Remember Zack Ward who played Scut Farkas and one of the most memorable villains on Sliders among many other roles? He's direct...

Free today - my short story "Watched" which I wrote originally for a newspaper youth page. It's set in the universe of the...

Dark Hours , my new novella which follows a student journalist on her own descent into a personal labyrinth to confront a twisted player ...

My spry, youngest cat, Oliver Littlechap, has begun receiving subcutaneous fluids for elevated kidney values. He's at least 11 yea...

Had a great time last night with my wife, Christine, at Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center  ringing in the New Year via a concert featurin...

My wife, Christine, and I spent a few days in Charleston, S.C., recently, and a little of that time was devoted to exploring dark alleys ...

In the intro to  Thrillers: 100 Must Reads , Lee Child observes that we, humans,  have a way of re-telling tales in veiled new forms, har...

I finished the adaptation of "Locke and Key" while on a walk this morning. I got the free download from Audible a while back,...

A photo posted by Roland Mann (@therolandmann) on Oct 18, 2015 at 6:27am PDT Thanks to Roland Mann for a snapshot of me discussi...

Christine and I went over to the Winter Park's Autumn Arts Festival on Sunday and wound up impulse buying some art including this piece...

I've always been fascinated by the story of The Devil's Footprints , that unsolved mystery of strange footprints in the snow in D...

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...