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

I have no idea why he’s pissed off at me. But Reggie and Drew, who’d been standing by the door, discussing writing music, have watched the entire thing unfold, and they are in hysterics.

I know the book is heralded as the first dystopian horror / science fiction novel, but folks, I’d like to present to you the argument that this was one of the first works of grief horror, because

She never got to see its success or know if its influence, and we, as horror fiction fans, were robbed of what would have absolutely been a powerful, genre-defining voice.

It has been said that “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is the quintessential song of my generation, and I suppose it’s as good a song as any to sum up Gen-X. But what once served as a soaring melodic signal of triumph as John Bender left detention for the day in The Breakfast Club becomes a haunting and melancholy meditation decades later.

That’s how they function. They were built off stolen works — books, films, songs, and artwork. It is my contention that the end product they produce is not “transformative”. It is not “fair use”. It is not “inspired by”.

…but I don’t know the details because I am not an HWA member. I will say that if an organization — ANY ORGANIZATION — consistently doesn’t align with your values, needs, or goals, then the best way to change that is to…

She wasn’t doing poetry slams in my living room like Linda, or sharing a one-bed hotel room at a convention with me, Maurice, Wrath, and Jesus (because that’s all we could collectively afford).

It looks like the rest of 2026 is going to continue to be as busy behind the scenes as it has been so far, family-wise. For the foreseeable future, email and other forms of contact will continue to be sporadic. Family comes first.