"Life is horror and fantasy, not necessarily in that order."
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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I received my paperback copies of Trembling With Fear: Year 2 and its companion More Tales from the Tree. The five drabbles (100-word stories) I successfully submitted last year were in the two volumes, which included all the stories and drabbles posted by Horror Tree's Trembling With Fear (TWF) ezine in 2018. Horror Tree will …
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The final hours of 2018 are nigh, and the first year of my website/blog is complete. This column is more for me as a way to look back on my year and keep track of my writing, but you're welcome to read on if you like. I'll start with my favorite joke I heard in …
(Editor's note: It took me four days to think of the epically alliterative title for this blog post.) As I delve deeper into the online horror writing community, I’ve clicked across a mishmash of talented authors, interesting news bits, writing updates, and fun lists. So, I thought I'd share some of them in today's post. …
During my first three months in the blogosphere, I’ve noticed horror writers, readers, and bloggers are a tight-knit community. They love what they do. They have to because they're not writing all those stories and reading all those books for the money. As a horror writer who started his website in January, I had no …
Thirty-one days into 2018 and my New Year's resolution of writing a blog entry weekly remains intact. My two other resolutions of exercising more and eating fewer donuts have gone completely awry. Somehow I've actually ended up doing the opposite: exercising less and eating more donuts. How does that happen? Oh yeah, Dunkin' Donuts keeps introducing new …
A drabble is a 100-word short story with a beginning, middle, and end. I write drabbles mostly as exercises, hoping to spark longer, more interesting stories. However, there is a market for drabbles. In fact, my first published piece of fiction was a drabble titled "Garden, Bloody Garden" in an anthology from DailyNightmare.com called "22 …
The Official Website of Horror and Fantasy Writer Lionel Ray Green 