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Continue reading →: In Other News
While the big talk around these parts lately has been me quitting my day job for the life of the full-time writer, there’s also been some other major news that I’ve had to keep under wraps until just now: I’ve been approached to write some fiction for Skull Island eXpeditions,…
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Continue reading →: A Day of Playing Ball
“I’m gonna be sophisticated and have no job. Or a job that looks from a distance like I do nothing.” – Troy Barnes, Community This is it. Final countdown. When I ride the elevators down at the end of the day today, it will be for the last time. And not…
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Continue reading →: Yog Monster from Space (1970)
Yog Monster from Space, on the other hand. Oh man. You guys have no idea how close you came to this “review” just being the word “dude” in boldface and all caps with a couple of exclamation points and then a link to the trailer. For those who aren’t aware, the…
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Continue reading →: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Running through the remaining films of John Carpenter that I haven’t already seen, I’m really getting into the dregs now. Still, Memoirs of an Invisible Man wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d heard. Which is just to say that it didn’t spend its entire 99 minute running time trying to kill my…
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Continue reading →: Long List
Ellen Datlow has unveiled her long list of honorable mentions from the most recent volume of her annual Best Horror of the Year series. Three of my stories (“Almost Human,” “The Barghest,” and “Count Brass”) made the list. All of those stories are available in Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings. In…
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Continue reading →: Crypticon (Post)
How to sum up Crypticon KC? I split a table with the inestimable Sean Demory, who is a gentleman and a scholar. I sold a few books. I got to participate in a guerilla reading, thanks to the generosity of author guests Brett Williams and Alan Ryker. I saw a…
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Continue reading →: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
I’m just a few films shy of having seen every movie directed by John Carpenter (most of them lots and lots of times) and in my efforts to finish out the set, I finally got around to watching the 1978 TV movie Someone’s Watching Me! (That exclamation point is in the…
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Continue reading →: Crypticon (Pre)
What? Crypticon KC Where? Ramada Conference Center, 1601 N Universal Ave, KC MO When? Next weekend, August 16-18 Who? Myself and Sean Demory, with able assists from Lydia Ash That’s right, this time next week I’ll be getting ready to try running a table at a convention for the first time, along with fellow…
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Continue reading →: Inspired By True Events
Yesterday, I finally finished the last of my writing obligations for the month of July. It has been a hell of a month, and though a lot of excitement happened in it, I’m happy to see the back side. Soon I’ll have new writing obligations coming down the pipe, but…
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Continue reading →: Pacific Rim (2013)
I tried really hard not to get too excited about Pacific Rim. I’ve been let down by Guillermo del Toro’s big budget movies before (Hellboy 2, I am looking meaningfully in your direction) and while I love all monsters and grew up on Godzilla movies, the whole kaiju subgenre is no longer…
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