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Jan 30, 2011

Sunday Smooch

Welcome to another LoveCats DownUnder Sunday Smooch!

Today we have a smooch from Walk On The Wild Side by Natalie Anderson, but first ...

the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is -- Kylie Griffin!

Congratulations, Kylie! Can you please contact Tracey O'Hara at

tracey (at) traceyohara (dot) com

and she'll send you a copy of Death's Sweet Embrace.

And now for today's Sunday Smooch from Walk On The Wild Side by Natalie Anderson...

There’s nothing like a kiss! As in real life, kisses in stories often herald the turning point in a relationship – sometimes they’ve been waiting so long to happen it’s such a relief, sometimes they’re playful and passionate and fun and sometimes, they’re a result of a pent-up mess of emotions – anger, frustration and desire…

One crazy afternoon on the beach...
A fling with sinfully hot champion snowboarder Jack Greene isn't Kelsi Reid's normal
behaviour... but one glimpse of his wicked blue eyes has Kelsi throwing caution to the deep blue sea (along with her clothes!). After all, who better to go crazy with than a man who deserves a gold medal for his prowess on the slopes and in the bedroom...? Then Kelsi crashes down with a terrifying bump - of the baby kind. They couldn't be worse matched - Jack is Mr Right-Now, while Kelsi craves stability. But it's hard to keep your feet on the ground once you've met the man who turns your world upside down...

“It’s going to be fine,’ she smiled but it wasn’t a natural one. “It’s all going to be ok.”

“Oh?” He stopped. She still had her back pressed against the window, as far away from him as possible.

“Sure,” she nodded. “I have a good job. I have no worries financially. It won’t be easy, but it’ll be doable.”

Somehow that didn’t make h
im feel any better. Now she was suggesting she didn’t even want his money? Ridiculous. Doing it alone wasn’t easy – even with only one child. His instincts sharpened – body becoming even more battle ready. “What will you do with the baby?”

“When it comes I can keep working from home. Later I can return to the office part-time and work my hours back up as it gets older.”

“You’ve thought all this through,” he said, not keeping the sarcasm out.

She looked cool. “Funnily enough, I haven’t been able to think of much else.”

Okay so he knew it was the twenty-first century and all and there were plenty of working mothers out there, plenty of solo mothers too, but there was that basic instinct in him now rearing its
head up from the cave it had been born in, saying the man ought to provide for his woman and child. And there was another instinct rising too, threatening to override everything – his need for this woman – pushing him to do the thing he’d been dreaming of for ever. “And where did you see me fitting in with this?”

“I don’t.”

“Pardon?” Jack couldn’t control the snap of his muscles.

“I already said you don’t need to worry about it.” Kelsi looked away from the wild expression in his eyes. “I c
an manage just fine on my own.” And she could. And she would.

“Really.” He looked furious. “Ok, let’s say, for a second, that that’s true.” He walked towards her, his anger surging ahead of him in an invisible cloud. “Let’s say you can manage just fine on your own and you don’t need me.”

Kelsi froze, despite her instinct screaming at her to run. And then it was too late. He swiftly pulled her into his arms – lifting her right off her feet. Her heart thundered at the feel of his hard strength pressed so close to her. And it almost beat right out of her chest as his mouth descended.

Her whole body convulsed as his lips pressed hard on hers. It was anger she tasted, but also passion. And she couldn’t do anything except put her arms around his neck and hold on. She tried so hard to stop the spinning inside but she couldn’t contain the response, couldn’t stop herself softening, opening for him and feeling the rush of desire for more. He was all strength, all passion. And all fury.

She shuddered deeply again as he ravaged, showing her no mercy, kissing her until she succumbed c
ompletely – not just to his desire, but to her own. Until suddenly she kissed him back as keenly and as wildly. Until just as suddenly she panicked and pushed him away hard.

He dropped her and she gasped.

“What do we do about that?” he demanded.

Kelsi quickly took three paces away, her emotions tossed about like corks on a stormy sea. What was he thinking kissing her like that? “You think complicating
this even more is a good idea?” she demanded shakily.

“It’s that co
mplicated already, I don’t think this is going to make much difference.”

“You’ve got to be ki

“I still want you.”

Want to know what happens next? Just leave a comment to be in the draw for a signed copy of Walk on the Wild Side!

Come back next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced -- and a smooch from Million-Dollar Amnesia Scandal by Rachel Bailey will be posted!

  1. Congrats on being book of the month Natalie. Have got to say the new Riva covers rock! Have noticed them big time in every shop I go into, they certainly stand out on the shelves, here's hoping that means big sales! x

  2. Natalie

    WOW that kiss is filled with emotion and passion loved it I will be looking for this book I need to read the whole story

    Have Fun

  3. Fabulous kiss, Natalie! I absolutely HAVE to read their story, to see what came before and goes after!

  4. Niiiiice!!! Great tension and love her independence! And congrats on book of the month!

  5. Great kiss Natalie. Am really looking forward to reading their story. Great cover. Congrat's.

  6. Ooh, Natalie, I just lurrvve complicated! :-)

    Fab kiss... and now I'm dying to find out what happens next!

  7. Hot kiss! Like Michelle I love complicated. Sounds like a great read.

  8. Oh, my. That was *intense*. Might just be wandering off to the shops now to pick up a copy of that book...

  9. One scorching hot kiss! wow!

    I found this intriguing line in Unbuttoned By Her Maverick Boss, "What will you do, Sophy, play it safe or WALK ON THE WILD SIDE?"

  10. Hi everyone! Glad you enjoyed the kiss - and yes, it DOES get complicated...
    I'm so glad you like the new covers - they certainly are eye-catching!

    and Mel, yes she is independent - I loved that about her.
    Nas - LOL - I don't get to title my books - but I think most of my heroines have taken a walk on the wild side... must be something about my heroes!?!?!?!!!

  11. Read this on ereader a few weeks back as always I loved your story telling Natalie. The cover was ace and the kiss a sensation.

  12. Liking the look of the new Rivas and liking the sound of a Walk of the Wild Side. Good luck with the new series!

  13. *on.... ON The Wild Side... Scheech!

  14. Natalie

    Really liked the kiss between Jack and Kelsi. I really want to see what happens after this particular kiss.

    Jack seems like a really interesting guy especially being a snowboarder which you don't see that often as an occupation for characters.

  15. I really enjoyed the excerpt and I'd love to read the rest. I like the Riva covers.

    seriousreader at live dot com

  16. Woohoo! Hot kiss, Natalie! I can't wait to find out how Kelsi and Jack work out their differences!

  17. Intense...but, Natalie, aren't your stories always just...that?!
    Also great conversations - always. So real!
    That's what makes them stand out and why I like them so much. And, ahem *whispering*, do I get a long happy bit at the end??

