One of the sadder side effects of my having gone so completely over to ebooks in recent years has been the relative neglect of my physical library. Located in our basement, its many shelves house something over 1500 volumes-and that’s not counting my wife’s half of the collection, which is nearly as extensive. As best I can estimate, there are over ( Read more... )

This unfinished sequence, written circa 2001-2, reflects an unhappy experience my wife and I had as foster parents.

The Lost Girl

The palm that doesn't dampen your own ( Read more... )

A surrealistic prose poem written (in italics, for some reason) sometime in the 1990s.

The Lateness of the Hour

He found himself awake in the middle of the night and her staring at him. "You're awake," he said. She nodded. Time passed. He touched the sheet covering his chest and felt its texture with his fingers. Not wanting to, he asked: "Is ( Read more... )

Sorting through some old papers the other day I came across a sheaf of never-published poems, some dating back over twenty years--works I'd abandoned for some reason or other, but which I'd felt at the time deserved better than just being thrown in the trash and erased from existence forever. I'd completely forgotten about some of them, while ( Read more... )

Speaking With Serling
Science Fiction Grandmaster James Gunn Discusses His Unfinished Interview with the Creator of The Twilight Zone

by Christopher Conlon
copyright © 2017 by Christopher Conlon

James Gunn’s celebrated career in science fiction began in 1949 with his first professional story sale (“Paradox” in Thrilling Wonder Stories), and ( Read more... )

Originally published in Filmfax 97, June/July 2003...

Group Dynamics
John Tomerlin Talks About Charles Beaumont, the Southern California Group,
and Writing for The Twilight Zone


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I'm happy to announce that Cemetery Dance Select: Christopher Conlon is now available for Kindle from Amazon.com! As the title indicates, this new ebook-only collection is part of the "Cemetery Dance Select" series, which includes many estimable writers in the fields of horror and suspense--Michael Marshall Smith, John R. Little, Lisa Morton, Jeff ( Read more... )

My new playscript, Rossum's Universal Replicas, is now available in book form! It's a reimagining of Karel Capek's classic drama of robot rebellion from the 1920s ( Read more... )

Season Two of the Bucciano/Conlon Project has begun...check out the new work here ( Read more... )

This morning, while digging through some old boxes in the basement looking for papers (which I never found), I discovered something quite delightful to me: “A Blossom,” a story I wrote in the eighties which had completely vanished from my mind. Unlike the earlier blasts from the past I’ve posted on this blog, this one was actually written as a ( Read more... )