiritual Enlightenment, an offshoot of occult …
Iron Horses Can’t Be Broken
Mar
29
In January 2015, Steampunk Chicago featured Burning Brigid Media, a production company with an aim of creating stories for characters marginalized traditionally by their race, gender or orientation. They launched a serialized steampunk western, Iron Horses Can’t Be Broken…
Nietzsche’s Nervous Breakdown
Jan
05
“From life’s school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger.” –Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
On January 3, 1889, philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche saw a man about a horse. He was staying in Turin, …
Take Tea with Author Alyson Grauer
Nov
03
In lieu of the usual monthly tea, Geek Bar will be hosting a party for steampunk author Alyson Grauer. On the Isle of Sound and Wonder, released by Xchyler Publishing, reimagines Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The party …
Trilbymania!
Sep
16
George Du Maurier launched Trilbymania. His tale of the free spirited Trilby O’Ferrall sold over 200,000 copies in its first year and inspired plays, movies, fashion and introduced new terms to the English lexicon.
On September 8, 1894, the novel …
Hail Satan!
Jun
16
Charles Baudelaire published his decadent collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) on June 25, 1857. It examined Tableaux parisiens (Parisian Scenes) with an eye on the modern and Les Litanies de Satan with an exhortation …
Victorian Gothic & Steampunk Magazine Kickstarter
Apr
29
The joke goes steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown. Put the black back on because Victorian Gothic & Steampunk Magazine is looking to go corporeal! The magazine has been available digitally and print-to-order and now is running a …
Ray Johnson: Friend of the White City
Apr
14
Author Ray Johnson is truly a friend of the White City. He provides free lectures and tours on Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition via The Friends of the White City. He was kind enough to answer a few questions …
What’s In a Name?
Apr
07
In the April 1987 Locus Magazine letters column, author K.W. Jeter coined the term steampunk.…