  18. Awesome Natalie. A snowboarder.. *sigh*...

  19. I'm so late back to here guys - so sorry (blame the current book) - but Clare - yay you on winning :)

    Aine -thanks so much I'm so glad you enjoyed the story.

    Amanda- yeah, his career was so much fun to research - I watched way to many Youtube clips of hot snowboarders!!!!!

    Linda- thanks - and yes, the covers are cool - I've just seen my next and i LOVE it - might have to put it on my blog!

    Brigitte - so lovely to see you - yes, I think there's a nice length happy bit at the end for you in this one :) Hope so anyway!


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Spawn of Dark Dreams: An Interview with Gary Myers, by Jason Thompson

Gary Myers

Gary Myers

May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep…”

H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

Interview by Jason Thompson:

The Cthulhu Mythos has been itemized, categorized, Wiki’ed and studied, but beneath its coldly logical science fiction surface crawls the stuff of dreams and nightmares. Before “dark fantasy” was a word, Gary Myers was writing unforgettable stories that mixed H.P. Lovecraft’s later Cthulhu Mythos phase with his earlier Dreamlands stories, mystic fantasy influenced by the fiction of Lord Dunsany and fairytales such as The Arabian Nights. When he was 17, Myers’ first story, “The House of the Worm”, appeared in The Arkham Collector, edited by Lovecraft’s friend and publisher August Derleth. In 1975, Derleth’s Arkham House issued Myers’ first book The House of the Worm, a collection of ten stories set in the Dreamlands.

In the ’80s and ’90s Myers’ work appeared in magazines like Crypt of Cthulhu and Lin Carter’s fantasy anthologies. When his stories became canon in the Call of Cthulhu RPG supplement “H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands,” it was the equivalent of an official endorsement: Gary Myers’ dreams are the real thing. If anything, Myers’ dream stories are even darker than Lovecraft’s: stories such as “Xiurhn,” in which a man ventures to the place where the Night goes during daytime; “The Keeper of the Flame,” a story of holy rapture, Mythos style; or “The Snout in the Alcove,” which shows what happens to the Dreamlands when the Old Ones return and the world ends. A combination of new and old work was later collected in The Country of the Worm, the definitive book of Myers’ Dreamlands stories. But to Myers, the barrier between dream and waking, fantasy and reality, is just another illusion. His second collection, Dark Wisdom, focuses on modern stories of the Great Old Ones set in the present day. His most recent book (and first full-length novel), Gray Magic, goes in another new direction: a swashbuckling fantasy adventure set in Clark Ashton Smith’s prehistoric Hyperborea and starring Smith’s sorcerer Eibon.

“Gary Myers’ stories are caviar,” raves Robert M. Price, Mythos scholar/editor and host of the Bible Geek podcast. “The stylistic skill that went into the sparkling and dreamlike prose…the poisonous trace of the Cthulhu Mythos…What Brian Lumley does with a broadsword, Gary Myers does with a stiletto, but the result in both cases combines horror with humor, deviltry with drollery.” With Myers a guest at the 2013 HP Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon from September 27-29 in Los Angeles, California, and all his books now available on Kindle, we sat down (at the computer) to ask him about his favorite nightmares.

Dark WisdomTHOMPSON: How old were you when you first started writing?

MYERS: Ten or eleven. My output was about what you would expect at that age: Mad Scientist and Bug-Eyed Monster epics like so many of the movies that filled the airways of the time. My first stories that actually resembled stories came a couple of years later, Gothic horrors modeled after the ones I was reading in the black-and-white comic magazines Creepy and Eerie. None of this early stuff survives. So my writing really dates from The House of the Wormwhich I wrote (the story, not the book) when I was sixteen.

THOMPSON: How did you first discover Lovecraft?

MYERS: In those days I was an avid follower of Robert E. Howard and the Conan series which Lancer Books was then putting out. But they were putting them out too slowly for me, so I tried to fill in the down time by hunting for other Howard stories in such books and magazines as I could find at the local second-hand stores. This led me to an anthology called Swords and Sorcery, edited by Conan series editor L. Sprague de Camp. And this in turn led me to three of the most significant discoveries of my young life. For not only did this book contain a Conan story by Howard, it also contained “The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller” by Lord Dunsany, “The Doom that Came to Sarnath” by H. P. Lovecraft, and “The Testament of Athammaus” by Clark Ashton Smith! I was blown away, and I immediately expanded my hunting program to include all three of these writers. First I found, at a local newsstand, a new paperback collection of some of Lovecraft’s better known horror stories, which affected me even more deeply than his dream fantasy had done. Then I found, just a few doors down from the newsstand, another used bookshop with a sizable display of Arkham House books in its window, Lovecraft featured prominently among them. Those were magical times.

THOMPSON: In the original edition of The House of the Worm you list among your hobbies “copying the fiction of Lord Dunsany.”

MYERS: That arose out of necessity. Most of Lovecraft was available from Arkham House, as was a goodly portion of Smith. But Dunsany was harder to come by. This would begin to change with the launch of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series under the editorship of Lin Carter, but that launch was still some months away. I eventually found that I could get access to some of Dunsany’s books through interlibrary loan. I read the novel The King of Elflands Daughter in this way, and the short story collection The Last Book of Wonder. I liked the novel well enough but I liked the collection more. Desiring a copy of my own, and knowing no honest way to get one, I decided to make it through the simple expedient of typing one myself. This bore unexpected fruit a short time later when I set out to write my first Mythos story. I found myself slipping into Dunsanian cadences almost against my will. In the end I decided to continue in this mode as the path of least resistance.

THOMPSON: I used to retype stories myself as a kid! ;) I would make new anthologies by choosing and retyping stories from other books…although selecting the table of contents was the fun part. I usually lost patience on the retyping and only got through the first few paragraphs…

MYERS: This may be more common than we think. Lin Carter recounts somewhere how the artist Hannes Bok copied A. Merritt’s novel The Ship of Ishtar in longhand from borrowed magazines where it was serialized. Bok later went on to complete a couple of stories left unfinished at Merritt’s death, and to write a couple of Merrittesque novels of his own. Perhaps we should start a school.

THOMPSON: What was it about Lovecraft and Dunsany that inspired you?

MYERS: Dunsany was probably my greater inspiration. I liked his exoticism, his fairytale simplicity, and his effortless wedding of the imaginary and the real. I know that some critics, Lovecraft among them I believe, think his earliest work is his best, books like The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods in which he treats his fantasies with dignity and respect. They are less pleased with things like The Book of Wonder in which he seems all too willing to burst his illusions like so many balloons with a pin. I personally prefer these later stories. I am fascinated by the effects he achieves by juxtaposing fantasy and reality, not to make the fantastic seem real, but to make the real seem fantastic. He shows us a workaday world like a bad play performed by indifferent actors before a shabby canvas backdrop, and compels us wonder who is producing the play and what is behind the backdrop. There is a very short story that epitomizes this for me. It is “Taking Up Piccadilly” in the collection Fifty-One Tales. Lovecraft does some nice things too along this line, but his Dreamlands stories are not necessarily his most Dunsanian. For me that is probably “The Music of Erich Zann.” He inspired me more with the unrelieved darkness of his literary outlook, most famously embodied in his pantheon of monster gods.

