Zombie Mall Reviews Audiovile

"What can I say? Holy effeing hell this is some brilliant sh*t! ...Audiovile has BITE. It sounds like something you would hear late at night in a darkened coffee shop, with wisps of old coffee wafting to your nose....It has a very unique style, something from a David Lynch film. It’s deep, grabs you by the ears and refuses to let go." -- from Brian Hardin's review of Audiovile at the Zombie Mall! Great review... and Zombie Mall is a great store, too, by the way! Here's a cool offer they gave us for the latest issue of The Goreletter:…

A Toast to Raw Dog Screaming…and a Discount!

If you'll indulge me for a moment: please pick up your wine glass, water bottle or coffee mug. I want to raise a high toast to a great publisher. This year marks Raw Dog Screaming Press' fifth anniversary. Anyone who knows the independent press, knows that simply surviving that long -- especially in today's publishing economy -- is a true milestone of success. I'm proud to be one of their authors, an early runt of their raw puppy litter -- and when I think about how far they've gone to support my experiments in horror, I am not only humbled,…

Worlds of Horror

Get out of here and go read my guest blog entry at the Horror Library Blog-o-Rama, called "Worlds of Horror." (If you're on myspace, go here instead, where the conversation is). I issue horror fans a challenge to read more international horror writers and break out of their "literary isolationism" -- and I offer some titles to help you get started on a tour of scary world literature. Here's a very short excerpt: Browse your bookshelves and your video racks. What percentage of these titles are all published and produced in the same country in which you live? How many…

Ghoulish Goals

From the June 2008 Pittsburgh Professional Magazine:   Ghoulish Goals: Seton Hill writing professor keeps collecting awards for his horror fiction by Kathleen Ganster (photos by Jim Judkis).

May 2008 Updates

If you haven't heard already, Gauntlet Press is producing HE IS LEGEND, an awesome tribute anthology of short stories and novellas based on the classic fiction of Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, and so much more).  I'm honored to be a part of the fun, with my short piece called "She Screech Like Me" -- a sequel to Matheson's famous story, "Born of Man and Woman."  The line-up for this book includes the first collaboration between Stephen King and his son Joe Hill (riffing on "Duel"), along with Gary Braunbeck, William Nolan, Joe Lansdale, and a host…