The new anthology Chiral Mad 4 was released today in ebook, trade paperback, and hardcover formats! I co-edited this anthology with Michael Bailey, and the four short stories, four novelettes, four novellas, and four graphic story adaptations in the book are all collaborations. Here’s the Table of Contents: “Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” […]
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 M. Sammons, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, Chet Williamson, and more. Here’s the first part of my story, “Cosmic Cola”: Millie leaned her forehead against the back window of her […]
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 Horror Writers Association. You can find the new group online at https://ohiohwa.wordpress.com/ and on Facebook. At present, the group is holding quarterly meetings; the next will be on November 4, […]
Broken Eye Books is publishing my new serialized novel Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars. The serial continues where I left off in my contribution to their Lovecraftian space opera anthology Ride the Star Wind. Publishers Weekly praised my short story as “superbly creepy.” This serial chronicles the adventures of Beatrice Muñoz and Joe Jorgensen as […]
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 read this one, folks! It’s a fabulous novella. The narrative is very much in a dialog with (and functions as a razor-sharp rebuttal to) H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Horror at […]
“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 Malone, who investigates a series of kidnappings linked to a mysterious recluse named Suydam. The recluse has been involved in shadowy dealings with gangsters and other criminals operating in the […]
Head Games, the second volume in Joe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novel series, focuses on the Locke siblings as they cope with life after their father’s death and unwittingly fall more under the influence of the escaped demon Dodge, who is posing as the cousin of the high school’s track coach, Ellie. Bode Locke find the Head […]
Rot & Ruin is the first volume in Jonathan Maberry’s popular Benny Imura series. This novel introduces 15-year-old Benny and follows his adventures as he becomes an apprentice to his zombie-killing older brother Tom, whom Benny has always resented because he feels that Tom failed to save their parents from becoming zombies. (Tom obeyed their mother’s […]
At The Mountains of Madness is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential novels. Written in 1931, it presents the first-person narration of Dr. William Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University. Dyer is a survivor of a paleontological drilling expedition to the Antarctic and he tells the reader that he is telling his story in order to […]