THOMPSON: I can see a bit of “Taking Up Piccadilly” in your story “Dusk”…

MYERS: So can I. There are a lot of things packed into that one, from a Luddite’s mourning the disappearance of brick-and-mortar book, movie and record stores, to a middle-aged man’s meditations on mortality. What a fun thing to finish off a book begun by a teenager!)

THOMPSON: Who are your other favorite authors?

MYERS: I tend to favor older fantasy writers. I find that horror is most attractive when it wells up through the cracks in a civilized veneer. I also like prose that is flavorful and fantastic and even a little mad. Dunsany, Lovecraft and Smith all fit nicely into this drawer. So do Poe, Arthur Machen, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James and M. P. Shiel, to name a few.

THOMPSON: What was the first Mythos story you wrote?

MYERS: The House of the Worm was the first. There may have been a few false starts, but that was the one I finished.

THOMPSON: It’s one thing to write Mythos fiction, and another thing to submit it to Arkham House. How did you end up getting published by them?

MYERS: Sometimes youth and inexperience are a winning combination. I enclosed the story with a book order, and August Derleth responded with a contract. He published the story in The Arkham Collector in 1970.

THOMPSON: I know you had work in The Arkham Collector and Meade & Penny Frierson’s one-shot anthology magazine HPL, and later in magazines like Crypt of Cthulhu and Midnight Shambler. Were you heavily involved in the fanzine scene in the ’70s and ’80s?

MYERS: I was never what I would call heavily involved, in fanzines or in fandom. But there were two Lovecraftian fan communities that I took my membership in very seriously, albeit distantly and for the most part silently. The first was the one surrounding Arkham House itself. Nowadays I hear a lot of people talking about August Derleth’s supposed sins against Lovecraft’s legacy. Nobody was talking about stuff like that at the end of Derleth’s glory years. It was an exciting time. Books were plentiful, with as many as half a dozen new titles released in a single year, and dozens more available on backlist. They were cheap too, with titles published in the forties still selling at forties prices. Even so, I lost not a few pounds of baby fat redirecting my school lunch money toward such illicit delights. But I never really had a chance. There were so many books to chose from, so many paths for the aspiring Lovecraftian to follow. Lovecraft was still the main event: his stories, his letters, his essays and his poems. But one did not have to stop with these. Using Lovecraft as a starting point, one could move sideways to the contemporary writers who worked with him, backward to the older writers who inspired him, or forward to the younger writers whom he inspired in turn. This went far toward fostering my image of Lovecraft as a spreading tree in whose protective shade more delicate plants could thrive and grow. But there were more than the books to be excited about. Derleth himself was a living connection to Lovecraft and his times. He was also a conduit to other surviving members of Lovecraft’s circle, as well as to newer writers mining the same vein. And all contributed, in one way or another, to The Arkham Collector. This little magazine needed only a letter column to make it the voice of a community as it was already the heart.

But I said there were two fan communities. The second was the one surrounding Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu a decade or so later. This long-running fanzine served much the same function as The Arkham Collector, but far more ambitiously and, I think, successfully. Today Bob is probably better known as the editor of the Chaosium’s Cthulhu Cycle anthologies, but I really believe Crypt of Cthulhu is the highwater mark in his Lovecraftian endeavors. It is certainly a highwater mark in the field. I wish I had contributed more to it.

THOMPSON: Lin Carter was an early supporter of your work…

MYERS: That is one of the things I am proudest of. Lin Carter is another one of my heroes, not so much for his own books but for what he did for the books of others. As editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, he reprinted—and in some cases gave a second life to—a sizable number of great but obscure fantasy writers running up to Tolkien. (Dunsany, Lovecraft and Smith were all included.) This mass-market paperback series was and is one of the prizes of my personal library, so much so that, in later years when I had more money to throw around, I recreated about half of it in their original hardcover editions. Lin noticed my stories in The Arkham Collector and wrote some nice things about them. Later he included me in anthologies he edited, one in the Ballantine series and several out of it. But my relationship with him was not exactly smooth. I never knew that he was going to use a story of mine until I discovered it in the pages of a new book plucked from some newsstand rack, and I never got paid for its use until I called him on it. For some reason this bothered me a great deal at the time. Now, though, I am inclined to view it more philosophically. The little money he paid me was soon spent, but the prestige he bestowed on me lasted considerably longer, and the pleasure he gave me I have carried with me down to the present day. Thanks, Lin, wherever you are!

THOMPSON: How did The House of the Worm end up getting published in book form?

MYERS: Derleth bought my first four stories for The Arkham Collector. As early as the third he suggested that he would be interested in publishing a collection, which he was already calling The House of the Worm. After the fourth he stopped buying the stories for separate publication so as to save them for the collection. I went on writing, getting as far as the ninth story. Then I got word that Derleth had died, and that took the wind out of my sails for about two years. Finally I wrote the tenth and last story and sent the collection to Arkham House. They (my contact now was Forrest Hartmann, the Derleth family lawyer) responded very favorably. Their only concern was with the shortness of the book. They asked if I had anything suitable to fill it out. I did not, so I wrote the introduction and sent it along to them. The book came out about two years later, in 1975.

THOMPSON: You are an artist as well as an author. What are your visual influences? Were you involved in the visual design of The House of the Worm?

MYERS: My first love of this type was for the comic artists whose work graced the black-and-white pages of Creepy and Eerie. I still seem to favor black-and-white designers and illustrators, people like Dore, Beardsley, Harry Clarke, Sidney Sime and Lee Brown Coye. As for my book, I had no input in it after the typescript left my hands. But I believe Allan Servoss, who did the drawings, was selected by Derleth before he died. Lin Carter reported in 1972, three years before the book came out, that Derleth had planned to issue it “with delightful illustrations by a new artist.” And Servoss’s illustrations are certainly delightful.

THOMPSON: Your early Dreamlands work seems to combine the influence of Lovecraft and Dunsany, but your stories are actually darker than their dream fiction, and frequently end with much more horrible fates for your protagonists…

MYERS: Well, I was a very dark young man. I was still a teenager first of all, and that can be hard on anybody. But I was also a rather odd teenager, socially isolated and emotionally withdrawn. Asperger’s Syndrome was not much talked about then; but my wife Jenn—Jennifer McIlwee Myers, a popular writer and speaker on autism and an Aspergerian herself—tells me I have had a big red Asperger’s beacon flashing over my head pretty much from birth. Even that is not too unusual, at least not in fannish circles. But I had also undergone a crisis of faith. I was never a young Lovecraft. I took my religion seriously, more seriously than many of the people around me. But I could not take it seriously without questioning it seriously too, and so in the middle of my teenage years I found myself an atheist. That in itself is not a terrible thing. But when you still feel emotional ties to your old beliefs, you cannot cut yourself off from them without bleeding a little. All these things contributed to my inner darkness, and that darkness colored all my early stories to one degree or another. Of course this was many years ago. I feel much better now.

