Las Vegas-based author and illustrator Kenneth Lamug has published a new childrens book, The Stumps of Flattop Hill. In this dark yet amusing tale following the tradition of the Brother's Grimm”, Ken tells the story of Florence, a little girl who enters a haunted house - both frightened and courageous. With it's fine and detailed artwork, The Stumps of Flattop Hill immediately caught our attention. We were happy to hear Ken's thoughts about haunted houses, the importance of a scary fairy tale, and the tradition of storytelling.
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Growing up, many of us can remember how scared we were of the most haunted house in the neighborhood. The stories were forever evolving to insert plots or backgrounds that grew more and more sinister, but the foundation of the story remained the same – the house itself was creepy, with or without the stories…
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Perhaps the most appealing aspect of Runoff is its familiar and personal quality. The story takes place in a town called Range, which Manning modeled after his hometown of Enumclaw, Washington. Although the events that occur in Range are almost too fantastic to fathom, the people and places seem so real that the story is wholly believable. The tale begins with a gruesome murder that has the Range police force worried that there is a true monster in their midst. No one is safe from the violent culprit because, although anyone can enter Range, it is impossible to get out. The town is plunged into mystery and chaos as the death toll rises, authority unravels, and a string of supernatural events terrifies even the most heroic citizens.
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http://www.theharvardbookreview.com/2016/04/11/running-off-page/
“When asked, if I wanted to write a review of a childrens book, I must admit, I was a bit skeptical. Usually I only write reviews of book written for adults. But Kenneth Kit Lamug managed to convinced me with arguments like: ¡ÈIt's only 40 pages long¡É, ¡ÈIt's a horror story for children¡É and ¡ÈYou will be able to read it in no time¡É. Although he wasn't telling a lie, he didn't tell me the whole truth. Let's look at the book¡Ä”
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During a quick ¡È5 Questions With¡É interview with the Coheed frontman, he revealed that he penned a children's book titled, Kid Crazy and the Kilowatt King. The children's book is, ¡Èabout a kid that teaches a greedy king the value of the word please.¡É
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http://nerdist.com/coheed-and-cambrias-claudio-sanchez-announces-a-childrens-book-exclusive/
One Peace Books has it planned for October. Preorders are available:
http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Kilowatt-King-Claudio-Sanchez/dp/194493703X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458778134&sr=8-1&keywords=kid+crazy+and+the+kilowatt+king
A fairytale like no other, The Stumps of Flattop Hill is a lusciously penned cautionary tale, with mild horror elements, about a little girl Florence, who more strongly believed the children daring her by exploiting a perceived personal flaw, than believing them about any of the real dangers laying in wait in the House on Flattop Hill.
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Ken Lamug's THE STUMPS OF FLATTOP HILL brings a long-overdue disturbance to the picture book arena. The cover alone promised me things that I was desperate for the story to keep.
And keep them, it did.
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Award-winning children's author Kenneth Kit Lamug weaves a fairytale classic in his new picture book, The Stumps of Flattop Hill.
A dark tale for children in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm, it calls to mind the provocative illustration style of Edward Gorey. Scary and entertaining, this book challenges the idea of what children's literature can be. This unique story unfolds visually as well as literally.
Readers are taken on a twisty journey that pushes the imagination of all. They dared Florence to enter the haunted house on top of the hill. She is frightened, but Florence musters the courage to go inside. As she makes her way up to the top, she finds many ghastly things along the way. Will she make it back out or be trapped forever? The Stumps
of Flattop Hill is a macabre tale of a little girl who enters the town's legendary haunted house in the face of fear.
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http://www.horrorsociety.com/2016/01/21/stumps-flattop-hill/
On this interview episode, Derek talks with Tom Manning, whose most recent work, Runoff, was released late last year from One Peace Books. They discuss the genesis of the project — how it began as a self-published serial and then eventually evolved into a massive 450-page tome — and its ambitious scope. Tom describes it as a mashup of genres and styles where he wanted to exploit the full range of the comics medium. Runoff is a horror sci-fi mystery set in small Washington state town resembling the one that Tom grew up in, and it's equal parts dark, humorous, and head-scratchingly confounding. Manning employs an ensemble cast of eccentrics, reminiscent of Berke Breathed's Bloom County, but who reside within a Lovecraftian landscape. Indeed, the cthulhu of this narrative is an enigmatic floating obelisk or headstone-looking entity with moe type eyes. And if that's not disturbing enough, you have a vigilante group of monsters by way of the Universal lot, but whose zombie member is a polite soul who goes by the name of Mr. Pickles. Ghosts become a central part of the narrative, and these spirits exercise their right to vote. And then there's the inter-dimensional bleeding — Edwin A. Abbott, anyone? — that turns into an inter-dimensional feeding. If this sounds like a weird, whacked-out comic, that's because it is, a style that Tom describes as ¡Ègothic American surrealism.¡É As he explains to Derek, he wanted to see where his story would go, what narrative tributaries carried him to the most interesting effects, and the result is quirky book that that could easily find its way into a Syfy series.
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http://comicsalternative.com/comics-alternative-interviews-tom-manning/
