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Pete Mesling
In Pursuit of Lemarchand's Box: A Pilgrimage to Dallas
Such sights to show you ... Outside of close friends and family, there aren’t many people I’d travel 1,600 miles to see. Clive Barker is...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 25, 2018
- 3 min
Writing: The Need for Story
My office window looks out across an inlet of Lake Washington to the homes that cluster atop a hill to form the Laurelhurst neighborhood...
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Pete Mesling
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Always Coming Home: A Brief Memory of Ursula K. Le Guin
North Dakota had a great deal to offer a young boy like me in the ’70s and ’80s. Raised as I was in an unusual hybrid of town living and...
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 26, 2017
- 4 min
Softly Comes but Firmly Stays the Listener
There are two kinds of good writing. One concerns itself with undeniable truths. The other tends toward delightful lies. When a writer...
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 20, 2017
- 7 min
Swells and Doldrums: Sailing the Imagined Seas of Clive Barker
I recently had the immense pleasure of proofreading Clive Barker’s Everville for Gauntlet Press’s limited edition. It being the second...
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 19, 2017
- 4 min
Remembering Pain: A Writer’s Guide
Golden delicious were my dad’s favorite apple, and I can understand why. They’re soft on the teeth and easy on the palate. Not my...
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Pete Mesling
- Sep 19, 2017
- 5 min
Fangoria Lost, Fangoria Regained: A True Story
“A wild ride into terror. A grand and disturbing adventure.” That’s how Dean (R.) Koontz once described Robert (R.) McCammon’s novel,...
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Pete Mesling
- May 20, 2017
- 2 min
Unintended Consequences: How Robert McCammon and Matthew Corbett Led Me Back to George Frideric Hand
It wasn’t out of any psychological necessity that I decided to seek out some music to play as I sat down with a passage from the sixth...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 29, 2017
- 4 min
The Greater of Two Evils: Taking Sides in the Horror Genre
Let’s face it: the human animal has an obnoxious tendency to label things. Not all labels are created equal either. Some are less useful...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 15, 2017
- 3 min
Why horror? Because it's there.
It’s easy to be a horror fan when you’re young. It’s almost expected that a certain segment of the population is going to be drawn to...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 19, 2017
- 4 min
Stakes and Hammers: Getting to the Heart of 'SALEM'S LOT
This is a painful admission for a die-hard Stephen King fan such as myself, but I read 'Salem's Lot for the first time this year. My...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 19, 2017
- 1 min
"Lovely, Dark and Deep": A Play in One Act by Pete Mesling
I've sold a play to Off The Wall Plays, a script publisher with offices in London and Johannesburg, which means that "Lovely, Dark an...
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Pete Mesling
- Oct 30, 2016
- 1 min
Halloween Haunts: Meet Joe Pipe
Greetings, Patient Reader! I've written another guest blog post for the Horror Writer's Association's annual Halloween Haunts series....
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Pete Mesling
- Jun 2, 2016
- 2 min
StokerCon 2016: A Brief Pictorial Recollection
A lot of really nice StokerCon 2016 memorial blogs and photo slide shows have been popping up on social media, so I don’t mean to venture...
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Pete Mesling
- Apr 16, 2016
- 6 min
A Brush with the Horror of Racism
Life is precious and meaningful. That’s why I’m drawn to dark subject matter, in both fiction and nonfiction. That which threatens,...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 12, 2016
- 4 min
Beefs, Gripes, and Peeves
Not a lot of preamble needed here, I think. As I season with age, I lose more and more of my inclination toward outward expressions of...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 20, 2016
- 4 min
Stephen King: A Prehumous Appraisal with Bonus Digression
It can be difficult to separate nostalgia from the measured appreciation of a favorite writer. Like the woman at the bar who seems to get...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 5, 2016
- 1 min
Robert Essig Interviews Pete Mesling
Once again I'm going to hold off on a traditional blog post, as fellow writer Robert Essig has done a bang-up interview with me that I...
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Pete Mesling
- Jan 12, 2016
- 1 min
NONE SO DEAF on Nicholas Kaufmann's Blog, The Scariest Part
I recently had the pleasure of being a guest blogger for Nicholas Kaufmann's The Scariest Part, so instead of beginning my planned...
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 15, 2015
- 4 min
A Slight Row with Mike Rowe
If it had been only one of my Facebook friends who shared Mike Rowe’s thoughts on the dangers of following your passion, it might have...
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