Steven R. Southard, who's a fellow contributor to the new collection Quoth the Raven , that's out today in paper and ebook editions...

Actor Scott Wilson has died. The Hollywood Reporter's obit is here .  I learned of this via Barry Gregory of Ka-Blam Comics who was...

The thrill of having something new come out never gets old, I must say! My short story "A Cooler of Craft Brew" will appear ...

When we first talked of visiting Scotland, I thought of castles. I like castles. I like touring ruins really, looking at fragments of the...

On a drizzly morning with enough chill in the air to require my light rain jacket, we walked across a wooden bridge of small, uneven log...

Crossroad has issued the trade paper edition of Disciples has been issued. It features a slightly different cover design with the new...

Titles from Avon's brief Satanic Gothic line from the early '70s are pricey these days. I found an OK copy of this title for a d...

Fortunately, BBC 4 radio allows streaming outside the UK. Just in time for Halloween, I gave Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst...

Christine had said often as our cat Ashley showed signs of age and decline that he might not be with us much longer. I didn't argue, bu...

I found an email from 2014 or so. I was letting Christine know our cat Ashley or Ash had been sluggish and was still sleeping on the be...

Haven't done a Biblioholic's Bookshelf post in a while. I've never picked up many books from the gothic era, though I've...

At the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace. Christine and I are back from a week in Las Vegas. Here are a few things I did: Saw Penn...

Took me 2 1/2  months the way I did it, reading it alongside other, slimmer books, but I finished a re-read of It , every word with far ...

The actual and official anniversary of my teaching gig's June 1, though it was in August that I stepped into the classroom for the firs...

Since it's usually wrapped around the book, you don't  get the full view of cover art. Here's the whole thing for Dark Hour...

Speaking of haunted houses, as I was, sort of, in the Knock Knock post, I've been thinking about ghosts and haunts. Ghosts are disturb...

I woke up while it was still dark this morning, so I put in my headphones and started watching Doctor Who "Knock Knock." Just...

I must have picked this up at a book store once upon a time. I've always kept it with a stash of men's adventure paperbacks. I read...

Went to a screening of my buddy Wendell Nielson 's new short film Zion Curtain last night at a local pub where he'd made the arr...

I worked in newspapers for years. Toward the end of my engagement with Kensington Books, I wrote three young adult novels under the pseudon...