HORROR AND FANTASY WRITER
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand officially hit the shelves August 19 and became an instant bestseller. It debuted at No. 3 on The New York Times Best Sellers list for September 7, at No. 16 on USA Today's Best-selling Booklist for August 27, and reached No.... Continue Reading →
I am excited about the debut of a new monthly feature called The MalevolentDark.com Horror Fiction Top 25. What I like about this Top 25 is it only considers the previous month’s new and original releases on Amazon Kindle. So, it’s fresh and not dominated by big-name authors' older works, giving a lot of independent writers, anthologies,... Continue Reading →
Stephen Graham Jones joined an exclusive group of authors when he won Superior Achievement in a Novel for the second consecutive year at the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards on May 14 in Denver, Colorado. Stephen Graham Jones Since the inception of the Bram Stoker Awards in 1987, Jones is only the sixth writer to win... 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.) April’s DOUBLE FEATURE: Allison by Jeff Strand and The House by the Cemetery by John Everson. Allison The 2020 novel Allison is one of Splatterpunk Award-winning author Jeff Strand’s best... Continue Reading →
Most horror writers like to scare and unnerve with their fiction. We’re a little twisted that way. In today’s digital age, when everyone can see everything ever created to scare people by hitting play, the opportunities to terrify readers, moviegoers, and video gamers are more challenging than ever. A lot of people enjoy being scared... Continue Reading →
When I tell people I write horror, they invariably ask why horror. They joke about my twisted mind and how I’ll never babysit their children. They say it like babysitting their children is some kind of awesome experience that I’m missing. I don’t tell them that I'd never want to babysit their children anyway. Never. ... Continue Reading →
The Horror Writers Association announced the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. “This year’s slate of nominees truly demonstrates the breadth and quality of the horror genre,” said Lisa Morton, HWA president and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, in a press release February 5. “Once again, our members and awards juries have chosen outstanding works... Continue Reading →
One of the most encouraging parts of joining the blogosphere is seeing the number of people who still love to read books. You hear all the time how no one ever reads anymore because of cell phones, the Internet, Netflix, and video games. But when you enter the blogosphere, you witness a whole world of... Continue Reading →
LIONEL RAY GREEN 