Hellbender
The OTHER Laurie King: a PI with a difference
I’ve been writing a few blog posts about “the OTHER Laurie R. King” (see the rest here) that talk about why I write those stories that aren’t inside the Russell & Holmes universe. In some cases, the world Russell inhabits is a little too whimsical for the theme I want to explore. Other times I…
Read MoreVanishing shorts
Two weeks from today, on Feb 1, a number of my e-short stories will be coming down, vanishing, going underground (except, of course, if they’re already on your reader.) These stories won’t be for sale again until Random House publishes my collection of Russell & Holmes tales in October (as an ebook, though possibly, eventually,…
Read MoreHappy Hallowe’en!
So, Laurie’s been posting a lot of weird stuff this week: now that it’s Hallowe’en, is she going to get truly disgusting? Fear not, the creep factor in today’s post is along the theoretical and long-term lines. The story “Hellbender” contains elements of genetic manipulation, in which DNA of one species is blended with that…
Read MoreMore All Hallow’s
(Now! With fewer disgusting pictures!) So, you read yesterday’s post on taxidermy and you think you’d like to try it yourself? Great! You, too, can be a forensic anthropologist. All you need is something that’s died, and a handful of these: (From here.) (You can get a beetle kit, or other taxidermy supplies, online. Of…
Read MoreAll Hallow’s, creeping on little (stuffed) feet
One of the characters in The Bones of Paris is an artist whose work includes taxidermy. His is a somewhat kinkier version of the Victorian…artist?…Walter Potter, whose work includes scenes like this: (You can read more about him here.) But lest you think Paris is without its stuffed creatures, I bring to your attention Maison…
Read MoreAll Hallows, all the time
Halloween is fast approaching, and since I’ve had both bones and weird stories on my mind of late, here’s a fun All Hallow’s video that Harris Stuyvesant might well have seen during his time in Paris: My own Paris Bones are here, with excerpts & extras. And the spooky urban-fantasy PI of “Hellbender” is here.
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