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Cool April Fool

Dark Regions Press pulled a cool April Fool prank yesterday when their newsletter announced the Crypt Keeper would now be their spokesman, after reading my book, Proverbs for Monsters... My own April Fool's scare was pretty lame. But you can still see it on my twitter profile. Visit Dark Regions Press for all sorts of great books that ARE worthy of the Crypt Keeper's time. I suspect their collection, Nostradumus' Fate, will be out in the months ahead. Keep you're eyes on this press....they're doing great things. In fact, if you subscribe to their newsletter you not only get funky…
April 2, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Who Horrors

I can't explain why I did this, but in the days and moments leading up to the halftime show by The Who at Super Bowl XLIV, I kept posting twisted and sick puns of Who song titles and lyrics to my twitter account. A few weirdos joined me in the fun. Like most puns, some of these are astoundingly bad examples of wordplay, but what the heck: here is the complete collection of Who Horrors for your amusement, my embarrassment, and, well, posterity. Pinhead Wizard Tommy, Can You Fear Me? Blobophrenia You Deader, You Deader, You Dead I Can Spree…
February 13, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange1 Comment
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Morbid Curiosity Cures The Blues

I love this dangerous and disturbing book, and highly recommend it...especially if you're getting bored with the run of the same old mills: Learn more... Read that book. And if you're still hungry for more, and you can find back issues of the (now defunct) magazine that spawned this book, you might find my memoir of Amityville lurking in Morbid Curiosity #7.
September 21, 2009Posted inSnippets of the Strange
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Authors: Dead or Alive

αΩ   Dead or Alive? How many of your authors are dead? Dead: 49 / Alive: 116 / Unknown: 153 / Not a Person: 1 Percent alive: 70.3% xo   The above is a report generated from a neat new analytical script that LibraryThing can do to your home bookshelves, called "Dead or Alive?" I sort of assumed I'd have more dead authors.  Ah well.  Ironically, they listed my own name as "Unknown"...and I found that a little soothing.  Call me anthropomorphic, but I think I'd rather be among those undead than "Not a Person". [Scrolled to the bottom ... They…
February 14, 2009Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Notes from Horror 101

I just finished teaching a wonderful "Horror & Suspense Writing" course at Seton Hill University. Under my office door last week, I found a slip of paper from an anonymous student, who was writing down the weirdest of the wacky things that came out of my mouth during lectures and discussions. Here's a select few snippets of profound wisdom: On point-of view in horror fiction: "You shouldn't be writing in First Person Singular all the time...instead, try writing in First Monster Singular." Responding to a question about sexual perversion in horror fiction: "What do you mean?  Necrophilia is the safest…
May 16, 2008Posted inSnippets of the Strange