“Horror is the genre that rose from the grave… “
Horror makes us children again, in the best possible way.
Aletheia edit done and gone!
I write this in bed. I am reviewing books, having a look at courses I’ve been invited to teach, waiting on a call-back, and on a submitted story. And did I mention that I’m in bed? I mean, specifically, bed at 1 pm, surrounded by cords and open laptops and phones and legal pads and…
New article up at LitReactor: Six Killer Death Scenes
in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called “Death Scenes.” We’d gather in the back yard or in the playing fields behind our…
I talk dirty at LitReactor – Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, Proulx and more.
My professional writing career began as a book reviewer for Time Warner Publications. To qualify for the job I had to review a pot boiler about sleeping your way to the top in Hollywood. I know, right? It had lines like, “Please Tom. I can’t wait any more,” and “His swollen thickness was drawing pleasures…