The Zone

Mario Guslandi, at The Zone, has another review of Metrophilias.

Reviews

A review of Metrophilias at the Seattle Post Intelligencer and a review of Dr. Black and the Guerrillia at the Denver Books Examiner.

Pevnost

Just got a copy of Pevnost which containst the Czech translation of my story We Sleep on a Thousand Waves Beneath the Stars, which originally appeared in the anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

I think this might be the first thing I have had translated into Czech. If my memory serves me, that would make work of mine now translated into: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, and Danish.

Classic Metrophilias

A review of Metrophilias by Douglas Thompson can be found here.

In it he says:

“You have to pinch yourself to remember that all this came out of one man’s head. If you enjoyed Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” then you should buy this book to sit beside it. The work of a writer of genius at the height of his powers while the world isn’t looking.”

The Metanatural Adventures of Dr. Black

PS Publishing has bought my book “The Metanatural Adventures of Dr. Black” for 2012 publication. Something I am very happy about.

One second film reviews

Ip Man 2: Good, although there is a lot of fantasy involved.

Vieni avanti cretino: Probably the best Lino Banfi films. Silly, but the scene where he mistakes a dentist’s office for a brothel makes it all worthwhile.

Air Doll: A sort of depressing Japanese film about a plastic sex doll coming to life.

Delitto al ristorante cinese: another great Tomas Milian film, this time him playing inspector Giraldi and a Chinese cook called Ciu Ci Ciao.

Mark colpisce ancora: The last of the Mark trilogy. Good action, great music.

Basta guardarla: A truly great Italian comedy.

My Sassy Girl: Thoroughly boring.

The Collosus of New York: Ok, but the colossus seems rather small.

Little Big Soldier: Good, but not as good as I had hoped.

Nove ospiti per un delitto: Beginning with a lot of naked women and ending with a lot of dead bodies.

Il Vichingo venuto del sud: A very good Lando Buzzanca film about an Italian moving to Sweden Denmark.

Luci Lontane: The only Tomas Milian film I could not sit through. Horror just isn’t his genre.

Metrophilias / Fright.com

Adam Groves, over at Fright.com, has a very favourable review of Metrophilias, which he concludes with the following, very flattering comment:

“Brendan Connell must be counted as one of the most unique and talented purveyors of horror/fantasy/unclassifiable fiction currently at work. While his fertile and expressive prose can become downright Byzantine on occasion (as in the noggin-scratching “Havana”), there’s little doubt that, based on METROPHILIAS, this writer is in a class—and category—of his own.”

Metrophilias Quiz!!!

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Metrophilias Quiz!

Match column A to B to C

A                                   B                                    C

Zipophilia	Mice	Mobile
Albutophilia	Cold	Ho Chi Minh City
Merinthophilia	Sermons	Kampala
Chrysophilia	Mummies	Yekaterinburg
Homilophilia	Deafness	Kobe
Achluophilia	Mud	Cairo
Aulophilia	Flutes	Ebersvalde
Maniaphilia	Bees	Lamia
Brontophilia	Speed	Yakutsk
Knissophilia	Incense	Naypyidaw
Lithophilia	Gold	Lanzhou
Hirudineaphilia	Archery	Beni Suef
Anacusiaphilia	Insanity	Pessinus
Xerotephilia	Water	Tucuman
Toxophilia	Birds	Nottingham
Phthirophilia	Leeches	N’Djamena
Ornithophilia	Lice	Lhasa
Melissophilia	Darkness	Venice
Suriphilia	Thunderstorms	Hamelin
Psychrophilia	Sand	Derinkuyu

 

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Metrophilias x 2

Here at Camp Connell it is all Metrophilias all the time. Another review, this time by the Denver Books Examiner, has appeared.

Amongst many other things, he kindly says:

“With his collection of fascinating Kafkaesque fables for adults, Mr. Connell has impressed me as a rising star in 21st century weird fiction.”

Metrophilias x 1

Another review of Metrophilias has rolled in over the wires. This time at I Just Read About That, where Paul says:

“…the stories remind me of Frank Zappa’s Baby Snakes.”

And:

“…this book is a celebration of the eccentric.”