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Another Perspective
Beelzebub Shrugged
Horror/suspense author Thomas F. Monteleone brings Randian conservo-libertarianism into the Twilight Zone.
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Monteleone might not have a head on a rope, but he sure as hell knows how to ring a bell.
Yet he toils primarily in a genre, which, though well-rooted in the American literary tradition — Poe, Hawthorne, Washington Irving — exists to adopt the in the (ahem) borderlands.
“When you say you write horror or weird dark fantasy you’ll sometimes get a look from people like they feel as if maybe they’ve gotta get you one of those pamphlets to help save your soul,” Monteleone says. “Explaining that literature full of scary scenarios and violence can be ultimately uplifting or enriching or inspiring can be a tough sell. You’re not going to convert everyone. But at its best this is a genre that shocks, yes, but it is also one that can open your mind up to new perspectives, take your thinking down paths its probably never been down before, and address fears that otherwise go unspoken. It can be a wonderful thing.”
And while Monteleone is as grateful for honest constructive criticism as the next successful artist, those hoping tut-tutting from self-proclaimed cultural arbiters will shut him up are bound to be disappointed.
“At some point you have to pull the lever and throw it into gear,” Monteleone says of his process. “I’ve been doing this a long time. I don’t need a mirror on a stick to find my own ass.”
About the Author
Shawn Macomber is a contributing editor to The American Spectator.
TLP| 11.8.12 @ 6:15AM
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
― Edward Gibbon
TLP| 11.8.12 @ 8:41AM
I understand that this is a Slow Time for guys in this business, but: "If only we had a Better Candidate"? "If only he had been More Conservative"?
The Muslim ran the Most Far Left Campaign this Country has EVER seen, and he got 2 MILLION more Votes than Our Guy. TWO MILLION.
More Welfare. Higher Taxes. Free Abortions. Free Condoms. More Regulations. Punish the Rich. REVENGE!
He ran a Campaign on 4 More Years of Higher Food Prices. Higher Energy Prices. More Bankruptcies. More Foreclosures. More Homelessness and Hopelessness. More people on Food Stamps. More people living at the Poverty Line, and BELOW IT. More people working Part Time Jobs, at Minimum Wage. More Companies getting the Hell Outta Dodge, on the next Boat for China
Less Personal Income. Less Value on your Homes. Less opportunities to get a Good Paying Job. Less Military Readiness. Less Influence around the World. And, less adherence to the Constitution's Seperation of Power, our Laws on the Books, and any Modicum of Civility, and Decorum.
FCK the Catholic Church, and Freedom of Religion!
FCK the Jews, in Israel!
FCK the Rich!
FCK Whitey!
FCK all a Ya'all, who refuse to Bow to my Glory!
We coulda run JESUS CHRIST in this Election, and it wouldn't have made a difference.
Open your Eyes, Jeffery.
The MORLOCKS now Outnumber The ELOI.
Understand?