I'm excited to be part of the new anthology  Love Among the Thorns , a collection of paranormal and Gothic romance stories. My tal...

I wasn't the biggest Game of Thrones fan, but I was engaged enough to keep up with it and certainly to feel the elation in Arya Sta...

Wane Leaves take on new beauty: Harbinger of demise. Verdant energy fades. Edges curl. Ribs show. Essence crumbles To brown fragmen...

Baker St. Cyr is part computer part human and all cyber detective. From Ballantine, January, 1973. 

A fairly recent acquisition. Gothic with a bit of variation. We have heroine in very early-seventies attire fleeing a more standard man...

Spoiler Note: This one you can't discuss without spoiling something. Flee if you want to read it without influence. “Terror in Cut-T...

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...