From the “The Online Journal of a Construct Sometimes Known as Caitlín R. Kiernan” the Beowulf segment of this past Saturday’s The Culture Show (BBC2) is now up on YouTube.Caitlín R. Kiernan the label resistant, sifi/fantasy/horror/cult and frankly uncatogorizable author has been a personal favorite of mine and somewhat of an inspiration for me about the business of writing. Her novels are scary and realistic. They draw you into a parallel reality to ours and make you believe that they aren’t fiction. Then you are glad that they are. I am excited that Caitlín is brushing up against the aura of the Silent Hill movies via screenwriter Roger Avary. I for one would like to see nothing more than Caitlín’s screen plays of her novels come to life in movies and hence video games. Her stuff would make Silent Hill look tame, believe me. This wouldn’t be the crap torture/porn that is passing for supernatural and horror films these days. She is exactly the kind of untapped talent that Hollywood and the games industry needs.

I can imagine an MMO in the world of her novels, there would be hellaof a lot of spiders there. And they would be white.

Caitlín R. Kiernan the winner of four International Horror Guild Awards and numerous nominations for other horror and fantasy awards, has written the novelization of Beowulf (Mass Market Paperback). The book is said by Amazon.com to be “Brilliantly reimagined by acclaimed, award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan, based on the screenplay by #1 New York Times bestseller Neil Gaiman and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Roger Avary, it is the tale of a noble liege and a terrible creature”.

Her long association with Gaiman began with his recommendation of Caitlin for the job of writing “The Dreaming,” a spin-off comic series that followed Gaiman’s “Sandman.” The mass-market paperback edition of The Sandman: Book of Dreams will be out soon, a somewhat belated five or six years after the hardback (’96) (original title “Exit from a Slow Sort of Country”).