{"id":3982,"date":"2012-01-23T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2012-01-23T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T09:53:18","slug":"a-spectral-murmur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/01\/23\/a-spectral-murmur\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectral murmur"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting divination of the aether<\/a> by a savvy publisher’s editor…<\/p>\n

“Catherine Burke, the editorial director of Sphere, said there was a “surge of interest from readers” in ghost stories, and agents were receiving more submissions in the genre. With high-profile releases expected to be popular this year, she predicts we will see even more ghost stories in 2013.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t necessarily have to be nostalgic “men in frock-coats chasing white sheets in English country churchyards”, although we may get some of that from TV producers. <\/p>\n

Perhaps fiction has already done this (*<\/sup>) but one of the interesting things about recent Doctor Who<\/em> is how the writers and monster concept artists have pointed out how to very effectively ‘re-invent the ghost’ (e.g. The Silence, numerous SF-y ‘haunted’ houses with haunted rooms) while keeping it roughly within a sort-of scientific framework. It’s an interesting and popular hybridity between horror and SF, of the sort that Lovecraft might have appreciated. <\/p>\n

(Incidentally, it’s such a pity that the most recent Doctor Who<\/em> series made such a dog’s dinner of the central ‘Silence’ plotline. Someone really needs to make a four-hour fan-edit of that series that just<\/em> focuses on the central\/core storyline).<\/p>\n

(*) I’m really not well-read in modern horror, preferring SF, although I’m slowly noting the anthologies that need to be read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting divination of the aether by a savvy publisher’s editor… “Catherine Burke, the editorial director of Sphere, said there …<\/p>\n

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