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DJS on the Shanghai Film Studio backlot in 1996. The main street was dressed period 1930s for the TEMPTRESS MOON shoot, hence the recreated billboard for KING KONG. Yes - this really is in China.

AMAZON.COM (NOT!)

Click here if you need to see the best amazon.com lampoon ever.

ARNIE PRANKS

"I'm a COP, you IDIOT!"

THE ASTOUNDING B-MONSTER

If you're fascinated by 1950s-vintage sci-fi, horror and cult films, irreplaceable monster femmes from Julie Adams to Allison Hayes, or the crackling good skinny on Bob Bloch's real inspiration for Norman Bates ... go forth, and "B."

CHARLES BEAUMONT

A TOUCH OF CREATURE flappage by DJS.

ROBERT BLOCH

An unofficial site dedicated to a very necessary writer. Still kinda primordial but worth a visit.

A good summary of Bob's work and influence can also be found here

(A somewhat luridly-colored photo, but the only one DJS has of Bob Bloch's spectacular plaid suit, photographer unknown, probably circa Hallowe'en, 1990 or 1991.)

THE ONLINE WORLD OF TIMOTHY BRADSTREET

Street draws the way DJS writes. Go there at once.

JOE BOB BRIGGS

A frequently-updated, excellent site where you can read the Joe Bob "bumper" commentary from each week's show, thereby sparing yourself the FCC's newly-approved estimate of 15 minutes, 44 seconds of commercials per broadcast hour. Also with endlessly browsable archives.

BULLSHIT!

When you consider some of the imbecilic, boneheaded nonsense "normal" people believe as gospel, it's hard not to weld your doors shut and never go out among 'em. Fortunately, ace skeptics Penn & Teller have gone to the mat in their most addictively informative series, Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT , a fresh breath of methane in the toxic wasteland of television. Are you sick of strident environmentalists, deranged Bible thumpers, New Wave nitwits, PETA-philes, corruptos high and low, superstitious loons, Dr. Phil, or the hucksters of bottled water? Visit the BULLSHIT site!

CAT SCAN

Just laugh, or you're a pussy.

Also: Writhe in the disgust which felines actually feel for you (here).

Then: Or, you can get sex, just not love ... (here)

CROWPUNK

Yes, it exists. Don't take my word for it; go here.

As for THE CROW, don't even start with me. For a whole pile of links, go here.

There's an interesting essay, by Micheal "aeon" Fiegel, on the Eric/Sarah dynamic in the film here.

DARKECHO'S HORROR WEB

Paula Guran's Grand Central Station of horror.

DEFCON 5

Want to shoot something in a movie? Ron & Rob are the best in the biz, for my money.

DJS OMNIVISION CHAT WITH ED BRYANT AND ELLEN DATLOW

Nicely presented by LadyCro, who also provides a basic DJS biblio page as a link.

EMMA'S NOBLE QUEST

Emma Straub, champion of horror as literature, takes on the snooty world
of academia and kicks big moby butt in her symposium.

THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG

Fiona Webster talks about CRYPT ORCHIDS and compares DJS to Shakespeare, Balzac, Joyce and Wilde ... Oscar, that is.

HARLAN ELLISON

A very informative site with Harlan's benediction (and occasional participation).

EXCALIBUR FILMS HOMEPAGE

Looking for that elusive "adult film?" This site will get you to answers in seconds. I found the porn version of THE CROW on this site instantly, working with a bare minimum of clues.

JACK THE RIPPER

Insanely meticulous and frequently updated site on the world's most infamous serial killer ... who may not eve have existed.

JOHN FARRIS

Some writers have multiple sites. John Farris is better than nearly all of them...and had no website at all...until BLR took matters into its own hands and invented FURIES & FIENDS from the ground up. You have no excuse for not going there right now.

GIGER

Thanks to the movie ALIEN, Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger is probably the most plagiarized living artist ever. This is a good, image-rich site, especially if you're too cheap to buy Giger's books, themselves featured his publisher's site, MORPHEUS INTERNATIONAL - the only other official HRG site. Read Giger's commentary about unauthorized sites if you still think ripping off artists and freeloading off the Internet is cool. And pronouce his name GEE-ger, not "geiger," if you don't want to seem a complete pillock.

GNP/CRESCENDO RECORDS

Home of the new edition of THE OUTER LIMITS COMPANION.

GOTHIC.NET

Don't let the G-word fool you; there's very little of the languid/absinthe/vampire bent here. What you'll find instead is informed and cutting-edge horror stuff; visit and see how out of touch you really are.

INCUBUS

Thomas Rucki has constructed yet another shrine to the glory that is INCUBUS. Bow down.

WIN A DATE WITH JESUS

Jesus is a multimedia mogul. SEE Jesus shop for a Porsche! BATHE with Jesus! You may even get to DATE Jesus!

And check out the Jesus action figure, which comes complete with "Ninja-Messiah throwing nails and Death Killer-Cross pump action over-under shotgun!"

STEPHEN JONES

aka "Steve, that British guy," editor, anthologist, fellow film obsessive, and one of the reasons DJS is visible at all in the UK.

GERALD KERSH

A page established by Kersh biographer Paul Duncan, full of info about possibly the greatest "forgotten" writer of the fantastique.

JOE R. LANSDALE

Odds and ends on Joe, his ownself. A good start for what should be a broader site.

LEGODEATH: THE MUSEUM OF HORRORS

No matter how gross, it can usually be done with Legos.

FRITZ LEIBER

If you've never read OUR LADY OF DARKNESS, you should leave BLR right now and not come back until you have made atonement. One of our best and brightest fantasists, Fritz was once honored with a page that has apparently sunk into the Graveyard of Lost URLs. You can find a no-frills page (with plenty of covers) HERE ... but check out the bibliography page available as part of the Seattle band BLOODHAG, which "will blow your illiterate ass right back to the library."

