Note: Tiffany Michelle Brown , who's also a contributor to Quoth the Raven , a contemporary reimagining of the works of Edgar Allan...

Erle Stanley Gardner's best known for his defense attorney detective Perry Mason, but he wrote a few books about young district at...

A friend asked for some recommendations on horror tales the other day, and as I mentioned a few that had had an impact on me, I realized ...

I waited with a bit of trepidation the year my novel Azarius  was in development. I'd sold it myself with a query followed by a compl...

The Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot for 2018 was released the other day. I opened the email and scanned down to the short story colle...

One of my students graduated a while back and set to work launching a very nice publication called Aphotic Realm . It's always f...

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...