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New Goodreads Group: Classic Pulp Review
So I've got the itch to go diving through some old pulp fiction magazines once again and I thought rather than write up a review of it and post it somewhere with the off chance that someone who reads the same obscure things goes looking for someone else who has...
Newly Published
The good folks at the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers have put together two anthologies with stories written by yours truly in them! [ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] [/ezcol_1half_end] Both stories were a lot of fun to conceptualize and I feel...
Adventures in Reading: Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb My rating: 5 of 5 stars What blew me away about this story, and other stories by Cobb is his ability to paint an amazing picture of an exotic landscape. If you spend just a moment and read the first couple of paragraphs of this story you will...
Adventures in Reading: The Horror On the Links by Seabury Quinn
The Horror on the Links by Seabury Quinn My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don't know what it is about Jules de Grandin stories that I like so much. They are not usually all that inventive, edgy, or linguistically impactful. The characters don't really develop in any...
Three Reasons to Read Horror Fiction
So I was asked the other day why it is that I read horror fiction. It's a fair question, and probably one that resonates with a lot of those that don't find themselves drawn to stories that are quite so dark. It might even sound like an unpleasant experience...
Forgotten Fiction: Hand of Death
Right now, as you are reading this there are thousands of works of fiction sitting on dusty shelves waiting for our adventurous minds to seek them out. It is the goal of this little effort of mine to seek out these shuttered tales and see how well they hold up. Are...
Forgotten Fiction: The Stolen Mind
Right now, as you are reading this there are thousands of works of fiction sitting on dusty shelves waiting for our adventurous minds to seek them out. It is the goal of this little effort of mine to seek out these shuttered tales and see how well they hold up. Are...
Forgotten Fiction: Satan’s Phonograph
Right now, as you are reading this there are thousands of works of fiction sitting on dusty shelves waiting for our adventurous minds to seek them out. It is the goal of this little effort of mine to seek out these shuttered tales and see how well they hold up. Are...
The Interplay of the Horror Sub-genres
Check out the fun infographic I just made:
The Neverending Symbolism of the Neverending Story | 0 – skooB dlO rednaeroC darnoC lraC
You probably have heard of the movie The Neverending Story, but if you are like me not so much about the book. So in the interests of self-discovery, and for the love of a good book I've decided to make something special of my reading of Michael Ende's Neverending...