My first-ever column for the horror news and reviews website MalevolentDark.com was released. I review the film He Comes to Kill, a slasher shot on a $2,000 budget. I enjoyed its mix of horror and humor as well as the new masked killer named Stanley Elk. You can read my review HERE. Director August Aguilar did a phenomenal …
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Deadite Press authors Morgan, Southard among winners at 2020 Splatterpunk Awards
Christine Morgan and Wesley Southard won top honors for their books published by Deadite Press at the 2020 Splatterpunk Awards, according to a press release by award founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene. The 2020 Splatterpunk Awards honored superior achievement in the literary sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror for works published in 2019. …
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March’s DOUBLE FEATURE | True Crime & The F***ing Zombie Apocalypse
(Editor’s note: DOUBLE FEATURE is a column where I read at least two horror books per month in 2020 and review them for my website.) March’s DOUBLE FEATURE: True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik and The F***ing Zombie Apocalypse by Bryan Smith. Both are published by Grindhouse Press. True Crime When World Horror Grandmaster Brian Keene says a …
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Christine Morgan leads list of Splatterpunk Awards nominees
Christine Morgan earned three nominations to lead the pack for the 2020 Splatterpunk Awards, according to a February 9th press release by award founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene. Bryan Smith, Wesley Southard, and Edward Lee also scored multiple nominations with two each. Jarod Barbee and Patrick C. Harrison III also received two …
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Interviewing three of my horror heroes for Horror Tree
My first three author interviews for the wonderful website Horror Tree have been with three of my top ten literary horror heroes: Jeff Strand, John Everson, and Bryan Smith. Not surprisingly, they've written three of my top ten favorite horror novels. I'm a horror writer myself, but I'm a much bigger horror fan, so I …
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Grindhouse Press authors win top honors at 2019 Splatterpunk Awards
Grindhouse Press authors Kristopher Triana and Bryan Smith won top honors during the 2019 Splatterpunk Awards held at KillerCon in Austin, Texas, on August 17. The Splatterpunk Awards were co-founded by Wrath James White and Brian Keene and recognize superior achievement in the sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror. Triana won Best Novel for Full …
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Bryan Smith leads nominations for 2019 Splatterpunk Awards
One of my all-time favorite horror authors, Bryan Smith, led the nominations for the second annual Splatterpunk Awards with three works on the list, according to a February 4th press release by Wrath James White and Brian Keene, founders of the Splatterpunk Awards. Smith's novel Last Day and his two novellas, Dead Stripper Storage and Kill …
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Horror Book Review: LAST DAY
LAST DAY by extreme horror virtuoso Bryan Smith is a pre-apocalyptic novel about how people react when faced with the prospect of impending doom. Here's the Amazon description: The last day of the world starts out like any ordinary day. Everything seems normal. Then news breaks of an imminent killer asteroid strike and everything changes …
My Love of Splatterpunk
In between reading horror and high fantasy novels, I make time to read splatterpunk. Splatterpunk is a cool word for the subgenre of extreme horror, and it’s not for the easily offended or squeamish. For me, they’re some of the most entertaining books I’ve ever read in any genre. Relentless and gut-wrenching, splatterpunk is the …
Zombie Beavers and Spider Babies
I received a comment from a fellow blogger, Nthato Morakabi, on my post last week about why I write horror. Nthato is a South African writer and a darn talented poet who shares a love for the horror genre like I do. Besides having the coolest name of any blogger I’ve seen, Nthato is one …
The Official Website of Horror and Fantasy Writer Lionel Ray Green 