There are shadows over Main Street again. Small-town horror has long been a fascination for writers and readers. The bulk of Stephen King’s huge body of work takes place in sparsely populated places, after all. It might seem strange at first glance for Lovecraftian horrors to turn their indifferent and destructive glances on a small […]
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I was idly writing a fake blurb for my not-quite-finished novel The Lighted Hand (because why not?) and it sort of turned into a micro-story of its own. No spoilers for the book are here outside of the vaguest thematic sort. “I finished this Wehunt novel and took it outside and beat it to death […]
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Yesterday the UK newspaper The Guardian published an article titled “How post-horror movies are taking over cinema.” I recommend reading it, not only for context but for writer Steve Rose’s thoughts on recent horror films vs. the history of horror cinema. Don’t expect to give it an A+, though. But I enjoyed the article and […]
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I spent a large portion of my life in Buffington, a tiny non-city in North Georgia just a mile from the sign pictured in this article detailing an amateur historian’s quest. For a year, we lived in a small house directly across the street from the sign. Yes, I grew up in a place named […]
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Every author has a bucket list, whether written down or superstitiously locked in the back of their mind. The past two years have seen me cross more items off that list than I would have thought possible at this point in my career, and this week brought my metaphorical pen (yes, I’m superstitious) across one […]
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May 2 brings what will surely be one of 2017’s best anthologies to official life! Note that I didn’t qualify that with ” literary horror” or “weird fiction.” I believe Shadows & Tall Trees 7 will be one of the year’s best collections of stories, full stop. Some of the very brightest stars in dark […]
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I believe in writing on a sentence and paragraph level. (I enjoy reading the same way in most cases, and what is a writer but a sponge?) Yes, I want to be swept along by the story I am telling, and this is also my goal. Quite often writing slowly and being swept along are […]
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I think I’m far enough along now to look back with a smidgen of hindsight at what type of writer I am and will be in the foreseeable future. I spend a good bit of my work fixated on the mundanely, beautifully human while the horrific pushes into its bubble from the outside. My story […]
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A story of mine from 2013 recently went out of print, so I thought I’d share it on my blog. I find that I still enjoy it, and it gives me a little window into my evolution. “Have a Blessed Day” was originally published in Diabolic Tales III. Enjoy!
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The folks over at Unnerving have incredibly kind things to say about Greener Pastures. Many thanks to Eddie for reading the book and passing along his thoughts.
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