THOMPSON: Your dream stories in The Country of the Worm are very evocative of places: gloomy (and beautiful) cities, deserts, beaches, ends-of-the-world and the sea. Is there a shadow of Southern California here? Do these landscapes inspire you?

MYERS: I am a Southern Californian, and those images had to come from somewhere. But they are not really strong enough to be counted as inspirations. Here is one that is. The neighborhood where I spent the first years of my life was a little suburb southeast of Los Angeles. I think it was mostly populated by retirees. At least I remember it that way, with endless vistas of little old men in shirtsleeves watering roses behind white picket fences. But my father worked in Los Angeles as a bus driver on the night shift. One night our mother packed up us kids and took us to meet my father’s bus, to ride with him along his route as a kind of family outing. I could not have been more than six at the time, since my family broke up before I turned seven. But I still remember the strange people getting on and off at the regular stops, and the stranger buildings, mysteriously dark or luridly lit, lining the empty streets between. On such foundations as these are nightmare cities raised.

THOMPSON: Some of your early stories are very cryptic, which gives them a particularly dreamlike feel. For instance, who is “the One who dwelt all alone in the dark outside the world” who’s writing the story within the story in “Hazuth-Kleg”…?

MYERS: A lot of Dunsany is like that too: long on imagery and short on explanation. The reader must find his own or do without.

THOMPSON: Speaking of mysteries, there is a quote from The Fourth Cryptical Book of Hsan which leads The Country of the Worm, which suggests that there is temptation, as well as horror, in following the Old Ones. The story that most expresses this theme seems to be “The Keeper of the Flame”…

MYERS: I devised the quote for Bob Price for an issue of Crypt of Cthulhu. It was the first thing I wrote for him. I like it a lot, so much so that, when I assembled my “collected works,” I used it as an epigraph for all three volumes to establish a unifying theme. “The Keeper of the Flame” almost certainly grew out of this quote, though it was written eight years after.

THOMPSON: You seem to have taken a long break from writing after the end of The House of the Worm. What do you do when you aren’t writing? What is the other identity of Gary Myers?

MYERS: My title these days is Technical Analyst. I am basically a computer programmer. I find that programming is about as much fun as writing, and it pays a lot better. Don’t quit your day jobs, kids!

THOMPSON: Since you’re a programmer/engineer, I have to ask: do you play video games?

MYERS: No. I have too many seductive siren calls on my time to feel the need for another. Maybe I should, though, if only to show my distain for the present-day children of Dr. Wertham who would declare those games the root of all societal evil, much as they did crime and horror comics back in the days when I was still too young to read them. Would it do any good, I wonder?)

THOMPSON: I, probably like many people in the ’80s, discovered your work because it was mentioned in the Call of Cthulhu supplement H.P. Lovecrafts Dreamlands. Did the authors ask you for permission?

MYERS: They did not ask, but they did not need to. I had already raided Lovecraft and Dunsany for place and character names. How could I object if somebody did the same to me? In any case, it sounds like they did me a favor.

THOMPSON: In the ’90s you began writing Mythos stories set in the modern day, collected in Dark Wisdom. How and why did you end up making the switch? I’ve heard that for a period you repudiated your early Lovecraft-Dunsany stories?

MYERS: The Dark Wisdom stories were all written between 1995 and 2001. I switched over to see if I could do it, and to try to take advantage of a market I saw in the series of Cthulhu Cycle anthologies that Bob Price was then doing for Chaosium. I continued with them because I enjoyed them, and because I wanted to complete the cycle I had planned. Although they are standalone short stories, I actually planned them like a novel, with all of them outlined before most of them were written. To me they feel less like a break from my Dreamlands stories than an extension of them. They are plotted very similarly, I think, and set, many of them, against similar dark city backgrounds.

This much is certain. My repudiation of my early Dunsanian stories had nothing to do with the switch. I had been perfectly happy to continue writing Dunsanian stories for the preceding twenty years. My repudiation was limited to the stories in The House of the Worm, and it was not so much the stories I repudiated, as the fearful way I had botched their presentation. The book was written by a teenager, and it was published, as far as I can tell, at a time when Arkham House was between editors. I sent them a very sloppy book, and they did very little to correct it. I began to see its flaws from the moment I saw it in print, and they only grew more glaring with every passing year. But now that I have brought out the corrected edition I am much happier with it. I even begin to see some of the virtues that others have claimed for it.

THOMPSON: I’ve heard Robert M. Price was instrumental in the writing of Dark Wisdom.

MYERS: Bob’s importance to this project cannot be overstated. He suggested the theme for “Understudy,” the first written of these stories. He ran the venues that published some others. Later he suggested that I might do a book. His interest kept up my enthusiasm for the project, much as August Derleth’s had done for my first book thirty years before. And when the book was finished, he wrote me a very nice introduction for it and placed it with the house that published it. The one thing he did not do was edit it. That was a fiction devised by the publisher to try to whip up sales. He had our permission of course. But it occurs to me now that an “Introduction by” credit would have worked just as well.

THOMPSON: Each of your modern Mythos stories is written around a different Cthulhu Mythos god or creature. Which is your favorite and why?

MYERS: I would have to say Nyarlathotep. I have dropped the name of Azathoth more, as the perfect embodiment of an uncaring and incomprehensible universe; but Azathoth is too big have a story. Nyarlathotep has almost too many. He is presented as a man, a magician, a prophet of the gods and a god himself. His roots are in an exotic and mythic past, and his future reappearance will herald the destruction of the world. His parallel to Christ is very close, almost too close to have been conceived by a man like Lovecraft with no interest in religion. Yet he came to him fully formed in a dream. It just doesn’t get any better than that.

THOMPSON: Your modern Mythos stories seem, in some cases, to have more humor than your early stories.

MYERS: I was trying for a variety of voices and tones. Humor was another way to differentiate. But I like to think all my stories are humorous, if only as nasty and brutal practical jokes.

THOMPSON: Reading your work, I feel like you have three different styles: your early Dreamlands style as seen in The Country of the Worm, your modern Mythos style as seen in Dark Wisdom, and the style you use in “The City of the Dead” (in The Country of the Worm) and Gray Magic, which is less naturalistic than Dark Wisdom but different from your early Dreamlands style. What was the story behind your development of these different styles?

