Coming Soon: Diabolique 14

Last month, Diabolique (the magazine of "Horror for the Connoisseur") included my short-short, "Convictions" (an excerpt from 100 Jolts), in their fabulous Christmas horror issue. The magazine looks fantastic on an ipad, and you could get your hands on it immediately if you have one of those -- or you can also subscribe to the print version, which is a finely produced glossy mag out there. It's as good as any Rue Morgue or Fangoria, only with it's own editorial vision that seems to really emphasize the genre more broadly defined, including coverage of hidden gems in film and TV,…

phlegm

Phlegm rhymes with gem, stem, and them...words that sound normal enough. In fact, it wouldn't be such a disgusting word if it weren't for that perfectly placed letter "g" -- that most mucousy of consonants that we can only sound out by constricting the back of our throats. Yet it's also the one letter in the word we do not pronounce -- as if we DARE not pronounce it. For if we ever did, green sputum would gurgle from between our lips like something vile burping up from a sewer drain. It is a perfect word. Perfectly disgusting. It's very…

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