In Memoriam: Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston: an Appreciation by Mary A. Turzillo Bruce David Boston, emperor of the weird, the esoteric, the absurd. Once a year at least, my husband Geoffrey Landis and I would sit around the table in his and Marge Simon's house in Ocala, drinking wine and eating cheesecake or dried fruit. The conversations were esoteric, comical, scandalous, divine. There were other meetings, although as years went by, Bruce became more retiring and skipped Conference on the Fantastic, where he'd been a Creative, and other conferences where he would have been lionized, and even StokerCon. There was no one like Bruce. His work was galactic and…
Ray Zacek is a retired federal officer living in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, artist Theresa Beck. A flaneur and inveterate scribbler, Ray writes horror, dark fiction, and crime/noir. His work has been published by Critical Blast, Denver Horror Collective, Tule Fog, Allegory Online, All Due Respect, Shotgun Honey, among other venues. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.