LUCHA LIBRE

see FILMS OF SANTO

and FROM PARTS UNKNOWN

The USA's biggest in-country Lucha Libre promotion is right here in L.A. ... well, a place due south of L.A., anyway.

IAN MCKELLEN

Droll site about a cool actor.

MYSTERY CLOCK

Internet home of director Alex Proyas, with whom DJS has worked on five separate projects to date. Typically, the site is top-heavy with flashy graphics, but an exciting sampler. You can see the latest on Alex's new film GARAGE DAYS here.

NIGHT GALLERY

Useful site prompted by the release of the Columbia House uncut videos and the in-depth book by Scott M. Skelton and Jim Benson, which you really should read if you're interested in the workings of TV.

NOT QUITE WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED

The virtual web-world shrine to phony imitations of ... Dr. Pepper.

For bona fide Dr Pepper, go HERE

OMNIVISIONS CHAT WITH DJS

A different link to the 4/3/97 online chat with Ed Bryant and Ellen Datlow.

THE OUTER LIMITS

You are about to participate in a great adventure.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The official website of one of the new century's best writers of disturbing contemporary fiction. How much hard-sell do YOU need to just go there?

PANDORA STATION

Formerly the lair of the Unholy Three of post-modern horror: Poppy Z. Brite, Christa Faust, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. Poppy's stand-alone site can be found here, Christa's, here, and Caitlin's, here.

PARKER: THE VIOLENT WORLD OF PARKER

Created by Donald Westlake under the "Richard Stark" pseudonym, the Parker novels -- still being written today -- are the high watermark of toughness and cool in modern hardboiled writing.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

A guy who some opine had something to do with scary stories.

POE POE POE POE POE POE POE

With apologies to Daniel Hoffman. Since there's no such animal as too many Poe links - also try here.

RAMMSTEIN

A bunch of nice German boys doing nice stuff that German boys do. Would you like to be Till Lindemann's bitch? Sure, we all do!

RUSTY

"The next night, Rusty couldn't sleep. He thought about the fireman. He thought about how warm and muscular the fireman had felt through his uniform. He remembered the smell of smoke mixed with the fireman's sweat. Remembering the fireman gave Rusty a funny feeling. He wished he could be together with the fireman again."

SEE A GOOFY 10-YEAR OLD PICTURE OF DJS

Only the wardrobe has changed.

SIDESHOW TOYS

In 2002, Sideshow inaugurated a new line of deluxe, 12-inch OUTER LIMITS figures with DJS as a the main consultant. He even designed the fabulous boxes, realized by Mark Weinstein.

SLIM

Michael Marshall Smith is my British twin. Together we battle
against the world of inadequate fiction. Why I call him "Slim" is a secret
never to be divulged.

SNIPER COUNTRY

Super-high-tech firearms trivia and ultra-specific hardware specs for aficionados only! And if you'd like to see your right to tote firepower defended from the weirdest perspective ever, check out the Christian Guide to Small Arms.

(alright, already!) SPLATTERPUNK

A low-born term new dictionaries love to invoke to prove how hip they are. Cunning deployment of the s-word to this very end can be seen in a piece on the new Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and also here. For some bizarre reason, this word has been co-opted by Adobe -- see www.splatterpunk.com

PETER STRAUB

Read and be amazed at the thoughtful wordsmithery and derring-do of the Flying Straub! SEE him attempt feats of literacy, structure and plot matched by no mortal writer! WATCH his amanuensis Putney Tyson Ridge futilely try to breach his righteous creative armor! READ his books! (You can read, can't you?)

SUBTERRANEAN PRESS PORTAL

Publishers of the short fiction collections of DJS, the LOST BLOCH series, plus Peter Straub, Lew Shiner, Joe Lansdale, Charles Beaumont, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan and, and ... GO THERE NOW!!

TABULA RASA INTERVIEW WITH DJS

Committed via fax machine to Australia somewhere prior to the dawn of time, or, April, 1995, and published in the fanzine TABULA RASA by David Carroll and Kyla Ward. If that fails, the interview can also be found on The Last Page On The Left.

TANGERINE DREAM

Obsessively updated and sophisticated page for those interested in electronica.

A lot of TD's classic bootleg concerts are now available on disc here.

THEREMINS!

Don't say it ... hum it. Everything, and I mean everything you might need or wish to know about the most futuristic musical instrument ever invented, extant, or likely to be conceived.

TWILIGHT ZONE

The Complete Indices to Everything Ever Published in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1981-89).

U-505 (DAS UNTERSEEBOOT)

A real German U-Boat that sits outside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. I toured it when I was six or seven. It's still incomparably cool, and it's still there.

URBAN LEGENDS ARCHIVE

If you know a FOAF, go here to read the bitter truth.

VIDEO WATCHDOG

The best contemporary magazine on fantastic cinema.

THE VILLAGE VOICE'S "MORE GORE..."

Aka "Splatterpunk Leaves its Mark," as published in the Village Voice (2/6/1990). A bad, hostile, and way-snooty overview of splatterpunk that's also the most quotable such pan ever written.

BERNIE WRIGHTSON

Legendary artist and all-around affable guy, Bernie now has his own official fan site, run by Media Services Int'l and very capable administratrix Pamela Hazelton. Here you can score exclusives and original art and well as the usual incentives (Bernie will also be providing dustjacket illustrations for the entire run of the DJS-edited LOST BLOCH series.)

THE REAL FRANK ZAPPA HOMEPAGE

Like it says.

THE U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE

Forget the writer's clubs and tea societies, the workshops and amateur competitions; here's the information you really need if you wish to deal at all with publishing -- at least, as a grownup. With useful links to the Library of Congress.