My office window looks out across an inlet of Lake Washington to the homes that cluster atop a hill to form the Laurelhurst neighborhood...

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...

There are two kinds of good writing. One concerns itself with undeniable truths. The other tends toward delightful lies. When a writer...

I recently had the immense pleasure of proofreading Clive Barker’s Everville for Gauntlet Press’s limited edition. It being the second...

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...

“A wild ride into terror. A grand and disturbing adventure.” That’s how Dean (R.) Koontz once described Robert (R.) McCammon’s novel,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Greetings, Patient Reader! I've written another guest blog post for the Horror Writer's Association's annual Halloween Haunts series....

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...

Life is precious and meaningful. That’s why I’m drawn to dark subject matter, in both fiction and nonfiction. That which threatens,...

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...

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...

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...

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest blogger for Nicholas Kaufmann's The Scariest Part, so instead of beginning my planned...

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...

Every year, the Horror Writer's Association hosts a series of blog posts written by its members. This year the project was headed up by...