“With the exception of the late Robert Dunham, to whom major roles in Toho’s Space Monster Dogora and Godzilla vs. Megalon assured significant recognition among genre fans, one of the most familiar – or at the very least persistent – Western faces in Japanese cinema of the 60s and 70s may […]
As Romance Editor Chris Szego has often noted here at The Gutter, the theme of modern romance is that the hero can change. But what about sea mutants—can they change? In Jonathan Cases’s Dear Creature (Tor, 2011) a sea mutant falls in love with a human woman. It’s […]
Actress and burlesque performer, Haji, has died. Gutter readers might remember her best as Rosie in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! LA Weekly and the CBC have obituaries. Here’s a probably NSFW video tribute to her work in Meyer’s films and video of her tribute to Faster, […]
Actress Karen Black has died. She’s best known to genre fans for her work in Trilogy Of Terror, but she also starred in Burnt Offerings, Airport 1975, Nashville, and Five Easy Pieces. The Vault of Horror remembers Black. The LA Times and New York Times have obituaries. And here […]
“In 1962, when Shirley Jackson published her acknowledged masterpiece, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, she was at the height of her fame. She ranked among the most highly regarded writers in America, required reading on literature courses and the recipient of literary prizes, her work regularly […]
Ian Sales has created a list of one hundred great science fiction stories written by women. Open Culture has links to twenty of them for your (free) online reading pleasure. (Via Broad Universe)
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