Terry Dowling
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Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
Terry Dowling
It’s dark in here… Not just with the absence of light, but with things made for the dark, things that work best when the wind is in the trees and the sun has gone from the sky.
There’s a carnival, of course—and such a one!—and a six-sided mirror room on a rainy evening. There’s a model of a ship made from bone, a hotel room with the hint of a clown’s face on the wall, a gun that grows its own bullets (you know they do!). All waiting among these bits of darkling shimmer, in this sharp narrow place, this careful trap.
A trap? You see how it is. This is your next step on the lonely road. The next wrong door you open. The next game you play on the midnight board, with forgotten rules and the sharpest of pieces…
The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective
Harlan Ellison, Terry Dowling
In April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid.
But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison’s first professional writing appeared in print: the initial…
Terry Dowling
Terry Dowling’s new book, Blackwater Days, is a collection of seven linked short stories set in and around the Blackwater Psychiatric Hospital in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley.
The stories, inspired by Shaun Tan’s painting “Black Water”, were written in a creative burst in mid-1996.
