Which house is your house?

I have been interviewed by The Qwillery! I talk about my writing process, my story for Genius Loci, things I don't write enough about, and Phyllis Gotlieb.

Lynne Jamneck has announced the table of contents for Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror. I'm in there with an Innsmouth story, on the cold sea's side. I am greatly looking forward to this anthology as well.

Two things make a post today. I had some nightmares. I dreamed of reading a novel about white-haired elves that wasn't Bordertown. The cats are very affectionate.

If the cinema is to make progress it must take the risk of always being one jump ahead

Aw, man. I missed Leslie Howard's birthday. Well, it's still good advice.

Hans Conried's birthday is next week. I can thank him for appearing unexpectedly in last night's Passage to Marseille (1944), playing a character with enough effect on the plot that I would really have expected him to get a screen credit. It wasn't quite the youngest I've seen him—that would be Herman the short-tempered (and equally uncredited) sketch artist in The Gay Falcon (1941)—but seven years younger than me is still enough to merit an exclamation if you ask me.

(In about two and a half years, we'll catch up to the point where I am technically the same age as Dr. Terwilliker, because The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T was made in 1953, and I will probably screen it for my birthday or something. You can now work out my birth year and Conried's if you don't feel like looking at Wikipedia.)

I am off to see teenybuffalo and ajodasso for dinner and a movie.