At the 2012 World Horror Convention, author Hal Bodner interviewed Robert McCammon as part of the Horror Writers Association’s special programming. A video of the interview is now available on the HWA YouTube channel.
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Robert McCammon has a New Year treat for you: a free, brand-new short story, “White”! It’s not for the faint-hearted….
You can read “White” on this website here, or you can download the story for EPUB (NOOK) or MOBI (Kindle).
Robert McCammon’s The Five will be released in paperback by Tor on November 26, 2013!
After finishing the novel, Mr. McCammon wrote the lyrics for a song called “Darkest Night” and collaborated with the band Dorean Lives to bring the song to life.
The video below features Robert McCammon discussing The Five, as well as the music video for “Darkest Night.” Please feel free to share the video far and wide! It can be found on YouTube: http://youtu.be/VowF6J6lGQc
Video directed by Chuck Hartsell.
Darkest Night
Lyrics by Robert McCammon
Copyright © 2013 Robert McCammon
I had a dream and I was wide awake
I sat there thinking of the choices you make
To rise or fall, that’s what it’s about,
To keep going, and I started to shout,
(chorus)
Every darkest night must give way to the dawn,
Every lost soul must keep searching on,
Every wrong love must fight to be right,
Everyone must live through their own darkest night
I’ve seen a lot since the day I woke up,
Been through the fire, drank from a poisoned cup,
But I’m still here and I plan to remain,
In the old world that can make you insane
I search for beauty, it’s hard to find,
Walking through shadows to leave darkness behind,
It’s a hard old world when nothing feels right,
Gonna find a reason to keep fighting the fight
Through the darkest night
The darkest night
Through the darkest night
The darkest night…
I sat there thinking of the choices you make
To rise or fall, that’s what it’s about,
To keep going, and I started to shout,
(chorus)
Every darkest night must give way to the dawn,
Every lost soul must keep searching on,
Every wrong love must fight to be right,
Everyone must live through their own darkest night
I’ve seen a lot since the day I woke up,
Been through the fire, drank from a poisoned cup,
But I’m still here and I plan to remain,
In the old world that can make you insane
I search for beauty, it’s hard to find,
Walking through shadows to leave darkness behind,
It’s a hard old world when nothing feels right,
Gonna find a reason to keep fighting the fight
Through the darkest night
The darkest night
Through the darkest night
The darkest night…
Boy's Life I Travel By Night Reviews Robert McCammon Short stories Speaks the Nightbird Swan Song The Hunter from the Woods The Night Boat Usher's Passing
A variety of updates and links from around the ‘net
Just discovered today: Robert McCammon was awarded the Japanese Adventure Fiction Association Prize two years in a row in the 1990s. The prize was awarded to Swan Song in 1994 and to Boy’s Life in 1995. The prizes were presented by the Japanese Adventure Fiction Association from 1982 to 2011 for the best adventure novel published the previous year.
Yet another international edition discovery: Robert McCammon’s short story “Black Boots” was included in a 1993 German anthology, Das große Horror-Lesebuch II (Big Book of Horror II). The cover for the book can be seen here. It has been added to the Book Cover Gallery.
And a roundup of various posts from around the ‘net in the past month:
- Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers” made this list at Blastr: “25 scary stories by Stephen King and other great horror writers you can read NOW”
- A review of I Travel by Night was posted at the Ravenous Reads blog
- A review of The Hunter from the Woods was also posted at the Ravenous Reads blog
- A “Quickie Review” of Speaks the Nightbird was posted at the “A Life in the Day” blog
- A great review of The Hunter from the Woods was posted at the Elitist Book Reviews blog
- A great review of Speaks the Nightbird was posted by YAM Magazine
- A review of The Night Boat was posted by FantasyLiterature
- A podcast review of the audiobook edition of Speaks the Nightbird was posted by AudioFile Magazine
Finally, the Robert McCammon Goodreads group is reading and discussing Usher’s Passing as their November Group Read.
The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards presentation was held on Saturday, June 15, 2013, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA. Among the awards presented were the Lifetime Achievement Awards to Robert McCammon and Clive Barker. A video of the full awards ceremony has been uploaded to YouTube and can be viewed below. For information about all of the winners, please visit the Stokers 2013 website. The presentation of McCammon’s award by Yvonne Navarro and Hunter Goatley begins at 1:06:20.
You can also view the video on YouTube.
Robert McCammon was a guest on Gregory Hall’s show The Funky Werepig on Friday, June 28, 2013. You can now listen to the show or download an MP3 below.
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Robert McCammon was a guest reader at the My Favorite Poem Sixth Annual Literary Event held on September 23, 2011, at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, AL. Mr. McCammon read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” A low-quality video of his reading is now available on the Robert McCammon YouTube channel:
Video of the entire event, with all 15 guest readers, can be found on Vimeo.
Author Joe Lansdale wrote a brief essay about Robert McCammon for the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Incorporating The World Horror Convention Souvenir Book. Robert McCammon was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Bram Stoker Awards on June 15, 2013, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. With the help of Lisa Morton, Norm Rubinstein, and Bailey Hunter, Joe Lansdale has given permission for his essay to be reprinted on this site.
Click to read “Rick McCammon, A True Southern Gentleman” by Joe Lansdale.
As reported earlier this month, Lisa Morton’s interview with Robert McCammon for Nightmare Magazine is now available to read for free. You can find the interview on the Nightmare Magazine website.
Also now available, Steve Berman’s new anthology Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny contains a reprint of Robert McCammon’s short story “Yellowjacket Summer.” The story previously appeared in the October 1986 issue of Twilight Zone and in the Robert McCammon short story collection Blue World. The trade paperback can be ordered from Amazon here.
The Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Souvenir Book included an excerpt from The Five, as well as an essay by Joe Lansdale entitled, “Rick McCammon, a True Southern Gentleman.” The cover for the book has been added to the Book Cover Gallery and can be seen here.
The Spring 2013 issue of Dark Discoveries magazine includes a new short story by Stoker Award-winner Joe McKinney entitled “The Woman Who Collected McCammon.” The story was inspired by Robert Bloch’s classic story, “The Man Who Collected Poe.” You can purchase the issue (or subscribe) on their website.
Finally, the goodie bag for the World Horror Convention 2013 included a postcard from Open Road Media, the ebook publisher of many of McCammon’s backlist titles, congratulating him on his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. The front and back of the card are shown below.
At the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend incorporating World Horror Convention, author Yvonne Navarro interviewed Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Robert McCammon. An audio recording of the interview is now available for your listening pleasure. Click on the image or click here to listen to the interview.