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'The Haunting of Huntley Manor' Gets Published

3/27/2013

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Haunted House
When I arrived in the UAE five years ago, one of the first stories I wrote was The Haunting of Huntley Manor. The main character is a rougish, Casper-type ghost, caught between this world and the next. There's also a Beetlejuice element to the story, with the ex-Earl of Huntley Manor trying to frighten off a band of interlopers

Anyhow, that's enough spoilers.

The story was slated to appear in one of The Library of the Living Dead anthologies until the Library abruptly called it a day. Undeterred, I sent the story off to Pacific Magazines and was over the moon (or 'up in the Palm tree' as they say here) to receive an acceptance.

Suffice to say, this humorous, historical ghost yarn has hit the streets Down-Under, appearing in the autumn 2013 issue of Fast Fiction - it being 'autumn' because Australia is in the southern hemisphere, by the way. I'm also mighty impressed with the illustrations, so all in all, paycheck included, it's been a good result.

Just goes to show, if your work gets rejected and is sent back to you, just send it back out again.

Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner and my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi :

http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/buy.html

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!


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Robin Hood and the Undead Pop up Again

3/17/2013

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'Chaucer's Afterlife' by K. Forni
My narrative poem/novella Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers—A Canterbury Tale got a write up in a just published academic book titled Chaucer's Afterlife: Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture.

The author, Kathleen Forni, refers in some detail to my book on pages 38-39, an excerpt of which is below:

A topical political critique of institutional religion, colonial imperialism, and social injustice is also found in Paul A. Freeman’s Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers—A Canterbury Tale, in which the Greenwood gang has an adventure with the undead.[i] Framing his gory thriller as the “Monk’s Second Tale,” Freeman’s nocturnal narrative is told not for sentence or solace but to “terrify and make the blood run cold” (1).

The blurb to Dr Forni's book says in part: "This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction... (T)he fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality."

It just goes to show that just like Shakespeare, Chaucer's work is still relevant today.

Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner and my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi :

http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/buy.html

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!





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    Paul A. Freeman

    Paul A. Freeman is an English instructor working in Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. He lives there with his wife and three young children.

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