MYERS: I did not develop the Dreamlands style. I simply got it stuck in my head through my transcription of Dunsany. In some ways it is still my most natural style, the style I have to cut and burn to arrive at something a sane person would write. The modern Mythos style represents my idea of what is suitable to modern characters in modern settings. The Eibon style is a bit more self-conscious. It is my attempt to convey a flavor of Clark Ashton Smith without the full weight of his vocabulary and construction. I think of it as Smith Light.

THOMPSON: Unless I’m mistaken, “The City of the Dead” is your only published story without any Mythos elements. What inspired it?

MYERS: I wish I knew. I do know that it is the story I cared most about for the longest time. It is really quite an early story, conceived in the middle ’70s, though mostly written in the middle ’80s and finished a long time after. It was my first attempt at a long story, and my first attempt to break away from the Lovecraftian/ Dunsanian mode and do something on my own. It was also my principal proving ground for new styles and techniques. My modern Mythos tales, my Eibon tales and even my later Dreamlands tales might not have been possible without it. With all that care and effort, you might expect a better story. But you can’t have everything.

THOMPSON: You’re obviously a huge fan of Clark Ashton Smith. What led you to write stories about the sorcerer Eibon?

MYERS: I am indeed a huge Smith fan, of his stories and poems both. I once had the whole of “The Hashish-Eater” committed to memory, though I have lost most of it since; and I can still recite “Nero” or “Satan Unrepentant” if forced to it at gunpoint. As for how I came to write about Eibon, it was at the Providence NecronomiCon in 2001. Bob Price, Joe Pulver, Jenn and I were sharing a pizza in an Italian eatery, when talk turned to Bob’s anthology The Book of Eibon which was then stuck in the publisher’s pipeline. Suddenly Joe was struck by the thought that I should contribute to this anthology. Bob as quickly agreed. Only I was hesitant. “I couldn’t kill Eibon,” I began, thinking of my penchant for killing off my protagonists. But Joe would hear none of it. “Why couldn’t he kill Eibon?” he challenged the table, and the seed of “The End of Wisdom” was sown. Of course, by the time the seed came to fruition, the anthology had begun to move again and it was too late to change the contents. But Bob used the story a few years later in a revival of Strange Tales.

THOMPSON: The Eibon that appears in “The End of Wisdom” seems like a different, darker character than the more heroic Eibon who appears in Gray Magic.

MYERS: That was to meet what I saw as the differing needs of the stories. In a long progression of monsters and villains, somebody has to be the hero. It was also influenced by my choice of narrator. Eibon himself narrates the short stories, but for the novel I needed someone different. Someone to act as a stand-in for the reader, to learn things as the reader learns them and respond to them as the reader responds. Someone to play Dr. Watson to Eibon’s Sherlock Holmes. I found him in Eibon’s apprentice Cyron. This Cyron is presumed to be the same who, Lin Carter tells us, compiled and completed the Book of Eibon after his master’s passing; but his background here is rather different. He would be inclined to view Eibon in a more positive light than Eibon might view himself.

Gray MagicTHOMPSON: Would you define yourself as more of a fantasy fan or a horror fan? A fantasy author or a horror author?

MYERS: Measured against the mainstream of fantasy today, I would define myself as more of a horror fan/writer. Measured against the mainstream of horror today, I would define myself as more of a fantasy fan/writer. But I am definitely a fan first and a writer second.

THOMPSON: Why do you write? What do you get out of it, and what do you hope your readers get out of it?

MYERS: My reason for writing fiction has changed greatly over the years. I would say I began from a sense of need, the need to align myself with something I valued in the hope that some of its value would rub off onto me. It was not unlike the dream of being a sports hero or a rock star, though maybe a shade less realistic since, let’s face it, the world is not that interested in Lovecraft and Dunsany. Later I wrote more for the joy of making something that I hoped would be beautiful and durable, as a woodworker might make a stool. As for what I hope the reader gets out of it, I have not given that a lot of thought. But I have had editors I wished to please—August Derleth, Lin Carter, Robert M. Price—and to the extent that I pleased them I judged my work worthwhile. So I hope that I can please my other readers too. And that I can remind them a little of the pleasure they took in the great Originals who brought us together in the first place.

THOMPSON: What story or book would you say you’re most proud of? Out of all your works, what would you first show to unfamiliar readers?

MYERS: I would offer up one of two stories, both in the Dunsanian mode: “The Keeper of the Flame” or “Dusk.”

THOMPSON: As a final question, what are you working on now? Is there a new book or new stories we can look forward to?

MYERS: I am not hopeful. In fact I assembled my “collected works” largely to ink a big black period at the end of that part of my life. Still, never say never. I might get bored and take it up again. It wouldn’t be the first time.

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5 responses to “Spawn of Dark Dreams: An Interview with Gary Myers, by Jason Thompson

  1. Wonderful interview with Gary Myers! He is an excellent writer, It was so thrilling to meet him at ye H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and have him sign my copy of his Arkham House book!

  2. Thanks for doing this interview – it was very enlightening. My favorite recent stories by Myers are What Rough Beast, Fast Food and particularly Horror Show.

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This 3 acre park is on the water front. and includes a lighted waterfront walkway with benches and railing. Fishermen and sightseers use it equally. It also includes horseshoe pits and an outdoor skateboarding facility.
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Location: Downtown Sault MI, under the International Bridge
This 36 acre park is just west of the city's downtown and offers the only major boat launch into the upper St Mary River.
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Location: Sault, MI near the Airport Terminal
This 32 acre park is Main ballfield facility in the community, with nine ball fields (fast pitch, slow pitch, softball, women's and little leagues), most have complete dugouts, bleachers, and restrooms.
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Location: 2601 Minneapolis St. (east of M-129)     Phone: (906) 635-5341; Chalet Phone: (906) 635-6961
Minneapolis Woods Recreation Area is the City's major outdoor winter recreational facility. The park has recently been enhanced by the addition of tubing runs and tow ropes for both the ski/snowboard hill and tubing runs. Minneapolis Woods alos has a heated chalet with a concession, and a view of the entire hill.
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Sherman Park is a 68.7 acre park located on the upper St. Mary's River, and contains the City's only public beach. This park is open May 15-October 15 from 6:00am-11:00pm Park amenities include a campground, concessions, large pavilion, playground, horseshoe pits, volleyball courts, a ballfield, and nature trails for walks and cross-country skiing.
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Lake Superior forms a natural funnel for migrating birds. Large number of raptors, waterfowl and shorebirds pass this point each spring and fall. Guided bird walks, banding demonstrations and other programs are offered. Open April 1 to October 15 from 10 am to 6 pm. Admission is free or by donation.
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Winner of the Polish American Historical Association Creative Arts Award

Inspired by her Polish American heritage and her first visit to her family’s homeland in 1996, Linda Nemec Foster’s stunning new collection poignantly reflects on the immigrant experience — an experience of loss and discovery, of ambivalence and pride, of deep tragedy and redemption. Foster’s own ethnicity as the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Poland is colored by America’s somewhat disinterested view of the “other” Europe — only recently emerged from history’s dark shadow — and of a country that for a hundred years did not exist as a political entity. In the book’s opening poem, “The Awkward Young Girl Approaching You,” she struggles with this sense of ethnic identity: “Who will speak for the dispossessed, / those who come from nowhere, / whose birthplace cannot be found / on any map . . . ?” Foster’s attempts to reclaim an ethnic heritage, to search for herself in the mirror of her family’s history, resonate throughout her verse.

