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!

The second story in Painted Monsters is also the one that has probably the least connection to cinema. "The White ( 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!It's still October 13 (for about another hour), so what better time to begin my countdown of the thirteen tales that ( Read more... )

Lo, I come stumbling forth from my crypt to inform you that I am once again participating in the Countdown to Halloween this year, and while I'm off to something of a late start, I plan to keep the ball rolling a little more reliably than I have in past years. To that end, I have a plan.

As you may have noticed, Painted Monsters & Other Strange ( Read more... )

I'm a few days back from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and sufficiently recovered as to make a token effort at a wrap-up post. As always, I had a great time at what is consistently my favorite convention/festival/gathering of the year, with my only complaint being that there is never enough time for all the people I want to see, movies I want to ( Read more... )

In just a few short days I'll be catching a plane to Portland for the 20th anniversary of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. This will be my third consecutive year as a guest of the festival, and it's always a great time. There'll be movies, of course, including a black-and-white 1960 Christopher Lee flick that I've never seen before, and way cooler ( Read more... )

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So, it's been a big day for me. This morning I woke up to a notification that the Pseudopod production of my story "Night's Foul Bird" had been mentioned on Entertainment Weekly! This is good timing, because "Night's Foul Bird" is being reprinted in Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, which is coming out in October from the good folks at Word ( Read more... )

I'm saddened by the passing of Wes Craven, though I don't think I ever followed his career assiduously enough to be considered a fan. Like any other horror buff my age, Scream was a big deal for me when it hit theatres, even though prior to it I'm not actually positive I had seen more than maybe one or two Wes Craven films. Of course, I grew up ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the 125th birthday of that cantankerous Old Gent from Providence himself, HP Lovecraft. Today, just about everyone I know is at the NecronomiCon in Providence, a convention celebrating the works and influence of one of the most important writers in the history of weird fiction, even as debates continue to rage within the genre about ( Read more... )

So. August ( Read more... )