Christopher Beal returns from several years teaching in Borneo to find his father in a bad way. He’s here to catch up, perhaps, be nearby, and soon enough he decides to take a job as a live-in teacher for a woman whose son has been removed from school. When asked if he recalls the name […]
Read more "Bad Boy, Bad Boy, Bad Boy: Stephen Gregory’s The Waking That Kills"Neil (Don “The Dragon” Wilson) and his partner Dave Menardi (Andrew Dice Clay) are agents for the DEA, going undercover to deal with nasty, illegal drugs. After a botched attempt to catch a cocaine kingpin, they are sent off to another job tracking illegal performance enhancing drugs. The kingpin of that particular crime, Paulie Salano […]
Read more "Performance Enhancing Killers: Whatever It Takes"My short story “Kuttner’s Mistakes” will be appearing in the forthcoming anthology, K is for Kidnap from Red Cape Publishing! The book will be available this Friday: Oct 1, 2021. The eBook is available for pre-order now. Paperback edition will also be made available around that release day. This marks my fourth appearance in the […]
Read more "“Kuttner’s Mistakes” appears in K is for Kidnap"She escaped from a bad place, ran from scary people, and gave birth to a child she did not want in the front seat of a car in the middle of a miserable night. Years later, Laura (Andi Matichak) and her son David (Luke David Blumm) are leading a much more enjoyable life than their […]
Read more "Pure Hearts, Impure Deeds: Son"Dean Koontz wrote for over a decade before he managed to score a bestselling book with the meaty thriller Whispers. The case was not unusual. Elmore Leonard penned numerous westerns and crime novels long before Glitz made it onto the New York Time Bestseller list. And yet, despite the long track record of publications, these […]
Read more "An Overnight Success: Dean Koontz’s Whispers"When he decided to join up with the Phi Epsilon Nu fraternity, Bonner (Todd Eastland) knew he would be involved in a Hell Week hazing initiation. His overprotective mom (Barbara Summerville) often warns him that hazing is dangerous, that it’s in fact illegal in the state, but Bonner knows it’s all part of the game. […]
Read more "A Hazing Shade of Winter: Pledge Night"Jennifer “Jade” Daniels is almost eighteen, works as a custodian, and is just about to graduate from Proofrock, Idaho’s Henderson High School. She’s an outsider. That horror chick. She’ll be the first one to tell you that she has a preference in all the wide world of horror for slasher movies, has an encyclopedic memory […]
Read more "This One Goes Out to the One I Love: Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw"What’s a woman to do? Auntie Lee (Karen Black) has a talent for making tasty, tasty meat pies. She claims it’s the herbs and spices, but in reality it’s the quality of the meat that makes (or breaks) this pie. Lee and her four buxom nieces have terrific eyes for prime meat, indeed. It’s all […]
Read more "That Secret Ingredient: Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies"Young Leah (Kiera Thompson) understands far more about loneliness than a girl her age should. She’s maybe ten or eleven. Her older sister Bex (Hannah Rae) is kind of a hellion, her father Thomas (Steven Cree) is a devoted dad but also a priest with a high maintenance flock, and her mother Sarah (Denise Gough) […]
Read more "Letting the Right Friend In: Martyrs Lane"When Joey Shannon comes home for his father’s funeral, he does so with his tail low, his shoulders sunken, and barely out of a bottle’s comfort. His life has gone a terrible direction over the last twenty years, quite the opposite of his brother PJ. When they were alive, his parents were ashamed of Joey, […]
Read more "Hope for a Fallen Man: Dean Koontz’s Strange Highways"
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