G.A. Miller

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G.A. Miller is Bob’s “Dark Half”. When arthritis took away Bob’s ability to play a stringed instrument, writing became a new outlet for him, a playground to create in. In the late 1950’s, a TV show called “Shock Theater” brought monsters into Bob’s life, even before the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan and brought music to the same place.

Revised and updated, September 2023

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The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

I’m looking forward to this one… it’s a clever idea, one that’s never been done before. Using one chapter from Stoker’s book (The Captain’s Log), they’ve made a film about the voyage Dracula booked to go to London, where he’d purchased Carfax Abbey. This has the potential to revisit the claustrophobic terror of Ridley Scott’s “Alien”, but at sea instead of in space. Oh, and we’re not going to see Lugosi in tux, tails, top hat and cape… this Dracula reminds me of the “Angel” in Mike Flanagan’s “Midnight Mass” (a terrific series!). I believe this one is due to release in August.

I’m hoping this will whet my appetite nicely for the eventual release of “Salem’s Lot“, if Warner Brothers ever gets off their collective asses and sets a release date!

Yes! I’ve seen Last Voyage in the theater, and it was every bit as good as I’d hoped it would be! Oh, and to all the critics panning the film? Here’s an open letter to you:

To the “critics” panning “The Last Voyage Of The Demeter”

To those fond of complaining that the film begins at the end of the events, have you even read Bram Stoker’s novel? (Assuming, of course, that you’re capable of following the epistolary format in which the novel was penned.)

The film faithfully follows the course of events at the start of Chapter 7, “Captain’s Log”, and then goes on to flesh out the characters and fill in the ensuing events that occurred between those log entries during the journey at sea. The atmosphere is grim and moody, the sets below deck claustrophobic and foreboding, and the action follows a slow burn that includes Dracula starting off frail and weak (presumably from the overland journey to the Varna docks) but gaining strength with each successive feeding, starting with the livestock before moving on to the characters we’ve come to care about.

(Guess what? Spoiler Alert – That strengthening with each feeding also happened in Stoker’s novel!)

It occurs to me that you snowflakes have no clue about what constitutes effective horror, which is why you panned a film that you may not even have watched, (preferring instead to play on your cell phones), in contrast to the accolades and raves the film has earned from the likes of Guillermo Del Toro and Stephen King.

You know… actual authorities in the horror genre?

So, here’s my suggestion. Stay in your lane, go see “Barbie” again and then find someone to validate your artificial narcissistic inflated sense of self-worth, because that sure as hell ain’t coming from me.

Does that offend you, snowflake? Well, go cry to Mommy… you know, your usual course of action when life is so cruelly unfair, because I truly don’t give a Potter’s Damn. (Yeah, you’ll probably need to look that up too.)

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“Speaking of Uncle Steve… I’ve been to Derry… and lived to tell the tale!”

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New flash fiction in May, 2022… here you go!

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A new short done in September, 2023? Really? Yessssss…………

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Interviews

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Very Short Fiction

Dribbling Drabble

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Newest Novella

For most of us, as we grow older, we also become more nostalgic. We fondly remember how we used to live, those things that were our everyday essentials, and how much we enjoyed living in our not-yet-connected world.
I remember dialing a telephone dial in order to call and speak with friends and family, and using my treasured portable typewriter to produce reports and other important school assignments on, a small bottle of White-Out nearby in case I hit the wrong letter.
Good times, indeed.
Well, for most of us. There are, unfortunately, some exceptions for whom a love of nostalgia brought them across the threshold of the Shopkeeper where the bargains they thought they found carried a far higher price than they’d ever have anticipated.

The Shopkeeper – Available NOW at Amazon

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Links

• Podcasts – https://anitabob.com/podcasts/
• Amazon Author Page – https://www.amazon.com/G.A.-Miller/e/B074S228JG
• Story – Twelve Forty-Five https://anitabob.com/welcome/story/
• New Flash Fiction – Blackout

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I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Cortlandt Hull at his Witch’s Dungeon in Connecticut and enjoyed many of his extraordinary stories. He’s met so many of the greats in the legacy of classic horror!

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Work with Local Authors

H.P. Lovecraft died of cancer in Providence, RI in 1937. One might think that with his passing, the smallest state would return to normalcy, Elder Gods from otherworldly realms and other horrors no longer a concern to the residents..

One might think that, indeed. One might, however, be dangerously wrong…

Find out for yourself on September 2nd… if you dare.

From the September 5, 2020 Warwick Post – Article

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Do sleep well…