FANGORIA #292 - on stands March 23rd - marks a huge transition for the long running horror mag: Tony Timpone, who has edited FANGO for 20 years - is stepping aside and Chris Alexander is taking over. Timpone will remain with the company. Alexander started his career as a horror journalist at the mag before establishing himself at RUE MORGUE. Meanwhilem at RM, Dave Alexander has taken over as editor.

FANGORIA #292 is Timpone's last issue as editor; expect big changes when Alexander takes over. Michael Gingold will remain on board as the managing editor. #292 is a SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD issue, also featuring "Deb of the Dead: SLIME CITY MASSACRE," Debbie Rochon's article on the making of ... (more…)

The current issue of Rue Morgue, sporting DAYBREAKERS on the cover, features an interview with me about SLIME CITY MASSACRE, conducted by The Gore-Met, who did a great job.

And Weird William conducted an in depth interview with me for Bearded Reviews.

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Bloody Disgusting, the #1 horror entertainment website on the webm has conducted a new interview with SLIME CITY MASSACRE star Jennifer Bihl - conducted by former Fear Zone international horror columnist Tobias Piwek!

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Weird Willliam of Bearded Reviews has conducted an interview with former Fear Zone music reviewer Mars, who discusses his current career as a composer, his work on the score for SLIME CITY MASSACRE, and his future as a film director.

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As promised (or threatened), I will continue to pop in over here from time to time with updates on my own projects. It's a shame to let such a gorgeous site go to waste...

James Tampa at Medallion Press sent me the cover art by the talented Tommy Castillo for my October, 2010 novel, DESPERATE SOULS, the second volume in my action/horror/noir series "The Jake Helman Files," which started with PERSONAL DEMONS. Castillo also did the cover for my upcoming werewolf novel, THE FRENZY WAY, which Medallion publishes in June.

In DESPERATE SOULS, Jake Helman takes on drug lords who use a new street drug called Black Magic to create an army of zombie soldiers. It's my best novel to date, and I'm ... (more…)

Pictured: Stephen Romano makes Robert Sabin drip slime

And here you have it: two and one third years of horror media/culture coverage on Fear Zone. As I noted a month ago, the fat lady has sung for this site -that bitch! Take a look at the menu to the left hand side of this screen and see just how many interviews, reviews, articles and news we posted in a relatively short period of time. We kicked horror ass! The site will remain live, with all of the content archived; we hope to re-launch whenever this damnable advertising market improves.

As noted throughout this month, many of our columnists and columns are moving elsewhere, which pleases me.

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Medallion Press has made Tommy Castillo's amazing wraparound cover for my upcoming horror novel THE FRENZY WAY available as a free, downloadable wallpaper.

THE FRENZY WAY will be published as a trade paerback in June, 2010. It's an action packed story about cops battling werewolves in the streets of New York City, sort of THE FRENCH CONNECTION smashed with THE HOWLING. The novel features big action set pieces that I could never attempt in a low budget (or even medium budget) film.

Blurbs for THE FRENZY WAY:

"THE FRENZY WAY is an awesome blend of police procedural and bloody werewolf action. It's easily Lamberson's best novel--and I loved his first two!"

- Jeff Strand


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I haven't read comics since my daughter was born, and even then I only read them for a coupke of years after a long hiatus. Let's face it, they're just too damned expensive, and in most cases I'd rather read the so-called "graphic novel" collections. I also grew disenchanted with the content. My favorite period of comics sttorytelling was the mid-late eighties, when Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN and DAREDEVIL run, and Alan Moore's SWAMP THING, WATCHMEN and MIRACLE MAN, and Dave Sim's CEREBUS redefined the medium. Except for a few bright spots, like PREACHER, it's all been downhill from there.

Even the greats have hit the skids: other than the first two or ... (more…)

Here it is: the official one sheet for my upcoming film SLIME CITY MASSACRE. The poster was designed by Stephen Romano, who's done countless other posters and DVD covers. I knew I wanted Stephen involved in SCM since I saw his amazing book, SHOCK FESTIVAL. He also painted the cover and mini-poster for POP Cinema's SLIME CITY GRINDHOUSE COLLECTION. In addition, Stephen has created 15 gorgeous paintings for SCM's title sequence.

The poster features Slime Heads Debbie Rochon (orange), Jennifer Bihl (pink), Lee Perkins (blue) and Kealan Patrick Burke (green). It also shows the radioactive green sky glowing over the ruins of midtown Manhattan, aka "Slime City."

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A man lays comatose while a nurse tends to him. The color image - pocked with film specks - gives way to stark, high contrast black and white cinematography. The man regains consciousness, with no memory of who he is or what happened to him, and is soon named "John Doe." He begins a new life, taking a wife, but is plagued by visions which may or may not be flashbacks of his past. Is he remembering a violent incident which led to his mysterious predicament, or is he merely imaging what might have been? It's an important question becuse "John" soon embarks on a violent path of revenge.

When was the last time you saw a film that truly made you think about what you were seeing on the screen?... (more…)