protean depravity

Attila Veres is a filmmaker and an author from Hungary who got introduced to international horror readers as recent as last fall through the Valancourt publication The Black Maybe , an outstanding collection of ten of his short stories which has since been nominated for the esteemed Bram Stoker Awards.

  Ugress is back! And not only do they have a new livestream scheduled on youtube for June 23rd, they will also be performing tomorrow, Wednesday May 24th at 12:30 CEST for the Festspillene i Bergen, “ What is the City but the People? ” at the royal opening ceremony, Festplassen, city centre. If you happen to be in Norway, admission is free, go pay a visit. If not, it will be livestreamed by the festival at fib.no !

My favorite final girls in Berlin* are back with another Brain Binge weekend on the 3rd and 4th of June. The discussions this year are pretty awesome ranging from women's contribution to horror sfx makeup, to the lesbian vampire following the model of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, to motherhood and the reluctant mother as monster in horror cinema and so much more.

The Horror Aficionados summer challenge has begun in May this year, yay! So I went through my tbr-list and tried to make a smaller list of the books that are somewhat related to summer activities - only to sadly realize that the books I want to read are usually way too grim for the usually lighter summertime. I was still able to scrape together a few titles, mostly books about the sea, the seaside, swimming, but also one about open-air band tours, one theme park and one about camping. I usually try to not overdo it and pledge to read about five books, this year I'm shooting for more and hope it works. Here are my chosen summer challenge books:

Kris at Otherland Horror and crime author Kristopher Triana was in Germany last week to join the big horror weekend of publisher Festa in their offices in Leipzig and extended his stay to visit Berlin. The writer of award-winning novels like Full Brutal, The Night Stockers , or the wildly popular Gone to See The River Man was kind enough to accept a little interview with Protean Depravity. Enjoy!

Enjoy the new short reviews!