NEW! Pro Se presents #8

NOW AVAILABLE! PRO SE PRESENTS #8! Pro Se Continues to Put the Monthly Back into Pulp with fantastic stories by Kevin Rodgers and Chuck Miller as well as the conclusion to the exclusive HAWK story by noted New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico! New Pulp's Best New Writer of the Year Chuck Miller shares another tale of the Black Centipede.

"Funeral for a Fiend" picks up one of the loose threads from "Creeping Dawn." We learn more about the bizarre new Zenith crime lord called the Stiff and his strange relationship with the Black Centipede. And we meet the "ultimate fixers," the enigmatic twins known as Patience and Prudence.
With Art provided by Sean E. Ali and Rowell Roque and a fantastic cover by Roque, trade dress by Ali, this is an issue that HAS to be the next thing you get for your New Pulp collection! Only Six Dollars in Print! Coming soon as an Ebook! Available now at the Pro Se Store at:
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Puttin' The Monthly Back into Pulp with Sci-Fi, Mystery, and Good ol' Masked Vigilante Action, PRO SE PRESENT #8 hits the streets, adventure blasting from both barrels! Van Allen Plexico's exclusive epic novella 'Hand Of The Machine', featuring HAWK, his latest creation, concludes ! Kevin Rodgers takes us into the terrifying state of mind...or reality....known as 'Paranoia' and New Pulp's Best New Writer of the Year Chuck Miller shares another tale of his wild and wacky hero, The Black Centipede, starring in 'Funeral for a Fiend!' With mind blowing art work provided by Sean Ali and Rowell Roque, PRO SE PRESENTS #8 is almost too much Pulp to handle!


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M.R. GOTT interviews...Chuck Miller

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

M.R. interviews...Chuck Miller
FROM M.R. Gott's Cutis Anserina; A Place for Hard Boiled Macabre
http://wherethedeadfeartotread.blogspot.com

Please Welcome Chuck Miller to Cutis Anserina.

Tell us about your character, the Black Centipede.

The Black Centipede was originally conceived as a cross between William S. Burroughs and the Shadow, with a dash of Doc Savage. (Black centipedes are a loathsome centerpiece of Burroughs' novel "Naked Lunch.") Like Doc, he makes his home/headquarters in the top floors of the tallest skyscraper in the city; he is addicted to the use of clever gadgets of his own invention. The Centipede shares Burroughs' enthusiasm for orgone accumulators, the cut-up method, and quoting Shakespeare, as well as a certain unfortunate vice they both have in common with Sherlock Holmes.

He's kind of difficult to sum up in a few words. He took a strange path to become a crime fighter, and he does it for reasons that are not entirely clear even to him. In the origin sequence, he is a boy of 16. His friendship with H.P. Lovecraft and a strange encounter with Lizzie Borden make him aware of what he calls a "Dark Power" operating beneath the visible surface of the world. He becomes a crime fighter almost by accident. He is a pretty ruthless individual, and he is not at all deep or introspective. He does what he does joyfully, and sort of revels in the violence. He suffers from absolute self-assurance, which can be a very dangerous thing. I do plan to have his character evolve as the series progresses, and we will see the beginning of this in the second book.

He was originally intended as a marginal character in a comic book I wanted to do some 20 years ago. That never got off the ground, but the Centipede and a few other characters wouldn't quit loitering around in my head. I did a short novel a couple years ago based on that comic book idea, but it didn't turn out to be very good at all. So I decided to do some short stories featuring some of the peripheral characters. The first one of these was a Black Centipede tale called "Wisconsin Death Trip." It's set in 1957 and deals with the Centipede's involvement in the curious case of Ed Gein. It was fun to write, and I have maintained the practice of having several "real life" characters appear in almost all the Centipede stories. The first novel features H.P. Lovecraft, Lizzie Borden, Frank Nitti and William Randolph Hearst. The second book, "Blood of the Centipede," which I just finished, includes Amelia Earhart, Aleister Crowley, Fatty Arbuckle and Bela Lugosi.

In the Centipede's fictional world, he is not only a real-life crime fighter, he is the star of a monthly pulp adventure magazine that presents highly-sanitized accounts of his adventures. This has arisen from a deal he worked out with Hearst. The public perception is that the Black Centipede is a heroic paragon of virtue, while the truth is a little less rosy.


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The UNOFFICIAL Black Centipede theme song!

This is what I hear in my head. This piece of music is actually from "Exorcist 2: The Heretic," which is a pretty ignominious fate. I think it would much prefer to be the Black Centipede theme song. I don't actually have any rights to this-- this is just imaginary.

ENNIO MORRICONE

Magic and Ecstasy (1977):

http://drsivana99.tumblr.com/post/19192604058/ennio-morricone-magic-and-ecstasy-1977
DON GATES has come up with something similar for Challenger Storm: http://challengerstorm.blogspot.com/2012/03/unofficial-challenger-storm-theme-song.html



THIS GREAT "IMAGINARY MOVIE" TRAILER for Creeping Dawn: The Rise of the Black Centipede was made by my friend Zach Ford for one of his classes at Daphne (Alabama) High School. I'm very flattered by it. It's a great piece of work, and it assures Zach's place in history as the first director ever to tackle the Black Centipede!


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BLACK CENTIPEDE PICK HIT OF THE DAY: "The Lurch"

Shivaree was a Los Angeles-based music variety show that ran in syndication from 1965 to 1966. It was hosted by Gene Weed. In its brief run, the show featured numerous well-known acts, including the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Byrds, the Bobby Fuller Four, the Ronettes, Allan Sherman, and We Five at its KABC-TV studio. Although it was a syndicated series, Shivaree was produced and owned by the ABC network. In addition to the host, the show also featured dancers (go-go girls) some of whom were Teri Garr, Cathy Austin, Joane Sannes, and Kay Parks; who performed on elevated platforms behind the bandstand. Audience members surrounded the bandstand and also stood on a balcony behind the dancers. Rights to surviving footage of the show (which was produced in black-and-white) are now owned by Research Video.

Theodore Crawford Cassidy (July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979), known as Ted Cassidy, was an American actor who performed in television and films. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) in height, he tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie. He is best known for playing the part of Lurch, the butler on the 1960s television series The Addams Family and performing the opening narration of the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk.