We are comfortably situated on our squashy beanbag sofa in front of the television. Those of us who wear pyjamas are jim-jammed out; those of us who do not are not. Mr. Pickles is seated next to me, with his paws on my left leg, purring. I have just finished a gigantic meal. Bring it!
In part 1 & part 2, Paul Kane answered our questions about his books Arrowhead and Broken Arrow, as well as giving us a cheeky peek at the upcoming Arrowland. In the concluding portion of our interview with Mr Kane, we talked about his work outside of the Afterblight, including RED and the upcoming Voices in the Dark.
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Last year, you co-edited Hellbound Hearts with your wife Marie O’Regan, a collection of Clive Barker-inspired short fiction. What prompted you to put together a collection in the Hellraiser universe?
As you’ve probably guessed from one of my other answers, I’m also a massive Barker fan.
Clive’s one of the reasons I got into writing in the first place, having read the Books of Blood when I was young and just being blown away by the stories. He made me realise what could really be done in genre fiction, the different directions you could take it and how flexible it is.
Then, when I saw Hellraiser, he did the same for me with film as well. It opened doors in more ways than one! I read the novella on which it was based after seeing the movie, and that was that. It was the start of a lifelong interest in the mythology that saw me collecting any magazines that mentioned the film series and also the Hellraiser comics that came out in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
With the release of "Solomon Kane", Robert E. Howard's strangest creation hits the big screen. Kane is a Puritan action hero - slaughtering everything in his path, then feeling really shitty about it afterwards.
He's also (see: "Puritan") a serious Christian.
Geekliness and Godliness have always been strange bedfellows - which leads us to our next draft: Your favorite Christian hero or superhero?
To liven things up... We've got a copy of Solomon Kane (the novelization), signed by star James Purefoy and director/screenwriter Michael Bassett.
Enter before 1 March for a crack at it - we'll draw everyone's name out of a hat, and send it to the winner.
Rules & Whatnot below. Get picking!
Notes:
Computers are simple, work with keyboards and, at best, display rudimentary graphics.Space travel and interstellar communication both exist - but with no glamor and purely for business use.
The foreman plays golf and the miners go to strip clubs between shifts.
A marshal (of unspecified governmental affiliation) vies with local corporate interests.
The weapon of choice is a shotgun - despite the obvious impracticalities of using one in a pressurized environment.
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