HORROR AND FANTASY WRITER
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies, collections, and zines.) "Laugh with Jolly Jack" by Stephanie Ellis is a tale of machines and madness inside a dilapidated penny arcade inherited by a henpecked husband. The machines may be cursed, so play at your own risk. Released April... Continue Reading →
Dark fiction author and poet Stephanie Ellis is releasing a series of quick e-read novelettes starting in March with plans for more in the future. The series called Darklings will feature previously published stories, mostly from collections and anthologies, as well as brand new tales. The first four novelettes drop March 1 with new ones... Continue Reading →
"The stench of decaying children was palpable." That's the opening line of my short story "Lex Talionis," one of the eighteen tales in the new anthology Inferno, inspired by Dante's Inferno. Released December 5th, Inferno was guided by editors Stephanie Ellis and Alyson Faye, both outstanding writers themselves. I'd say "Lex Talionis" is my darkest... Continue Reading →
I released my short story "Peace of Mind" on Amazon Kindle over the weekend. It's a horror story, but more on the psychological side of the spectrum. I'm not a fan of psychological horror. I'm a meat-and-potatoes horror fan formed in the womb of the books and films of the 1970s and 1980s. What can... Continue Reading →
(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.) February's DOUBLE FEATURE: Bottled by Stephanie Ellis and Kill Hill Carnage by Tim Meyer. Bottled If dread was a genre, Stephanie Ellis would own it. After last year's tragic Asylum... Continue Reading →
(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.) January's DOUBLE FEATURE: Survivor by the late J.F. Gonzalez and Creature by Hunter Shea. Survivor The plot of Survivor is about a female lawyer who's kidnapped by a group of... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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