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Continue reading →: The Man with Fire on His Face
If you also follow me on social media, then you probably already know that I co-host a monthly podcast called the Horror Pod Class with Tyler Unsell of Signal Horizon. You probably also know that we record it live at the Stray Cat Film Center, after hosting a free screening…
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Continue reading →: “the soot of the factories in its face and the pounding of machinery in its soul”If you’ve been following me on social media, you probably saw that my story “The God of the Overpass” is in the June issue of The Dark. I’ve published a lot of short stories over the years, including a couple of others at The Dark, but this one is kind…
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Continue reading →: Cat Scratch Fever
Back when I was working on the Borderlands & Beyond expansion for Iron Kingdoms: Requiem, I got the privilege of creating several new monsters for the accompanying Borderlands Survival Guide. Among these were a handful of critters that were essentially my take on Iron Kingdoms versions of classic monsters from…
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Continue reading →: Obsolescence
I haven’t posted about this before now for a few reasons. For one thing, I’m a working writer, and I’m busy and, frankly, this should all go without saying. Furthermore, I don’t want to talk or think about it because it annoys the fuck out of me but, unfortunately, I…
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Continue reading →: “One day, men will look back and say that I gave birth to the 20th century.” – Terror at London Bridge (1985)
This extremely weird made-for-TV movie about Jack the Ripper with an incredibly made-for-TV cast including Adrienne Barbeau, Clu Gulager, and David Hasselfhoff takes as its jumping-off point the true fact that the whole-ass London Bridge was relocated to Lake Havasu City, Arizona at the end of the 1960s. For those…
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Continue reading →: See You Later
For nearly three years now, I have been working on and off for Privateer Press as a freelancer, writing large swaths (roughly 50,000 words each) of their Iron Kingdoms: Requiem RPG. It isn’t the first time I’ve worked with the folks over there, either. Those who have been around for…
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Continue reading →: You Want It Darker
“Alien vs. Predator: Requiem is a film I’ve watched several times,” someone on the internet once quipped (and I am paraphrasing here), “but I’ve never seen it.” The joke being that the aforementioned sequel was so poorly lit that you frequently couldn’t see a goddamn thing that was happening on…
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Continue reading →: Monsters Come Out of Screen! Invade Audience!
At the time of this writing, it will be tomorrow night. Wednesday, March 29 in the year 2023, and Tyler Unsell and I will be hosting our monthly live episode of the Horror Pod Class at the Stray Cat Film Center here in Kansas City. We’ll be showing The Ghost…
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Continue reading →: Horror is Where You Find ItThe other night, we watched The Sea Hawk (1940) for the first time. We watched this for several reasons, among them because Grace loves the old swashbuckling novels like the one this picture was adapted from. Books by folks like Rafael Sabatini (who wrote this one), Alexandre Dumas, Frank Yerby,…
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Continue reading →: What We Talk About When You Buy My Books
As of this writing, I am the author of some seven full-length books with my name on the spine. I have contributed to plenty of others, edited one more, and published a handful of chapbooks and zines. But these seven books are all me, from start to finish, minus the…








