I know the future of Fox's Dollhouse is iffy, but I became a full-fledged fan with the revelations in the recent episode "Man On T...

I don't have anything extremely profound today, just thought I would check in with a brief biographical update to stay in touch. My Alle...

I decided to adapt one of the flash pieces I did for Halloween for a One-Page Screenplay Contest . A lark, a whim, what the heck? I figured...

The third episode of the Fear on Demand podcast is now live at fearondemand.com and via iTunes and other podcatchers.  This month's ins...

(Thanks for Erik for jarring loose a little piece of my memory with his post about Shirley Chisholm .) I got to meet a lot of famous people...

I've found, for me at least, stories have a gestation period. It's as if dormant seeds get implanted somewhere in my brain, waiting ...

Made it home yesterday a.m. after a long 24 hours of traveling and a longer week of workshops and discussions at Goddard in Port Townsend, W...

I remember reading a columnist or writer of some sort once. He wrote of  taking a train home from prep school at Thanksgiving. That was alie...

I probably should have been more aware of Severance (2006), a British horror thriller with a healthy dose of humor. Somewhere I picked up a...

Occasionally things turn up that are almost like discovering one more chapter(s) in the Universal Horror series.  Some are better than other...

Addendum (1/19/09). We're now in iTunes . (Link will open the iTunes application.) That's kind of a "made ya look" headlin...

As I drove through another rainy morning cloaked with a grey, wet blanket, Bobby Bloom's Montego Bay popped up as my iPod shuffled son...

I've been getting a little bit of writing done on a couple of projects, but mostly I've been recharging the last few days, and wond...

I've added Joy Motel to my blog roll. It's an interesting little spot for online fiction, a tale unfolding in short bursts. Just ch...

The new issue of Rue Morgue Magazine includes an article by James Burreli reporting the return of Monster Scenes model kits. The originals...

This photo is called "Santa Lives." I believe it's from the Library of Congress, though I found it some time ago for a PowerPo...

Last Christmas, I listened to adman-turned-author Chris Grabenstein's Slayride , a holiday-set thriller featuring  FBI agent Christophe...

I had sort of this fanboy dream back when I was first putting pen to paper that if I ever successfully pulled off anything with fiction writ...

Christine snapped my holiday profile picture while we were putting up the tree. I thought it was kind of an interesting shot of me and might...

I bought a recent issue of Rue Morgue magazine because a portrait of a frightened Forrest J. Ackerman stared from the cover beside the teas...