Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Lisa Tuttle’s “Replacements,” first published in 1992 in Dennis Etchison’s
Metahorror anthology. Spoilers ahead.
“How would you feel about keeping a pet?”
Stuart Holder and his wife Jenny are a happy enough modern couple, equal partners who make joint decisions on all important matters. She was a secretary at the London publishing company for which he’s an editor; now she has a senior position at another publishing house, even a company car. He’s always supported her ambitions, but something in her success makes him uneasy, fearful she may realize one day she doesn’t need him. That’s why he picks at her, criticizes her driving. This morning he’s declined her offered ride to the station, a decision he regrets when, amid the street litter, he sees something horr
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Pirates of the Caribbean) has revealed that he’s set to direct an adaptation of
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin’s 1979 novelette
Sandkings, which is being scripted by Dennis Kelly (
Utopia).
“One of the screenplays is based on a George R.R. Martin short story called
Sandkings, which is this brilliant little twisted short story that I love,” said Verbinski when asked about his upcoming projects. “And I’m working with a great writer, Dennis Kelly, who wrote the original [
Utopia]. The British original series is brilliant. And Dennis is doing the adaptation, so I’m kind of excited about that.”