Amber Necklace from Gdansk moves from lyric childhood memories and descriptions of immigrant life to prose poems that interweave the mythic and historic past with the present. Imaginative, powerful, surprising, and magical, Foster’s lines breathe life into the land, history, and culture of her ancestors. Who will speak for the dispossessed? These poems will.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa {AP} Supporters of the ruling African National Congress blocked an opposition politician from holding a rally Saturday and prevented another from speaking to voters as tensions heated up ahead of June 2 elections.

The actions highlighted fears the ANC which polls predict will win the election by a two-thirds majority is becoming intolerant and will turn South Africa into a one-party state.

In Gamalakhe, an ANC stronghold along the Indian Ocean, party officials denied Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi access to a sports stadium where he had planned to hold a rally, the South African Press Association news agency reported.

ANC spokesman Bheki Cele said the opposition party was denied access because it hadn't booked the stadium. But Arthur Snyman, chief executive of the local government, said a motion to allow Buthelezi access to the stadium had been approved.

In Northern Cape province, ANC members prevented Piet Saaiman, the provincial leader of the New National Party, which ruled during apartheid, from speaking during a forum in which political parties were to present their election platforms.

In a telephone interview Saturday, Saaiman said ANC supporters shouted him off the stage Friday at City Hall in the diamond-mining town of Kimberley.

Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico, also the provincial ANC leader, accused New National Party members of antagonizing ANC members first.

Although most observers credit the ANC, which came to power in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994, with following democratic principals, lingering doubts remain about its future.

"The question remains: Is South Africa an exception to the well-trodden path leading to one-party dictatorships so familiar elsewhere on the continent?" asked a new report by the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who is expected to succeed retiring President Nelson Mandela, reportedly plans to strengthen the powers of the presidency but has pledged to adhere to South Africa's democratic constitution.

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Violins? Cool! Always amazed me that someone can combine woodworking and music. Me?, I play a pretty good iPod. :)

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Hi Techman
Where would I find templates for the layout for a cello neck so I can trace it on the wood.
I do not need the scroll part, just from the heel to the scroll.

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OK guys, I have a problem with my JessEm Rout-R-Lift. I was cutting the rails for some raised panel cabinet doors and after got the bit to the right height, on the third door I noticed the rail did not match. I readjusted the bit and again after a few rails the bit height changed again. After checking the lift, I noticed when I would change the bit height, the cranking lever would slowly move a little and then stop. Just wondering if anyone has had this problem and if so what can I do to fix it.
I guess I could lock down the lift and adjust the bit height the old way.

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IIRC, there’s a way to tighten something to eliminate backlash, which is the cause of the problem you’re having.

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In arguably one of the most powerful scenes in Christopher and Jonathan Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, Selena Kyle urges Batman to leave the city of Gotham behind in order to save himself.

“You’ve given this city everything.” She says.

“Not everything, not yet.” He replies. Bruce Wayne is prepared to give everything to save his city.

Anything worth having in life will cost us something. The greatest things in life cost everything.

There is a price to pay, a sacrifice we all must make to move forward in life.

Whether it is the long hours and long commutes often required of modern professionals or the pain and discomfort of bringing a new life into the world, one thing is certain – sacrifice is part of life.

The good news is: every sacrifice leads to reward.

Hard work and preparation lead to provision and success.

We must ask ourselves, “Are the things I’m living for worth the sacrifices others have made?”

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Plot Holes

Those pesky plot holes. You’ll find them everywhere if you look hard enough, even in real life.

What do we do with those things in life that just don’t make sense? Label them, point them out and focus on them?

In fiction, there is something we call the “suspension of disbelief”. It’s what makes professional wrestling so much fun. It’s when we “buy in” to a story and simply enjoy the ride.

I’m choosing today to ignore the plot holes in my life right now and to enjoy the good things and the ride I’m on, no matter how bumpy. The best is yet to come and whether it all makes sense or not, it is an adventure.

If you listened to LYCCYX Episode 1 on Audible or iTunes and hated it, we have good news: we went back and ironed things out a bit. If you loved it, we think you’ll love it even more.

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We are pleased to announce that the revised audio version of LYCCYX Episode 1 – The Declaration is now available!

This is based on the Third Edition of the eBook and is narrated by Mike Paine. If you already own the current version, be sure to re-download it to your device to get the update.

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We took a much-needed break but now we are back with some exciting news. We just released the Third Edition of LYCCYX Episode 1 and updated the covers on both episodes.

If you haven’t yet, click refresh in your Kindle menu to update your copy. The changes are subtle but our new editor went through and really cleaned things up to make the story easier to follow.

Stay tuned for more to come. In the meantime, Episode 1 is FREE in most territories.

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We have been working hard to make LYCCYX Episode 1 FREE in as many places as possible. There are certain restrictions that we must abide by but for now, Episode 1 is free on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Sony, and several others in the US, UK, Canada, India, and several other countries.

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8/31/15 – First, a familiar Karaoke host, DJ/KJ Dave, is coming to Bruno’s Friday nights starting September 11th. Fran’s is hosting a fundraiser Saturday night called Pay it Forward with live bands and no cover. Melisa McCarthy dined at Four Winds Pub. There will be entertainment and drink at the Grecian Festival at St. George…

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PHOENIX -- If everything goes according to plan, outfielder Travis Snider could rejoin the Blue Jays as soon as he is eligible to be activated from the disabled list.

"I think so right now," Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said on Friday. "It's still a little early, but that's the way it seems to me. But again, if he needs another few days or a week, that's fine."

Snider is on the 15-day DL with a sprained right wrist and will be eligible to return on May 30. The 22-year-old outfielder injured the wrist while fouling off a pitch during the third-inning of Toronto's 16-10 win over Texas on May 14.

Anthopoulos said the injury is not considered serious.

"It's not serious at all," Anthopoulos said. "The way they explained it to me is it's the equivalent of if you sprain an ankle. It's just one of those things where you need to stay off it and stay fresh. He's feeling a lot better. He just needed to let it calm down and let it heal."


