Tell us about what is coming out this year:
I have two books coming out this year. CREATURE FEATURE and a reprint of mine called SWAMP WITCH PIQUANTE AND SCREAM QUEEN BISQUE. In the near future please be on the lookout for what is my 12th novel, CREATURE FEATURE, cowritten with David Mathew:
A journalist and his slightly problematic twelve year old son travel to the midwest, to the small town of Templeton, to start a new life after his wife dies from an auto accident. The television station that hires him as a newswriter also hires him to be the kooky midnight horror movie M.C. As they adjust to their new home, they realize that the citizens of this town are neurotic, if not downright crazy, and the schools there have the highest suicide rate in the country. There is a sinister rich old family, the Hawkins, who own and run the town. Jim is beginning to think that they could be a supernatural force behind the crazed fear, and he is determined to understand the nature of their hold on everybody in the town. But he soon discovers that some secrets are best left uncovered, as he, his son, and his new lady friend are threatened by opponents that they do not always understand. At the same time they must contend with drunken ex-boyfriends, neighbours with psychic links to other planets, and a neighbour with a murderous past. Moving to Templeton might not have been the best career choice, after all."Here it is in kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BQH93L8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BQH93L8&linkCode=as2&tag=musofasmaprep-20
Here it is in paperback on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061578206X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=061578206X&linkCode=as2&tag=pmpressstore-20
A journalist and his slightly problematic twelve year old son travel to the midwest, to the small town of Templeton, to start a new life after his wife dies from an auto accident. The television station that hires him as a newswriter also hires him to be the kooky midnight horror movie M.C. As they adjust to their new home, they realize that the citizens of this town are neurotic, if not downright crazy, and the schools there have the highest suicide rate in the country. There is a sinister rich old family, the Hawkins, who own and run the town. Jim is beginning to think that they could be a supernatural force behind the crazed fear, and he is determined to understand the nature of their hold on everybody in the town. But he soon discovers that some secrets are best left uncovered, as he, his son, and his new lady friend are threatened by opponents that they do not always understand. At the same time they must contend with drunken ex-boyfriends, neighbours with psychic links to other planets, and a neighbour with a murderous past. Moving to Templeton might not have been the best career choice, after all."Here it is in kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BQH93L8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BQH93L8&linkCode=as2&tag=musofasmaprep-20
Here it is in paperback on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061578206X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=061578206X&linkCode=as2&tag=pmpressstore-20
Tell us about some of the remedies or Les Traiteurs in the reprint novel, the Witches book:
Well, SWAMP WITCH PIQUANTE is actually two short novels: “The White Trash Witches Coven” and “Pavane for a Scream Queen”. The first title has to do with the interesting and seemingly whimsical world of rural Louisiana witches, and the second is about an ageless Actress who lives in Uptown New Orleans off St. Charles Street.
Here are some examples of made-up superstitions and mojo:
In the novel someone finds a dusty Cajun Monograph in a parish library in Cutoff, Louisiana. The remedies and superstitions are said to be based on transcripts of an ageless Cajun woman and that the book was privately published. No Library of Congress number. Dated 1915:
OLD MAWMAW JENKINS' CAJUN SUPERSTITIONS
It’s bad luck to sit cross-legged in a funeral home.
It’s bad luck to see a 3-toed cat.
If you find a bird egg under a rose bush, that means you gonna lose your wheelbarrow.
If you drop an egg, and it’s rotten, that means your husband’s runnin’ round behind your back.
If you have a twinge in your back, that means your cow’s milk gonna curdle.
If you’re goin’ down to the river to go fishin’, and you see a crawfish hole, walk round it three times or else you won’t catch any fish.
Always leave a peach pit in the corn crib to keep away the weevils.
Don’t ever spend a two-dollar bill on April Fool’s Day: if you do, you’ll lose a tooth the next day.
If a cow moo at midnight, that means the corn gonna rot in the husk.
If you hit a dog on the highway, get one of his teeth and wear it around your neck to keep away the Haints.
If you find a nickel under the kitchen table, it means that company comin’.
If the moon got a ring around it on your birthday, that mean you gonna get married that year.
If you find a cutworm on a cucumber, it means that a fox gonna get in the henhouse.
If you step on a hoe handle, it means somebody tryin’ to steal your money.
OLD MAWMAW JENKINS' CAJUN SUPERSTITIONS
It’s bad luck to sit cross-legged in a funeral home.
It’s bad luck to see a 3-toed cat.
If you find a bird egg under a rose bush, that means you gonna lose your wheelbarrow.
If you drop an egg, and it’s rotten, that means your husband’s runnin’ round behind your back.
