Nick Mamatas is the author of the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004) and the Marxist Civil War ghost story Northern Gothic (Soft Skull Press, 2001), both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for dark fiction. He’s published more than 200 articles and essays in the Village Voice, the men’s magazine Razor, In These Times, Clamor, Poets & Writers, Silicon Alley Reporter, Artbytes, the UK Guardian, five Disinformation Books anthologies and many other venues, and more than 40 short stories and comic strips in magazines including Razor, Strange Horizons, ChiZine, Polyphony and others. Under My Roof: A Novel of Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (Soft Skull Press) was released in early 2007.
Nick Mamatas
Essays
- All Hail Hurley!
from Getting Lost - Giving the Devil Her Due
from Ardeur - Greek Delight
from Revisiting Narnia - Holy Signifier, Batman!
from Batman Unauthorized - Laziness Leads to Sloth, Sloth to Incompetence, Incompetence to Stupidity, and Stupidity to the Dark Side of the Force
from Star Wars on Trial - New Mutant Message from the Underaged
from The Unauthorized X-Men - Over the River and a World Away
from King Kong is Back - Run Awaaaaay!
from Halo Effect - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Casting Spells
from Totally Charmed - Why We Love Holmes and Love to Hate House
from House Unauthorized - You Care Who Killed Roger Ackroyd
from Investigating CSI - Working Class Heroes
from A Taste of True Blood
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