Christine and I decided not to sit home last night. It can be rough when a pet dies . Every corner holds a memory. We decided to attend t...

Monty is gone. It's hard to believe. He'd been with us around six years when I started this blog in 2005 or so. I thought he...

Rain held up a semi-annual inspection of my roof on Saturday. The guy called and asked if he could come by Sunday morning. I said ...

I'm not sure why the timing works as it does. Perhaps it's because I'm on Eastern time and thus asleep while much of the countr...

My classes meet on a monthly basis. Students join me to discuss horror, mystery and suspense, and then they move on, usually to study sc...

And so it's time for another birthday and a few rambling thoughts. I shaved off my beard for the first time in a while, to see my face ...

My buddy, comics writer and former Marvel editor Roland Mann has a Kickstarter campaign going for a steampunk graphic novel called...

(I switched the video to a clip from six months after her CRF diagnosis.) My cat, Miss Daisy, who I've written of often on th...

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...