I read so much of them that about 20 years ago, Wrath James White pointed out to me that my work had two ‘tells’ (indicators that I did indeed write it)…

The vine itself hasn’t been trimmed in probably fifteen years, and has become a wild and feral thing, like some sort of dessert dispensing Triffid.

Sadly, when Necro’s David G. Barnett passed away unexpectedly after being hit by a driver going the wrong way on a Florida highway, his publishing line went with him. Evil Cookie and various other publishers have…

…with rare exception — The X-Files, for example, which does it right, at least for the first few seasons, by leaning hard into the HORROR of such a situation.

…that feels most like Bishop herself, including its gruesome ending involving mariticide and human-serpent hybrid babies).

So I drove them to the gunsmith, and the mischievous part of me was kind of hoping I’d get pulled over so that when the cop asked, “Are there any weapons in the vehicle” I could grin and wink and say “Check the back.”

It’s a remarkable evolution to traditional horror, and she makes that passage seamlessly. I can’t wait for the mainstream horror audience to discover this jewel.

…a deeply creepy, masterfully suspenseful horror novella that starts as a crime thriller and then turns into a ghost story, before ultimately…

Indeed, Millennial and Gen Z readers probably only know Manly Wade Wellman as the weird hillbilly magus who shows up around the campfire in the occasional Midnight Pals episode, and who the Midnight Pals version of Brian Keene fanboys over…

I went on to explain that I will turn 59 next month, and am trying to be a different man in my old age, and that my moral code these days is based on Buddhism in one hand and a Ruger snub nose .357 in the other, and that if he promised to head off into the forty acres of forest behind the house, I would let him live

Well, it’s been a full week since the last HWA controversy, which happened a full week after the previous, which happened a full week after the one before that, and so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby.

For a solid decade, Leisure Books kept American audiences sated with two new horror paperbacks released every month — a mix of veteran authors such as…

At the time, Native American representation in Horror fiction was solely lacking, relegated almost always to tired tropes like “the Native American burial ground” and “the Native American curse” and the occasional…

If your social media and Discord channels are full of horror writers talking about the most recent HWA (Horror Writers Association) scandal, you might be forgiven for any confusion as to which particular scandal at the moment, because there are multiple, including the fact that

This Women In Horror Year list will be — when finished — 365 books long. If you can only read one from the list, make it this one. It’s that important.

If Amazon — a company that got its start selling and shipping books — is now buying massive quantities of rare books to feed to their machine god, what then are they doing with the books any indie author or small press uploads to their KDP division…?

…will appeal to fans of Bentley Little, the television show Severance, J.F. Gonzalez’s The Corporation, or Jeff Strand’s Work/Life Balance.

Given the popularity of writers such as CJ Leede and RJ Joseph, one might think that Extreme Horror has always had a feminist component to it. But if we look at the early days of the subgenre…

…about how important women like Sarah Langan, Sarah Pinborough, Mary SanGiovanni, and others from that time were to the genre, and the direct line that exists between their efforts and the opportunities…

I know that friends like Bryan Smith and the departed J. F. Gonzalez take that sentiment as sacrilege, but it is what it is. The trope felt tired and stretched thin to me, with only an occasional moment of true brightness and creativity