Got a new Kindle? Crossroad Press is offering a 20-book  horror bundle called A Haunting of Horrors for just $2.99. It includes my bo...

Since The Babadook's been scaring a small army of film critics and The Exorcist director William Friedkin , I started to search for l...

I don't find much information about it on the web, but once upon a time the debut of a 15-year-old movie on network TV was a big deal...

The British tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve isn't quite as well realized on the U.S. side of the pond. Sure, ...

The This American Life Spin Off, Serial , has hooked a lot of listeners, and I think it can remind all writers of an important point. It...

(I received a review copy of Godwin's Law, the second book in the Internet Tough Guys series by Bernard Maestas as part of the prep for...

I did a guest post over at the Five Writers blog for Halloween. I offered a few thoughts on turning readers' imaginations against the...

I've found a couple more Netflix titles disturbing of late. You know, in a good way. I've learned that for horror films to be...

The new Insidious Chapter 3 trailer raises lots of questions like "Can a prequel be Chapter 3?" and "Does Tucker really have...

It's weird, offbeat and yet somehow, for me, the zany Witching and Bitching  has a nice old school gothic feel that resonates and...

I read some Richard Laymon including The Cellar  while he seemed to be a well-kept secret in the horror community, more popular in Great Br...

It's hard to believe it's been almost 20 years since I picked up the paperback edition of A Night in the Lonesome October  by Rog...

A Nameless Detective title greeted me when I dropped over to Audible the other day. I thought at first The Booktaker was one of the no...

I received a bit of news from the folks at Phase 4 films, the ones who gave me an early U.S. look at the Patrick remake, now streami...

You were working. I was pausing from a walk in that same patch of lavender. You dived into petals. I looked on for just a moment....

Crossroad is running a special on my novel Midnight Eyes at the moment. It's available on just about every e-book platform for 99 cents...

My story Lovecraftian story "Sleepers" is being serialized over at Paper Tape . It began when I was thumbing through vinyl albu...

John Schneider's comedy  Smothered   stars Kane Hodder and a host of other horror icons, who find themselves in a Most Dangerous Gam...

My Q& A interview with Eric Van Lustbader about his new novel, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ascendancy ™ , is now live on The Big Thr...

I spoke with Joston Theney, the writer director of the new horror thriller Axeman recently for Fear on Demand. The text version of that ...