Monthly Vignette: Valiant.
By Ryan Fleming Sammy is preparing for a big event, due on June 6th. Set your calendars. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly...
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Jun 2, 202314 min read
An Alternate History of Horror. Part XII: Modern Times
By Ryan Fleming. The horror. The Omen (1976). Picture Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. By the time Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ushered in...
May 26, 20239 min read
Tales from Development Hell: Akira
By Ryan Fleming. Katsuhiro Otomo riding Kaneda's motorcycle. That must be fun. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Remakes are everywhere...
May 19, 202316 min read
An Alternate History of Horror: Part XI. The Idiot Box
By Ryan Fleming. They are, in fact, early televisions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. After experiments throughout the 1920s and...
Apr 21, 202312 min read
An Alternate History of Horror: Kensington Gore, Part 2.
By Ryan Fleming. (for Part 1 of this article, see here). It lives!!!! Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Between 1957 and 1974, Hammer...
Apr 14, 202311 min read
An Alternate History of Horror X: Kensington Gore, Part 1
By Ryan Fleming Three of the greats: Lugosi, Lee, Pallance. The Vampire Strikes Back. Image from Wikimedia. In writing about the history,...
Mar 30, 20239 min read
Tales from Development Hell: A Confederacy of Dunces
By Ryan Fleming Can a work of fiction be cursed? If people, places or things can be cursed then why not a work of fiction too? Such...
Mar 22, 202314 min read
An Alternate History of Horror IX: Seduction of the Innocent
By Ryan Fleming In the present day and for most of their history, comic books have been synonymous with the superhero genre. The genre...
Mar 17, 20238 min read
Tales from Development Hell: Superman Lives
By Ryan Fleming In popular culture there are some works that have managed to become famous despite never happening at all. Projects can...
Mar 6, 202316 min read
An Alternate History of Horror VIII: The Destroyer of Worlds
By Ryan Fleming On 15th August 1945 the surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Emperor Hirohito, in effect bringing the Second...
Feb 20, 202314 min read
An Alternate History of Horror VII: Lights Out
By Ryan Fleming This series has so far looked at the development of the horror genre largely in its literary and cinematic form. This...
Feb 6, 202317 min read
An Alternate History of Horror VI: Hollywood Undead
By Ryan Fleming When we last looked at horror films in this series we left them at the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. A decade of...
Jan 23, 202316 min read
An Alternate History of Horror V: Pulp Fiction
By Ryan Fleming In our look at Victorian vampires in an earlier article of this series, we discussed the penny dreadfuls. Those cheap,...
Dec 12, 202217 min read
An Alternate History of Horror IV: The Silent Screams
By Ryan Fleming Though horror literature took off in a form we recognise today during the 19th century, the art of horror storytelling...
Nov 28, 202212 min read
An Alternate History of Horror III: The Beast In Me
By Ryan Fleming Last time, we stopped a completely random stranger on the street and asked them to name a stock character from horror...
Nov 14, 202212 min read
An Alternate History of Horror II: The Vampire Empire
By Ryan Fleming Stop a random person on the street and ask them to name a horror stock character, just the first one that comes to mind....
Oct 31, 20229 min read
An Alternate History of Horror I: A Dark and Stormy Night
By Ryan Fleming Many of us have taken a holiday where the weather during the trip turned out to be less than desired. If you happen to be...
Aug 23, 202210 min read
Interview: Ryan Fleming
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Ryan Fleming, a regular SLP author. Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. First...
Feb 7, 20225 min read
The Fat Man
By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jul 1, 20219 min read
Musical or Comedy
By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
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