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Continue reading →: 31 of My Favorite Horror MoviesHappy Halloween! Since I kicked off October and the press for the release of Glowing in the Dark with a list of my 13 Favorite Horror Films, I thought it would be fun to end the month and commemorate the holiday with a list of 31 of my favorite horror…
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Continue reading →: “… and next week is Halloween.”Halloween is just one week away. I’ve spent much of this spooky season promoting the release of Glowing in the Dark, my newest book, which collects 10+ years of my best nonfiction writing on horror films. But I am also still a fiction writer, my latest story appearing in the…
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Continue reading →: “My kind of horror is not horror anymore.”“My kind of horror is not horror anymore. No one’s afraid of a painted monster.”– Boris Karloff in Targets (1968) I have spent my life trying to avoid becoming the kind of person who laments that horror (or much of anything else) was better back in the “good old days.”…
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Continue reading →: The Cat That Launched a Thousand BooksOne week from tonight, my newest book will officially be out in the world, and we’ll be celebrating at one of my favorite local haunts, the Stray Cat Film Center. There’ll be copies of Glowing in the Dark (and maybe some of my other books, too) available for sale, other…
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Continue reading →: “Quick, become a mushroom… join me in the soil!”When Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I co-edited Fungi all the way back in 2012, we put together a list of fungal fiction in various media, from William Hope Hodgson’s germinal 1907 story “The Voice in the Night” through one of my favorite films, 1963’s Matango, and far beyond. One thing that…
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Continue reading →: My 13 Favorite Horror FilmsOne of the two entirely new pieces in Glowing in the Dark is a list of “100 Movies to See After You Die,” a joke that got its start on social media and blossomed into the closest thing the book has to a “recommended viewing” list. The goal there was…
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Continue reading →: The Busy Season
For those of us who ply our trades predominantly within the spooky industries, October is always going to be our busiest time of year. And this year is no exception, as I gear up for the release of Glowing in the Dark, my latest nonfiction collection featuring some of my…
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Continue reading →: Harvest HomeBesides that whole “new book coming out” thing, I’ve been working on some other stuff that’s happening this October. Before I get too far into that, though, it seems worth mentioning that Drinkaway Camp is up for “Best Pop-Up Bar” in The Pitch‘s annual Best of KC survey. So, if…
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Continue reading →: Light & ShadowsThus far in my career, I have rarely sat down with the intent of writing a book. With the exception of some longer pieces written for licensed work, most of my books have been collections made up at least partially of previously-published material, whether that be short stories or movie…
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Continue reading →: Grave Encounters
I have been back from Providence for several days now, though not as many as I should have been, for reasons that I’ll get to in a moment. As always, NecronomiCon was a joy of a convention, and I missed spending time with more people than I managed to see.…
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