A while back, I read an article about how much marketers know about us, and I started turning over the implications in my head. What if...

I do weekly, optional chats with students in my horror, mystery and suspense class. Just as he sometimes joins me while I'm writing ...

I read about this short film over at the Lovecraft eZine and was blown away. It builds slowly, but it's, well, kinda mind blowing. If...

Facebook served up a memory recently. Miss Daisy Kittycat rested in a spot we call the Crow's Nest on the cat fort. The photo was pos...

"Pilgrim," a brief little noir tale, appears in the new issue of Heater  magazine. It's available in multiple ebook formats i...

Seemed like Christopher Lee would be with us forever. His departure spurs random memories. I was always glad to see Lee in new roles. ...

My dark fantasy pirate tale is being released in serial form over at Paper Tape mag. It clocks in at around 11,000 words total and will be ...

I had a blast moderating a panel this morning called "Success in Horror" featuring several cool horror film talents: ...

Jetstream, an anthology comic, is now available. It features tales written by students from the creative writing program in which I teac...

The cover art's come in for my all new novel Dark Hours. It's the work of David Dodd, who's done covers for several of the...

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...