So, the latest news is that my story "Mortensen's Muse" will be joining an absolutely stellar lineup in Ellen Datlow's Children of Lovecraft, which also allows me to check "be in a book with a Mike Mignola cover" off my list. I'm very excited about this publication and this story, which concerns a fictionalized version of photographer William ( Read more... )

I want this to be a post where I do nothing but gush about how great Krampus is, but it isn't going to be. I liked Krampus a lot, but don't think I quite loved it. That said, I felt similarly about Trick 'R Treat the first time I watched it, and it has done nothing but grow on me with time and repeated viewings, so there's a good chance that  ( Read more... )

Well, Painted Monsters has been out in the world for a little over a month now, give or take, and a lot has been going on. It's gotten a few reviews at Goodreads and Amazon, and so far the word of mouth has been almost universally positive and humbling. And while Publisher's Weekly thought I maybe went a little heavy on the movie references, they ( Read more... )

Way back on Wednesday night I watched the Mockingjay double-feature at the Alamo; it was my first time seeing either movie, and it was, hands down, the best theatre-going experience of the year for me, at least until tonight when I go watch Santo and the Blue Demon Against the Monsters projected from a VHS tape ( Read more... )

I saw Crimson Peak over the weekend, because of course I did, and it's taken me this long to get a chance to sit down and try to write out my feelings about the experience, even though they're really not that complicated. It's difficult to think about Crimson Peak on its own terms. It's tough to step back from it, look hard, and judge it as just ( Read more... )

For the month of October, as part of the Countdown to Halloween, I’ll be revisiting each of the thirteen stories in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts and suggesting movies that pair well with them, for your viewing pleasure!

Though I wrote "The Red Church" for Giallo Fantastique, at the time that I wrote it I hadn't actually seen very many  ( Read more... )

For the month of October, as part of the Countdown to Halloween, I’ll be revisiting each of the thirteen stories in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts and suggesting movies that pair well with them, for your viewing pleasure!

Today is a double-feature here at the blog, for reasons that'll probably become obvious tomorrow. To go along with my ( Read more... )

For the month of October, as part of the Countdown to Halloween, I’ll be revisiting each of the thirteen stories in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts and suggesting movies that pair well with them, for your viewing pleasure!

"Ripperology" was written for Ross Lockhart's first Word Horde anthology Tales of Jack the Ripper. When he first ( Read more... )

For the month of October, as part of the Countdown to Halloween, I’ll be revisiting each of the thirteen stories in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts and suggesting movies that pair well with them, for your viewing pleasure!Of all of these movie pairings, this one is, without a doubt, the easiest. You see, "The Murders on Morgue Street," ( Read more... )

For the month of October, as part of the Countdown to Halloween, I’ll be revisiting each of the thirteen stories in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts and suggesting movies that pair well with them, for your viewing pleasure!

"Night's Foul Bird" marks the first of the stories in Painted Monsters to be set in a time and place that allowed me ( Read more... )