I hear this a lot: "That didn't scare me, and besides, I don't believe in ghosts (or fill in the blank), so this couldn't ...

Even Santa can't answer every Christmas wish, but I started thinking about what I might ask for if that were possible. Sure, if you c...

It's been a while since I've had one of those flashes of how things might go horribly wrong, but today... The Christmas tree is ...

The Chicago Sun Times offers an interesting look at a new book speculating that H.H. Holmes, the serial killer of Scarlet Mansion fame, mig...

I have a bit of affection for I Bury The Living, a low-budget, late-50s thriller with an is-it-or-isn't-it- supernatural plot. ...

Hope it's a great and scary day for everyone. I'm celebrating by listening to an I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere episode called ...

Audible.com is offering an exclusive Halloween story from Neil Gaiman as a free download, and $1 will be donated to charity. According to...

I n an essay from J.N. Williamson's How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction,"   Ray Bradbury discussed the writin...

Didn't get to watch on premiere night, but thanks to the DVR, I'm now caught up on this season of American Horror Story. Grim, ...

The tone of the new Carrie trailer is interesting. I had a ho-hum feeling when I read of another remake, even with the accompanyi...

I have word of a new British horror novel coming down the pike. It has an interesting trailer (above)  that hints at its content. It...

Let me switch over to my literary fiction hat for a moment, literary fiction being shorthand for things harder to classify. "Birnam ...

I'm not sure I'm 100 percent enthusiastic about a   Hannibal  or a Bates Motel television series, but the announcement Vera Farmig...

I periodically stop by Joe Bunting's Write Practice blog, which as the title suggests, is a spot designed to  keep writers churnin...

I think I'm settling into the whole creative writing instructor gig, and I'm finding I like working with student writers to polish ...

I always feel saddened more when tragedy strikes as people are in the midst of a happy time, when there's an accident on a boating excu...

Free episodes of a new online horror series, The Unknown, are now available. Episodes are short and twisty. Seems like this came around...

For a film that exists solely because of it's high concept, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is far better than it has any right to b...

Deadly Delivery , the first young adult novel I wrote as Michael August, has just become available as an audiobook from Crossroad Press. ...

I was chatting about Ray Bradbury with someone just the other day. When I mentioned that I was thinking of including discussion on his work...