I'm a few days back from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and sufficiently recovered as to make a token effort at a wrap-up post. As always, I had a great time at what is consistently my favorite convention/festival/gathering of the year, with my only complaint being that there is never enough time for all the people I want to see, movies I want to ( Read more... )

As was the case last year, I worked the Downright Creepy/Rotten Rentals booth at Panic Fest at the lovely and fantastic Screenland Armour over the weekend, once more in the face of some less-than-optimal weather, though much better than last year's ice storm. Unlike last year, I actually got to see a couple of movies this time, including a double- ( Read more... )

Some time back, my friend Mike Corley approached me with an idea: He was drawing spooky houses, and he suggested that I should write descriptions of them and we'd put them together into a fake real estate pamphlet. I'd been a fan of Mike's work since way before I ever got to know him online, and had been wanting to do a project with him forever, ( Read more... )

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, the fiction arm of Privateer Press. Those who know me know that this is ( Read more... )

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 guy on stilts dressed as Pyramid Head, a giant decaying clown, Tiny Freddy Krueger, and ( Read more... )

As a result of a conversation on Facebook some three months or so ago, several of my friends recently presented me with my very own, framed, official certificate of monster expertise. So now it's official! Here's a look at the certificate:


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Since it's become a cliche by now, I'll try to refrain from opening this post with an apology directed at the Internet in general for my long absences of late. Suffice to say that I've been incredibly busy of late, and that sadly shows no signs of abating, at least through the beginning of the new year. But I'm on the downward slope of a four-day ( Read more... )

Roddy McDowall and H.P. Lovecraft are a match made in heaven. I've lamented before that McDowall never got to star as one of Lovecraft's deranged, bookish protagonists, but now I've found the next best thing: Roddy McDowall Reads the Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft.


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I forgot my hat when I left the house today, which was an unusual and discomfiting experience for me. As such, I of course posted about it to various social media, explaining how, if I were a character in a turn-of-the-century book, this would be indicative of panic or emergency of some kind. It was generally agreed upon by my commentors that even ( Read more... )

This is going to be a short post, but I couldn't go without mentioning that the incredible M.S. Corley has been so kind as to take inspiration for his latest Carnacki pin-up from one of my own stories:


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