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“Ring of Fire” Makes Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot!
Posted on January 21, 2020 1 Comment
I’m thrilled to announce my novelette, “Ring of Fire,” has made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in the Long Fiction category. This was one of the most difficult stories I’ve ever written. I knew going in that pairing horror and lust was going to be difficult—not echoing Hellraiser, avoiding anything that […]
2019 Year in Review
Posted on December 13, 2019 4 Comments
2019 YEAR IN REVIEW: “Golden Sun” (novelette) with Michael Wehunt, Damien Angelica Walters, and Kristi DeMeester in Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven (reprint) “Undone” in Gorgon: Stories of Emergence (Pantheon Magazine) “The Caged Bird Sings in a Darkness of Its Own Creation” in Shallow Creek (STORGY) currently recommended for a Bram Stoker […]
Storyville is NOW LIVE!
Posted on November 4, 2019 4 Comments
My newly expanded teaching “empire” is now LIVE! Head on over to Storyville to see what we’ve done, especially the reboot of Day of Reckoning (signing up now for 2020). Lots of classes, something for everyone. This is basically just a dedicated website for all of the previous classes I’ve taught, plus some new ventures: Short […]
How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror
Posted on September 28, 2019 Leave a Comment
Did I ever tell you about this article I wrote for Nightmare? “The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror“. ENJOY! “If you haven’t seen The Witch (2015) and Get Out (2017), you must have been living under a rock. The former was a breakout title for A24 […]
Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven. I’m IN IT!
Posted on September 3, 2019 2 Comments
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven, edited by Ellen Datlow, is out today. LOVE that cover art. It includes work by Laird Barron, Joe Hill, John Langan, and Gemma Files, among others, as well as “Golden Sun,” a novelette I co-wrote with Kristi DeMeester, Michael Wehunt, and Damien Angelica Walters. Pick up your […]
Burnt Tongues Out of Print, Copies for Sale
Posted on May 21, 2019 Leave a Comment
As you may or may not know, Medallion Press went bankrupt. I bought the last 15 cases of Burnt Tongues, the anthology I edited with Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Survivor) and Dennis Widmyer (Starry Eyes, Pet Sematary). So it’s now out of print. I’m going to be selling signed copies for $10 + $3 […]
The Seven Deadliest RELEASES TODAY!
Posted on May 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
Out today! Pick up your copy now. Reviews have been great. And I think my novelette, “Ring of Fire” is one of the best stories I’ve ever written. Edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward, with an introduction by Mercedes M. Yardley. Throughout history, there have been certain moral evils so entangling, so alluring, […]
Shallow Creek Anthology Out—With My Latest Story
Posted on April 4, 2019 Leave a Comment
Shallow Creek (STORGY) is a shared world anthology that is going to blow you away. I was lucky enough to get Krinkles the Clown, which ended up being a pretty weird story told in four acts—with some shifting POVs. It’s part It part Twilight Zone with a smattering of Black Mirror. “The Caged Bird Sings […]
I’m in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven!
Posted on February 20, 2019 8 Comments
So, wow, this is a dream come true. For the past eleven years, one of my white whales, those elusive goals, has been to make it into The Best Horror of the Year, and it’s finally happened. (I’ve been long-listed seven times.) I’ll be in Volume Eleven, out in September of this year. It’s for […]
Interview with Brian Hodge (Part Two): It’s All the Same Road in the End
Posted on February 6, 2019 5 Comments
Part Two of my group interview with Brian Hodge continues, with his second story in The Best Horror of the Year—quite the accomplishment. Read on! “It’s All the Same Road in the End” (Originally in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, edited by Paula Guran, and reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow.) […]
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