Just like a TikTok video, Halloween got over too soon. It's fun experimenting with the TikTok platform. It's challenging to work in ...

@willysid #microfiction #horrortiktok #horrortok #Christmas #christmasghoststory #christmasghost #ghost #scary #spooky #flash #...

Okay, long story shortened - I was in a writer's group and a workshop challenge was posed, compose a Christmas horror story. Years ago, ...

                                                           Photo Credit: Kelsie Cabeceiras - Pexels Six word horror stories are fun and stri...

The cool folks at Fantagraphics Books are dropping a collection of Ray Bradbury's stories adapted for EC Comics publications such as Ta...

A workshopping group recently suggested we all try Christmas stories so we have a holiday tale in the quiver should an open call or invite a...

I received a short story acceptance the other day, on my birthday in fact. It's for an anthology to be called Unknown Superheroes vs. th...

Here's another article from my file cabinet. I loved the original Dark Shadows  as a kid, so I was happy when the chance came along to i...

 Got a chance to do a listicle for Wicked Horror about some of my Marvel horror favorites. Check out: Five Marvel Monsters That Deserve Film...

I've been going through some files in anticipation of a move to a new place, and I ran across some fun things from my newspaper days. He...

Should have shared this a while back. It's a nice review of Fool's Run  by E.G. Stone at QuillandPen.com .

I'm pretty sure I watched  The Midnight Hour when it first aired in 1985. I don't remember much about that first viewing except an o...

My wife, Christine, loves  The   Odd Couple original   film, something about the combo of Neil Simon's humor and Jack Lemmon's perfo...

  Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse , which includes my story "The Witch of Washington Pari," is part of the Strong Women in Science Fi...

 A few years back, a request came in to the writers Meet Up group Owl Goingback was running in the Orlando area.  A student up in Gainesvil...

  As noted as an addendum on a recent post on Edward D. Hoch's story "Something for the Dark," the tale originally appeared i...

To identify one sub-category of Edward D. Hoch's fiction is to spoil a bit, I suppose. Hoch excelled at all varieties of mystery from t...

I get periodic reminders my memory is not what it used to be.  My story "Scars" originally appeared in the online magazine Blue Mu...

I first turned to  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine  in the late '70s. They were in the m...

Best known as the creator of Fu Manchu , Sax Rohmer, real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, also produced a host of stand-alone novels. He a...