Garden of Eldritch Delights Nominated for Stoker Award
I’m very happy to announce that my short story collection Garden of Eldritch Delights has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award! The Bram Stoker […]
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Tales From the Lake Vol. 5
My story “In the Family” is in the new Crystal Lake Publishing anthology Tales from the Lake Vol. 5 (edited by Kenneth W. Cain). The […]
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween
Celeano Press just released What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween. The anthology features fiction by me, Storm Constantine, Arinn Dembo, Cody Goodfellow, Nancy Holder, Brian […]
Ohio Horror Writers Association
I and other authors such as David Day, Tim Waggoner, Gary A. Braunbeck, Janet Harriett, and Sarah Hans recently formed the new Ohio chapter of […]
The Ballad of Black Tom
As a person who’s attempting to write thoughtful, modern weird fiction, I found The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle to be a pure delight. Go […]
The Horror at Red Hook
“The Horror at Red Hook” is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft that first appeared in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales. The protagonist of the story is Detective […]
On Being Nineteen
When I started reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels, one of the things that resonated with me is his introduction, “On Being Nineteen”, which is included in […]
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven […]
The Masque of the Red Death
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of Prince Prospero who, when hemorrhagic fever rages through in his kingdom, retreats […]
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a classic horror novella by H.P. Lovecraft. It tells the first-person story of a young man on break from college who […]
Story Idea Generation: Local Hauntings
Fiction story ideas are all around us. It’s not a matter of finding them so much as just opening your eyes and seeing them. A […]
The Red Tree
Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Red Tree is a dizzying weird gothic novel that chronicles the final months of a writer named Sarah Crowe as she grieves for […]