Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers

+ Place a deaf person in a burning building. First sentence: "(S)He didn't hear the alarm." + Place a wheelchair-bound character on a sinking ship. + Dramatize the methods of a "slow" serial killer. *** Instigation is a WEEKLY department in Hellnotes newsletter...who also now publishes a new online magazine of stories based on my prompts, called Wee Small Hours!

The Glimmer of Poe’s Lighthouse

Here's the just-released cover graphic for Poe's Lighthouse -- a collection of "collaborations" between modern day writers and Edgar Allan Poe! This book should be released within the next month; it's a limited edition, so it's likely to sell out. If you find that you can't get it directly from CD Books, try Shocklines.com. My contribution, "The Dead Lantern," expands on Poe's unfinished fragment, "The Lighthouse." And there are too many other great writers inside the book to mention here. Read more on The Goreletter, or head right over to Cemetery Dance Books. For more on the cover artist, visit…

Spokes & Poe Little Thing

A handful of new poems appear in the latest issue of the UK litzine, SPOKES. Of note are the great illustrations throughout the magazine by Deena Warner. I also just heard that the next issue (#4) of the dark poetry journal, POE LITTLE THING, is almost ready to be delivered to subscribers. I've got a poem in there called "The Goth Birthday Clown." If you buy a copy of my zombie chapbook, RIGORMAROLE, direct from the publisher (for $9.95 + s/h) you can still nab a free subscription to PLT as a bonus. Order it at the NSP bookstore.