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Date Posted: 21:59:49 05/22/02 Wed
Author: Mark
Subject: Re: Still stroking!
In reply to: Daniel 's message, "Re: Still stroking!" on 20:15:07 05/07/02 Tue

>Hi Mark! I hope your health is holding up. Welcome
>back and thanks for the very kind words, I really do
>appreciate it. :-)
>
>I've actually been reading some CAS lately too. "The
>Abominations of Yondo" is a small but good collection
>of his Lovecraftian and Zothique short stories.
>
>As for American folk/fantasy, have you heard of
>William F. Wu? He has an ongoing series of stories
>based on his character "Jack Hong" who is sort of an
>asian version of Silver John. He travels the American
>countryside running into all sorts of mystical
>creatures and folk legends.
>
>He has an ebook out that compiles all the Hong stories
>into one place, which you can find here:
>http://www.williamfwu.com/ebook.html
>
>Working in front of a computer all day, I don't really
>like the idea of reading a novel on a monitor, so I'm
>hoping this will come out in print sometime soon.
>
>It's great to see you here again!
>Daniel
>
>
>>Hi Daniel! Great to see you again. Glad the site is
>>still going strong. Good idea saving the old board -
>>lot of good conversations over there. Guess I was
>>having a "Wellman jones" and remembered to come visit.
>>I agree with you about those pop-up ads - annoying. I
>>think I see a couple of new additions to the Bestiary,
>>although the pics aren't enlargeable anymore and I
>>can't quite tell. I'm going to try and order the
>>Betancourt CD as well. I really wanted his Borderlands
>>CD, but it's been halted in production for years now
>>and looks like it's not happening. Was re-reading some
>>Clark Ashton Smith recently and thought that one good
>>American fantasist deserves another and am about to
>>re-read the Silver John books. Wish there was more
>>fantasy/horror with an American folk backdrop. I'm
>>tired of European settings. I enjoyed Scott Card's
>>Prentice Alvin series, but that's about the only one I
>>can think of written in recent times. Anyway, it was
>>good rummaging around the site. Since it was one of
>>the first I ever came to back in my early days of net
>>surfing, it felt like coming home. ;)

Strange, I replied to this and it never took. Hmmm...

Well, I said in my vanished post that I have those two books in paperback - they are very good. I'm looking for more Smith even as we speak. I checked out the Jack Hong site - looks great! Thanks for the heads up on that. I will read it when I have a spare couple of hours online! To bad it can't be printed out...I think a bunch of us should start a literary movement towards American folk fantasy. It's too rare!

Anyway, good to hear from you. I'll be checking in.

-Mark

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