Tweak Week continues …
The Poe Museum has a nice recap of last weekend’s event. Check out that line!
August 1, 2014 by Rusty
Tweak Week continues …
The Poe Museum has a nice recap of last weekend’s event. Check out that line!
Posted in Brian Keene, Mary SanGiovanni, Poe Museum | Tagged Poe Museum | 5 Comments
Oh, so this is what it looks like when real author’s visit the Poe Museum? They get a page on the website and everything; quote: “Last Sunday, the Poe Museum was proud to host a talk by award-winning authors Mary SanGiovanni and Brian Keene.”
They say revenge is a dish best served cold, I bet this is going down like a cup of cold sick in certain circles LAWL.
Browsing I found it did not go well with a certain party.
The Poe Museum posted several photos on the Museum’s Facebook page 27 July 2014 on the event with award winning horror authors Brian Keene and May SanGiovanni plus the 1 Aug followup linked in the post, Museum News: Award-Winning Authors Speak at the Poe Museum
In response to the 27 Jul event and Poe Museum coverage, Nickolaus A. Pacione posted publicly on the Poe Museum Facebook page July 29 at 1:43am. To summarize before it disappears (hopefully):
Pacione ranted at Mary for “stifling” the anthology, invoked the wrath of “the roster”, said the “closing authors” on the “namesake” and on Tabloid Purposes IV weighed in against those who “bullied those who self published”. Pacione talked about sending the roster to the Museum to sign the “namesake”. Mentioned Mary “said something monstrous” and “people” want blood and something about “Legend Keeper”. Said he would promote the “namesake” reboot at publishing seminars not with a book signing. And told the Museum: “…look you really need to take to say to heart on this one because Mary badmouthed August Derleth’s late daughter as I am called the hybrid by April ten years ago.”
The person to whose facebook page Pacione linked as the TP4 closing author replied July 29 at 5:15pm: “I have no idea who this “Mary” person is…therefore, how can I comment on something or someone I know nothing about?”
https://www.facebook.com/PoeMuseum/posts/10154409789975585
NAP Checklist Items Covered in His Poe Museum Posting
o “stifling”
o “the roster”*
o “closing author”
o “namesake” anthologies
o “bullying”
o “self-published”
o Mary’s “monsterous” “decades of therapy” statement
o the “Hybrid” coin attributed to April Derleth
*(¡and speaking for people on the “roster” w/o their knowledge or consent!)
I recognized eight repetitive Pacione talking points in that one post but so many other facets of Pacione’s charm are missing. For example:
o No attack on Brian Keene, the horrorfind editor who squashed “INSECT” in 2004 and “stifled” Pacione’s career.
o No mention of the “much more updated version of Poe” coin attributed to the curator of the Poe Museum, and denied by the curator
(¡The two most glaring omissions in the context of a posting at the Poe Museum!)
That is such a wonderful write up! It looks like it was well attended, and I hope everyone enjoyed it!
If you notice they even mention a visitor who came from Illinois…hmmm…I wonder who that could be? A stinky cat perhaps? 😉
After re-reading http://www.poemuseum.org/blog/award-winning-authors-speak-at-the-poe-museum/ Poe Museum News: Award-Winning Authors Speak at the Poe Museum I would like to say:
I found SanGiovanni’s comments on the impact of The Masque of the Red Death interesting: I was very impressed with the story when I read it as a teenager (and enjoyed the movie version when it came out later). I know the story had a powerful impact on this reader; interesting to read about a professional grade writer’s take.
And Keene’s summary on the influence of Poe’s “Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” on Jules Verne (“An Antarctic Mystery” aka “The Sphinx of the Ice Fields”), H.P. Lovecraft (“At the Mountains of Madness”) and John W. Campbell (“Who Goes There?” filmed as “The Thing from Another World”)? Perfect mesh with my interests! Loved what I read of it. Woulda loved to have been there.
When my aunt Gladys Smith discovered I was into horror movies and comics, she suggested I might like to read Edgar Allan Poe. I saved up and bought my own copies of the Modern Library selected writings with Mabbot’s commentary and the complete tales and poems Giant. ( I read “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” by candlelight (mom and dad wanted me sleeping for school the next day) and nine years later read “At the Mountains of Madness”. In between I saw “The Thing” (Gunsmoke version) and read 4SJ Ackerman’s abridged version of “Who Goes There?” in one of his magazines.
Then years later, I constructed for my own amusement parallel text PDFs of old and new translations of Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. I ended up researching Verne’s interest in Poe, including “Pym” and Verne’s “sequel”. Pym is also mentioned in “20,000 Leagues”: “As in the polar regions, day and night no longer seemed to be following their regular course. I felt myself carried off into the realm of the extra-natural, where Poe’s overworked imagination moved at ease. At each moment I expected to see, like the fabulous Gordon Pym, ‘a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men, thrown across the cataract which defends the approaches to the Pole’!”
New bucket list item for me: visit the Poe Museum in Richmond.