About a year after I read Dan Simmons’ Summer of Night, I’ve finally gotten around to picking up the sequel, […]
Finding Beauty in the Macabre: NBC’s Hannibal
Now that the second season of NBC’s Hannibal has concluded, and the show has been renewed for at least one […]
Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers
Most folks in the literary world are aware of the prestigious magazine, Glimmer Train, and its lauded contests like the […]
True Horror in True Detective
Everyone’s been talking about it: Mathew McConaughey. Woody Harrelson. The King in Yellow. Carcosa. And many have been asking, even […]
Fictional Cartography: the Art of Mapping Imaginary Settings
Recently I taught a creative writing lesson to a group of high school students about creating and mapping fictional places. […]
Feminist Horror in “You’re Next”
February is Women in Horror month, so it was a good thing I decided to watch You’re Next by director […]
Book Review: “This Book Is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It)”
In 2009, the editor of popular humor/news/oddities website Cracked.com, David Wong, published a hodgepodge of zany supernatural misadventures in the […]
10 Commandments of Writing
As part of the final project for a class I recently took, which focused on various aspects of the writing […]
Happy Halloween
Halloween is upon us, bringing with it the end of another successful Coffin Hop. Yet the festivities are far from […]
Pumpkin Roundup
And now, without further ado, this year’s jack-o-lanterns: Mine ended up in the semblance of Sam from the movie Trick […]