If you have a twinge in your back, that means your cow’s milk gonna curdle.
If you’re goin’ down to the river to go fishin’, and you see a crawfish hole, walk round it three times or else you won’t catch any fish.
Always leave a peach pit in the corn crib to keep away the weevils.
Don’t ever spend a two-dollar bill on April Fool’s Day: if you do, you’ll lose a tooth the next day.
If a cow moo at midnight, that means the corn gonna rot in the husk.
If you hit a dog on the highway, get one of his teeth and wear it around your neck to keep away the Haints.
If you find a nickel under the kitchen table, it means that company comin’.
If the moon got a ring around it on your birthday, that mean you gonna get married that year.
If you find a cutworm on a cucumber, it means that a fox gonna get in the henhouse.
If you step on a hoe handle, it means somebody tryin’ to steal your money.
And here are some actual “Les Traiteurs”:
OLD MAWMAW JENKINS' CAJUN AILMENTS & REMEDIES
(SENECIS MATRIS JENKINS PHARMACOPIA)
The Mullygrubs
(Description: General lethargy, minor aches and pains)
Remedy: Regular doses of black-strap molasses with a touch of turpentine.
The Bug
(Minor ailment like the flu)
Sit on a hot water bottle and drink peach liquor with just a smidgion of smellin’ salts
Groans in your bones
(Fatigue, small aches and pains caused by cold days)
A glass of buttermilk with a dash of Worchestershire sauce and a pinch of parsley
Growls in your bowels
(Bowel trouble)
Suck on a sassafras root.
Shiver in your liver/liverstones
(Abdominal pain)
Suck on sugar cubes, take regular doses of lime extract with iodine.
The Bloat
(Unexplainable swelling; caught from cows)
Eat a piece of octagon soap, lie down with ya feet propped up and spit up every hour.
Puffy eyes
(Irritation of eyes caused from lack of sleep)
Eat suet; sprinkle bird seed on cereal; wear bird feathers in shoes; sleep with raw chicken wing in pillowcase.
Sty in Eye
(Sore, bump on eyelid)
Apply wet tomato leaf.
(SENECIS MATRIS JENKINS PHARMACOPIA)
The Mullygrubs
(Description: General lethargy, minor aches and pains)
Remedy: Regular doses of black-strap molasses with a touch of turpentine.
The Bug
(Minor ailment like the flu)
Sit on a hot water bottle and drink peach liquor with just a smidgion of smellin’ salts
Groans in your bones
(Fatigue, small aches and pains caused by cold days)
A glass of buttermilk with a dash of Worchestershire sauce and a pinch of parsley
Growls in your bowels
(Bowel trouble)
Suck on a sassafras root.
Shiver in your liver/liverstones
(Abdominal pain)
Suck on sugar cubes, take regular doses of lime extract with iodine.
The Bloat
(Unexplainable swelling; caught from cows)
Eat a piece of octagon soap, lie down with ya feet propped up and spit up every hour.
Puffy eyes
(Irritation of eyes caused from lack of sleep)
Eat suet; sprinkle bird seed on cereal; wear bird feathers in shoes; sleep with raw chicken wing in pillowcase.
Sty in Eye
(Sore, bump on eyelid)
Apply wet tomato leaf.
Tell us about yourself:
Well, here is sort of a standard bio:
A lifelong resident of Louisiana, MF Korn writes sort-of-surreal dark fantasy, mostly 'quiet' horror and strange science fiction. He is the author of twelve novels, two screenplays and two hundred and forty five short stories. He lives in Louisiana.
Three of Michael Korn's books, CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES, and ALIENS, MINIBIKES AND OTHER STAPLES OF SUBURBIA, and SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR were mentioned in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Edition. CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES and RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST were mentioned in The Mammoth Book of New Horror.
A co-written story "The Strange Case of the Lovecraft Cafe" was mentioned in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Twenty First Annual Edition.
CREATURE FEATURE comes out any day now and SWAMP
WITCH PIQUANTE comes out in August 2013.
Now over to Sidney Williams, a writer of fascinating horror,
and his livejournal is here, aptly named SID IS ALIVE.
http://my.opera.com/SidW/blog/ .
Sid had several mass market horror paperbacks out before I got to know him. He is also from Louisiana, now teaching at a college in Florida,
Here is his author page as well: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sidney-Williams-Books-Midnight-Eyes-and-more/203792449667031 .
Well, here is mine as well; facebook went to the trouble of making an author page out of my wiki page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/M-F-Korn/106375459394768?ref=ts&fref=ts&rf=102171359823931 .
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