Philip Fracassi

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Now that all my books are back in print I wanted to offer a breakdown for anyone interested in my work to date.

Current Novels:
A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS
BOYS IN THE VALLEY
GOTHIC
THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL
THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE
SARAFINA (April '26)

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Reviewer friends! You can now download my upcoming collection, TRAPS AND SPECTERS, from NetGalley.

Coming from Shortwave Publishing on September 22.

Includes an introduction by Matt Dinniman.

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Our latest essay thinks through the 'egregious gap' in horror narratives, using the example of Philip Fracassi's excellent short story 'Fail Safe,' from BEHOLD THE VOID @PhilipFracassi #horror
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BEHOLD! The amazing ARC for the upcoming anthology, UNEARTHED, edited by myself and Dan Coxon.

UNEARTHED releases September 15 from TITAN Books.

For review inquiries, please reach out to the publisher.

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Authors:

Tananarive Due
Christopher Golden
Josh Malerman
Tim Lebbon
Eric LaRocca
A.M. Shine
Jonathan Maberry
Hildur Knútsdóttir
Ai Jiang
A. G. Slatter
Mark Chadbourn
Priya Sharma
Benjamin Percy
V. Castro
Gemma Amor
Cavan Scott
Premee Mohamed
Hache Pueyo
Steve Toase

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How they pulled off this scene in INCEPTION (2010) never gets old. One of Christopher Nolan’s most ingenious practical filmmaking achievements.

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Paul Verhoeven on whether the events that take place in "Total Recall" (1990) are real or just a dream:

"It is both. To be honest, that’s what I want. I made the movie in a way that it would be true on both levels, and I spent a lot of time to get that. If you want a scientific explanation, you know, of course, in quantum mechanics there is a very interesting principle, the principle of uncertainty, Heisenberg’s principle.

If you have a big object and if you try to measure the place of the object and the velocity of the object at the same time, the more precisely you measure velocity the less precise place gets. So that’s the principle. That means, of course, that there are different realities possible at the same moment. What I wanted to do in 'Total Recall' is to do a movie where both levels are true. I mean for me, of course, the film anyhow has to do with two realities, one being the reality of going as a secret agent to Mars and discovering that there is a problem, and solving the problem, which is starting the nuclear reactor and helping the guerrillas and destroying Cohaagen.

The second level of the movie, of course, is that from the moment that he goes into the Rekall chair ‘til the end it’s a dream, and I tried to make that second level work throughout the whole movie.

So there’s the dream level which starts when he gets into the chair and the thing is in his neck, and that would go throughout the whole movie, so in the next scene where they say, Oh, there’s a problem, there’s a big glitch here, that would be already the dream, of course. That’s where the dream starts. And the next scene where they are fighting and stuff would be part of his dream, convincing him that it is real, because there is a glitch but that would be part of the program. It would be built into the program to make him accept the fact that it’s real, but it’s a dream.

If you look at the movie, if you haven’t seen it, or for the second time, you’ll see that the whole program that’s set up at the beginning when he goes to the Rekall office and he talks to this guy who sells him the program on Mars, you’ll see that he gets everything that he wants: he gets the trip to Mars, he gets the girl, the exotic girl, he ki!!s the bad guys, and he saves the entire planet. That’s what he does. And that’s basically the dream.

Even halfway through the movie, you may remember, this other guy comes in, Dr. Edgemar, and tells him that he’s in a dream, that he’s still in the Rekall chair, and then Arnold says, “If I’m there, I can ki!! you.” And he puts a gun to his head and the guy says, “Sure, no problem for me, big problem for you, because you will be psychotic from now on because the walls of reality will fall apart. One moment you will be the savior of the rebel cause, the next moment you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy, but in the end—you will even have these strange fantasies about alien civilizations—but at the end you will be lobotomized.”

And then if you see the movie, you realize that all these things happen. I mean he is lobotomized at the end. That’s why at the last shot, when they are so happy and kissing each other, it slowly fades to white, which for me meant, “OK, there he goes. That’s the end-that’s the dream—they lobotomized him.” And all the other things happened, he finds the alien civilization, he rescues the planet, he finds the good girl, he k!!ls the bad guys, but it’s a dream. Now, of course you can see it as a reality, too. So at the end of the movie, getting to white means either it’s a happy ending or he loses his brains . . . which is probably also a happy ending, I don’t know.

That was basically what l wanted—that at the end there would be two possibilities, and they would be both true—for me they are both true—it’s not either one or the other. It’s not that either it’s a dream or it is a reality. It is a dream and it is a reality. And I think they’re both there."

(Paul Verhoeven's interview with Chris Shea & Wade Jennings, 1992)

P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Total Recall" (1990) premiered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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@tigers @WatchDSN @971theticketxyt @bet365_us Not sure how you can expect to win games when 2/3 of your lineup is hitting just barely above or below the Mendoza Line. I'm sorry, but this isn't a major league lineup.

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@jason_blum Congrats, Jason!

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HORROR COMMUNITY - LET'S GO!!!!

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@AtoZ_Payton Dan was NOT pleased with missing the playoffs. He's gonna be dialed in for sure.

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And I have now added to the collection with these three little beauties! So glad I have discovered @PhilipFracassi- he's great and sorry I was late to the party!
#BoysInTheValley
#TheAutumnSpringsRetirementHomeMassacre
#TheThirdRuleOfTimeTravel

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@C53DisTrackStan @CaptMarvelNews To the best of my knowledge, the schedule is still in flux.

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LINKS TO BUY: https://t.co/iJOjc0B5os

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The UK edition of GOTHIC from Black Crow Books is officially out TODAY.

This is a paperback original with lovely red stained edges.

If in the US, you can get free shipping of this edition from Blackwells. UK readers can find wherever they buy books.

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@barstoolsports He and Harden are embarrassing.

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@martinf_a 🙏

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Looking forward to this @PhilipFracassi .

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@JoJoFromJerz Do we still have to give him a million dollars?