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Former teammate Ramirez lauds Cubs' Wood
MILWAUKEE -- Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez watched on a clubhouse television at Miller Park as one of his favorite former teammates left baseball with a flourish.

Cubs right-hander Kerry Wood, who burst onto the scene with a 20-strikeout game in 1998 before injuries forced him into relief, struck out the only batter he faced Friday on three pitches and then called it a career.

Wood walked off the mound at Wrigley Field to a standing ovation.

"If you're going to go out, you go out like that," Ramirez said. "It's the White Sox, with a full house. It was great. It was emotional just to watch. He was my teammate for a while in Chicago, seven, eight years, and you can't find a better teammate."

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Wood struck out 1,582 batters in 1,380 career innings. His 10.32 strikeouts per nine innings is second-best in baseball history among pitchers who worked at least 1,000 innings, trailing only Randy Johnson.

"When healthy, he was one of the toughest pitchers in the game," Ramirez said. "The numbers back that up. He could have done a lot more things if he would have stayed healthy. He was on the [disabled list] a lot.

"That's one of the reasons he is going out right now. I don't think he's feeling well, even though he threw the ball well today. His arm is bothering him. It's just time. Your body tells you when it's time to go on, and I guess his body couldn't hold up anymore."

Ramirez had 27 career at-bats against Wood, mostly when Ramirez was breaking into the Majors with the Pirates.

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Gorzelanny to Henderson: Be patient after surgery

MILWAUKEE -- Nearly nine months removed from a so-called "clean-up" procedure on his pitching shoulder, Brewers left-hander Tom Gorzelanny would offer simple advice to the teammate -- former closer Jim Henderson -- who underwent the same surgery this week.

"It's all about showing patience," said Gorzelanny, who had his surgery in early December and is still working through some after-effects. "It's about putting in the time and the work to get back. It's definitely a test of your patience."

The Brewers expect Henderson's rehab to span four months, generally the same timeline offered to Gorzelany when he underwent surgery last December. The lefty hoped to be ready for Opening Day, but wound up not making his season debut until June 15.

Entering Wednesday, Gorzelanny had made only 15 Brewers appearances this season. He had a 0.68 ERA and only twice pitched back-to-back days. The arm feels strong, but Gorzelanny still experiences more soreness than usual after an outing.

"It's not like you have surgery, do your rehab, come back when you're supposed to and everything is perfect," he said. "You still have to deal with some feelings and pain you're going to get post-surgery. That goes for a lot of guys who have surgery.

"Everyone says the year you come back from surgery is going to be tough, and then when you get the long offseason, the next year is going to be better."

Gorzelanny has confidence that will be the case for him. He is a free agent after this season.

"It seems like these days, it takes a lot longer for us relievers [to sign], so I'm just going to sit back and be patient," said Gorzelanny, who made $5.7 million over his two-year deal with the Brewers. "My focus now is to finish up strong and show that I'm healthy."

Henderson, meanwhile, has one more Brewers season remaining before he is eligible for arbitration.

"He's doing [surgery] at a better time than I did it," Gorzelanny said. "He's got a lot more time to recover from it. ... And you know he's going to work hard as he can at his rehab. He's very dedicated. I'm not worried about him at all."

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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who's serving a prison sentence for sexually abusing young boys, will not get a new trial, as he'd hoped.

A Pennsylvania judge Wednesday rejected all the post-trial petitions filed by Sandusky and his attorneys, who had claimed they didn't have enough time to prepare their case.

In a 27-page opinion, Judge John Cleland said the proceeding was "simply not a case where trial counsel's inability to review before trial all of the discovery material produced can be said to have resulted in a 'structural defect' that made the lack of a fair trial a virtual certainly."

In October, Cleland sentenced Sandusky to no less than 30 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys.

Defense attorney Joe Amendola testified that he had been unprepared for the trial, but also conceded that after reviewing the documents post-trial, he didn't see anything he would have done differently in defending the former coach.

The sex abuse scandal led to the firing of Penn State's head football coach, Joe Paterno, and the ouster of the university's longtime president, Graham Spanier. Paterno died in 2012 of lung cancer.

The NCAA slapped Penn State with fines and sanctions over the case, but Pennsylvania's governor announced a lawsuit against the collegiate athletic board, saying Sandusky's actions were a criminal matter and not a violation of NCAA rules.

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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon is a book to admire, learn from, and cherish. Solomon deals with a spectrum of childhood disabilities/differences from the norm: autism, Downs’ Syndrome, deafness, prodigies and others. Because he is a professor and lecturer in an assortment of fields, the book is filled with facts about the syndromes he names. Because he is a parent, the factual material is interspersed with case histories of families with great compassion and understanding. Because he is a writer, his prose is exceptional.

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One of the first things many new parents learn these days is the craft of swaddling their infant children. I, for one, remember with a feeling almost approaching fondness the moment during parenting class when I had to demonstrate for all assembled how to swaddle a doll in a theoretically sound manner. (I did it, more or less, a rare personal triumph over my own lack of spatial relations skills.)

Swaddling is great. It has a way of transforming a wildly flailing, highly annoyed noise-emitting little vortex of fuss into a sweet, restful, convenient-to-carry bundle of joy – the kind you'd always anticipated bringing into your lives, and have been somewhat disappointed to see only intermittently among all the diaper changes and random meltdowns.

But – like basically anything baby related – the practice has a recently renewed sheen of controversy. Via BBC:

Writing in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, Prof [Nicholas] Clarke [of Southhampton University Hospital] argued: "There has been a recent resurgence of swaddling because of its perceived palliative effect on excessive crying, colic and promoting sleep.
"In order to allow for healthy hip development, legs should be able to bend up and out at the hips. This position allows for natural development of the hip joints.
"The babies' legs should not be tightly wrapped in extension and pressed together."

Fear of hip damage runs side-by-side with other concerns about infants overheating (ah, the often grandma-instigated temptation of adding that second ... and third ... and fourth blanket) and a raised risk of crib death. Granted that the concerns largely focus on improperly restrictive swaddling (and/or parents who place swaddled infants to sleep on their faces, who are hopefully a small-to-nonexistent percentage of the population) but it's still scary stuff.

So: fantastic. Swaddling is the best way to help your infant sleep and make your lives as parents feel manageable, and it's also, of course, dangerous. Throw it on the pile of stresses of being a new parent, along with exclusive-to-the-point-of-exhaustion breast-feeding, controversy over co-sleeping, and the ambitious and almost certainly overstated diaper-free fad that seemed to be sweeping one small, extremely well-documented part of Brooklyn earlier this year.

The controversy over the safety of swaddling isn't, of course, new – the practice has gone into and out of vogue many times over the years. Early this year, Huffington Post noted a back-and-forth over the practice taking place in day cares, where a pitched battle was and still is being fought about the balance between absolute child safety (fears over hip problems or swaddled babies struggling with loose blankets or ending up on their faces) and child happiness (getting adequate sleep).

