I just finished the book and I have now just finished watching the movie ...
The first thing that comes to my mind is that so much of the book was lost....
almost too much.I think that if I didnt read the book first, I would have hated this movie.but then again, that little fact could also be the reason I dont care for it. most movies are never as good as the book, and that was one hell of a good book It is not the worst movie I have ever seen, but I am just too dissapointed in it to give it any praise
not quite the horrific car accident that I thought it would be..... more like a fender-bender... take a quick look and be on your way LOL
am I wrong ??? what do you think ????

I have been futilely seeking to locate an avatar, where does one find pictures that meet the 80 x 80 specifications or are there ways around this? I thought it might be cool to use a book cover as one, so off I went to http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk to peruse some possibilities and I discover that you have edited another anthology. I love the cover and the title but there was no furhter information on it. Naturally I have a couple of questions. First, what is the theme of the anthology and did you contribute a new story to it? Next, how difficult is it to act as an editor? In fact, I'm curious about the entire process if you don't mind sharing.

Scott

FPW, Hi there. I did email a few weeks ago, to the email address that you've replied to me with in the past, but got no reply, so am wondering a) if you ever got the emails, or b) if you did, and just didn't want to answer. Anywho, I will ask again.

The reason I write is that a friend of mine has just started publishing a Horror magazine called 'The Horror Express' in the UK, which has thus far had fiction / interview contributions from Graham Masterton, Storm Constantine, Shaun Hutson, Simon Clark, Christopher Fowler and others, and he asked me if I would contact you to see whether you would agree to do an email interview for the magazine to accompany a feature about your works he has asked me to write.

He also wondered if it would be possible for him to reprint one of your older short stories as well - I don't know which as he has left it up to me to discuss this with you and see which if any you would have no problems with being reprinted. I don't know where we would stand with copyrights.

#2 is due for publication at the beginning of June (already at the printers), so nothing from yourself would be likely to appear until #4, so that would give him / us plenty of time.

As the magazine is still in it's infancy (still waiting to be picked up by a UK distributor), he is unable to pay for submissions at the moment, but is sending a submission copy out for each inclusion. Hopefully that will change soon.

We would both be very grateful if you would agree to this.

I look forward to hearing from you

Kind regards and best wishes

kevin

I'm about to discuss the book in fair detail, giving away some major plot points, so don't read on if you haven't read it and want to remain spoiler free.

Still with me? Cool.

I finished the book yesterday, thoroughly enjoyed it, thought Carole was one of the most interesting characters Paul has ever written, and loved the sheer badass nature of the vamps.

Now, I hadn't read the novellas, but I'm trying to figure out what came from what. Let me have a go, and if someone can tell me if I'm right or wrong then that'll be much appreciated y'all.

Now I've seen the movie Midnight Mass, so I'm thinking the whole Father Joe and St. Anthony's liberation was the plot for that one. That was easy. BTW having now read the inspiration for the film I must say they did a pretty faithful job of recreating it. Still not sure about the atheism angle versus judaism, and the overacting just drags the whole thing down, but kudos to them for staying fairly close to the story.

So, Good Friday. It seems obvious that this is Carole's flashbacks to when the vamps first arrived at Lakewood, but the flashbacks seemed quite short and worked so well as flashbacks I'm doubting myself. I'll stick to it though.

Which leaves The Lord's Work. I'm gonna have to go with Carole's endevours against the cowboys, but where that ends I'm not sure. Does it go so far as to killing Gregor? Is the issue of GetGuards broached in any of the above shorts? And if this is the case, which came first, Good Friday or The Lord's Work? And did Father Joe and Sister Carole know one another in the short stories? Did The Lord's Work, or more specifically Carole's role in it, finish in the same way the novel Midnight Mass does?

It was a great book and all the more so considering the individual stories were melded so well together.

Is a sequel needed? No. Could there be one? Yes. I'd love to read more about the cattle farms, about Joe's place in the world, about why the cross and catholicism (sp?) is so entwined with the vamps. Maybe one day Paul will honour us so, but not before the Keep Prequel

Thanks Paul.

Dave

Just got mine: Every Universal Frankenstein, Wolfman, and Dracula (including the Spanish language Dracula that was shot at night on the same sets used by the Lugosi vresion during the day) along with busts of all three. Can't wait to see these again.

This is a question that has thwarted me for years. IF, in any story, Vampires need blood to survive, and they end up taking over the world - what happens to their food supply?

I promised to post this about a month ago but, well, here it is. Better late then never!

My wife has just finished Gateways (my turn now!) and having become quite a fan of Jack was aghast that he was unable to work out how to use a French Press (we call them cafetierres over here) without resorting to the internet. This has quite shaken her faith in him!

So, is Jack not as bright as he could be, or just inept in the kitchen?

Discuss....

Received today from Gauntlet Press:

CRISSCROSS, the new Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson, is set for an on-time release of June 2004 (a month earlier than most of our Repairman Jack novels). But, good news for our customers: our printer worked overtime to get copies of this book for our customers even sooner.
We will be receiving, at the end of this week, about 300 copies of the Numbered edition of CRISSCROSS (with the slipcases arriving soon afterwards). So, if you want a copy of this book sent to you next week, you will need to order it at this time. Otherwise you will receive your copy in a few weeks, when the remaining copies of the Numbered edition (along with the Lettered edition) arrive to our offices.

CRISSCROSS will probably sell out on or soon after publication. Although we fill our pre-orders first, dealer orders follow immediately afterwards. We already have over 100 orders from Baker & Taylor and Ingram. We won't fill those orders until we've serviced all of our customers, but once we send those dealer copies out (and we expect additional orders from these major distributors), chances are the book will be sold out.
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Since the owner of Gauntlet (Barry Hoffman) lives in the same city as I do, it's been difficult to avoid showing up at his front door to claim my copy!

Did anyone else order The Touch through Shockline and, if so, have you received it yet? I talked to Shockline about three weeks ago and they told me they'd be shipping within the week. Still nothing. Just curious as to what is going on.