[excerpt from Rotting Pyramid: Tracing the Teeth of America Cult, Dr. Linda Royal, University of Georgia Press, 2025] The nine thousand wild acres between Hiram and Forsyth—between Georgia state roads 9 and 113 and 378, specifically—form a rough triangle, and the cult erected the pyramid in its center. They buoyed it in an ocean of […]
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There are 99 remaining copies of my novella Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here. It’s been a long time since I mentioned the book—I stopped because I wanted to keep quiet during Women in Horror Month, and then an even bigger reason came along—a global pandemic that altered our security and […]
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Publishing fiction is always a risky venture. Will anyone read the things I made up? Will enough people? Will they enjoy them? Sometimes, though, it’s worth upping the risk a little and making the questions shriller. And so it is with great pleasure and enormous fanfare (okay, maybe regular fanfare) that I announce the publication […]
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Every February spooky women crawl out of their haunted tombs and forests and we offer them cursed garlands and strange roots that grow under the full moon. We should do this all year long, but it’s still nice to add a little formality and ritual to it. Every year there’s the sense of progress in […]
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Read Part 3 here 41 days since Part 3. The first 32 of them I didn’t watch the tape. I didn’t want to write about it or live it or continue indulging any of it. I put the DVD/VHS player back in the basement, in a corner, under a sheet of plastic, making it an […]
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Read Part 2 here The camera sways and plunges through the woods, up gradual slopes and down into gullies, across a dirty creek, all carpeted in long-dead leaves, all wrapped in that ugly droning noise. There is no context to these woods, other than the title, my name shouting and whispering at me from the […]
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Read Part 1 here The Vanishing of Michael Wehunt is 78 minutes long, but I wouldn’t call it feature length. It’s rough in composition as well as film quality. It meanders, probably to simulate being lost (and variously panicking) in the woods. It looks unedited, but I suspect it was perhaps meticulously edited. I suspect […]
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I happened across a faded old VHS tape in a Maine thrift store/junk shop late last summer while on vacation. It wasn’t until this past week I got around to digging up a DVD/VHS combo in our basement and was half-shocked that the machine still worked. The other half of that shock wasn’t far behind. […]
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I’m proud to share that my story “La quedada fílmica de octubre: Bajo la casa” is a finalist for the Premio Ignotus in the Foreign Story category. The award ceremony will be held in Madrid, Spain, this year at the annual Hispacon. The story appears in Un lugar mejor, the Spanish translation (courtesy of Miguel […]
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Kendall Reviews recently asked me to write a guest post, and since my 2017 was largely devoted to writing my first novel, it seemed to be a subject in which I could offer some advice. So rather than talking about my favorite short stories or records to write to, I tried to use my experience […]
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