All that written, there is, thankfully, some agreement on methods of swaddling that avoid some or all of the risk: If you're a parent of an infant well-and-truly freaked out by all the back and forth there is a nicely written resource on the website of Britain's National Childbirth Trust that provides an overview of the practice, the risks, and (most helpfully) how to do it right, including a video called "How to Hip-Healthy Swaddle your Baby."

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In response to the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed News Corp.'s News of the World, founder Rupert Murdoch said his media empire would have a new code of ethics. It could help – if managers are serious about enforcing the rules, media experts say.

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Fallout from the ongoing News Corp. phone-hacking scandal in Britain now includes a promise from company founder Rupert Murdoch to usher in a new era of ethics. The announcement came late Tuesday in a letter to all employees.

Such promises are both expected and necessary in the wake of any ethical breach by a media outlet and an important first step to regaining public trust, say experts. What will matter now is how serious Murdoch and his deputies are about enforcing them and keeping them up to date.

“Most newsrooms are in a constant process of updating and revising their codes of behavior, if for no other reason than to keep them abreast of changes in the media landscape,” says Kelly McBride, senior faculty for ethics, reporting, and writing at The Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla.

For example, just a week ago, the Associated Press updated and reissued new guidelines on how reporters should use social media.

Mr. Murdoch’s plan is a good start, agrees Ronald Hanser, president of the public-relations firm, Hanser and Associates, in an e-mail. But News Corp.'s “new standards” will hardly be groundbreaking for the industry. "I see no need for other media in North America to change journalistic codes," he says.

By contrast, Murdoch's son, James, told British Parliament on Tuesday that News Corp. does need to “think more forcefully and thoughtfully about our journalistic ethics.”

The real question, say media watchers, is what impact a new set of codes will actually have.

Media reports about the allegations against News Corp. suggest that the standards "can only go up,” says Elizabeth Mehren, journalism professor at Boston University, by e-mail.

Communicating these new standards is one step, she says, “but it will be interesting to see what kind of enforcement measures Murdoch and his staff are talking about, and how exactly they intend to put them into action.”

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Requests for comment on the proposed News Corp. codes received no response from both The Wall Street journal and Fox News Channel, two News Corp.-owned media outlets. Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has a publicly published code of ethics, one considered by many to be among the strictest in the industry. The company was taken over in 2007 by News Corp.

History shows that a scandal can propel valuable housecleaning and industrywide progress, says Ms. McBride.

In 2003, The New York Times found itself embroiled in a front-page scandal over plagiarism and fabrication charges regarding the work of staff reporter Jayson Blair. In response, the paper undertook a thorough review of its ethical policies and made significant changes, McBride says. This self-searching triggered in-house examinations at small and large newspapers all over the country, she adds.

When it comes to a sustained cultural shift, as may be needed within segments of the News Corp. empire, long-term follow-through is the key to genuine change, notes McBride.

“There has to be a continual reinforcement process from middle and top managers on down,” she says, including such things as “finding daily teachable moments during the reporting and editing process.”

Again, she adds, The New York Times followed up with ongoing training to solidify the new standards.

Former CBS newsman Larry Kane, who has now turned his hand to writing fiction (“Death by Deadline”), vouches for the value of sustained follow-through.

The top CBS brass brought what they called “the blue book,” or its code of ethics, to life in a variety of ways. “We did a lot of mock situations,” he says, including potentially tricky ethical decisions that “really clarified what the codes mean in practice, not just in a little book.”

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St. Joseph edges Fairfield Warde in overtime

FAIRFIELD -- St. Joseph entered Thursday off a brutal 10-day stretch that included games against three of the state's top boys lacrosse teams: Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien.

The Cadets were crushed in those games by a combined score of 49-10, so they considered it important to respond to the next challenge on their schedule.

Thanks to some overtime dramatics, the Cadets did just that Thursday, edging Fairfield Warde 8-7 on Josiah Wilson's goal with 9.4 seconds left in the extra session.

"I loved the game. I loved the fact that it was an overtime game," St. Joseph coach Joe Izzo said. "I loved the fact that these guys just dug in and played hard and gutted out a win."

St. Joseph nearly let the win slip away, relinquishing a four-goal lead in the fourth quarter. Freshman Garreth Gasetta's goal with 24.3 seconds remaining tied it 7-7 and ultimately helped Warde force overtime.

Both teams squandered early chances in the five-minute, sudden-death overtime. The Mustangs narrowly missed the game-winner on a shot that rang off the outside of the post. An offsides call with 35 seconds left gave the Cadets possession.

On the Cadets' second shot of overtime and 35th of the game, Wilson collected a pass from Ryan Corcoran in front and buried the winning goal.

"I said `Go' right away," Wilson said, "and he (Corcoran) listened. It turned out pretty well. He dodged on his guy, beat him, drew a slide.

"He found me on the doorstep."

In the process, the Cadets ended a two-game slide and improved to 5-3. Warde dropped to 5-4.

"Frustrating, but it said a lot for what our guys were able to do with the comeback," Mustangs coach Tom Cunningham said. "We can take a lot of positives out of this game."

The Mustangs took plenty of positives from their last game as well. On Tuesday they notched their first-ever win over rival Ludlowe, 5-4.

"Much improved, oh yeah." Izzo said of Warde. "There's no question about it."

Despite being outshot 35-22, the Mustangs stayed close behind Jason Nerreau's 13-save effort in goal. Eight of those stops came in the second half and overtime as the Mustangs rallied from 4-1 down at halftime.

Brendan King led the Mustangs with three goals and had two assists.

Six different players scored for St. Joseph, with Wilson and Peter Bashar leading the team with two apiece. Bashar's second goal put the Cadets ahead 7-6 with 1:02 remaining.

Dave Andrews' faceoff wins gave Warde plenty of opportunities to steal a win, but St. Joseph eventually regained its rhythm on offense.

"It was a little frustrating; a little nervewracking, too," Wilson said of the Cadets' struggles on offense. "We had the ball and lost it."

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ST. JOSEPH 1 3 1 2 1 -- 8

WARDE 1 0 1 5 0 -- 7

Records: St. Joseph 5-3; Warde 5-4. Scoring: SJ -- Josiah Wilson (2g, 2a), Peter Bashar (2g, 1a), Ryan Corcoran (1g, 1a), Jeff Marcantonio (1g), Mike Sudora (1g), Rick Giordano (1g). W -- Brendan King (3g, 2a), Austin Armas (2g), Jake Dougherty (1g, 1a), Garreth Gasetta (1g), Ryan Brown (1a), Kevin Robinson (1a), Jack Potenza (1a). Goalies: SJ -- Mike Braddick (7 saves); W -- Jason Nerreau (13). Shots: SJ -- 35; W -- 22.