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Nate Southard

The signal in your static.

About Me

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NateSouthard.com for blogging, bibliography, and assorted news.
I write the horror. My novella JUST LIKE HELL is now in print through Thunderstorm Books. I have three graphic novels out: DRIVE, A TRIP TO RUNDBERG, and Brian Keene's FEAR. You can find some of my short stories in various horror mags and webzines. I live in Austin, where it rains whiskey.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Readers. Writers. Interesting folks.

Music:

Cruiserweight, Schatzi, Coheed and Cambria, The Twilight Singers, Chairmen of the Board, The Flametrick Subs, Veruca Salt, Triple Fast Action, Hot Rod Circuit, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Motion City Soundtrack, The Afghan Whigs, Jimmy Eat World, Superdrag, Superchunk, That Dog, Hum

Movies:

April Fool's Day, Halloween, The Thing, Go, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Swingers, All That Jazz, School Daze, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Lost in Translation, Singles, Halloween

Television:

Lost, The Shield, Deadwood, Entourage, Arrested Developement, Rescue Me, Oz, Hell's Kitchen, Heroes, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Books:

Transmetropolitan, The Rising, City of the Dead, Terminal, Red, The Girl Next Door, Off Season, Ladies Night, It, Desperation, Flesh Gothic, The Traveling Vampire Show, One Rainy Night, The Store, The Walking Dead, Planetary, The Couriers, Pounded, Ex Machina, Wildcats V3.0, DMZ, The Exterminators, Local, Demo, Desolation Jones, Fell, The Conqueror Worms, She Wakes, Serenity Falls, The Pleasure of My Company, Survivor, Thoroughbred, Species, Dark Harvest

My Blog

October, Weekend One

Here we are, ladies and gents.  October has rolled around once again.  This favorite month of mine will be with us for 25 more days, and I plan to enjoy each and every last one of them. ...
Posted by Nate Southard on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:59:00 PST

Fantastic Fest Wrap Up

It's taken me a bit of time to get to this.  To tell the truth, my feelings on the subject are a little mixed.  By the time Fantastic Fest rolled around on September 18th, I was super excite...
Posted by Nate Southard on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:30:00 PST

The Blog at the End of the World

Paul Tremblay, a damn fine storyteller, has a new story posted.  It's written as a blog, and it is by far one of the most inventive things I've seen in a good while.  Go read and enjoy. ...
Posted by Nate Southard on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:59:00 PST

Popular Movies I Don’t Like

I've been trying to figure out how to ease my way back into blogging and generally behaving like a functioning person after a month of family tragedy, career doubts, and general lameness.  I deci...
Posted by Nate Southard on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:53:00 PST

The Management Apologizes

Things have been a little quiet here, lately.  I'm aware of it, and I apologize.  I had truly planned to be back into the swing of things by now, but a new round of crushing family drama has...
Posted by Nate Southard on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:48:00 PST

The Worst Day of My Life

And I say that without a shred of doubt.  Let me tell you about what happened last Thursday. So last Thursday, the 11th, was my girlfriend's birthday.  Shawna and I had great dinner plans, a...
Posted by Nate Southard on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:35:00 PST

Just Like Hell in the UK

For United Kingdom readers who don't feel like paying for overseas shipping, I'm told UK bookstore Jeff'N'Joys will soon have copies of Just Like Hell in stock.  Enjoy!...
Posted by Nate Southard on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:46:00 PST

New Anthology Appearance Available

LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE 2 Even though the 2008 Halloween season is justbeginning to commence, a new book of spooky tales isalready getting enormous attention from readers ofsuspense, horror, an...
Posted by Nate Southard on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:47:00 PST

Two Weeks Later...

&Just Like Hell remains on Horror Mall's bestseller list! 1.   PASSENGER by Ronald Damien Malfi2.   BOOK OF SOULS by Jack Ketchum3.   JUST LIKE HELL by Nate Southard4.&nb...
Posted by Nate Southard on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:00:00 PST

Fantastic Fest Preview

In just over two weeks I'll be attending Fantastic Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse.  I've been looking forward to this ever since I found out how many cool movies I missed last year.  Now, I'm ...
Posted by Nate Southard on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:50:00 PST