Monday, December 15, 2008





Whitley Strieber waxes alarmingly maudlin in his latest "journal" entry.
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mister ecks said...

Interesting that he takes a cartoon that debuted a full ten years after "Communion" swept the bestseller list so personally.

3:02 AM
Tristan Eldritch said...

Even for a guy who normally talks about impending nuclear attacks, die-offs, and economic catastrophes, I've never seem Strieber quite this baleful. A lot of recent statements from him seem to suggest a movement away from the positive John Mack view of abduction into darker territory as well.

12:14 PM
purrlgurrl said...

Sounds like Brother Whitley’s personal economy might be tanking right along with the rest of the world’s. I guess abduction has stopped selling and he can’t find his new genre. He needs to go back to environmental sci fi (e.g. Wolfen). With global warming on everybody’s lips that’s got to be a developing market.

9:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Oh dear lord...

(DELETE!)

I went on a bit of a rant up there, but decided, so close to the holidays, I'd keep my opinions to myself this time. It's hard to sympathize with one time multi-millionaires who are angry about not selling as many books these days when the whole world is going to shit. Sorry Whit if there are just more important things happening right now than your supposed "abductions". Oh well, hopefully Christopher Walken will send him a Christmas card so he can stop whining.

"I am deeply, profoundly angry at the way I have been treated by the world. I brought one of the premiere human experiences to the surface and my reward has been a mock Science Fiction Hugo, and to become a star of the television show Southpark as the victim of a 'rectal probe'--the character skillfully changed, of course, so that I could not sue or claim theft of my story."

1:50 AM
purrlgurrl said...

" . . . sue or claim theft of my story." Somebody puhleeze tell Brother Whitley that his abduction cow has dried up. He needs to get a new cow to milk.

11:32 PM
Mac said...

Most writers would happily kill for a fraction of Strieber's success. I don't blame him for feeling down; lord knows the Christmas season does it to me too. But for a guy who frequently seems to revel in personal woes, I hear remarkably little about the dedicated and quite passionate fan base he's acquired post-"Communion."

12:17 AM

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