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There's something I recently realized about myself. It begins with an internal dialogue I had about dividing authors up into two types. The first type of author I thought about was the author, who is writing a story for you, the audience. It's going to be a story with certain expectations that make it a mystery, romance, or some other type of established genre. They know what you are looking for, and you are going to get it. I want to be clear; I am not bad-mouthing these stories. Many established writers can be unique and clever in their own right and still fit this idea, like James Patterson. The author can really put their own sense of self and cleverness into their story. Though, in time, this too can be expected by you, the reader, and becomes another binding. In the end, they are writing for you, and you are the final decider. Then, there are the types who are not writing for you. In fact, it has nothing to do with you. Yes, they hope you'll buy it. Yes, they hope you'll read it. Yes, they hope you'll love it. But in the end, none of that mattered in its creation, because it was never about you.
“You’re going to submit something to Scary Stuff?” I remember both Jacob and Nicholas looking at me with raised eyebrows when I told them that I was going to submit a story for our first submission-based anthology. I’ve always had a very rocky relationship with the genre. Bad things happening to people for no reason gives me nightmares. Fiction was always an escape, a chance to slip into a world where heroes did heroic things, and evil always carries the seeds of its downfall. In horror though, most often the bad guys win. Even if the villains don’t win in the end, the heroes always lose for the majority of the narrative. That kind of story, which usually is supposed to fire your adrenaline and allow you to live vicariously through situations that you would never survive otherwise, just keeps me up at night and gives me anxiety. Something funny happened though. I read through the submission guidelines, and it suggested to read Creepy and Eerie magazine to get a feel for the tone to strike in your story. I hadn’t read either before but I headed online to see if I could find some examples. What I found was an archive of the old eerie comics, and in reading through them I discovered a world of horror that I never knew about. It shouldn’t have been surprising that the genre is not body parts flying through windows and heavy gore, but if something was labeled as horror I would just take a pass. The few movies that I have seen that might qualify as horror ( The Universal Monster movies , Resident Evil , Aliens ) are not horror movies for me. They are all either black and white films from an era where the limits of special effects neuter the impact of the horror, or are action films that happen to use a few horror elements. So when asked if I would like to see/read/hear about horror, I would politely decline.
This upcoming Saturday, November 9th, Oddity Prodigy Production s will be launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for our upcoming anthology “ Scary Stuff !” This is our very first crowdfunding campaign and we’re all pretty excited.
The Oddities & Prodigies
Protons have mass and a positive electric charge. Neutrons have mass and a neutral electric charge. They make up the nucleus — small, massive center — of an atom. The Spark of Creativity
works in a similar fashion. A small, massive center, or collective, like Oddity Prodigy forms the nucleus. And as they spin new works of creativity from a variety of atomically powered mediums — including: Fiction, Illustration, Cartooning, Costume Design, Podcast production and Tabletop gaming — they create an electric charge that becomes the building block of something larger: An entire artistic movement. These are the protons and neutrons sparking the OPP charge:
The Cosmos Commodities
The Cosmos Commodities
Creativity spawns art. And while the definition of art is loosey goosey enough to encompass a wide variety of things across an entire spectrum of media, the end result of all that creativity is in the production of something tangible. That is what Oddity Prodigy prides itself on fostering: The opportunity for artists to realize their dream and create their products.
Scary Stuff Horror Anthology
Introducing Scary Stuff, the Horror Anthology from Oddity Prodigy Productions. This is a tribute to the classic style of horror published in comics from the 60's and 70's. Stories of mayhem and the macabre. "Scary Stuff" is at heart a love letter to the kind of scary stories we grew up on.
Twist endings, weird monsters, morality plays in microcosm. The kind of stories that keep you up at night and make you wonder just what that noise you heard in the basement really was.
Oh Snap! It's Oddity Prodigy
Meet the Oddity Prodigy Production collective of artists, a marvelous team-up of Delaware's most electrifying writers, illustrators and costume designers.
The collected anthology showcases the full roster of OPP's artistry. There's comics, there's short stories, there's cosplay. What more could you ask for? Currently copies are available at local shows and conventions the OPP crew are attending. If you are interested in a copy of your own and can't meet up locally, contact us.
Beach Pulp
From giant creatures to ghostly specters and from heroic superheroes to hard-boiled detectives, our beach towns are in for a shock. A collection of nineteen stories in the style of the old Amazing Stories pulp magazines set in Rehoboth, Bethany, Cape May, Lewes, Ocean City, and other beach towns that covers a range of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and noir. There is even a graphic short story, told in twenty-four panels.
Costume Designs
Shasta is a peerless costume designer and costplayer crafting a collection of costuming projects that need to be seen to be believed. Luckily you can see them as she travels to the not-quite-so-local renaissance, steampunk, and fairy faires, comic book conventions, and local-ish belly dance events.
Every couple of years, she emerges to speak locally about costuming, providing resources for beginners and emphasizing the fun to be had in learning new skills.
A Plague of Shadows
We believe in ghosts. Do you? Expecting the usual? Please don’t. You won’t find haunted houses, spirit infested graveyards, demonic poltergeists, or possessed objects in these pages. It’s been said that there are no haunted places, only haunted people. That’s who you’ll find here, the haunted ones. A maintenance technician in remote Alaska, an English thief, a young couple on a road trip across America, an astronaut on a one way ride to Jupiter, an Irish gravedigger, and dozens more. All victims of an otherworldly infection, all tormented by a plague of shadows.
Do you believe in ghosts? You will.
The Mermaid in Rehoboth Bay
The Mermaid in Rehoboth Bay is a story that celebrates the beauty of the sea and tidal areas and depicts two strong female characters who are able to confront their fears and achieve their goals on their own. Great care has been taken to depict realistic, age-appropriate child-like characters that readers will identify with. The story addresses themes of friendship, girl empowerment, respect for differences, love of nature, and overcoming fears to achieve your goals.
Children will love the highly detailed illustrations that depict two parallel story lines–one that follows a girl who lives near the sea but is afraid of the water, and one that follows a child-like mermaid who finds herself far from home.
The Adventures of Superchum
Strange visitor from another suburb ... Friendlier than a happy puppy ... able to meet new people in a single mouse click ... Look! ... up in the sky ... it's Superchum, World's friendliest superhero! The bastion of brotherhood, amiable avenger, convivial crusader and harbinger of firm handshakes, he leads the Mighty Befrienders on a mission to make friends with the entire world, one person at a time.
The Adventures of Superchum chronicles the life of Shmitty Atkinson, a former social worker turned superhero.
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- Manon Rheaume
"Keep up the excellent work."
- Jose Lind
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